| Fabrice Luchini | |
| Birthname: | Robert Luchini |
| Birth Date: | 1951 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Years Active: | 1969–present |
Fabrice Luchini (in French pronounced as /fabʁis lykini/; born Robert Luchini; 1 November 1951) is a French stage and film actor. He has appeared in films such as Potiche, The Women on the 6th Floor, and In the House.
Fabrice Luchini was born in Paris, into an Italian immigrant family from Assisi[1] who were greengrocers. 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 parlour in Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdresser's son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert.
His first film role was in Tout peut arriver in 1969, directed by Philippe Labro. He then appeared in Éric Rohmer's Le Genou de Claire in 1970 playing a small role as an adolescent. He went on to appear in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and also in films directed by Walerian Borowczyk, Nagisa Oshima, Claude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch and Édouard Molinaro. In 1990 he appeared in Christian Vincent's La Discrète.
For his role in the 2015 film Courted he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.[2]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Tout peut arriver | Fabrice | Philippe Labro | |
| 1970 | Claire's Knee | Vincent | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1973 | Valparaiso, Valparaiso | Pascal Aubier | ||
| 1974 | Immoral Tales | André | Walerian Borowczyk | |
| 1975 | Ne | Fabrice | Jacques Richard | |
| 1976 | Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) | Vincent Vergne | Pierre Zucca | |
| Les écrans déchirés | Fabrice | Jacques Richard | Short | |
| 1978 | Violette Nozière | Camus | Claude Chabrol | |
| 1979 | Perceval le Gallois | Perceval | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1980 | Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme | Arthur | Jean-Louis Daniel | |
| 1981 | The Aviator's Wife | Mercillat | Éric Rohmer | |
| La forêt désenchantée | Jacques Robiolles | Short | ||
| 1982 | T'es folle ou quoi ? | Jean-François Sevran | Michel Gérard | |
| Jimmy Jazz | Fabrice | Laurent Perrin | Short | |
| 1983 | Zig Zag Story | Bob Hemler | Patrick Schulmann | |
| Il ne faut jurer de rien | Fabrice | Christian Vincent | Short | |
| 1984 | Emmanuelle 4 | Oswaldo | Francis Leroi & Iris Letans | |
| Full Moon in Paris | Octave | Éric Rohmer | ||
| 1985 | Profs | Michel | Patrick Schulmann | |
| Rouge-gorge | Frédéric | Pierre Zucca | ||
| 1986 | Family Business | The shady lawyer | Costa-Gavras | |
| Max, Mon Amour | Nicolas | Nagisa Ōshima | ||
| Triple sec | Yves Thomas | Short | ||
| 1987 | Hôtel du Paradis | Arthur | Jana Boková | |
| Les oreilles entre les dents | Luc Fabri | Patrick Schulmann | ||
| Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | The art dealer | Éric Rohmer | ||
| 1988 | La couleur du vent | Serge | Pierre Granier-Deferre | |
| Alouette, je te plumerai | Jacques | Pierre Zucca | ||
| 1990 | Uranus | Jourdan | Claude Berri | |
| La Discrète | Antoine | Christian Vincent | ||
| 1992 | Riens du tout | Lepetit | Cédric Klapisch | |
| The Return of Casanova | Camille | Édouard Niermans | ||
| 1993 | Toxic Affair | The analyst | Philomène Esposito | |
| Tout ça... pour ça ! | Fabrice Lenormand | Claude Lelouch | ||
| The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque | Marc Rossignol | Éric Rohmer | ||
