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'''Benoît Poelvoorde''' (born [[September 22]], [[1964]], in [[Namur (city)|Namur]], [[Belgium]]) is a Belgian [[actor]]. |
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| occupation = Actor, screenwriter, director and producer |
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| years_active = 1983–present |
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'''Benoît Poelvoorde''' ({{IPA|fr|bənwa pulvɔʁd|lang}}, {{IPA|nl-BE|bəˈnʋaː pulˈvoːrdə|lang}}; born 22 September 1964) is a Belgian actor<ref name="Willis1995">{{cite book|last=Willis|first=John|title=Screen World 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8yFlYq1h7IC&pg=PA231|access-date=1 June 2012|date=1 April 1995|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9781557832016|pages=231–}}</ref> and comedian. |
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His first [[film|movie]] ''C'est arrivé près de chez vous'' (''[[Man Bites Dog (film)|Man Bites Dog]]'' internationally) was a low-budget school graduation project (1992), which went on to become a critically acclaimed [[cult]] movie. |
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==Early life== |
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He subsequently starred in several movies which made him famous in [[France]] and [[Belgium]], and was selected to be member of the [[Cannes Film Festival]] Jury in [[2004]], on request of [[Quentin Tarantino]], a big fan of his first movie. |
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His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still a minor. He attended the [[Collège Saint-Paul (Godinne)|Jesuit Boarding School of Godinne]] before he left home at 17 to take classes at the Félicien Rops Technical Institute in Namur (Belgium) where he met [[Rémy Belvaux]]. He developed a passion for theater and became noted for his atypical interpretations. Not only was he destined to become a draughtsman, he also developed professionality as a photographer. During his graphic design studies at the [[:fr:École de recherche graphique|École de recherche graphique]] in [[Brussels]], he also became friends with [[André Bonzel]] and, together with Rémy Belvaux, directed in 1988 ''Pas de C4 pour Daniel Daniel'', his first movie, a student short film (which he co-directed and co-wrote). It was a stylized trailer for a mock-spy film. |
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==Career== |
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In 2005 he came in 7th place in the Walloon version of [[De Grootste Belg]] (the Greatest Belgian). In the Flemish version he came in nr. 300 outside the official list of nominations. |
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[[File:Benoit Poelvoorde 20071116 France Bleu Auxerre.jpg|thumb|Benoît Poelvoorde in 2007]] |
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In 1992, Poelvoorde, Belvaux and Bonzel wrote, produced and directed together their first long feature ''C'est arrivé près de chez vous'' (''[[Man Bites Dog (film)|Man Bites Dog]]'' internationally) originally a low-budget school graduation project (1992) and a kind of cynical "noir" movie, inspired from the famous Belgian series "[[Strip-Tease (TV series)|Strip-Tease]]"'' ''which went on to become a critically acclaimed [[cult]] movie. The film received the [[André Cavens Award for Best Film]] by the [[Belgian Film Critics Association]] (UCC). |
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Poelvoorde subsequently starred in two series on the French pay-channel Canal+ and several movies such as ''Les Randonneurs'', ''Le Boulet'' and ''Podium'', which made him famous in [[France]] and Belgium. In 2001, he starred in ''Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert'', a movie about one of his passions, bicycling. In 2002, he received the Jean Gabin Prize, which recognized the most hopeful young talents. Poelvoorde became a member of the [[Cannes Film Festival]] Jury in 2004 by request of [[Quentin Tarantino]], a big fan of ''Man Bites Dog'' who had presided over the Jury that year. |
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==External links== |
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* {{imdb name|name=Benoît Poelvoorde|id=0688143}} |
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* {{fr icon}} [http://217.19.236.211/plumefx/outils/carriere.asp?mybase1=10&cid=7089 Theatre acting career summary] (from [http://217.19.236.211/plumefx/public/default.asp?mybase1=10 ''L'Annuaire du Spectacle''] on the [http://www.aml.cfwb.be/ ''Centre de recherche et de documentation littéraires et théâtrales de la Communauté française de Belgique'' web site]) |
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In 2005 he ranked in 7th place in the [[Belgian French|Walloon]] version of [[Le plus grand belge|the Greatest Belgian]]. In the [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[De Grootste Belg|version]] he came in at nr. 400 outside the official list of nominations. |
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[[Category:1964 births|Poelvoorde, Benoît]] |
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[[Category:Living people|Poelvoorde, Benoît]] |
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In 2008, his performance in the movie ''Astérix aux Jeux olympiques'' won him critical acclaim by both film critics and the public at large. His recurrent character as a pretentious person and a sore loser has drawn comparisons between him and the beloved French comedian [[Louis de Funès]]. Poelvoorde also played serious roles. He has starred in 2009 as Etienne Balsan in ''[[Coco avant Chanel]]'' by Anne Fontain, with [[Audrey Tautou]]; as Jean-René in 2010 with Isabelle Carré in a comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris ''Émotifs anonymes'' about two extremely shy persons who fall in love, and also as August Maquet in ''L'autre Dumas'' by Safy Nebbou, alongside [[Gérard Depardieu]] and Dominique Blanc, a movie about the creative ghostwriter, Maquet, who played a crucial role in the production of French writer [[Alexandre Dumas]]' ''Three Musketeers''. |
