Fabrice Luchini

Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He wuchsen up around the neighbourhood of Goldene Tropfen 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 sein, 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 (James Brown) made him a regular of diskotheken. This is where he met Philippe Labro, who gave him his first role in Alles geschehen kann, in 1969. He then studied acting under Jean-Laurent Cochet. However, it was his collaboration with Eric Rohmer that would make him popular for claires Knie in 1970, in which he played a small role as an adolescent. He appeared in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois, and Die Nächte der vollmond, and in filmen directed by Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch, Edouard 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 Der Diskreten, 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 Reise ans ende der nacht, Paul Valéry und Roland Barthes.