1. Romain Duris is best known for his role in Cedric Klapisch's Spanish Apartment trilogy, which consists of L'Auberge Espagnole, Russian Dolls, and Chinese Puzzle.
13 Facts About Romain Duris
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Romain Duris has gained wide recognition for The Beat That My Heart Skipped, and various other roles since then.
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Romain Duris's father is related to Armand-Gaston Camus and his wife; the French revolutionist was an archivist who founded the Archives nationales.
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Romain Duris's mother is a descendant of 18th-century Swedish painter Alexander Roslin and his wife.
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Romain Duris has a sister, pianist Caroline Romain Duris, who played on the soundtrack of the film The Beat That My Heart Skipped, in which he acted.
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Romain Duris studied arts at university but first decided to follow a career in music, forming a jazz-funk band.
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In 1993, Romain Duris was noticed by a casting director who saw him waiting in a queue.
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Romain Duris offered the younger man a part in the Cedric Klapisch film Le peril jeune.
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Romain Duris played a French exchange student Xavier Rousseau, which was one of his best-known roles because of the trilogy.
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Romain Duris gained international recognition for his performance in the film The Beat That My Heart Skipped, directed by Jacques Audiard.
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Romain Duris won the Lumieres Award for Best Actor and received his first nomination for the Cesar Award for Best Actor.
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Romain Duris has since gone onto become a major star in the French film industry and has starred in many successful and critically acclaimed films: Dans Paris, Paris, Heartbreaker, The Big Picture, Populaire, Mood Indigo, The New Girlfriend, All the Money in the World, The Animal Kingdom, The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady.
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Romain Duris's roles have ranged from gangsters, as in Dobermann through romantic leads as in Heartbreaker, to action heroes as in Arsene Lupin.