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[[Category:Belgian actors|Poelvoorde, Benoît]] |
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For his work in ''[[A Place on Earth (2013 film)|A Place on Earth]]'' (2013), Poelvoorde received a [[Magritte Award for Best Actor]]. |
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==Personal life== |
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The actor revealed in interviews that he suffers from [[bipolar disorder]].<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Le Soir]]|date=6 February 2010|title=Oui, je suis bipolaire|language=fr}}</ref> |
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In 2019, during the shooting of the movie ''Raoul Taburin a un secret'', based on the book by [[Jean-Jacques Sempé]], Poelvoorde had a bicycle accident and received 17 stitches.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Fontaine|first=Mathilde|date=12 April 2019|title=VIDEO Benoît Poelvoorde gravement blessé sur le tournage de son dernier film|url=https://www.voici.fr/news-people/actu-people/video-benoit-poelvoorde-gravement-blesse-sur-le-tournage-de-son-dernier-film-658497|magazine=[[Voici]]|language=fr|access-date=29 December 2023}}</ref> |
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==Selected filmography== |
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|[[List of Belgian films of the 1990s|1992]] |
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|''[[Man Bites Dog (film)|C'est arrivé près de chez vous]]'' ("Man Bites Dog") |
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|Ben<ref>{{cite book |last=Mathijs |first=Ernest |year=2005 |chapter=''Man Bites Dog'' and the Critical Reception of Belgian Horror (in) Cinema |editor-first1=Steven Jay |editor-last1=Schneider |editor-first2=Tony |editor-last2=Williams |title=Horror International (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television) |publisher=Wayne State University Press |pages=315–335 |isbn=9780814331019}}</ref> |
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|[[Rémy Belvaux]], [[André Bonzel]] and Benoît Poelvoorde |
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|[[French films of 1997|1997]] |
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|''[[:fr:Pour rire|Pour rire]]'' ("Just for Laughs") |
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|The innocent |
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|[[Lucas Belvaux]] |
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|[[French films of 1997|1997]] |
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|''[[:fr:Les Randonneurs|Les Randonneurs]]'' ("Hikers") |
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|Éric |
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|[[Philippe Harel]] |
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|[[French films of 1998|1998]] |
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|''[[:fr:Les convoyeurs attendent|Les convoyeurs attendent]]'' ("The Carriers Are Waiting") |
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|Roger |
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|[[Benoît Mariage]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2001|2001]] |
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|''[[Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert]]'' ("Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle") |
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|Ghislain Lambert |
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|Philippe Harel |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2002|2002]] |
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|''[[Le Boulet]]'' ("Dead Weight") |
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|Francis Reggio |
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|[[Alain Berberian]] |
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|[[French films of 2003|2003]] |
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|''[[:fr:Rire et Châtiment|Rire et Châtiment]]'' ("Laughter and Punishment") |
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|First Aid Instructor |
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|[[:fr:Isabelle Doval|Isabelle Doval]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2004|2004]] |
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|''[[Podium (film)|Podium]]'' |
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|Bernard Frédéric |
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|[[Yann Moix]] |
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|[[French films of 2004|2004]] |
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|''[[:fr:Atomik Circus, le retour de James Bataille|Atomik Circus, le retour de James Bataille]]'' ("The Return of James Battle") |
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|Allan Chiasse |
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|Didier Poiraud and Thierry Poiraud |
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|[[French films of 2004|2004]] |
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|''[[Narco (film)|Narco]]'' |
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|Lenny Bar |
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|[[Tristan Aurouet]] and [[Gilles Lellouche]] |
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|- |
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|[[List of Belgian films of the 2000s|2004]] |
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|''[[Aaltra]]'' |
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|Motocross Layman |
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|[[Benoît Delépine]] and [[Gustave Kervern]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2005|2005]] |
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|''[[:fr:Akoibon|Akoibon]]'' |
