Melvil Poupaud

Born in 1973 in Paris, Melvil Poupaud began his acting career in Raoul Ruiz’ La Ville des pirates (1983). Jacques Doillon’s La Fille de quinze ans (1989) and Laurence Ferreira Barbosa’s Les gens normaux n’ont rien d’exceptionnel (1993) both won him César nominations. In 1995, he once again worked with Raoul Ruiz on Trois vies et une seule mort then Généalogies d’un crime (1996) and Marcel Proust’s Time Regained (1998). He has filmed with numerous directors, including Eric Rohmer, Conte d’été (1996), James Ivory, Le Divorce (2003), Arnaud Desplechin, Un conte de Noël (2008), and François Ozon, Le temps qui reste (2005) and Le Refuge (2009). A filmmaker from an early age, he has directed several short films since 1985 and in 2006 a feature film, Melvil. –The Festival del film Locarno