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Fabrice Luchini

1st November 1951 Paris, France Acting

Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement. When he was 13, his mother apprenticed him to a hairdresser in a trendy parlor on Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdresser's son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert. At the same time he developed a great interest for literature (Balzac, Flaubert, Proust). His passion for soul music (James Brown) made him a regular of discothèques. This is where he met Philippe Labro, who gave him his first role in Tout peut arriver in 1969. He then studied acting under Jean-Laurent Cochet. However, it was his collaboration with Éric Rohmer that would make him popular for Le Genou de Claire in 1970, in which he played a small role as an adolescent. He appeared in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois, and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and in films directed by Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch, Édouard Molinaro. Thanks to Jean-Laurent Cochet, he later discovered theater, his true passion, which he described as "the only place where life is expressed... something that no school will ever teach". However, it was his role in La Discrète, directed by Christian Vincent in 1990, that made him well-known to the general public. He divides his work between cinema and theater, where since 1980 he has had considerable success with readings from the texts of La Fontaine, Nietzsche, Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit, Paul Valéry and Roland Barthes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabrice Luchini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

98 Movies 8 TV Shows 1 In Production 107 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Hugo poster
Hugo 11th March 2026 as Robert Zuchini
Courted poster
Courted 18th November 2015 as Michel Racine
Paris poster
Paris 20th February 2008 as Roland Verneuil
Moliere poster
Moliere 31st January 2007 as M. Jourdain
On Guard poster
On Guard 3rd December 1997 as Count Gonzague
Uranus poster
Uranus 12th December 1990 as Jourdan
Robin poster
Robin 6th February 1985 as Frédéric
Né poster
Né 5th November 1975 as Self
Demain, je tombe amoureux poster Coming soon
Demain, je tombe amoureux 25th November 2026 as Émile