Cris Campion Explained

Cris Campion (born 1 September 1966) is a French film and television actor, previously known as Thierry Campion.

Born in Versailles,^[1] Campion's first leading role came in Roman Polanski’s Pirates (1986).^[2] The next year, he was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actor for Field of Honor. In Charlemagne, le prince à cheval (1993), he played Pepin the Hunchback.^[3]

Campion married Anny Duperey in 1993, two years after she had left Bernard Giraudeau, but they separated after some ten years.^[4] Duperey has called Giraudeau “the man of my life” and Campion “the love of my life”.^[5]

Appearances

• Le café (1985)
• Pirates (1986), as Jean-Baptiste, called Frog^[2]
• Field of Honor (1987), as Pierre Naboulet
• Un sketch (1987)
• Beyond Therapy (1987), as Andrew
• The Ray Bradbury Theater (1988), as Terwilliger
• Le Client (short film, 1988), as Eric
• Chillers (Day of Reckoning) (1990), as Jean Arnaud
• Fortune Express (1991), as Pascal Perkiss
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1992), as Lieutenant Gaston
• Sup de fric (Christian Gion, 1992), as Victor Dargelas
• Ma sœur, mon amour (1992), as Gaetan
• Le voyage d'Eva (1992), as Laurent
• Charlemagne, le prince à cheval (television, 1993), as Pepin the Hunchback^[3]
• Fortitude (television, 1994), as Pierrot
• Taxandria (1995), dubbing
• Navarro (television series, 1995 season), as Antoine
• La Femme de la forêt (1996), as Bertrand
• Exit Wounds (1997), as Cyril
• Le Bahut (television series, 1998 season), as Jérôme
• Une famille formidable (2000), as Vincent
• Marie Fransson (2001), as Atlas
• Méditerranée (2001, television), as Marco
• Gaetan et Rachel en toute innocence (2002)
• Leave Your Hands on My Hips (2003), as Musician
• Julie Lescaut (television series, 2003 episode “Hors la loi”), as Berteau
• Frank Riva (television series, 2004) as Stan
• The Waves (2005)
• Standing Tall (2005, TV)
• Les Hauts plateaux (stage play)
• PJ (television series, 2006 season), as Jean-Marie
• Greco (television, 2007), as Joseph
• Section de recherches (2007), as Alain
• Plus belle la vie (television soap, 2008 season), as Cédric

External links

• • Cris Campion at bfi.org.uk

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20180228130512/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba24e5586 Cris Campion
2. Julia Ain-Krupa, Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile (2010), p. 118
3. CinémAction TV, Issue 11 (1995), p. 61
4. https://www.purepeople.com/article/anny-duperey-ce-qu-il-faisait-avec-une-autre-femme-ne-me-regardait-pas_a160367/1 “Anny Duperey: Ce qu'il faisait avec une autre femme ne me regardait pas”
5. Marine Madelmond, “Anny Duperey: Cris Campion, l’amour de sa vie était son petit fils dans un film”, in Gala, 18 January 2018 (in French)