Lambert Wilson

Lambert Wilson – En talentfuld fransk skuespiller

Lambert Wilson er en fransk skuespiller født i Paris den 3. august 1958. Han studerede skuespil på Drama Centre i London og gjorde sin debut i filmverdenen som 22-årig i Fred Zinnemanns Five Days One Summer (1981), hvor han spillede over for Sean Connery. Han har siden arbejdet med mange af Frankrigs mest prestigefyldte instruktører og har haft store roller i film som Andrzej Zulawskis La Femme Publique (1983), Véra Belmonts Rouge Baiser (1984), André Téchinés Rendez-vous (1985), Luigi Comencinis La Storia (1987), Claude Chabrols Le Sang des Autres (1987) og Peter Greenaways The Belly of an Architect (1987).

Tidlig karriere og anerkendelse

Udover at have arbejdet med sine far Georges Wilson i La Vouivre (1988), vandt Lambert Wilson Jean Gabin Award for sin præstation i Denis Amars Winter 54 (1989). Han fortsatte med at have bemærkelsesværdige roller i film som James Ivorys Jefferson in Paris (1994) over for Nick Nolte og Gwyneth Paltrow og John Duigans The Leading Man (1996) med Thandie Newton og John Bon Jovi. Han har også medvirket i flere af Alain Resnais film, herunder Same Old Song (1997) og You Aint Seen Nothing Yet (2012).

I de senere år har Lambert Wilson også haft succes med at arbejde på engelsksprogede film som Wachowski-brødrenes Matrix Reloaded og Matrix Revolutions (2001), Pitofs Catwoman (2004) med Halle Berry og Sharon Stone, Breck Eisners Sahara (2005), Michael Radfords Flawless (2006) med Demi Moore og Michael Caine samt Mathieu Kassovitz Babylon A.D. (2007) med Vin Diesel og Charlotte Rampling.

Senere karriere og priser

Senere i sin karriere spillede Lambert Wilson i internationale produktioner som Lulu Wangs Posthumous, Victor Levins 5 to 7 og Suite Française. I sin franske filmografi kan nævnes film som Valérie Lemerciers Palais Royal! (2004), Xavier Beauvois Of Gods and Men (2009) og Alain Chabats Le Marsupilami (2011). I Eric Lavaines Barbecue (2014) spillede han sammen med Florence Foresti, Franck Dubosc og flere andre kendte skuespillere.

Lambert Wilson har modtaget adskillige priser og er en Chevalier og Officier des Arts et des Lettres samt Chevalier og Officier de lOrdre National du Merite.

Privatliv og andre optrædener

Lambert Wilson er søn af skuespilleren Georges Wilson og har en bror ved navn Jean-Marie Wilson. Udover sin skuespillerkarriere har Wilson også indspillet musik og har arbejdet sammen med kendte kunstnere som César Franck og Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.

Med sin imponerende filmografi og talentfulde præstationer er Lambert Wilson blevet anerkendt som en af Frankrigs mest fremtrædende skuespillere. Han er kendt for sin evne til at spille en bred vifte af roller og for sit bidrag til både den franske og internationale filmverden.

Bio

• The Matrix Reloaded (2003) – Merovingian
• Catwoman (2004) – George Hedare
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003) – Merovingian
• Timeline (2003) – Lord Arnaut
• Upcoming: Klandestin (Richard) – Post-production
• Cinq hectares (2023) – François
• Des mains en or (2023) – François
• Star Wars: Visions (2023) – Jon (stemme) – 1 episode
• A Great Friend (2023) – Vincent
• Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (2022) – Ernest (stemme)
• Plancha (2022) – Antoine Chevalier
• Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) – Marquis de Chassagne
• Totems (2021–2022) – Charles Contignet – 8 episoder
• The Matrix Resurrections (2021) – The Merovingian
• Benedetta (2021) – Le nonce
• Shuttlecock (2020) – John Prentis
• De Gaulle (2020) – Charles de Gaulle
• The Translators (2019) – Eric Angstrom
• Papillons bleus (2019) – Baron Papillon (video)
• Calls (2019) – Paul Donner – 1 episode

Awards

• César Awards, Frankrig (7)
• Globes de Cristal Awards, Frankrig (1)
• Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (1)
• Monte-Carlo TV Festival (1)
• Lumiere Awards, Frankrig (1)
• Razzie Awards (1)
• Prix Jean Gabin (1)

Trivia

• Screen tested for GoldenEye (1995) for the role of James Bond 007, appearing in test footage opposite Maryam dAbo (Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights (1987)) as Tania Romanova, re-enacting scenes from From Russia with Love (1963).
• For his role as the Merovingian in the Matrix movies, he exaggerated his French accent significantly. Fans of the movies who met him in person were surprised that his accent is much less pronounced.
• When Lambert was a child, his father used to tell journalists that he lived alone, while he was a married family father, to protect his family from the paparazzi. Thats why Lambert and his brother grew up tranquilly.
• As a singer, he is a baritone.
• He is half Irish, half French.
• Has starred in two different films with the title Sahara. First in Andrew V. McLaglens movie (1983), starring Brooke Shields. And in Breck Eisners movie (2005), starring Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz.
• As a singer, he recorded two albums: Musicals and Demons & Merveilles.
• Performs on stage in both French and English, and co-starred in A Little Night Music with Judi Dench for the Royal National Theater in London in 1996.
• Son of Georges Wilson.
• As a narrator, he has worked under the direction of some of the worlds greatest conductors, including Rostropovitch, Prêtre, Mazur, Dutoit, and Ozawa.
• His mother is named Nicole and used to be a photo model.
• Attended Londons Drama Centre from September 1975 until December 1977, leaving before completing the acting course in order to make his professional theatrical debut in Paris in a play with his father, Georges Wilson.
• Was featured in a series of artsy Calvin Klein ads featuring Christy Turlington for Eternity in 1991, as well as a poster ad for Eternity in 1998.
• Sings in a show called La Nuit Americaine in Paris.
• Appeared as Pangloss/Voltaire/Martin in the new John Axelrod production of Leonard Bernsteins opera Candide. Production played at La Scala June 20, 22, 26, 28 and July 4, 6, 10, 13, 18, 2007.
• He attended the Drama Centre, then located in the Chalk Farm area of London, between 1975-1978.

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