Philippe Torreton
Philippe Torreton ( born October 13, 1965 in Rouen, Seine- Maritime) is a French actor.
Biography
Torreton was born in Rouen son of a gas station attendant and a teacher and grew up here in the suburbs. The Acting Conservatoire national supérieur he learned at dramatique d'art, which he visited along with Madeleine Marion, Catherine and Daniel Hiegel Mesguich. His film debut was in 1990 in Dernier Regard. By 2011, followed by roles in 40 film and television productions. The breakthrough as a film actor turned in 1996 with the title role in Bertrand Tavernier's tragicomedy Captain Conan and the wolves of war. For his portrayal of Captain who does not finds its way back after the First World War to the civil life, he won the 1997 César Award for Best Actor. He was nominated for the main French film award three more times: in 2000 as a passionate director of a preschool in the economically ailing northern France ( It All Starts Today ), 2005 ( The wife of the lighthouse keeper ) and 2012 than by a true story incorrectly identified as a lighthouse keeper on a Breton Island of child abuse bezichtigter father Alain Marécaux ( arrest Warrant - When in doubt against the accused ). Parallel to his work in film and television plays Torreton theater and was honored for his achievements in the Tricks of Scapin (1998) and Richard III. nominated for the French theater price Molière. In 2007 he played the lead role in the film Ulzhan - The Forgotten light by director Volker Schlöndorff.
Torreton is also involved in French politics. In 2002, he supported the socialist presidential candidate Noël Mamère and 2007 candidate Ségolène Royal. In 2008 he was a candidate for the Socialist Party in municipal elections in Paris.
Torreton was married in first marriage with the actor colleague Anne -Marie Étienne, with whom he has two children. After a four year relationship with Claire Chazal, which ended in 2007, he married in June 2008 again. A daughter was born on 10 December 2008.