Fabrice Luchini

Fabrice Luchini was born in ÎledeFrance Paris into an Italian immigrant family who were fruit and vegetable vendors He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte dOr in Pariss 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 hairdressers 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 JeanLaurent 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 Rohmers 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 JeanLaurent 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 wellknown 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 Célines Voyage au bout de la nuit Paul Valéry and Roland Barthes Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabrice Luchini licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia