Celebrity Biographies
Jean dugardin
It is still paradoxical that an actor who has become famous in France for his humorous skits in which he shows a lot of smooth talk, has achieved stardom thanks to a silent role in The Artist . But it is that Jean Dujardin is an actor who promises to serve all kinds of roles.
Jean Edmond Dujardin was born on June 19, 1972 in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France. After finishing high school, he began working as a locksmith. His comedic talent would be discovered when he was doing military service, so when he graduated he began to work in modest theaters and nightclubs in Paris. With his four friends, Éric Collado, Emmanuel Joucla, Éric Massot and Bruno Salomone , he will form “the Carré Blanc band”, named after the theater where they met, and which will later change its name to “Nous C Nous”. . Their numbers will successfully parody the performances of male bands, so they will make the jump with good reception to the small screen. Thus, the ground is fertile to become enormously popular with a television series,Un gars, une fille , where he is accompanied by Alexandra Lamy . The couple will star as Loulou and Chouchou in no less than 486 episodes of just over 5 minutes each, between 1999 and 2003. Dujardin, romantically linked to Lamy since 2003, married her in 2009. Before that, the actor was with Gaëlle , which gave him two children in 2000 and 2001. Alexandra also went through a relationship before, for which she is the mother of a daughter.
In cinema, he played small roles in titles such as Le convoyeur (2003) and Los Daltons contra Lucky Luke (2004). It is ironic that after playing a second-rate cowboy in this mediocre film about René Goscinny and William Morris ‘s comic book characters , he himself played the famous Lucky Luke in the equally forgettable 2009 film of the same name.
Instead, it has done well with other titles such as Brice de Nice (2005), which was based on one of the creations of “Nous C Nous”, with very popular gags in France. He also has a tone of farce Never say never , from the same year, which he does together with Gérard Jugnot . In any case, where he proves his worth due to his versatility is in OSS 117 (2006), a spy title that will have a sequel and for which he is nominated for a César for best actor, and which unites him with actress Bérénice Bejo and director Michel Hazanavicius . Happy association, as the trio repeats in the sequel, OSS 117, lost in Rio (2009), and especially in The Artist(2011), an extremely risky silent film in times of digital fireworks, which won him the Best Actor award at Cannes.
Actor whose career, always developed in France, promises to take off thanks to The Artist , he has been in the police thriller Contre-enquête (2007), and in the satirical comedy 13.99 euros (2007). He plays an alcoholic writer visited by his own cancer in the curious tragicomedy Le bruit des glaçons ( Bertrand Blier , 2010), and he is the accident-ridden motorist who triggers the plot of Little Unimportant Lies ( Guillaume Canet , 2010). Nicole Garcia has recently directed him, along with Toni Servillo and Claudia Cardinale , in the intriguing Un balcon sur la mer.