Clovis Cornillac
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Clovis Cornillac (Lyon, 16 August 1967 — ) is a French theater, television and cinema actor.
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[edit] Biography
Clovis Cornillac was born to actors Myriam Boyer and Roger Cornillac. He started studying theater at the age of 14.
He had his debut in cinema in 1984 in Robin Davis' Outlaws. He was noticed by Dominique Besnehard, who introduced him to Peter Brook at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. Cornillac was hired in a contemporary play, Le Mahâbharata.
Cornillac is married to actor Caroline Proust. They have twin daughters.
[edit] Honours
- Made a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon in 2004.
- 2005 Prix Jean-Gabin laureate
- 2005 César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités...
[edit] Career
[edit] Theater
- 1984: Une lune pour les déshérités by Alain Françon
- 1990-1991: La dame de chez Maxim's by Alain Françon
- 1997: Edward II by Alain Françon
- 1997: Les Petites Heures by Alain Françon
- 1998: Surfeurs by Xavier Durringer
[edit] Filmography
- 1984: Outlaws by Robin Davis
- 1988: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Philip Kaufman
- 1992: Pétain by Jean Marbœuf
- 1994: Les amoureux by Catherine Corsini
- 1998: Karnaval by Thomas Vincent. Cornillac is nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor for 2000
- 2000:
- L'Amour prisonnier (telefilm), as Henri
- Franklin (telefilm)
- 2001
- L'Île bleue (telefilm)
- Gregoire Moulin vs. Mankind as Jacky
- Tea Time Alex
- Central Nuit (telefilm) as Viking
- 2002
- Une affaire privée as Freddy
- Carnages as Alexis
- Maléfique as Marcus
- Bois ta Suze
- 2003 :
- Une affaire qui roule as Jean-Jacques Roux
- À la petite semaine as Didier
- Après la pluie, le beau temps as Dubel
- Mariées mais pas trop as Alexis Dervin
- Vert paradis as Simon
- Je t'aime, je t'adore as David
- 2004
- Malabar Princess as Pierre
- La Femme de Gilles, by Frédéric Fonteyne, as Gilles
- Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités... as Kevin. Rewardrd with the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- A Very Long Engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, as Benoît Notre-Dame
- Doo Wop by David Lanzmann
- 2005
- Au suivant !, by Jeanne Biras, as Bernard.
- Brice de Nice by James Huth, as Marius
- Les Chevaliers du ciel, by Gérard Pirès, as captain Sébastien 'Fahrenheit' Vallois
- Gris-blanc, by Karim Dridi
- Le Cactus, by Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz
- 2006:
- Les Brigades du Tigre, by Jérôme Cornuau
- Poltergay by Éric Lavaine
- Happy Feet, by George Miller (voices Mumble)
- 2007
- Le Serpent by Éric Barbier, as Joseph Plender
- 2008
- Scheduled to play Asterix in a film adaptation of Asterix at the Olympic Games
