Albert Dupontel Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Director , Screenwriter more
Nationality French
Birth January 11, 1964 (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France)

BIOGRAPHY
At the end of the 80s, Albert Dupontel trained in comedy at the Théâtre National de Chaillot. It was during this period that he debuted on the big screen in La Bande des quatre by Jacques Rivette and Encore by Paul Vecchiali . But it was in 1991, on stage that the actor truly became known to the general public with his one-man show Sale spectacle , which he performed at the Olympia. His fierce and offbeat humor made him one of the most original artists of the time.

Building on his stage popularity, Albert Dupontel distinguished himself in 1995 in A Very Discreet Hero by Jacques Audiard . Nominated for a César in the Best Supporting Actor category, he earned the respect of the profession. A year later, he directed his first feature film, Bernie , in which he also played the title role. The unique tone of the film, scathing and provocative, is not unanimous, but imposes the personality of its author. After starring in Serial Lover , Albert Dupontel directed his second feature, Le Créateur (1998), a reflection on the status of an artist. By performing La Maladie de Sachs (1999) under the direction of Michel Deville , he also showed his ability to embody tortured and complex characters.

Subsequently, this rare and demanding actor confirmed his desire for eclecticism in the French cinematographic landscape, alternating shocking films ( Irréversible , 2002), classic dramas ( From Blue to America , Two Days to Kill ) and comedies. popular ( Little miseries , Monique , Odette Toulemonde ). He also adheres to the worlds of Jeunet ( A Long Sunday of Engagement , 2004), Thompson ( Fauteuils d’octet , 2006) and Klapisch ( Paris , 2008). From Le Convoyeur in 2004, we also see him try a more physical register as shown by his performances in Jacquou Le Croquant (2007), L’Ennemi Intimate (id.) and Chrysalis (id.). Albert does not forget to surprise us by improvising himself as President (2006) and by giving us a third feature, Enfermés outside , where he portrays himself as a delirious homeless person.

Wiser, less acidic, but just as burlesque, he produced in 2009Le Vilain in which he appears alongside Catherine Frot , his partner in Odette Toulemonde , whom he portrays as an old lady trying to put her son back on the right path. Ten years after Les Acteurs , he reunited with Bertrand Blier for Le Bruit des glaçons (2010), in which he played Jean Dujardin ‘s “cancer” . In 2011, Dupontel once again joined the Grolandais director duo Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern After Louise-Michel (2008) in Le Grand Soir where he played, in an explosive duo, the brother of another big mouth of French-speaking cinema, Benoît Poelvoorde .

With the crazy 9 Months Close , he returns to directing for the fifth time and reunites with Sandrine Kiberlain 18 years after A Very Discreet Hero . The filmmaker won the César for best original screenplay with this film and earned his lead actress the César for best actress. In 2017, Dupontel directed Goodbye there , an ambitious adaptation of a novel by Pierre Lemaitre set in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties. The work won five Césars in 2018, including Best Director for Albert Dupontel.

In 2020, the director is back behind the camera with Adieu les cons . When Suze Trappet ( Virginie Efira ) learns that she is seriously ill, she decides to go in search of the child she was forced to abandon. His administrative quest will bring him across JB, a fifty-year-old in the middle of burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind but enthusiastic archivist. Here again, it’s a consecration since Adieu les idiots won seven Césars, including those for Best Film and Best Direction. Three years later, he signed his new film, the dramatic and political comedy Second Tour , in which Cécile de France plays a journalist investigating a mysterious presidential candidate (Dupontel).