Fabrice Luchini

Fabrice Luchini is a French stage and film actor. He has appeared in films such as Potiche, The Women on the 6th Floor, and In the House. For his role in the 2015 film Courted he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.

Fabrice Luchini was born in Paris, into an Italian immigrant family from Assisi who were greengrocers. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte dOr in Pariss 18th arrondissement. When he was 13, his mother apprenticed him to a hairdresser in a trendy parlour in Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdressers son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert. His first film role was in Tout peut arriver in 1969. He then appeared in ric Rohmers Le Genou de Claire in 1970 playing a small role as an adolescent. He went on to appear in Rohmers Perceval le Gallois and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and also in films directed by Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch and douard Molinaro. In 1990 he appeared in Christian Vincents La Discrte.

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