Fabrice Luchini
Born: 1951-11-01 in Paris, France
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
Filmography
2026
- Victor comme tout le monde as Robert Zuchini
2025
- Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess as Narrator
- Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu as Christian
2024
- Marcello Mio as Fabrice
- The Empire as Belzébuth
- Céline Dion, la bande originale de sa vie as Self - Guest
- La Fontaine et le Confinement
2023
- The Crime Is Mine as Judge Gustave Rabusset
- The Baby as Joseph
- For Better and for Worse as Jean Leroy
- Class Act as Marcel Loiseau
2022
2020
- The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
- Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff as Self (archive footage)
2019
- The Mystery of Henri Pick as Jean Michel Rouche
- Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol as Narrator (voice)
- Joan of Arc as Roi Charles VII
- The Best Is Yet to Come as Arthur Dreyfus
- Alice and the Mayor as Paul Theraneau
2018
- The Emperor of Paris as Fouché
- A Man in a Hurry as Alain
2015
- Call My Agent! as Self
- Un début prometteur as Francis Vauvel
- Courted as Michel Racine
2014
- Gemma Bovery as Martin
- Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
- A Visit to Hokusai as Narrator
2013
- Cycling with Molière as Serge Tanneur
2012
- Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia as Jules César
- In the House as Germain
- Luchini - Variations La Fontaine as Self
2011
- The Women on the 6th Floor as Jean-Louis Joubert
2010
- Trophy Wife as Robert Pujol
- My Father's Guests as Arnaud
2008
- Paris as Roland Verneuil
- The Girl from Monaco as Bertrand Beauvois
- A Day at the Museum as Guard at the Malraux museum
- Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve) as Self
- Le Point sur Robert as Fabrice Luchini
2007
- Moliere as M. Jourdain
2006
- Jean-Philippe as Fabrice / Self
- On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
2005
- La cloche a sonné as Simon Arcos
2004
- Intimate Strangers as William
- Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine as Doctor Knock
2003
- The Cost of Living as Brett
2002
2001
- Barnie's Minor Annoyances as Barnie
1999
- Keep It Quiet as Grégoire Jeancourt
- Nothing About Robert as Didier Temple
- Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- Par cœur as Self
- « Art » as Serge
1997
- On Guard as Count Gonzague
- An Air So Pure as Magnus
1996
- Beaumarchais the Scoundrel as Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- Men, Women: A User's Manual as Fabio Lini
1995
- The Juliette Year as Camille Prader
1994
- Colonel Chabert as Derville
1993
- Toxic Affair as The Analyst
- The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque as Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur
- All That... for This?! as Fabrice Lenormand
1992
- Little Nothings as Lepetit
- The Return of Casanova as Camille
1990
- Uranus as Jourdan
- Journey to the End of the Night as Self
- The Discreet as Antoine
- Six crimes sans assassins as Simon
1988
- The Color of the Wind as Serge
- La Fée Carabine as Pastor
- Alouette, je te plumerai as Jacques
1987
- Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle as Le marchand de tableau
- Les Oreilles entre les dents as Luc Fabri
1986
- Family Business as Shady Lawyer
- Max My Love as Nicolas
- Paradise Hotel as Arthur
- Triple sec
1985
- Rouge-gorge as Frédéric
- P.R.O.F.S. as Michel
1984
- Emmanuelle 4 as Oswaldo
- Full Moon in Paris as Octave
1983
- Zig Zag Story as Bob Hemler
- Lettre de la Sierra Morena as Don Quichotte
- Il ne faut jurer de rien
1982
- T'es folle ou quoi ? as Jean-François Sevran
1981
- The Aviator's Wife as Mercillat
- Droit de Réponse as Self
- Le Beau Monde as Jean-Pierre Davier
1980
- Fantômas as Bonardin
- Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme as Arthur
1978
- Perceval as Perceval
- Violette Nozière as Camus, student
1976
- Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) as Vincent Vergne
- Les Écrans déchirés as Fabrice
1975
- Né as Self
1974
- Immoral Tales as André - Story 1
1970
- Claire's Knee as Vincent
1969
- Tout peut arriver as Fabrice