Francis Leplay
- Acting
- July 25, 1967 · Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Biography
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. Source: Article "Francis Leplay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Filmography
- The Money Maker · Victor
- Mitterrand confidentiel · Pierre Pingeot
- The Sentinels · Le Ministre de la Guerre, Millerand
- Prime Rush · Guy
- Cerfa
- The End of the Iron Age · Le Président de la République
- Frotter, frotter · Lazare Masurel
- Robespierre
- The Good Teacher · Mr. Musil
- Cristóbal Balenciaga · Lucien LeLong
- Not My Type · Le cadre Sacem
- Brother and Sister · André Borkman
- Mixte 1963 · Rene Herman
- Voltaire High · Rene Hermen
- Acts of Love · Director, Editing
- My Best Part
- Opération Finot · Philippe Rivera
- Who You Think I Am · Serge
- A Violent Desire for Joy · The Abbot
- Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen · Fouqier
- Ce que vivent les roses · Yahn Quemener
- Jealous · Nathalie's doctor
- Tomorrow and Thereafter · Monsieur Lesieur
- Nelly · Mathieu
- Kill Skills · Our Friend
- Les Cowboys · Train man
- The Clearstream Affair · Lawyer Denis Robert & Les Arènes
- 3 Hearts · Le médecin
- The Cosmopolitans · Philippe
- The Cosmopolitans · Philippe
- Youth · Frédéric
- Bright Days Ahead · Le prof d'oenologie
- Looking for Hortense · Marco
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme · Le Maître de philosophie
- Farewell, My Queen · Le comte d'Artois
- Imogène McCarthery · Gowen Ross
- Rien dans les poches · 'Le lézard' #1
- Seule · Antoine Nardier
- Intrusions · Maître Pierre Marsac
- Modern Love · Hervé
- Le Mental de l'équipe
- The Resistance: Live Free or Die · Gilbert Lesage
- Fais pas ci, fais pas ça · plaignant, l'ex-animateur
- The Price to Pay · Agent immobilier
- L'État de Grace · Cédric Pierrot
- Marie Antoinette · Doctor Delivery Provence
- Zim and Co · Inspecteur commissariat
- Kings & Queen · Christian, le félon
- Clémence · Alain Dorcières
- Only Girls · Philippe Jean
- Ma caméra et moi · Le jeune homme
- Love Bites · Photographer
- Jamel Show · Self
- Time Regained · Employee Jupien
- I Hate Love · Association Member
- Rai