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MELVIL POUPAUD

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Actor | Paris

Discovered at the age of 10 years old by film director Raúl Ruiz, celebrated French actor Melvil Poupaud is one of the hottest actors in France and has worked with generations of filmmakers. With an impressive list of film credits to his name, you will see him on the big screen this autumn in his role as a murderous priest in Mad Love (Fou d'amour), wheeling and dealing with the Bulgarian mafia in Face Down (Tête baissée), and appearing with Mélanie Laurent in the autobiographical film, By The Sea, directed by Angelina Jolie and starring her husband Brad Pitt. We catch up with the limit-pushing actor, who is an eternal traveller yet ultimately a Parisian at heart.

RV: You first started acting when you were a child, where you worked with director Raúl Ruiz. At what point did you realise that you wanted to be an actor, or that you had actually become one?
MP: I was always a bit scared to admit that I was an actor when I was a child, because I used to be

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Melvil Poupaud Biography

Date of Birth:
Jan 26, 1973Birth Place:
Paris, France

Biography

Multifaceted Parisian actor Melvil Poupaud may be unfamiliar to most American audiences, but with an extensive career in French cinema under his belt, Poupaud's is a face worth knowing. Named after legendary "Moby-Dick" author Herman Melville by his mother, producer and writer Chantal Poupaud, Melvil began making amateur films in his bedroom at the age of 10. The same year, the young talent exploded onto the European acting scene, playing "l'enfant" ("child") in the surreal 1983 drama "City of Pirates," directed by inventive filmmaker Raoul Ruiz. Their relationship awoke a creative voracity in Poupaud, which saw him participating in as many as five films a year at his peak. Among the highlights of his performances was his naturalistic portrayal of Thomas, a teenage boy caught between a friend and his father in 1989's understated drama "The 15 Year Old Girl." The role landed Poupaud the first of two César award nominations for Most Promising Actor. His film career continued to expa

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Melvil Poupaud

French actor (born 1973)

Melvil Poupaud
Poupaud in 2006
Born	Melvil Matthias Julien Poupaud (1973-01-26) 26 January 1973 (age 52) Paris, France
Occupations
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Georgina Tacou (m. 1999, divorced)
Children	1
Mother	Chantal Poupaud

Melvil Matthias Julien Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor.

Early life

Poupaud was born in Paris, the son of Michel Poupaud and publicist Chantal Poupaud. He has an elder brother, Yarol, who is a musician.

Career

Poupaud made his film debut at the age of 10 in Raúl Ruiz's City of Pirates (1983), whom he met through his mother.^[1] He subsequently appeared in nine more of Ruiz's films, including The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985), Treasure Island (1986), Genealogies of a Crime (1997), Time Regained (1999) and Love Torn in a Dream (2000).^[2] For his roles in Jacques Doillon's The 15 Year Old Girl (1989) and Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's No