Vincent Lindon

Vincent Lindon ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; born 15 July 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For his role in the film The Measure of a Man (2015), Lindon won Best Actor at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Best Actor at the 41st César Awards<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 46th International Film Festival of India.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Lindon was selected as the president of the jury for the main competition section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2024, Lindon was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice International Film Festival for his lead role in The Quiet Son.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early life and education

Vincent Lindon is the son of Laurent Lindon, who was director of the company Audioline. He is the grandson of Raymond Lindon, who served as the magistrate and mayor of Étretat between 1929 and 1959, as well as the nephew of Jérôme Lindon, director of Les Éditions de Minuit. He is also the great-grandson of Fernande Citroën, the older sister of André Citroën and wife of Alfred Lindon (born Abner Lindenbaum), a Jewish jeweler and modern art collector originally from Kraków, Poland.<ref name="Beaucarnot">Template:Cite book</ref> Through his mother, Alix Dufaure, a journalist for Marie Claire,<ref name="Gurrey">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lindon is a descendant of French Prime minister Jules Dufaure and Marshal Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans.<ref name="Beaucarnot" />

Lindon completed studies at the Lycée Victor-Duruy,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> where he obtained a baccalauréat scientifique. He then enrolled in an école supérieure de commerce, but lost interest in his studies after 22 days. In 1979, his mother secured an internship for him as a costume design assistant on the set of Alain Resnais' film My American Uncle (1980), on which he worked with actor Gérard Depardieu.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He then spent six months in New York working as an assistant in charge of radio promotion with his uncle, Eric Dufaure, founder of the label Cachalot Records (Ian North, Die Hausfrauen, Medium Medium, Malaria, Stars of the Streets, Comateens, Made in France, Personal Effects).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> When he returned to Paris, his father-in-law Pierre Bénichou secured a position for him managing the microphones for the tour of comedian Coluche in 1981.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was also a courier for the newspaper Le Matin de Paris before entering the Cours Florent drama school.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

Since 1980, Vincent Lindon has worked with renowned film directors Claude Sautet, Claude Lelouch, Coline Serreau, Bertrand Blier, Claire Denis, Emmanuel Carrère, Nicole Garcia, Stéphane Brizé, Jacques Doillon, Xavier Giannoli, Julia Ducournau, Alain Cavalier, Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoît Jacquot, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Diane Kurys, Claude Pinoteau, Pierre Jolivet.

In 2005, he won the Swann d'Or for best actor at the Cabourg Film Festival for La Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère.

In 2013, he chaired the jury of the 39th Deauville American Film Festival.

In 2015, he earned the Best Actor Award at the 68th Cannes Film Festival and then the César Award for Best Actor at the 41st ceremony for the film The Measure of a Man directed by Stéphane Brizé.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In May 2022, he was appointed as president of the jury for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, succeeding Spike Lee. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2024, he starred in the film Le Deuxième Acte directed by Quentin Dupieux, which was the opening film for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival<ref name="Wiseman">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Lindon was also awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 2024 Venice Film Festival for his lead role in The Quiet Son.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

