1. Mathieu Kassovitz has won three Cesar Awards: Most Promising Actor for See How They Fall, and Best Film and Best Editing for La Haine.
17 Facts About Mathieu Kassovitz
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Mathieu Kassovitz is the son of Peter Kassovitz, a film producer, director, and writer, and Chantal Remy, a film editor.
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Mathieu Kassovitz's mother is a French Catholic, while his father is a Hungarian Jew who fled during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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Mathieu Kassovitz wrote and directed La Haine, a film dealing with themes around class, race, violence, and police brutality.
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Mathieu Kassovitz later directed The Crimson Rivers, a police detective thriller starring Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel, another massive commercial success in France, and Gothika, a fantasy thriller, with Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr.
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Mathieu Kassovitz used the money he made from Gothika to develop a far more personal project Babylon Babies, the adaptation of one of Maurice G Dantec's books, which eventually would become Babylon AD.
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Mathieu Kassovitz purchased the film rights for the novel Johnny chien mechant by Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala.
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Mathieu Kassovitz is most famous outside France for his acting role as Nino Quincampoix in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amelie.
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Mathieu Kassovitz had small roles in La Haine, Birthday Girl, and The Fifth Element.
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Mathieu Kassovitz played leading roles in A Self-Made Hero by Jacques Audiard and in Amen.
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Mathieu Kassovitz is recognizable for playing a conflicted Belgian explosives expert in Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich, alongside Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, and Geoffrey Rush.
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Mathieu Kassovitz was a jury member for the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
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Since 2015, Mathieu Kassovitz has been starring in the acclaimed espionage thriller series The Bureau, broadcast in France on Canal+ and made available around the world on Amazon Prime Video.
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Mathieu Kassovitz was married to French actress Julie Mauduech, whom he directed and acted alongside in his 1993 film Metisse and made a brief appearance in La Haine.
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In 2009, Mathieu Kassovitz won with a Tesla Roadster the Rallye Monte Carlo des Vehicules a Energie Alternative in the category reserved to electric vehicles.
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Mathieu Kassovitz is known for his outspokenness, frequently making controversial comments on socio-political issues.
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On 3 September 2023, while engaged in a training course at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery, Mathieu Kassovitz was involved in a "serious" motorcycle accident that caused head trauma and a fractured pelvis.