1. Vincent Cassel has earned a Cesar Award and a Canadian Screen Award as well as nominations for a European Film Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
24 Facts About Vincent Cassel
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Vincent Cassel garnered attention for Gaspar Noe's film Irreversible which he acted in and co-produced.
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Vincent Cassel received the Cesar Award for Best Actor for his role as the criminal Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine.
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Vincent Cassel's other Cesar-nominated roles include Read My Lips, Mon Roi, It's Only the End of the World, and The Specials.
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Vincent Cassel garnered recognition with English-speaking roles in Elizabeth, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, Eastern Promises, Black Swan, and Jason Bourne.
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Vincent Cassel's brother, Mathias, is a rapper with the group Assassin under the name "Rockin' Squat".
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One of Vincent Cassel's first on-screen appearances was a bit part in a 1994 Renault Clio advert which was used in the UK.
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Since the early 2000s, Vincent Cassel has appeared in a number of English-language films, such as Shrek and Birthday Girl Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, and Derailed.
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Vincent Cassel has dubbed the voice of Diego in the Ice Age franchise and Rodney Copperbottom in Robots.
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In 2007, Vincent Cassel attracted significant critical acclaim for his performance in David Cronenberg's thriller film Eastern Promises, in which he starred opposite Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts.
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In October 2008, Vincent Cassel was signed to be the face of a new Yves Saint Laurent men's fragrance.
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Vincent Cassel appeared in a two-part film about Jacques Mesrine, who was France's "public enemy number one" in the seventies.
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Vincent Cassel won the Cesar Award for Best Actor for his performance as Mesrine.
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In 2011, Vincent Cassel played the lead role in the French-Spanish thriller-drama film The Monk, directed by Dominik Moll.
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In 2016, Vincent Cassel was featured in American action thriller film Jason Bourne, directed by Paul Greengrass; the film is the fifth installment of the Bourne film series and a direct sequel to The Bourne Ultimatum.
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In 2019, Vincent Cassel played the lead role in The Specials directed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache based on the true story of Stephane Benhamou who ran an organization helping people with autism find employment and activities outside the confines of the institutionalized setting.
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Vincent Cassel first came to know Tekken back in the 1990s, with his favorite character being Eddy Gordo.
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Vincent Cassel met Italian actress Monica Bellucci on the set of their 1996 film The Apartment.
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Vincent Cassel married 21-year-old French model Tina Kunakey on 24 August 2018 in Bidart, France, after being in a relationship for more than two years.
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On October 20,2023, media outlets revealed that Vincent Cassel is in a relationship with Brazilian model Narah Baptista, who is twenty-nine years younger than him, six months after separating from his second wife of five years, Tina Kunakey.
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Besides his native French, Vincent Cassel speaks English, Portuguese, Italian, and basic conversational Russian, which he learned for his role in Eastern Promises.
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Vincent Cassel lived in Rio de Janeiro for five years, before moving back to Paris in 2018, and he used to have Brazilian citizenship.
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Vincent Cassel is known for having a great identification with Brazil, being a practitioner of the martial art of capoeira; he displayed this talent in the movie Ocean's Twelve.
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Vincent Cassel went to different schools, including a Catholic school, eventually becoming irreligious.