In the 1980s, Lindon was in a relationship with Claude Chirac, daughter of President Jacques Chirac, for nearly ten years. Lindon later had a highly-publicised relationship with Caroline, Princess of Monaco.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lindon has a son, Marcel, born in 1996.<ref name="Gurrey"/> He married actress Sandrine Kiberlain in 1998, with whom he has a daughter, Suzanne, born in 2000.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Beaucarnot"/> The couple met in 1993 on the set of the film L'Irrésolu (1994).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They separated in 2003.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Guy de Maupassant	Un mec sur la plage	Uncredited
1983	Le Faucon	the inspector
1984	L'Addition	Magnum
	Notre histoire	Brechet
1985	Parole de flic	Dax
1986	Betty Blue	Richard
	Suivez mon regard	a scoundrel
	Prunelle Blues	Fernand
	Half Moon Street	Sonny
	Yiddish Connection	Zvi
1987	Dernier été à Tanger	Roland Barrès
	A Man in Love	Bruno Schlosser
1988	Quelques jours avec moi	Fernand
	L'Étudiante	Ned
1990	La Baule-les-Pins	Jean-Claude
	Il y a des jours... et des lunes	The innkeeper
	Gaspard et Robinson	Robinson
1991	Netchaïev est de retour	Daniel Laurencon / Netchaiev
	La Cabine		Short
1992	La Belle Histoire	Simon Choulel
	La Crise	Victor Barelle
1993	Tout ça... pour ça !	Lino
1994	L'Irrésolu	François
1995	La Haine	A very drunk man
1996	Vite strozzate	Francesco
	Les Victimes	Pierre Duval
	La Belle Verte	Max
1997	Fred	Fred
	Seventh Heaven	Nico
1998	Paparazzi	Michel Verdier
	The School of Flesh	Chris
1999	Belle maman	Antoine
	My Little Business	Ivan Lansi
	Pas de scandale	Louis Jeancourt
2001	Mercredi, folle journée!	Martin Socoa
	Chaos	Paul
2002	Le Frère du guerrier	Thomas
	Vendredi soir	Jean
2003	Sole Sisters	Bruno
	The Cost of Living	Coway
	Les Clefs de bagnole	the actor who refuses to work with Laurent
2004	La Confiance règne	Christophe Gérard
2005	The Moustache	Marc Thiriez
	L'Avion	Pierre
2006	Charlie Says	Serge
2007	Je crois que je l'aime	Lucas
	Ceux qui restent	Bertrand Liévain
2008	London mon amour	Mathias
	Chasseurs de dragons	Lian-Chu	French version, voice
	Anything for Her	Julien Auclert
2009	Welcome	Simon Calmat
	Mademoiselle Chambon	Jean
2011	Un coeur qui bat	The narrator	Television film
	La permission de minuit	David
	Pater	Vincent Lindon
	All Our Desires	Stéphane
	Complices	Vincent Lindon	Video short
2012	Augustine	Professeur Jean-Martin Charcot
	A Few Hours of Spring	Alain Évrard
2013	Bastards	Marco Silvestri
2014	Mea Culpa	Simon
2015	Diary of a Chambermaid	Joseph
	The Measure of a Man	Thierry Taugourdeau
	The Little Prince	Businessman	French version, voice
	The White Knights	Jacques Arnault
2017	Rodin	Auguste Rodin
2018	Isle of Dogs	Chief	French version, voice
	The Apparition	Jacques Mayano
	At War	Laurent Amédéo
2019	Casanova, Last Love	Casanova
2021	Titane	Vincent Legrand
	Another World	Philippe Lemesle
	Enquête sur un scandale d'État	Jacques Billard
2022	Both Sides of the Blade	Jean
2023	Of Money and Blood	Simon Weynachter	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2024	The Second Act	Guillaume
	The Quiet Son	Pierre
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Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result	Ref
1993	César Awards	Best Actor	La Crise	Template:Nom
2000	César Awards	Best Actor	My Little Business	Template:Nom
2005	Cabourg Film Festival	Best Actor	La Moustache	Template:Won
2008	César Awards	Best Actor	Those Who Remain	Template:Nom
	Globe de Cristal Awards	Best Actor		Template:Nom
2010	César Awards	Best Actor	Welcome	Template:Nom
	Globe de Cristal Awards	Best Actor		Template:Nom
	Lumière Awards	Best Actor		Template:Nom
	Silver Ribbon	European Silver Ribbon		Template:Won
2013	César Awards	Best Actor	A Few Hours of Spring	Template:Nom
	Globe de Cristal Awards	Best Actor		Template:Nom
2016	César Awards	Best Actor	The Measure of a Man	Template:Won
	Cannes Film Festival	Best Actor		Template:Won
	European Film Awards	Best Actor		Template:Nom
	Lumière Awards	Best Actor	The Measure of a Man	Template:Won
			Diary of a Chambermaid	Template:Won
2019	Lumière Awards	Best Actor	At War	Template:Nom
2021	DiscussingFilm Critic Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Titane	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	European Film Awards	Best Actor		Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Florida Film Critics Circle	Best Supporting Actor		Template:Nom	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor		Template:Won	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Austin Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor		Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Critics' Choice Super Awards	Best Actor in a Horror Movie		Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Lumière Awards	Best Actor		Template:Nom
	National Society of Film Critics	Best Supporting Actor		Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Seattle Film Critics Society	Best Supporting Actor		Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2024	Venice Film Festival	Volpi Cup for Best Actor	The Quiet Son	Template:Won

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