Thierry Lhermitte Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Screenwriter , Producer more
Nationality French
Birth November 24, 1952 (Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine – France)

BIOGRAPHY
With his friends from the Lycée Pasteur de Neuilly, Michel Blanc , Gérard Jugnot and Christian Clavier , Thierry Lhermitte took drama classes alongside economics studies. It was with the latter and the young ladies Balasko and Chazel that he founded the Splendid comedy troupe . After landing a few small roles in numerous films, including Let the Party Begin (1974) and Des enfants gâtés (1977), both directed by Bertrand Tavernier , the handsome guy in the group experienced his first successes with his friends in 1978- 1979 in Les Bronzés , the adaptation of the play Splendid Amour, coquillages et crustaceans , and its “winter” sequel Les Bronzés sont du ski .

Despite the “dissolution” of the joyful team after the boxes of Santa Claus is trash (1982) and Grandpa makes the resistance (1983) until the reunion of the Bronzés 3 friends for life (2006), Thierry Lhermitte takes pleasure, throughout his career, in responding to his eternal accomplices including Josiane Balasko ( Nuit d’ivresse , L’Ex femme de ma vie ) and Gérard Jugnot with whom he forms the tandems of La Fiancée who came from cold (1983), Les Rois du gag (1985) and Influence peddling (1999). At the beginning of the 1980s, he tried his hand at drama with Stella (1983) and two thrillers by Serge Leroy : Légitime violence (1982) and L’Indic (1983). Using his playboy physique , he seduced Isabelle Adjani in Clara et les chic types (1981), played private detective in A Summer of Hell (1984) and promised The Marriage of the Century to Anémone in 1985.

Thierry Lhermitte increased his popularity popularity with some major comedies such as the Les Ripoux trilogy (1984-2003), La Totale (1990) which is the subject of an American remake with True lies , An Indian in the city (1994) or even Le Dîner de cons (1998), adaptation of the famous play by Francis Veberwhich attracts more than 9 million spectators to theaters. These big public successes, however, contrast with the commercial failures encountered by Les Soeurs Soleil (1996), Le Prince du Pacifique (2000), Mauvais esprit (2003) and L’Amérique (2004). In 2002, he officially took a position in favor of the Hadopi law intended to fight against the piracy of works, since he became an administrator of Trident Media Guard (TMG), one of the service providers chosen by the government for the implementation of this law.

In his dashing fifties, he has lost none of his power of seduction as evidenced by his performances alongside Claire Keim in Le Roman de Lulu (2000), Kate Hudson in Le Divorce (2003) and Elsa Zylberstein in Who loses wins! (2004). He also appears surprising as a detective adrift in the very dark A Private Affair (2002) and This Woman (2003) by Guillaume Nicloux .

From drama to comedy, Thierry Lhermitte tries his hand at different genres of cinema, but it is above all in the register of humor that he reaps his greatest successes. Indeed, in 2005, the film Les Bronzés 3 amis pour la vie created an event by bringing together the Splendid troupe for the first time in many years . After a few supporting roles in the cinema, it was on television that Thierry Lhermitte decided to make his return in January 2011 in the series Doc Martin . The following year, the actor returned to the big screen in the drama Le Noir (Te) Vous Va Si Bien by Jacques Bral .

In 2013, the actor brilliantly played a minister in the comedy Quai d’Orsay by Bertrand Tavernier alongside the very fashionable Raphaël Personnaz . A main role which earned him the favor of the public and critics. After the very poorly received buddy film Our Women (2015) by Richard Berry and the detective series The Witnesses set in the very cinematic coastal town of Tréport, he surprised by slipping into the shoes of a senior executive based in Montreal who changes his life by becoming a dog walker in The New Life of Paul Sneijder (2016). Still in 2016, Thierry Lhermitte makes life difficult for his future son-in-law Arthur Dupont in My family already adores you .

The native of Boulogne then plays a grandfather suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in La Finale with the very fashionable Rayane Bensetti ; the boss of the Club Caraibes Princess in All Inclusive ; Senator Rufus in Brutus Vs Caesar ; and a retiree who, with his wife Michèle Laroque , does not want to look after his grandchildren in Happy Retirement! (and its sequel). He reunited with the actress for the feel-good movie Donc on danse , as well as Clavier for the police comedy Mystère à Saint-Tropez .