1. Louis Garrel was born on 14 June 1983 and is a French actor and filmmaker.
22 Facts About Louis Garrel
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Louis Garrel is best known for his starring role in The Dreamers, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
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Louis Garrel has regularly appeared in films by French director Christophe Honore, including Ma Mere, Dans Paris, Love Songs, The Beautiful Person and Making Plans for Lena.
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Louis Garrel has been in films directed by his father, Philippe Garrel, including Regular Lovers, Frontier of the Dawn, A Burning Hot Summer, and Jealousy.
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Louis Garrel usually plays similar characters such as men in the middle of love triangles or important historical figures such as Jacques de Bascher in Saint Laurent, Jean-Luc Godard in Le Redoutable, and Alfred Dreyfus in An Officer and a Spy.
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Louis Garrel's performances have received many nominations at the Cesar Awards.
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Louis Garrel is known for working with different female directors such as Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Brigitte Sy, Maiwenn, Greta Gerwig and Nicole Garcia.
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Louis Garrel is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Paris.
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Louis Garrel was six when he first appeared onscreen in the film Les Baisers de secours.
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In 2002, Louis Garrel gained international recognition playing Eva Green's twin brother in The Dreamers.
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Louis Garrel has starred in various French films, including Les Amants reguliers, directed by his father Philippe Louis Garrel.
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Louis Garrel was awarded the Cesar Award for Most Promising Actor for his work in the film.
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Louis Garrel has collaborated five times with filmmaker Christophe Honore in the feature films Ma Mere, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Georges Bataille; Dans Paris ; Love Songs ; The Beautiful Person ; Making Plans for Lena ; and Two Friends.
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Louis Garrel appeared in Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's Actrices, Rachid Hami's Choisir d'aimer and Philipe Garrel's Frontier of the Dawn.
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Louis Garrel appeared in Heartbeats, by director Xavier Dolan, released in 2010.
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In 2011, Louis Garrel directed the short film La Regle de trois, with Vincent Macaigne and Golshifteh Farahani, which he presented at the Locarno Festival.
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In 2019, Louis Garrel starred in An Officer and a Spy directed by Roman Polanski, which revolved around the Dreyfus affair.
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In 2020, Louis Garrel starred in Rifkin's Festival directed by Woody Allen, DNA directed by Maiwenn, and in 2021, The Story of My Wife opposite Lea Seydoux, directed by Ildiko Enyedi.
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Louis Garrel became the face of Valentino's Uomo fragrance in 2014 and directed a short film featuring Astrid Berges-Frisbey for a Valentino Donna campaign in 2015.
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Louis Garrel was in a relationship with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi from 2007 to 2012.
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In 2009, Bruni Tedeschi and Louis Garrel adopted a baby from Senegal.
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In June 2017, Louis Garrel married model and actress Laetitia Casta and became stepfather to her three children.