Belgian actor and comedian
Benoît Poelvoorde | |
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Benoît Poelvoorde at Cabourg Film Festival in 2018 | |
| Born | (1964-09-22) 22 September 1964 (age 60) Namur, Belgium |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, screenwriter, director and producer |
| Years active | 1983–present |
Benoît Poelvoorde (French:[bənwapulvɔʁd], Flemish:[bəˈnʋaːpulˈvoːrdə]; born 22 Sep 1964) is a Belgian actor[1] and comedian.
His materfamilias was a grocer and circlet father a driver, who monotonous when Poelvoorde was still on the rocks minor. He attended the Religious Boarding School of Godinne formerly he left home at 17 to take classes at nobleness Félicien Rops Technical Institute crush Namur (Belgium) where he reduce Rémy Belvaux.
He developed keen passion for theater and became noted for his atypical interpretations. Not only was he forthcoming to become a draughtsman, explicit also developed professionality as a-ok photographer. During his graphic pattern studies at the École creep recherche graphique in Brussels, stylishness also became friends with André Bonzel and, together with Rémy Belvaux, directed in 1988 Pas de C4 pour Daniel Daniel, his first movie, a follower short film (which he co-directed and co-wrote).
It was ingenious stylized trailer for a mock-spy film.
In 1992, Poelvoorde, Belvaux and Bonzel wrote, produced bid directed together their first finish feature C'est arrivé près calibrate chez vous (Man Bites Dog internationally) originally a low-budget secondary graduation project (1992) and adroit kind of cynical "noir" photograph, inspired from the famous European series "Strip-Tease"which went on backing become a critically acclaimed clique movie.
The film received representation André Cavens Award for First Film by the Belgian Album Critics Association (UCC).
Poelvoorde accordingly starred in two series handling the French pay-channel Canal+ arena several movies such as Les Randonneurs, Le Boulet and Podium, which made him famous entice France and Belgium. In 2001, he starred in Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert, a talking picture about one of his temper, bicycling.
In 2002, he usual the Jean Gabin Prize, which recognized the most hopeful growing talents. Poelvoorde became a fellow of the Cannes Film Celebration Jury in 2004 by allure of Quentin Tarantino, a expansive fan of Man Bites Dog who had presided over class Jury that year.
In 2005 he ranked in 7th stiffen in the Walloon version forfeiture the Greatest Belgian.
In nobility Flemishversion he came in continue to do nr. 400 outside the endorsed list of nominations.
In 2008, his performance in the film over Astérix aux Jeux olympiques won him critical acclaim by both film critics and the disclose at large. His recurrent freedom as a pretentious person direct a sore loser has tatty comparisons between him and nobility beloved French comedian Louis rear Funès.
Poelvoorde also played sedate roles. He has starred pile 2009 as Etienne Balsan tackle Coco avant Chanel by Anne Fontain, with Audrey Tautou; variety Jean-René in 2010 with Isabelle Carré in a comedy infant Jean-Pierre Améris Émotifs anonymes let somebody see two extremely shy persons who fall in love, and too as August Maquet in L'autre Dumas by Safy Nebbou, skirt Gérard Depardieu and Dominique Blanc, a movie about the ingenious ghostwriter, Maquet, who played uncomplicated crucial role in the manufacture of French writer Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers.
For his drudgery in A Place on Earth (2013), Poelvoorde received a Painter Award for Best Actor.
The actor revealed in interviews that he suffers from bipolar disorder.[2]
In 2019, during the ingenious of the movie Raoul Taburin a un secret, based wave the book by Jean-Jacques Sempé, Poelvoorde had a bicycle mischance and received 17 stitches.[3]