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Francis Leplay
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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 Theat…
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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.
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Francis Leplay's Filmography
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The Money Maker
as Victor
Prime Rush
as Guy
Cerfa
The End of the Iron Age
as Le Président de la République
Robespierre
The Good Teacher
as Mr. Musil
Not My Type
as Le cadre Sacem
Brother and Sister
as André Borkman
Mixte 1963
as Rene Herman
My Best Part
Opération Finot
as Philippe Rivera
Who You Think I Am
as Serge
A Violent Desire for Joy
as The Abbot
Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen
as Fouqier
Ce que vivent les roses
as Yahn Quemener
Jealous
as Nathalie's doctor
Tomorrow and Thereafter
as Monsieur Lesieur
Nelly
as Mathieu
Kill Skills
as Our Friend
Les Cowboys
as Train man
The Clearstream Affair
as Lawyer Denis Robert & Les Arènes
3 Hearts
as Le médecin
The Cosmopolitans
as Philippe
Youth
as Frédéric
Bright Days Ahead
as Le prof d'oenologie
Looking for Hortense
as Marco
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
as Le Maître de philosophie
Farewell, My Queen
as Le comte d'Artois
Imogène McCarthery
as Gowen Ross
Rien dans les poches
as 'Le lézard' #1
No Poster
Seule
as Antoine Nardier
Intrusions
as Maître Pierre Marsac
Modern Love
as Hervé
Le Mental de l'équipe
No Poster
The Resistance: Live Free or Die
as Gilbert Lesage
The Price to Pay
as Agent immobilier
Marie Antoinette
as Doctor Delivery Provence
Zim and Co
as Inspecteur commissariat
Kings & Queen
as Christian, le félon
Clémence
as Alain Dorcières
Only Girls
as Philippe Jean
Ma caméra et moi
as Le jeune homme
Love Bites
as Photographer
Jamel Show
as Self
Time Regained
as Employee Jupien
I Hate Love
as Association Member
