Francis Leplay
Francis Leplay is a French actor, film director and novelist.
An alumnus of France's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences Po, Leplay began acting on television in episodes of the French detective series Julie Lescaut and Navarro. His first film role was in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's J'ai horreur de l'amour (I Hate Love) in 1997.
His career took off in the 2000s, and he soon started acting in films by directors including Sofia Coppola, Noémie Lvovsky, Arnaud Desplechin, and Benoît Jacquot as well as in the television series Spiral.
Leplay has also acted in theater productions with directors Denis Podalydès and Lambert Wilson in venues including Lincoln Center, the Mossovet Theatre, and the Bouffes du Nord.
The Éditions du Seuil published two of his novels, 2006's Après le spectacle, a work of autofiction comparing intermittent acting work and romantic uncertainty, and 2009's Samuel et Alexandre, which follows two men staking out the bounds of their friendship.
In 2021, Leplay and French-American filmmaker Isidore Bethel co-directed the docufiction hybrid film Acts of Love, which premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
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Movies (48)
The Money Maker
2026 · Victor
Prime Rush
2025 · Guy
Cerfa
2025
The End of the Iron Age
2025 · Le Président de la République
Robespierre
2024
The Good Teacher
2024 · Mr. Musil
Not My Type
2022 · Le cadre Sacem
Brother and Sister
2022 · André Borkman
Mixte 1963
2021 · Rene Herman
Acts of Love
2021 · Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
My Best Part
2020
Opération Finot
2019 · Philippe Rivera
Who You Think I Am
2019 · Serge
A Violent Desire for Joy
2018 · The Abbot
Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen
2018 · Fouqier
Ce que vivent les roses
2018 · Yahn Quemener
Jealous
2017 · Nathalie's doctor
Tomorrow and Thereafter
2017 · Monsieur Lesieur
Nelly
2017 · Mathieu
Kill Skills
2016 · Our Friend
Les Cowboys
2015 · Train man
The Clearstream Affair
2015 · Lawyer Denis Robert & Les Arènes
3 Hearts
2014 · Le médecin
The Cosmopolitans
2014 · Philippe
Youth
2013 · Frédéric
Bright Days Ahead
2013 · Le prof d'oenologie
Looking for Hortense
2012 · Marco
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
2012 · Le Maître de philosophie
Farewell, My Queen
2012 · Le comte d'Artois
Imogène McCarthery
2010 · Gowen Ross
Rien dans les poches
2008 · 'Le lézard' #1
Seule
2008 · Antoine Nardier
Intrusions
2008 · Maître Pierre Marsac
Modern Love
2008 · Hervé
Le Mental de l'équipe
2008
The Resistance: Live Free or Die
2008 · Gilbert Lesage
The Price to Pay
2007 · Agent immobilier
María Antonieta
2006 · Doctor Delivery Provence
Zim and Co
2005 · Inspecteur commissariat
Kings & Queen
2004 · Christian, le félon
Clémence
2003 · Alain Dorcières
Only Girls
2003 · Philippe Jean
Ma caméra et moi
2002 · Le jeune homme
Love Bites
2001 · Photographer
Jamel Show
1999 · Self
Time Regained
1999 · Employee Jupien
I Hate Love
1997 · Association Member
Rai
1995
TV shows (8)
Mitterrand confidentiel
2026 · Pierre Pingeot
The Sentinels
2025 · Le Ministre de la Guerre, Millerand
Frotter, frotter
2025 · Lazare Masurel
Cristóbal Balenciaga
2024 · Lucien LeLong
Voltaire High
2021 · Rene Hermen
The Cosmopolitans
2014 · Philippe
Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
2007 · plaignant, l'ex-animateur
L'État de Grace
2006 · Cédric Pierrot