1. Lambert Wilson is a seven-time Cesar Award nominee, four for Best Actor and three for Best Supporting Actor.
18 Facts About Lambert Wilson
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Lambert Wilson studied acting at the Drama Centre London to learn English.
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Lambert Wilson played his first movie role in the 1977 American film Julia, directed by Fred Zinnemann.
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Lambert Wilson ultimately found success in his home country: during the 1980s, he became popular with French audiences by appearing in successful films such as La Boum 2, The Public Woman and Rendez-vous.
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Lambert Wilson screen tested for The Living Daylights for the role of James Bond, appearing in test footage opposite Maryam d'Abo as Tatiana Romanova, re-enacting scenes from From Russia with Love.
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In 1991, Lambert Wilson was featured in a series of Calvin Klein ads for its Eternity perfume brand, featuring Christy Turlington, reuniting for a poster ad in 1998.
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In musical theatre Lambert Wilson has appeared as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm in the 1995 National Theatre London production of A Little Night Music, where "every word and note was fiercely projected", and of which a recording was later issued.
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Lambert Wilson appeared as Eric Thomson in Resnais's 2003 film version of the 1925 comedie musicale Pas sur la bouche by Yvain.
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Lambert Wilson released Musicals on the EMI label in 1989, with John McGlinn conducting Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.
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Lambert Wilson has directed stage presentations of Alfred de Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne starring Laure Marsac at Paris' Bouffes du Nord as well as Jean Racine's Berenice starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Didier Sandre at Avignon and then Chaillot.
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Lambert Wilson later said that the French producers had come, at the time, to regard him as "box office poison".
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Lambert Wilson eventually won back the favour of French audiences by appearing in the successful comedies Same Old Song and Jet Set.
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Lambert Wilson was cast in the role of The Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, perhaps his best-known role in the American cinema.
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Lambert Wilson was the master of ceremonies for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2014 and 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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Lambert Wilson is an ambassador for Les Toiles Enchantees, and parrain for a proposed new cinema at the Institut Francais in London.
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Lambert Wilson is Chevalier and Officier des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier and Officier de l'Ordre National du Merite.
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Lambert Wilson was raised to Commandeur de l'Ordre du Merite by President Emmanuel Macron in 2017.
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In 2021, Lambert Wilson reprised his role of The Merovingian from The Matrix franchise in The Matrix Resurrections.