Melvil Poupaud
Melvil Poupaud is a French actor, author and filmmaker.
Career
Poupaud's first appearance was, as a child, in Raúl Ruiz's 1983 film City of Pirates. He met Ruiz through his mother, Chantal Poupaud, who was a well-known press relations officer in the French film world.He starred in François Ozon's Time to Leave, and co-starred with Parker Posey in Zoe Cassavetes' Broken English.
He also appeared in films such as Eric Rohmer's A Summer's Tale, Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale, and François Ozon's The Refuge.
He co-starred with Suzanne Clément in Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways.
Having led a selective career, grown in a family having close links with the cinema world, he has been close to figures of the Parisian intelligentsia during the seventies and eighties, such as Marguerite Duras or Jacques Lacan.
Personal life
Poupaud dated actress Chiara Mastroianni for four years from the age of 16 to 20. Though the two split up they remained friends and collaborators for decades with Mastroianni crediting Poupaud with encouraging her to pursue acting as a career and Poupaud crediting Mastroianni for his friendship with her ex-husband Benjamin Biolay.Filmography
As actor
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1983 | City of Pirates | Malo | |
| 1984 | Qui es-tu Johnny Mac ? | Johnny Mac | Short |
| 1985 | Treasure Island | Jim Hawkins | |
| 1985 | The Insomniac on the Bridge | Michel | |
| 1985 | Ces jours où les remords font vraiment mal au cœur | The boy | Short |
| 1986 | Dans un miroir | ||
| 1988 | 3 jours... | Melvil | Short |
| 1989 | The 15 Year Old Girl | Thomas | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
| 1992 | Archipel | Michel | |
| 1992 | The Lover | The Younger Brother | |
| 1993 | À la belle étoile | Mathieu | |
| 1993 | Les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel | Germain | Also as composer Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
| 1994 | Fado majeur et mineur | Antoine | |
| 1994 | Boulevard Mac Donald | Short | |
| 1995 | Élisa | Pharmacist's Son | |
| 1995 | Innocent Lies | Louis Bernard | |
| 1995 | Those Were the Days | Axel | |
| 1995 | Hillbilly Chainsaw Massacre | Short | |
| 1995 | La Vie de Marianne | Valville | TV Movie |
| 1995 | 3000 scénarios contre un virus | TV Series | |
| 1996 | Souvenir | Charles | |
| 1996 | A Summer's Tale | Gaspard | |
| 1996 | Le journal du séducteur | Gregoire | |
| 1996 | Three Lives and Only One Death | Martin | |
| 1997 | Marianne | Valville | |
| 1997 | Le ciel est à nous | Lenny | |
| 1997 | Genealogies of a Crime | René | |
| 1998 | Les kidnappeurs | Armand Carpentier | |
| 1999 | Time Regained | Prince de Foix | |
| 1999 | Quelque chose | The man | Short |
| 2000 | A Raiz do Coração | Vicente Corvo | |
| 2000 | La Chambre obscure | Bertrand | |
| 2000 | Love Torn in a Dream | Paul | |
| 2001 | A Hell of a Day | Ben | |
| 2001 | Rémi | Rémi | Short |
| 2003 | Feelings | François | |
| 2003 | Le Divorce | Charles-Henri de Persand | |
| 2003 | Shimkent hôtel | Alex | |
| 2003 | Pronobis | Philippe | Short |
| 2004 | Eros thérapie | Bruno | |
| 2004 | Monde extérieur | Régis | Short |
| 2004 | Qui a tué Johnny Mac ? | Johnny Mac | Short |
| 2005 | Time to Leave | Romain | Valladolid International Film Festival - Best Actor |
| 2006 | Melvil | Melvil | Also as director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor |
| 2007 | A Lost Man | Thomas Koré | |
| 2007 | Towards Zero | Guillaume Neuville | |
| 2007 | Broken English | Julien | |
| 2008 | The Broken | Stefan Chambers | |
| 2008 | Speed Racer | Johnny 'Goodboy' Jones | |
| 2008 | A Christmas Tale | Ivan Vuillard | |
| 2008 | Crime Is Our Business | Frédéric Charpentier | |
| 2009 | The Refuge | Louis | |
| 2009 | Lucky Luke | Jesse James | |
| 2009 | 44 Inch Chest | Loverboy | San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble |
| 2010 | La lisière | François | |
| 2010 | Black Heaven | Vincent | |
| 2010 | Mysteries of Lisbon | Colonel Ernesto Lacroze | |
| 2010 | The Counterfeiters | Edouard | TV Movie |
| 2011 | L'orpheline avec en plus un bras en moins | Robinson | |
| 2011 | The Argument | Man | Short |
| 2012 | Laurence Anyways | Laurence Alia | Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival - Best Actor Nominated - Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor Nominated - Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film |
| 2012 | Lines of Wellington | Marechal Massena | |
| 2014 | Gaël | ||
| 2015 | Mad Love | The Priest | |
| 2015 | Face Down | Samy | |
| 2015 | By the Sea | François | |
| 2015 | The Great Game | Pierre Blum | |
| 2016 | In Bed with Victoria | Vincent Kossarski | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2017 | The Lady in the Portrait | Jean Denis Attiret | |
| 2017 | La pimbêche à vélo | Melvil | Short |
| 2018 | La belle et la belle | Marc | |
| 2018 | By the Grace of God | Alexandre Guérin | Pending - César Award for Best Actor |
| 2018 | Les grands squelettes | ||
| 2018 | Insoupçonnable | Paul Brodsky | TV Series |
| 2019 | Golden Youth | Hubert Robert | |
| 2019 | J'accuse | Maître Labori | |
| 2020 | Summer of 85 | M. Lefèvre |