Aurélien Recoing

Aurélien Recoing born 5 May 1958 is a French actor and stage director Aurélien Recoing is the son of Alain Recoing puppeteer and the brother of Éloi Recoing director and translator Blaise Recoing actor and musician and David Recoing pianist composer Born in Paris on May 5 1958 Aurélien Recoing began training to be an actor in 1974 at Cours Florent and studied at Quartier dIvry In 1977 the actorintraining who spoke fluent English and a little Russian joined the Conservatoire national supérieur dart dramatique in Paris where he studied under JeanPierre Miquel and Antoine Vitez He has appeared in more than 30 plays and has directed stage performances of works by Thomas Bernhard Fernando Pessoa and Paul Claudel He was awarded the Prix Gérard Philipe in 1989 In 1980 Aurélien Recoing took his first steps into the world of cinema in Exploits of a Young Don Juan Finding arthouse cinema appealing to him he worked with Philippe Garrel on Emergency Kisses Les baisers de secours and with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa on Modern Life The actor rose to fame in 2001 thanks to Laurent Cantets Time Out LEmploi du Temps in which he plays a man who invents a false life to avoid having to tell his friends and family that he has been fired from his job As he became more and more in demand he alternated between blockbusters such as Ruby Quentin and That Woman and arthouse films like LEnnemi naturel and Orlando Vargas Lending his talents to a number of unusual projects in 2006 he portrayed a gamblers in 13 Tzameti Géla Babluanis blackandwhite thriller and also appeared in Forgive Me Pardonnezmoi Maïwenns homemovie style drama In the same year the physically imposing actor found himself transported back to 1914 France in Fragments of Antonin and then to 1959 Kabylia in Florent Emilio Siris Intimate Enemies In 2008 he starred in Franck Llopis Paris NordSud and in La Saison des Orphelins The following year he was cast in Gilles Béhats crime thriller Diamant 13 with Gérard Depardieu and in Denis Dercourts Tomorrow at Dawn Demain dès laube He has made appearances in The Horde directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher Xavier de Choudens Joseph and the Girl with Jacques Dutronc and Léon Desclozeauxs Cargo the Lost Men in 2010 He appeared in Frédéric Schoendoerffers Switch as well as in Olias Barcos Kill Me Please which won the MarcAurelio dOro for best film at Rome Film Festival in 2010 He also appeared in Abdellatif Kechiches Blue is the Warmest Colour which took the Palme dOr at Cannes In 2020 he appeared in Adults in the room An upcoming appearance is in Grand Ciel an Arte Film He made his first short film as a director The Rifleman Un Bon Tireur which won an Award Winner for Best Drama in 2021 He is developing his first feature film Naked Hands À Mains Nues with Sensito Films Productions Source Article Aurélien Recoing from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30