| 1994 | Colonel Chabert | Derville | Yves Angelo | |
| 1995 | L'année Juliette | Camille Prader | Philippe Le Guay | |
| 1996 | Beaumarchais | Pierre Beaumarchais | Édouard Molinaro | |
| Fabio Lini | Claude Lelouch | |||
| 1997 | On Guard | Gonzague | Philippe de Broca | |
| An Air So Pure | Magnus | Yves Angelo | ||
| 1999 | No Scandal | Grégoire Jeancourt | Benoît Jacquot | |
| Rien sur Robert | Didier Temple | Pascal Bonitzer | ||
| 2001 | Barnie et ses petites contrariétés | Barnie | Bruno Chiche | |
| 2003 | The Cost of Living | Brett | Philippe Le Guay | |
| 2004 | Intimate Strangers | William | Patrice Leconte | |
| 2005 | La cloche a sonné | Simon Arcos | Bruno Herbulot | |
| 2006 | Jean-Philippe | Fabrice | Laurent Tuel | |
| 2007 | Molière | M. Jourdain | Laurent Tirard | |
| 2008 | Paris | Roland Verneuil | Cédric Klapisch | |
| A Day at the Museum | A guardian | Jean-Michel Ribes | ||
| The Girl from Monaco | Bertrand Beauvois | Anne Fontaine | ||
| 2009 | Points de vue | Narrator | Yona Friedman | Short |
| 2010 | Potiche | Robert Pujol | François Ozon | |
| My Father's Guests | Arnaud Paumelle | Anne Le Ny | ||
| 2011 | The Women on the 6th Floor | Jean-Louis Joubert | Philippe Le Guay | |
| 2012 | In the House | Germain Germain | François Ozon | |
| Julius Caesar | Laurent Tirard | |||
| 2013 | Bicycling with Molière | Serge Tanneur | Philippe Le Guay | |
| 2014 | Gemma Bovery | Martin Joubert | Anne Fontaine | |
| Charly | Fabrice | Jourdan Lucente | Short | |
| 2015 | Courted | Michel Racine | Christian Vincent | |
| Un début prometteur | Francis Vauvel | Emma Luchini | ||
| 2016 | Slack Bay | André van Peteghem | Bruno Dumont | |
| 2018 | A Man in a Hurry | Alain Wapler | Hervé Mimran | |
| The Emperor of Paris | Joseph Fouché | Jean-François Richet | ||
| 2019 | Joan of Arc | Charles VII of France | Bruno Dumont | |
| Alice and the Mayor | Paul Théraneau | Nicolas Pariser | ||
| The Best Is Yet to Come | Arthur Dreyfus | Matthieu Delaporte &<br> Alexandre de la Patellière | ||
| The Mystery of Henri Pick | Jean-Michel Rouche | Rémi Bezançon | ||
| 2023 | La petite | Joseph Siprien | Guillaume Nicloux | |
| The Crime Is Mine | Gustave Rabusset | François Ozon | ||
| Un homme heureux | Jean Leroy | Tristan Séguéla | ||
| 2024 | The Empire | Belzébuth | Bruno Dumont | |
| Marcello Mio | Fabrice | Christophe Honoré | ||
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | La chaine | Laurent | Claude Santelli | TV movie |
| 1980 | Fantômas | Bonardin | Juan Luis Buñuel & Claude Chabrol | TV mini-series |
| 1981 | Le beau monde | Jean-Pierre Davier | Michel Polac | TV movie |
| 1986 | Tous en boîte | Minimax | Charles Nemes | TV mini-series |
| Série noire | Kowal | Maurice Dugowson | TV series (1 episode) | |
| 1988 | L'argent du mur | Bernd | Jean-François Delassus | TV movie |
| Série noire | Pastor | Yves Boisset | TV series (1 episode) | |
| 1989 | Les nuits révolutionnaires | Le Huguenot | Charles Brabant | TV mini-series |
| 1990 | Six crimes sans assassin | Simon Lampias | Bernard Stora | TV movie |
| 1994 | Ne m'appelez pas ma petite | Thierry | Jean Becker | TV movie |
| 1998 | Art | Serge | Yves-André Hubert | TV movie |
| 2017 | Call My Agent! | Himself | Laurent Tirard | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2023 | Class Act | Marcel Loiseau | Tristan Séguéla | TV mini-series |