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Vincent Macaigne
Vincent Macaigne in 2014
Born	(1978-10-19) 19 October 1978 (age 46) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Actor, Theatre director, Screenwriter, Film director, Playwright
Years active	1998–present

Vincent Macaigne (born 19 October 1978) is a French actor, theatre director and film director. He is also a screenwriter and playwright.

Life and career

Macaigne was raised in Paris, the son of a French businessman and an Iranian-born painter. He has an elder brother, who is a forensic doctor. He attended the CNSAD between 1999 and 2002, and staged his first play in 2004. Throughout the 2000s, he acted in several theatre productions and also wrote and staged a number of plays. He suffered two strokes at just thirty years old, one of which occurred after his 2009 staging of the theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. In an interview, he said the stroke has had no lasting consequences to his health.

His short film What We'll Leave Behind (Ce qu'il restera de nous) won the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and was nominated for the César Award for Best Short Film.

In 2014, he received nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actor and the Lumières Award for Best Male Revelation for his role in La Fille du 14 juillet.

His directorial feature film debut, Dom Juan, is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Molière. It was screened in the Cineasts of the Present section at the 2015 Locarno International Film Festival.

Filmography

As actor

As filmmaker

References

1. ^ Wilsher, Kim (21 September 2013). "France hails Vincent Macaigne as the new Gérard Depardieu". The Guardian.
2. "Vincent Macaigne". Canal+. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
3. "Vincent Macaigne, dynamite théâtrale". Le Monde. 19 June 2014.
4. "Vincent Macaigne, artiste gargantuesque". Télérama. February 2014.
5. "The 68th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival unveils its programme". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.

External links

• Vincent Macaigne at IMDb

• 1978 births
• Living people
• Male actors from Paris
• French male film actors
• French male stage actors
• 20th-century French male actors
• 21st-century French male actors
• French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
• French theatre directors
• French film directors
• French male screenwriters
• French screenwriters
• 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
• 21st-century French dramatists and playwrights
• French people of Iranian descent