Guillaume De Tonquédec Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Nationality French
Birth October 18, 1966 (Paris)

BIOGRAPHY
Guillaume de Tonquédec begins his training at the Versailles conservatory. He attended free classes at the Cours Florent before being selected for the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris.

In 1986, he obtained his first role in the cinema in the film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre : Private Course , then the same year he played in We stole Charlie Spencer! by Francis Huster . With Charles Nemes ‘s Table d’Honneur in 1992, he landed the top billing for the first time with the character of Jules Martin. Alongside his career in cinema where he mainly played supporting roles, he began to film for television.

Thanks to the series Commissioner Cordier , in which he will return in 10 episodes with the character of Thomas Sorensen, Guillaume de Tonquédec slips into the skin of a recurring character. His career then took a decisive turn when he was hired to play Renaud Lepic in the successful comedy series: Fais pas ci, fait pas ça alongside Bruno Salomone , Isabelle Gélinas and Valérie Bonneton . In 2010, he also found Valérie Bonneton at the cinema (who plays his wife, Fabienne Lepic in the series), for Who Wants to Be Loved by Anne Giafferi .

Comes the consecration in 2013, when he received the César for best actor in a supporting role for his character of Claude Gatignol in the scathing comedy Le Prénom , adapted from the play of the same name and directed by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte . Active on stage, Guillaume de Tonquédec already played this character on stage.

His roles are becoming more and more important in the cinema, as evidenced by his notable participations in Divin enfant and Barbecue , two comedies with an impressive cast both released in the first half of 2014. Favoring comic films over subjects in In the spirit of the times, as SMS , Bonne Pomme and Coexistence testify, Guillaume de Tonquédec plays a small organic egg producer in Roxane , the first feature film directed by Mélanie Auffret .