Celebrity Biographies
Vincent cassell
He is an actor who fills the screen. Portly, capable of displaying a tremendous dark side. He signs up for extreme cinema, but he is clear that cinema must be seen by the public, so he does not reject, on the contrary, very commercial titles.
Vincent Crochon was born on November 23, 1966 in Paris, France. His father was a well-known actor, Jean-Pierre Cassel , and his mother was a journalist. He would adopt his paternal artistic surname, which was perhaps changed by his sonority resembling “cochon”, French for “pig”. He would have to suffer the divorce of his parents as a teenager, since the breakup occurred in 1980. At the age of 17 he would enroll in the Anne Fratelli Circus School, and his acting training includes various Parisian drama schools and the New York Actor’s Institute.
Although he made his TV debut with the series La belle anglaise (1988), and gained experience with small roles in several films, it was not until 1995, with a look at marginal youth lives in Matthieu Kassovitz’s The Hate , that Cassel’s career hit the desired growth spurt, including a César nomination. That same year, the actor was present in a James Ivory film shot in France, Jefferon in Paris , and in Flash-back , where he met his wife and mother of his two children, Monica Bellucci . He would shoot Dobermann (1997) with her, and especially the controversial Irreversible(2002), which baffled everyone with its unbearable sequence of a rape that lasted a quarter of an hour.
He is a powerful actor, but Cassel is not averse to commercial cinema, and in fact he has been present in some of the biggest French box office successes, such as Luc Besson ‘s look at the maiden of Orléans – Milla Jovovich – Joan of Arc (1999) , the thriller The Purple Rivers (2000), together with Jean Reno and again with Kassovitz, and the period action serial The Pact of the Wolves (2001).
He was the Duke of Anjou in Elizabeth (1998) and there is something about this actor who is good at characters from the past. He also shot in English The Mystery of Wells (2003). His composition of a famous comic book character in Blueberry ( Jan Kounen , 2004) was not very stimulating. His composition of the lieutenant took the worst esoteric elements that the great cartoonist Jean Giraud alias Moebius is so fond of; although, curiously, Cassel is very proud of the film.
Among his most commercial titles are those shot with Steven Soderbergh Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007), sophisticated robberies with a luxury choral cast. He gave the creeps with his Russian mobster Eastern Promises ( David Cronenberg , 2007). And he also continued with the gangster vein in the diptych on the criminal Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine, part 1: Death Instinct –a role for which he won a César– and Mesrine, part 2: Public Enemy No. 1 , both from 2008. The scoundrel point It must have served to get him signed for Black Swan ( Darren Aronofsky, 2010), where he is a ballet director who treats ballerinas in an inhuman way. Cronenberg was so pleased with his work on Eastern Promises that he has turned to him and Viggo Mortensen again for A Dangerous Method .