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Acting

Melvil Poupaud

Career: Active from 1984 to 2026, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 57
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: A Summer's Tale
85/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

César Awards · Best Actor
2020 · Nominated · 45th César Awards
By the Grace of God
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Supporting Actor
2017 · Nominated · 42nd César Awards
In Bed with Victoria
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Male Revelation
1994 · Nominated · 19th César Awards
Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Male Revelation
1990 · Nominated · 15th César Awards
The 15 Year Old Girl
Source: Wikidata

Characters

9

The characters Melvil Poupaud played, best-known titles first.

Melvil Poupaud as The Younger Brother

Melvil Poupaud as M. Lefèvre

Melvil Poupaud as Jean

Melvil Poupaud as Jesse James

Melvil Poupaud as Grégoire Lamoureux

Melvil Poupaud as Vincent

Melvil Poupaud as Didier Mathure

Melvil Poupaud as Edouard

Melvil Poupaud as Paul Brodsky

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 48 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Melvil Poupaud Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
2.8, average 4.1
Adrenaline
3.7, average 4.8
Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4
Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 16
French Cinema 13
Character Study 7
Moral Ambiguity 6
Melancholy 5
Social Commentary 4
Psychological Thriller 3
Psychological Depth 3
Contemporary 3
Psychological Drama 3
Summer Romance 3
Psychological Exploration 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

92

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

3 titles

The Hands of Orlac

as Stephen Orlac

Le cas Dajkovic

as Bojan Dajkovic

Trivial Of My Life

as Lucien Vauclair

2020s

19 titles · average score 62

Privileges

59

TV show · as Édouard Galzain

One Minute to Midnight

53

as Léo

In the Shadows

TV show · as Paul Francoeur

Just the Two of Us

64

as Grégoire Lamoureux

Coup de chance

69

as Jean Fournier

Jeanne du Barry

56

as Le Comte Du Barry

One Fine Morning

78

as Clément

Brother and Sister

49

as Louis Vuillard

The Young Lovers

64

as Pierre Escande

15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour

79

as Jean-Claude

UFOs

74

TV show · as Didier Mathure

Summer of 85

72

as Mr. Lefèvre

2010s

22 titles · average score 60

By the Grace of God

79

as Alexandre Guérin

Golden Youth

43

as Hubert Robert

Insoupçonnable

TV show · as Paul Brodsky

When Margaux Meets Margaux

53

as Marc

The Lady in the Portrait

61

as Jean Denis Attiret

In Bed with Victoria

58

as Vincent Kossarski

By the Sea

45

as François

The Great Game

52

as Pierre Blum

Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey

62

as Gaël

Laurence Anyways

75

as Laurence Alia

Black Heaven

45

as Vincent

The Counterfeiters

as Edouard

2000s

23 titles · average score 58

Lucky Luke

46

as Jesse James

44 Inch Chest

49

as Loverboy

The Broken

48

as Stefan Chambers

A Christmas Tale

77

as Ivan

Towards Zero

52

as Guillaume Neuville

A Lost Man

47

as Thomas Koré

Broken English

62

as Julien

Time to Leave

69

as Romain

Le Divorce

43

as Charles-Henri de Persand

Feelings

61

as François

Shimkent Hôtel

as Alex

Love Torn in a Dream

83

as Paul / Fils de Mariani / Loup / Le père jeune

1990s

18 titles · average score 61

Les Kidnappeurs

55

as Armand Carpentier

Genealogies of a Crime

62

as René

Shooting Stars

64

as Lenny

La Vie de Marianne

as Valville

A Summer's Tale

85

as Gaspard

Souvenir

as Charles

Diary of a Seducer

52

as Gregoire

Three Lives and Only One Death

65

as Martin

Those Were the Days

59

as Axel

Fado, Major and Minor

as Antoine

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional

66

as German

The Lover

55

as The Younger Brother

1980s

7 titles · average score 64

The 15 Year Old Girl

55

as Thomas

3 Jours...

Director, Writer

Richard III

as Le jeune prince de Galles

Treasure Island

63

as Jim Hawkins

Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au cœur

as Every character

City of Pirates

73

as Malo, l'enfant

Qui es tu Johnny Mac?

as The Detective / The Killer