Fabrice Luchini
Acting • Born 1951-11-01
Biography
Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement. When he was 13, his mother apprenticed him to a hairdresser in a trendy parlor on Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdresser's son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert. At the same time he developed a great interest for literature (Balzac, Flaubert, Proust). His passion for soul music (James Brown) made him a regular of discothèques. This is where he met Philippe Labro, who gave him his first role in Tout peut arriver in 1969. He then studied acting under Jean-Laurent Cochet. However, it was his collaboration with Éric Rohmer that would make him popular for Le Genou de Claire in 1970, in which he played a small role as an adolescent. He appeared in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois, and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and in films directed by Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch, Édouard Molinaro. Thanks to Jean-Laurent Cochet, he later discovered theater, his true passion, which he described as "the only place where life is expressed... something that no school will ever teach". However, it was his role in La Discrète, directed by Christian Vincent in 1990, that made him well-known to the general public. He divides his work between cinema and theater, where since 1980 he has had considerable success with readings from the texts of La Fontaine, Nietzsche, Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit, Paul Valéry and Roland Barthes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabrice Luchini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
108 credits
For Better and for Worse
Movie • 2023
Jean Leroy
Violette Nozière
Movie • 1978
Camus, student
Claire's Knee
Movie • 1970
Vincent
Intimate Strangers
Movie • 2004
William
Moliere
Movie • 2007
M. Jourdain
Paris
Movie • 2008
Roland Verneuil
Full Moon in Paris
Movie • 1984
Octave
All That... for This?!
Movie • 1993
Fabrice Lenormand
On Guard
Movie • 1997
Count Gonzague
Jean-Philippe
Movie • 2006
Fabrice / Self
Emmanuelle 4
Movie • 1984
Oswaldo
Colonel Chabert
Movie • 1994
Derville
Uranus
Movie • 1990
Jourdan
« Art »
Movie • 1998
Serge
The Girl from Monaco
Movie • 2008
Bertrand Beauvois
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
Movie • 2008
Self
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Movie • 2014
An Air So Pure
Movie • 1997
Magnus
Immoral Tales
Movie • 1974
André - Story 1
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Movie • 1996
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
The Discreet
Movie • 1990
Antoine
Lark, I'll Pluck You!
Movie • 1988
Jacques
The Color of the Wind
Movie • 1988
Serge
Droit de Réponse
Movie • 1981
Self
Little Nothings
Movie • 1992
Lepetit
The Empire
Movie • 2024
Belzébuth
Trophy Wife
Movie • 2010
Robert Pujol
The Cost of Living
Movie • 2003
Brett
Nothing About Robert
Movie • 1999
Didier Temple
My Father's Guests
Movie • 2010
Arnaud
Barnie's Minor Annoyances
Movie • 2001
Barnie
Perceval
Movie • 1978
Perceval
The Women on the 6th Floor
Movie • 2011
Jean-Louis Joubert
P.R.O.F.S.
Movie • 1985
Michel
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Movie • 1996
Fabio Lini
La cloche a sonné
Movie • 2005
Simon Arcos
Keep It Quiet
Movie • 1999
Grégoire Jeancourt
Marcello Mio
Movie • 2024
Fabrice
In the House
Movie • 2012
Germain
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Movie • 2012
Jules César
Cycling with Molière
Movie • 2013
Serge Tanneur
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
Movie • 1993
Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur
The Baby
Movie • 2023
Joseph
Par cœur
Movie • 1998
Self
The Return of Casanova
Movie • 1992
Camille
Toxic Affair
Movie • 1993
The Analyst
The Crime Is Mine
Movie • 2023
Judge Gustave Rabusset
Il ne faut jurer de rien
Movie • 1983
The Juliette Year
Movie • 1995
Camille Prader
By Heart
Movie • 2022
Self
Gemma Bovery
Movie • 2014
Martin
Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu
Movie • 2025
Christian
Robin
Movie • 1985
Frédéric
Courted
Movie • 2015
Michel Racine
Fabrice Luchini : des écrivains parlent d'argent
Movie • 2022
T'es folle ou quoi ?
Movie • 1982
Jean-François Sevran
Le Point sur Robert
Movie • 2008
Fabrice Luchini
Slack Bay
Movie • 2016
André van Peteghem
Triple sec
Movie • 1986
Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess
Movie • 2025
Narrator
Un début prometteur
Movie • 2015
Francis Vauvel
Paradise Hotel
Movie • 1986
Arthur
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
Movie • 1976
Vincent Vergne
Zig Zag Story
Movie • 1983
Bob Hemler
The Aviator's Wife
Movie • 1981
Mercillat
Max My Love
Movie • 1986
Nicolas
Luchini - Variations La Fontaine
Movie • 2012
Self
A Man in a Hurry
Movie • 2018
Alain
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Movie • 1987
Le marchand de tableau
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Movie • 1980
Arthur
Né
Movie • 1975
Self
A Visit to Hokusai
Movie • 2014
Narrator
The Emperor of Paris
Movie • 2018
Fouché
Lettre de la Sierra Morena
Movie • 1983
Don Quichotte
The Mystery of Henri Pick
Movie • 2019
Jean Michel Rouche
The Best Is Yet to Come
Movie • 2019
Arthur Dreyfus
Alice and the Mayor
Movie • 2019
Paul Theraneau
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Joan of Arc
Movie • 2019
Roi Charles VII
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
Movie • 1999
Les Oreilles entre les dents
Movie • 1987
Luc Fabri
Family Business
Movie • 1986
Shady Lawyer
Journey to the End of the Night
Movie • 1990
Self
Tout peut arriver
Movie • 1969
Fabrice
Six crimes sans assassins
Movie • 1990
Simon
A Day at the Museum
Movie • 2008
Guard at the Malraux museum
Le Beau Monde
Movie • 1981
Jean-Pierre Davier
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Movie • 2004
Doctor Knock
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Movie • 2002
Self
La Fontaine et le Confinement
Movie • 2024
Les Écrans déchirés
Movie • 1976
Fabrice
Céline Dion, la bande originale de sa vie
Movie • 2024
Self - Guest
Hugo
Movie • 2026
Robert Zuchini
La Fée Carabine
Movie • 1988
Pastor
Demain, je tombe amoureux
Movie
Émile
Laïcité, l'exception française - 120 ans, et maintenant ?
Movie • 2025
Self
En répétant Perceval
Movie • 1978
Quotidien
TV • 2016
Self
Fantômas
TV • 1980
Bonardin
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
TV • 2020
Class Act
TV • 2023
Marcel Loiseau
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Call My Agent!
TV • 2015
Self
Quotidien
TV • 2016
Self - Guest
On n'est pas couché
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Cérémonie des César
TV • 1976
Self - Presenter
Cérémonie des César
TV • 1976
Self - Host