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|Jean-Mi |
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|[[Édouard Baer]] |
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|[[French films of 2005|2005]] |
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|''[[Entre ses mains]]'' ("In His Hands") |
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|Laurent Kessler |
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|[[Anne Fontaine]] |
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|[[French films of 2006|2006]] |
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|''[[Jean-Philippe (film)|Jean-Philippe]]'' |
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|Bernard Frédéric |
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|[[Laurent Tuel]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2006|2006]] |
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|''[[Charlie Says (2006 film)|Selon Charlie]]'' ("Charlie Says") |
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|Joss |
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|[[Nicole Garcia]] |
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|[[French films of 2007|2007]] |
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|''[[Two Worlds (2007 film)|Two Worlds]]'' |
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|Rémy Bassano |
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|Daniel Cohen |
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|[[French films of 2008|2008]] |
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|''[[Asterix at the Olympic Games (film)|Astérix aux Jeux olympiques]]'' ("Asterix at the Olympic Games") |
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|[[Marcus Junius Brutus|Brutus]] |
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|[[Thomas Langmann]] and [[Frédéric Forestier]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2008|2008]] |
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|''[[Louise Hires a Contract Killer]]'' |
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|Guy, the engineer |
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|[[Gustave Kervern]] and [[Benoît Delépine]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2009|2009]] |
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|''[[Beauties at War|La Guerre des miss]]'' ("Beauties at War") |
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|Franck Chevrel |
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|[[Patrice Leconte]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2009|2009]] |
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|''[[Coco Before Chanel|Coco avant Chanel]]'' ("Coco Before Chanel") |
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|Étienne Balsan |
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|[[Anne Fontaine]] |
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|[[French films of 2009|2009]] |
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|''[[Park Benches|Bancs publics (Versailles Rive-Droite)]]'' ("Park Benches") |
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|Customer at the wardrobe |
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|[[Bruno Podalydès]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2010|2010]] |
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|''[[L'Autre Dumas]]'' ("The Other Dumas") |
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|[[Auguste Maquet]] |
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|[[Safy Nebbou]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2010|2010]] |
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|''[[Mammuth]]'' |
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|the competitor |
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|Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2010|2010]] |
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|''[[Romantics Anonymous|Les Émotifs anonymes]]'' ("Romantics Anonymous") |
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|Jean-René Van Den Hugde<ref>{{cite book |first=Phil |last=Powrie |year=2017 |title=Music in Contemporary French Cinema: The Crystal-Song |publisher=Springer International Publishing |page=211 |isbn=9783319523620}}</ref> |
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|[[Jean-Pierre Améris]] |
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|[[French films of 2010|2010]] |
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|''[[Kill Me Please (2010 film)|Kill Me Please]]'' |
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|Monsieur Demanet |
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|[[Olias Barco]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2010|2010]] |
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|''[[Nothing to Declare (film)|Rien à déclarer]]'' ("Nothing to Declare") |
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|Ruben Vandevoorde |
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|[[Dany Boon]] |
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|[[French films of 2011|2011]] |
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|''[[My Worst Nightmare|Mon pire cauchemar]]'' ("My Worst Nightmare") |
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|Patrick |
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|Anne Fontaine |
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|[[French films of 2012|2012]] |
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|''[[Le grand soir (film)|Le Grand Soir]]'' |
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|Benoît Savelli a.k.a. "Not" |
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|Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2013|2013]] |
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|''[[:fr:Une histoire d'amour (film, 2013)|Une histoire d'amour]]'' |
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|Banker |
