Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or 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 son, 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 music (James Brown) made him a regular of discothèques. This is where he met Philippe Labro, who gave him his first role in Tout peut arriver in 1969. He then studied acting under Jean-Laurent Cochet. However, it was his collaboration with Éric Rohmer that would make him popular for Le Genou de Claire in 1970, in which he played a small role as an adolescent. He appeared in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois, and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and in films directed by Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch, Édouard 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 La Discrète, 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 Voyage au bout de la nuit, Paul Valéry and Roland Barthes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabrice Luchini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
For Better and for Worse
(Jean Leroy)
Violette Nozière
(Camus)
Claire's Knee
(Vincent)
Intimate Strangers
(William)
Moliere
(M. Jourdain)
Paris
(Roland Verneuil)
Full Moon in Paris
(Octave)
All That... for This?!
(Fabrice Lenormand)
On Guard
(Count Gonzague)
Jean-Philippe
(Fabrice / Self)
Emmanuelle 4
(Oswaldo)
Colonel Chabert
(Derville)
Uranus
(Jourdan)
« Art »
(Serge)
The Girl from Monaco
(Bertrand Beauvois)
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
(Self)
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
An Air So Pure
(Magnus)
Immoral Tales
(André - Story 1)
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
(Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais)
The Discreet
(Antoine)
Alouette, je te plumerai
(Jacques)
The Color of the Wind
(Serge)
Droit de Réponse
(Self)
Little Nothings
(Lepetit)
The Empire
(Belzébuth)
Trophy Wife
(Robert Pujol)
The Cost of Living
(Brett)
Nothing About Robert
(Didier Temple)
My Father's Guests
(Arnaud)
Barnie's Minor Annoyances
(Barnie)
Perceval
(Perceval)
The Women on the 6th Floor
(Jean-Louis Joubert)
P.R.O.F.S.
(Michel)
Men, Women: A User's Manual
(Fabio Lini)
La cloche a sonné
(Simon Arcos)
Keep It Quiet
(Grégoire Jeancourt)
Marcello Mio
(Fabrice)
In the House
(Germain)
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
(Jules César)
Cycling with Molière
(Serge Tanneur)
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
(Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur)
The Baby
(Joseph)
Par cœur
(Self)
The Return of Casanova
(Camille)
Toxic Affair
(The Analyst)
The Crime Is Mine
(Judge Gustave Rabusset)
Il ne faut jurer de rien
Art
(Serge)
The Juliette Year
(Camille Prader)
By Heart
(Self)
Gemma Bovery
(Martin)
Le Secret de Khéops
Rouge-gorge
(Frédéric)
Courted
(Michel Racine)
Fabrice Luchini : des écrivains parlent d'argent
T'es folle ou quoi ?
(Jean-François Sevran)
Le Point sur Robert
(Fabrice Luchini)
Slack Bay
(André van Peteghem)
Triple sec
Natacha
Un début prometteur
(Francis Vauvel)
Paradise Hotel
(Arthur)
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
(Vincent Vergne)
Zig Zag Story
(Bob Hemler)
The Aviator's Wife
(Mercillat)
Max My Love
(Nicolas)
Luchini - Variations La Fontaine
(Self)
A Man in a Hurry
(Alain)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
(Le marchand de tableau)
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
(Arthur)
Né
A Visit to Hokusai
(Narrator)
The Emperor of Paris
(Fouché)
Lettre de la Sierra Morena
(Don Quichotte)
The Mystery of Henri Pick
(Jean Michel Rouche)
The Best Is Yet to Come
(Arthur Dreyfus)
Alice and the Mayor
(Paul Theraneau)
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
(Narrator (voice))
Joan of Arc
(Roi Charles VII)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
(Self (archive footage))
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
Les Oreilles entre les dents
(Luc Fabri)
Family Business
(Shady lawyer)
Journey to the End of the Night
(Self)
Tout peut arriver
(Fabrice)
Six crimes sans assassins
(Simon)
A Day at the Museum
(Un gardien musée Malraux)
Le Beau Monde
(Jean-Pierre Davier)
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
(Doctor Knock)
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
(Self)
La Fontaine et le Confinement
Les Écrans déchirés
(Fabrice)
Quotidien
(Self)
Fantômas
(Bonardin)
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
Class Act
(Marcel Loiseau)
Vivement dimanche
(Self)
Call My Agent!
(Self)
Quotidien
(Self - Guest)