Pio Marmaï Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Nationality French
Birth July 13, 1984 (Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France)

BIOGRAPHY
With a father who was a scenographer and a mother who was a costume designer for the Strasbourg Opera, Pio Marmai began his career on the stage and diligently followed comedy classes at the Scuola Commedia dell’Arte, the Créteil Conservatory and the Drama Center national of Saint-Etienne, performing for the first time on stage in 2006-2007 in “Les Temps Difficiles” by Edouard Bourdet and “Andréa del Sarto” by Alfred de Musset . With his company La Quincaillerie Moderne , he also stages “What are the Lambs Thinking About?” which is played at local festivals and in Paris.

Noted in the casting of the mini-series Nothing in the Pockets alongside Emma de Caunes , the actor appeared for the first time in the cinema in the comedy Didine by Vincent Dietschy in 2008. We found him the same year playing the rebellious big brothers in The First Day of the Rest of Your Life by Rémi Bezançon , which earned him a nomination for the César for Most Promising Actor. He returned to pure comedy the following year with Murphy’s Law , a burlesque film by Christophe Campos whose action takes place in a hospital environment.

From 2011, however, Pio Marmai seems to favor the drama genre. In D’amour et d’eau fraîche by Isabelle Czajka , he plays a young marginal living from day to day, leading the very promising Anaïs Demoustier into his race , a role for which he is once again nominated for the César for Best Newcomer . He then sequesters Kristin Scott Thomas behind closed doors Against You by Lola Doillon , before tasting the joys of fatherhood alongside Louise Bourgoin in A Happy Event by Rémi Bezançon . At the same time, he made a few appearances on television, notably in My father, Francis the Belgian (2010) and Le pas Petit Poucet (id.).

A leading figure in cutting-edge and demanding cinema, the actor is the headliner of Alyah (2012), where he plays Alex, a drug dealer who dreams of leaving everything to go to Tel Aviv. Always in the foreground, he transforms into a romantic dreamer wandering in the Buttes-Chaumont park alongside Agathe Bonitzer in Nights with Théodore (2013). in the drama Grand Départ by Nicolas Mercier where he plays a psycho-rigid brother suddenly upset by the dementia of his father ( Eddy Mitchell ).

The actor pulls out of his hat a new character with pronounced fantasy in Pierre Salvadori for Dans la cour (2014) in which he plays Stéphane, one of the residents of the building and a sickly collector of bicycles that he piles up in his apartment. He is also starring in La Ritournelle with Isabelle Huppert and in Maestro , a film-tribute to Jocelyn Quivrin where he plays the counterpart of the deceased during his meeting with Eric Rohmer for Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon .

Opportunistic communicator ( The Tomorrows That Sing ), homosexual waking up one morning in the bed of a lovely Swede ( Very first time ) and sharing his memories with his childhood friend ( Our Futures ), Pio Marmai then tastes a more universe dark, reminiscent of that of Alyah, via Vendeur where he plays the son of Gilbert Melki . In 2017, he starred in Cédric Klapisch ‘s new film , What binds us , a drama set in the wine industry.

Active, the native of Strasbourg alternates comedies ( Santa & Cie , En liberté!) and dramas ( Mais vous sont fous , where he plays a dentist confronted with drug addiction problems having led to the endangerment of his family ). He also tasted the world of superheroes with How I Became a Superhero , which was released directly on Netflix, then played an angry yellow vest protester in the very in tune with its times La Fracture , and a determined journalist in the thriller Investigation into a State Scandal .

Pio Marmai is also chosen to slip into the skin of Porthos in the two films by Martin Bourboulon adapted from the famous work of Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers : D’Artagnan and Milady , scheduled for 2023.