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|[[:fr:Hélène Fillières|Hélène Fillières]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2013|2013]] |
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|''[[The Big Bad Wolf (2013 Film)|The Big Bad Wolf]]'' |
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|Philippe |
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|[[Nicolas Charlet]] & [[Bruno Lavaine]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2014|2014]] |
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|''[[The Price of Fame (2014 film)|The Price of Fame]]'' |
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| Eddy Ricaart |
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|[[Xavier Beauvois]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2014|2014]] |
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|''[[Three Hearts (film)|Three Hearts]]'' |
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| Marc |
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|[[Benoît Jacquot]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2015|2015]] |
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|''[[The Brand New Testament]]'' |
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| [[God]] |
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|[[Jaco Van Dormael]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2015|2015]] |
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|''[[Une famille à louer]]'' |
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| Paul-André Delalande |
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|[[Jean-Pierre Améris]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2016|2016]] |
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|''[[The Jews (film)|The Jews]]'' |
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| Boris |
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|[[Yvan Attal]] |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2016|2016]] |
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|''[[Saint-Amour (film)|Saint-Amour]]'' |
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|Bruno |
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|Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine |
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|- |
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|[[French films of 2018|2018]] |
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| ''[[Au poste !]]'' |
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|Commissaire Buron |
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| [[Quentin Dupieux]] |
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|- |
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|2019 |
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| ''[[Adoration (2019 film)|Adoration]]'' |
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|Hinkel |
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| [[Fabrice Du Welz]] |
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|- |
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|2020 |
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|''[[Delete History]]'' |
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|Deliveryman |
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|2021 |
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|''[[Inexorable (film)|Inexorable]]'' |
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| Marcel Bellmer |
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| [[Fabrice Du Welz]] |
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|- |
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| 2024 |
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| ''[[Beating Hearts]]'' |
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| [[Gilles Lellouche]] |
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|- |
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|} |
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===Voice acting=== |
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* 1996 : ''[[Les Guignols|Les Guignols de l'info]]'': [[Alain Madelin]] (1 episode) |
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* 2009 : ''[[A Town Called Panic (film)|A Town Called Panic]]'' |
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* 2024: ''[[Savages (2024 film)|Savages]]'' |
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===Short films=== |
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* 1997 : ''[[Le Signaleur]]'' |
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* 1988 : ''[[Pas de C4 pour Daniel Daniel]]'' by [[Rémy Belvaux]] and [[André Bonzel]] |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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{{Commons category|Benoît Poelvoorde}} |
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* {{IMDb name|0688143}} |
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* {{in lang|fr}} [http://217.19.236.211/plumefx/outils/carriere.asp?mybase1=10&cid=7089 Theatre acting career summary]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (from [https://web.archive.org/web/20070107134037/http://217.19.236.211/plumefx/public/default.asp?mybase1=10 ''L'Annuaire du Spectacle''] on the [http://www.aml.cfwb.be/ ''Centre de recherche et de documentation littéraires et théâtrales de la Communauté française de Belgique'' web site]) |
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{{André Cavens Award 1981–2000}} |
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{{Cabourg Film Festival Best Actor Award}} |
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Latest revision as of 15:25, 22 December 2024
Benoît Poelvoorde | |
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Born | Namur, Belgium | 22 September 1964
Occupation(s) | Actor, screenwriter, director and producer |
Years active | 1983–present |
Benoît Poelvoorde (French: [bənwa pulvɔʁd], Flemish: [bəˈnʋaː pulˈvoːrdə]; born 22 September 1964) is a Belgian actor[1] and comedian.
