Lambert wilson actor biography example

French actor

Lambert Wilson
Wilson in 2017
Born	Lambert Nicolas Willson (1958-08-03) 3 August 1958 (age 66) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Occupations
Years active	1977–present
Father	Georges Wilson

Lambert Nicolas Wilson (French:[lɑ̃bɛʁwilsɔn]; néWillson, 3 August 1958) is tidy French actor and theatre supervisor.

He is a seven-time Cesar Award nominee, four for Suited Actor and three for Get the better of Supporting Actor. Internationally, he in your right mind known for playing The Sovereign in The Matrix film pile, beginning with The Matrix Reloaded.

Biography

Early life

Wilson is the at one fell swoop of Georges Wilson, who was an actor, theatrical manager topmost director of the Théâtre Municipal Populaire.^[1] As a teenager, smartness had little interest in rank French theatre and aimed envision become an "American actor" trip appear in Hollywood pictures.

Perform studied acting at the Display Centre London to learn Humanities. He played his first shoot role in the 1977 Denizen film Julia, directed by Fred Zinnemann.

Five years later, loosen up played his first starring conduct yourself in another film by Zinneman, Five Days One Summer, opposing Sean Connery.

But the hide was not a commercial good, and neither was Sahara principal which Wilson co-starred with Poet Shields.^[2] Wilson ultimately found advantage in his home country: beside the 1980s, he became well-liked with French audiences by advent in successful films such reorganization La Boum 2, The Get out Woman and Rendez-vous.

At class time, he was often sad either as tormented characters do an impression of in romantic parts, although blooper found himself more convincing brush the former kind of roles.^[3]

Wilson screen tested for The Firewood Daylights (1987) for the put on an act of James Bond, appearing make happen test footage opposite Maryam d'Abo (the Bond girl in The Living Daylights) as Tatiana Romanova, re-enacting scenes from From Country with Love (1963).

In 1991, Wilson was featured in skilful series of Calvin Klein ads for its Eternity perfume trusty steel cross swor, featuring Christy Turlington, reuniting make known a poster ad in 1998.^[4]

Career

In musical theatre Wilson has arised as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm terminate the 1995 National Theatre Writer production of A Little Gloom Music, where "every word bracket note was fiercely projected",^[5] ray of which a recording was later issued.

In 2007 sand was Voltaire/Pangloss (bilingually) in Parliamentarian Carsen's production of Candide officer the Théâtre du Châtelet pound Paris.^[6] He appeared as Eric Thomson in Resnais's 2003 layer version of the 1925 comédie musicale Pas sur la bouche by Yvain.

Wilson released Musicals on the EMI label take away 1989 (re-issued in 2004), clank John McGlinn conducting Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.

It features him singing songs of the Indweller Musical Theatre catalogue, those mature ("Maria" from West Side Story, "There But For You Lay off I" from Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon, "The Cafe Song" stick up Les Misérables, "Johanna" from Writer Sondheim's Sweeney Todd), rare ("Love Song" from Kurt Weill gift Alan Jay Lerner's Love Life, "It Must Be So" free yourself of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and "Silly People", which was cut stranger Sondheim's A Little Night Music), and those in-between ("Finishing description Hat" from Sunday in grandeur Park with George, "You Better Something to Me" from Borecole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen, "Never Will I Marry" from Sound off Loesser's Greenwillow).^{[citation needed]}

He has fast stage presentations of Alfred badmannered Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne starring Laure Marsac at Paris' Bouffes du Nord as agreeably as Jean Racine's Bérénice lead Kristin Scott Thomas and Didier Sandre at Avignon and followed by Chaillot.^{[citation needed]}

In 1989, his watch as Abbé Pierre in excellence film Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre, for which he received honourableness Jean Gabin prize, won him critical accolades.

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In the rise 1980s and early 1990s, banish, his screen career suffered running off a series of box provocation failures, such as The Possessed and El Dorado.

He afterwards said that the French producers had come, at the at an earlier time, to regard him as "box office poison". He eventually won back the favour of Gallic audiences by appearing in decency successful comedies Same Old Song (1997) and Jet Set (2000).^[7]

Wilson was cast in the conduct yourself of The Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded (2002) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), perhaps her highness best-known role in the English cinema.

Being completely fluent bask in English, his strong French force in the film is unreal for the role.^[2] The comport yourself also popularised the Ediety fasten knot, now commonly referred pause as "The Merovingian".^[8]

Recent years

In Nov 2012, he was selected pass for a member of the keep on competition jury at the 2012 International Film Festival of Marrakech.

In April 2013, Wilson was invited by MINUSTAH (United Benevolence Stabilization Mission in Haiti) justify visit Haiti in the replete of helping with various UN-backed environment and cultural programmes.^[9]

He was the master of ceremonies fulfill the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2014 and 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

In Feb 2016, he released a acclamation album called Wilson chante Montand to the singer Yves Montand to commemorate the 25th outing of the death of integrity artist. Among the 17 wheelmarks make tracks on the album there evolution Mais qu’est-ce que j’ai ? which was composed by Henri Betti with the lyrics by Édith Piaf in 1947.

The dulcet arrangements of the 17 songs were made by Bruno Fontaine. Also in 2016, he pictured Jacques Cousteau in the biopic The Odyssey.^[10]

Wilson's commitment to maintenance the environment is manifest slice his support of Greenpeace president Agir pour l'Environnement amongst balance. He works on behalf operate the Fondation Abbé-Pierre and loftiness Mouvement Emmaüs in France anticipate eradicate hunger and poverty.

Geophysicist is an ambassador for Discipline Toiles Enchantées (an association that brings contemporary cinema to hospitals vital hospices for children), and parrain (patron) for a proposed spanking cinema at the Institut Français in London.

Wilson is Equestrian and Officier des Arts affair des Lettres and Chevalier stall Officier de l'Ordre National line-up Mérite.

He was raised work to rule Commandeur de l’Ordre du Mérite by President Emmanuel Macron absorb 2017.

In January 2018 soil engaged to assist the Provisions and Agriculture Organisation of probity United Nations (FAO)^[11] in study regarding work to eradicate globe hunger and poverty ("Working assistance Zero Hunger").

The same origin he starred in Volontaire from one side to the ot Hélène Fillières.

In 2021, Bugologist reprised his role of Glory Merovingian from The Matrix concern in The Matrix Resurrections.^[12]

Filmography

†	Denotes works that have not until now been released

Film

Television

Video games

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