Gaël Morel
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| Gaël Morel | |
 Morel as François in Wild Reeds |
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| Born | September 25, 1972 Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône-Alpes, France |
| Notable roles | François in Les Roseaux Sauvages |
Gaël Morel is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born 25th September 1972, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône-Alpes, France.
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[edit] Biography
Gaël Morel was born and grew up in the Lyon area, in the picturesque Rhône-Alpes region of France. He comes from a modest family from Villefranche-sur-Saône, a small town of 30,000 inhabitants, outside Lyon. He also grew up as a child in the nearby little village of Lacenas (which is in the Villefranche district).
At the age of 15, he left home to go to pursue film studies in Lyon, afterwards moving to Paris where he later met with the acclaimed French director André Téchiné, who cast him in the lead role of François in the multi César-winning 1994 film Les Roseaux Sauvages (Wild Reeds), playing an adolescent coming to terms with his homosexuality, which brought him to wider fame, earning much critical praise for his performance and a 1995 César nomination for Most Promising Young Actor.
While his Wild Reeds co-star friends Élodie Bouchez and Stéphane Rideau have both gone on to successful acting careers (he has often cast them in his own films), Morel has chosen to pursue a career behind the camera, as film-making has always been his passion. Although he has acted in a handful of other films, most recently a supporting role in Téchiné's Loin (2004), Gaël Morel has said that he does not intend to act again (he agreed to Loin at Téchiné’s persuasion), preferring to concentrate on his promising career as a film director and screenwriter.
[edit] Filmography as Actor
- Les Roseaux Sauvages (English title: Wild Reeds ) dir.André Téchiné, 1994 ..."François"
- Le Plus Bel Âge dir. Didier Haudepin, 1995 ..."Bertrand"
- Zonzon dir. Laurent Bouhnik, 1998 ..."Grandjean"
- Loin dir. André Téchiné, 2001 ..."François"
[edit] Filmography as Director
- La Vie à Rebours, 1994,
- À Toute Vitesse (English title: Full Speed), 1996
- Premières Neiges, 1999
- Les Chemins de l'Oued (English title: Under Another Sky), 2002
- Le Clan (English title: Three Dancing Slaves), 2004
- Les Éphémères, in current production (as of 2006)
[edit] Awards
- 1995 César nomination : Meilleur Espoir Masculin (Most Promising Young Actor) for Les Roseaux Sauvages
- 2002 Fipresci Prize, Toronto International Film Festival, for Les Chemins de l'Oued