Early life
[edit]His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still a minor. He attended the Jesuit Boarding School of Godinne before he left home at 17 to take classes at the Félicien Rops Technical Institute in Namur (Belgium) where he met Rémy Belvaux. He developed a passion for theater and became noted for his atypical interpretations. Not only was he destined to become a draughtsman, he also developed professionality as a photographer. During his graphic design studies at the École de recherche graphique in Brussels, he also became friends with André Bonzel and, together with Rémy Belvaux, directed in 1988 Pas de C4 pour Daniel Daniel, his first movie, a student short film (which he co-directed and co-wrote). It was a stylized trailer for a mock-spy film.
Career
[edit]In 1992, Poelvoorde, Belvaux and Bonzel wrote, produced and directed together their first long feature C'est arrivé près de chez vous (Man Bites Dog internationally) originally a low-budget school graduation project (1992) and a kind of cynical "noir" movie, inspired from the famous Belgian series "Strip-Tease" which went on to become a critically acclaimed cult movie. The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC).
Poelvoorde subsequently starred in two series on the French pay-channel Canal+ and several movies such as Les Randonneurs, Le Boulet and Podium, which made him famous in France and Belgium. In 2001, he starred in Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert, a movie about one of his passions, bicycling. In 2002, he received the Jean Gabin Prize, which recognized the most hopeful young talents. Poelvoorde became a member of the Cannes Film Festival Jury in 2004 by request of Quentin Tarantino, a big fan of Man Bites Dog who had presided over the Jury that year.
In 2005 he ranked in 7th place in the Walloon version of the Greatest Belgian. In the Flemish version he came in at nr. 400 outside the official list of nominations.
In 2008, his performance in the movie Astérix aux Jeux olympiques won him critical acclaim by both film critics and the public at large. His recurrent character as a pretentious person and a sore loser has drawn comparisons between him and the beloved French comedian Louis de Funès. Poelvoorde also played serious roles. He has starred in 2009 as Etienne Balsan in Coco avant Chanel by Anne Fontain, with Audrey Tautou; as Jean-René in 2010 with Isabelle Carré in a comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris Émotifs anonymes about two extremely shy persons who fall in love, and also as August Maquet in L'autre Dumas by Safy Nebbou, alongside Gérard Depardieu and Dominique Blanc, a movie about the creative ghostwriter, Maquet, who played a crucial role in the production of French writer Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers. For his work in A Place on Earth (2013), Poelvoorde received a Magritte Award for Best Actor.
Personal life
[edit]The actor revealed in interviews that he suffers from bipolar disorder.[2]
In 2019, during the shooting of the movie Raoul Taburin a un secret, based on the book by Jean-Jacques Sempé, Poelvoorde had a bicycle accident and received 17 stitches.[3]
Selected filmography
[edit]Voice acting
[edit]- 1996 : Les Guignols de l'info: Alain Madelin (1 episode)
- 2009 : A Town Called Panic
- 2024: Savages
Short films
[edit]- 1997 : Le Signaleur
- 1988 : Pas de C4 pour Daniel Daniel by Rémy Belvaux and André Bonzel
References
[edit]- ^ Willis, John (1 April 1995). Screen World 1994. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 231–. ISBN 9781557832016. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Oui, je suis bipolaire". Le Soir (in French). 6 February 2010.
- ^ Fontaine, Mathilde (12 April 2019). "VIDEO Benoît Poelvoorde gravement blessé sur le tournage de son dernier film". Voici (in French). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ Mathijs, Ernest (2005). "Man Bites Dog and the Critical Reception of Belgian Horror (in) Cinema". In Schneider, Steven Jay; Williams, Tony (eds.). Horror International (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television). Wayne State University Press. pp. 315–335. ISBN 9780814331019.
- ^ Powrie, Phil (2017). Music in Contemporary French Cinema: The Crystal-Song. Springer International Publishing. p. 211. ISBN 9783319523620.