Fabrice Luchini
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.
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Movies (100)
Love Lessons
2026 · Émile
Hugo
2026 · Robert Zuchini, Co-Producer
Laïcité, l'exception française - 120 ans, et maintenant ?
2025 · Self
Natacha, (Almost) Air Hostess
2025 · Narrator
Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu
2025 · Christian
La Fontaine et le Confinement
2024 · Writer
Marcello Mio
2024 · Fabrice
Céline Dion, la bande originale de sa vie
2024 · Self - Guest
The Empire
2024 · Belzébuth
The Baby
2023 · Joseph
The Crime is Mine
2023 · Judge Rabusset
For Better and for Worse
2023 · Jean Leroy
By Heart
2022 · Self
Fabrice Luchini : des écrivains parlent d'argent
2022
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020 · Self (archive footage)
The Best Is Yet to Come
2019 · Arthur Dreyfus
Joan of Arc
2019 · Roi Charles VII
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
2019 · Narrator (voice)
Alice and the Mayor
2019 · Paul Theraneau
The Mystery of Henri Pick
2019 · Jean Michel Rouche
Les années Bouvard : le rire et l’impertinence
2019 · Self (archive footage)
The Emperor of Paris
2018 · Fouché
A Man in a Hurry
2018 · Alain
Slack Bay
2016 · André van Peteghem
Courted
2015 · Michel Racine
Un début prometteur
2015 · Francis Vauvel
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
A Visit to Hokusai
2014 · Narrator
Gemma Bovery
2014 · Martin
Cycling with Molière
2013 · Serge Tanneur, Original Story
Luchini - Variations La Fontaine
2012 · Self
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012 · Jules César
In the House
2012 · Germain
The Women on the 6th Floor
2011 · Jean-Louis Joubert
Trophy Wife
2010 · Robert Pujol
My Father's Guests
2010 · Arnaud
A Day at the Museum
2008 · Guard at the Malraux museum
Le Point sur Robert
2008 · Fabrice Luchini
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
2008 · Self
The Girl from Monaco
2008 · Bertrand Beauvois
Paris
2008 · Roland Verneuil
Moliere
2007 · M. Jourdain
Jean-Philippe
2006 · Fabrice / Self
La cloche a sonné
2005 · Simon Arcos
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
2004 · Doctor Knock
Intimate Strangers
2004 · William
The Cost of Living
2003 · Brett
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 · Self
Barnie's Minor Annoyances
2001 · Barnie
Keep It Quiet
1999 · Grégoire Jeancourt
Nothing About Robert
1999 · Didier Temple
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
1999
« Art »
1998 · Serge
Par cœur
1998 · Self
On Guard
1997 · Count Gonzague
An Air So Pure
1997 · Magnus
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996 · Fabio Lini
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996 · Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
The Juliette Year
1995 · Camille Prader
Colonel Chabert
1994 · Derville
All That... for This?!
1993 · Fabrice Lenormand
Toxic Affair
1993 · The Analyst
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
1993 · Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur
Little Nothings
1992 · Lepetit
The Return of Casanova
1992 · Camille
Uranus
1990 · Jourdan
The Discreet
1990 · Antoine
Journey to the End of the Night
1990 · Self
Six crimes sans assassins
1990 · Simon
The Color of the Wind
1988 · Serge
La Fée Carabine
1988 · Pastor
Lark, I'll Pluck You!
1988 · Jacques
Les Oreilles entre les dents
1987 · Luc Fabri
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
1987 · Le marchand de tableau
Max My Love
1986 · Nicolas
Paradise Hotel
1986 · Arthur
Family Business
1986 · Shady Lawyer
Triple sec
1986
P.R.O.F.S.
1985 · Michel
Robin
1985 · Frédéric
Full Moon in Paris
1984 · Octave
Emmanuelle 4
1984 · Oswaldo
Lettre de la Sierra Morena
1983 · Don Quichotte
Zig Zag Story
1983 · Bob Hemler
Il ne faut jurer de rien
1983
T'es folle ou quoi ?
1982 · Jean-François Sevran
Droit de Réponse
1981 · Self
Le Beau Monde
1981 · Jean-Pierre Davier
The Aviator's Wife
1981 · Mercillat
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
1980 · Arthur
Perceval
1978 · Perceval
Violette Nozière
1978 · Camus, student
En répétant Perceval
1978
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
1976 · Vincent Vergne
Les Écrans déchirés
1976 · Fabrice
Né
1975 · Self
Immoral Tales
1974 · André - Story 1
Claire's Knee
1970 · Vincent
Tout peut arriver
1969 · Fabrice
Anne et François
· François Mitterrand
TV shows (11)
Class Act
2023 · Marcel Loiseau
LEGEND
2023
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
2020
Quotidien
2016 · Self, Self - Guest
Call My Agent!
2015 · Self
On n'est pas couché
2006 · Self - Guest
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
Aujourd'hui la vie
1982 · Self
Fantômas
1980 · Bonardin
Ciné regards
1978 · Self
Cérémonie des César
1976 · Self - Presenter, Self - Host