Jocelyn Quivrin
Jocelyn Quivrin (born 14 February 1979 in Dijon, † November 15, 2009 in Saint-Cloud ) was a French actor. Between 1990 and 2009 he played in more than 50 film and television productions.
- 2.1 Actors (selection)
- 2.2 director
Life
Training and success as an actor
The son of a paramedic of the French SAMU completed in the early 1990s, guest appearances on French television series. His feature film debut Quivrin 1993 at the age of 13 years in the role of the Duc d' Anjou in Roger Planchons costume drama The Childhood of the Sun King, which earned him his first agent. Subsequently, he was a regular on French film and television productions, often in costume dramas such as Planchons Toulouse- Lautrec (1998 ), Daniel Vignes television miniseries L' enfant des Lumières (2002) with Nathalie Baye, Laurent Boutonnats Jacquou le croquant or Jean de La Fontaine - Le défi (both 2007), in which he played the young Louis XIV. The young actor with his high forehead and blue eyes attended public and private schools in Paris and took film courses at the Lycee Hector Berlioz in Vincennes. A university film education after high school in Nanterre gave Quivrin but on soon. He also visited a few months, the school of the Théâtre des Enfants Terribles and took additional theater courses, but found himself in spite of his self-taught on.
A wide French audience was Quivrin 2001 known by Alain Tasmas television miniseries Rastignac ou les ambitieux, in which he successfully slipped into the role of the eponymous character Honoré de Balzac. The French daily Le Monde praised the young actor then as a "revelation", Le Figaro as " very much alive " and Quivrins performance in the France -2 production went on to win the Best Actor Award of the Television Festival of Luchon. Also the actor with small roles in the Oscar-winning films Elizabeth (1998) and Syriana (2005) was also represented in international cinema. His breakthrough as a film actor smoothed his January 2008 Kounens 39.90, in which he could play as freaked advertising man on the side of Jean Dujardin his comedic talent. The film adaptation of the novel by Frederic Beigbeder brought him numerous junior acting awards in France, including the Prix Lumière, the Patrick - Dewaere Award and a César nomination. Then he moved increasingly focuses on roles in comedy compartment as Léa Fazer feature film Notre univers impitoyable or LOL ( Laughing Out Loud) with Sophie Marceau (both 2008).
Parallel to his career in film and television Quivrin worked as a theater actor. In 2003, he starred as Lord Darlington next to Caroline Cellier and Mélanie Doutey in a production of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by François -Louis Tilly. 2008 was followed by an appearance in Redjep Mitrovistas Do you love me at the Avignon Theater Festival.
Private life and early death
Jocelyn Quivrin was romantically involved with actress Alice Taglioni, whom he had met during the filming of Robert Saria Drama Grande Ecole in 2004 and in addition he also acted in the feature films Notre univers impitoyable and Ca $ h (both 2008). As a director, he continued his life partner - together with Nathalie Baye and Jean -Pierre Cassel - in the short film Acteur (2007) in scene. In March 2009, a son has been born. In his spare time Quivrin already inspired from childhood for sports cars and lay down at the age of 20 years, an old Porsche Cabriolet, later a Dodge Viper. In August 2009, he bought in Belgium a sports car type Ariel Atom. " It is a wonderful vehicle to make idiotic with his buddies ," said Quivrin in an interview with Paris Match.
Almost three months later Quivrin the evening of 15 November 2009 at the age of 30 in a traffic accident. On the trip from his home in Lima, in the direction of Paris, he lost on the A13 on a wet road control of his Ariel Atom and crashed at the entrance of the tunnel of Saint-Cloud. The actor died instantly; the rate was determined at 97 km / h after being assessed this much higher. It was the first fatal accident involving the vehicle type Ariel Atom. At the time of his death Quivrin had been working on a script for a feature film he would want to realize in 2010. This should be about a young man who thinks he's James Dean.
Quivrins funeral was held on 21 November 2009 in Paris L' Église de l' Etoile Réformée held with the participation of numerous filmmakers. The actor, the French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand as "one of the most attractive faces in French cinema" praised, found in the cemetery Père Lachaise his final resting place.
Filmography
Actor (selection)
Direction
- 2007: Acteur (Short Film )
Awards
- 2001: Best Actor Award of the Television Festival of Luchon for Rastignac ou les ambitieux
- 2008: nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actor for 39.90
- 2008 Étoile d'Or for Best Newcomer for 39.90
- 2008: Prix Lumière for Best Newcomer for 39.90
- 2008: Patrick Dewaere price