Philippe Morier-Genoud

Philippe Morier - Genoud (* 1944 in Thonon -les- Bains, France) is a French actor.

Morier - Genoud studied from 1964 to 1968 Philosophy and Pedagogy in Grenoble; During this time he met the theater director Georges Lavaudant know and gained his first experience in the theater.

He was from 1975 to 1985 member of the ensemble at the Centre dramatique National des Alpes in Grenoble from 1985 to 1995 at the Théâtre National Populaire in Villeurbanne and from 1995 to 2005 at the Théâtre de l' Odéon in Paris.

In 1981 he made his debut in the cinema next to Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant Francois Truffaut in The Woman Next Door.

He is known primarily from François Truffaut's Confidentially Yours (1983 ), Louis Malle's Goodbye, Children (1987 ), Jean -Paul Rappeneaus Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Raúl Ruiz's Time Regained (Le temps retrouvé, 1999). In 2011, he again took on the role of Docteur Cottard in the eponymous film adaptation of the overall series In Search of Lost Time.

Awards

Philippe Morier - Genoud is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Knight of the Ordre National du Mérite.