Christophe Malavoy

Christophe Jean Benoît Malavoy ( born March 21, 1952 in Reutlingen, Germany ) is a French actor, director, writer and screenwriter.

Life and work

Malavoy began in the early 1970s, theater play and established in 1974 as a stage artist, when he appeared at the Théâtre National Populaire. The following year he made ​​his debut with a tiny role in the movie, another year later (1976 ) joined Malavoy the first time in a television production. Since its participation in Michel Deville's bulky work " Without Notice ", he performed regularly in movies. His greatest successes came "predominantly in rolls sensitive aesthetes and pretty boys. " With Deville Malavoy worked several times in the following years together. Was particularly successful for both cooperation in imminent danger. There Christophe Malavoy played a young music teacher who enters a relationship with the wife of his employer, and soon after of a melancholy killer ( Richard Bohringer ) is drawn into an ambivalent relationship network.

Other worthwhile roles received Malavoy in the thriller La Balance - The Betrayal and in Patricia Highsmith adaptation The Cry of the Owl. There embodied an introverted artist who has to defend himself against the consuming love of a beautiful but lonely young woman ( Mathilda May ). Again and again we had later Malavoy "soft, spiritualized and restrained types [ play ], which seem to express the internalized world of pain with every movement of her facial muscle. " Since the late 1990s, he worked primarily in a plethora of television productions, including several series, with.

During the 1990s Malavoy took his theater work again, which he had accompanied, neglected with its intense film and television work since 1977. He also directed occasionally films since 1997.

As a writer

Malavoy published 1993-2011, a number of books ( stories, essays, novels ):

Awards

For his performance shown in the film FamilyRockStar Christophe Malavoy in 1983 was awarded the French Cesar Film Awards in the category Best Newcomer. Two years later he was awarded the Patrick - Dewaere Prize, Prix Jean Gabin originally awarded. In 1987 he was awarded for his wife in my life and in the following year for his achievements shown in Burning summer two César nominations.

For his home country Christophe Malavoy is also an active ambassador for UNICEF.

Filmography

As an actor in movies, unless otherwise stated

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