Editing Lambert Wilson (section)

===Career===
[[File:Lambert Wilson Valérie Lemercier Cannes.jpg|thumb|left|[[Valérie Lemercier]] and Lambert Wilson at the [[2005 Cannes Film Festival]]]]
In musical theatre Wilson has appeared as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm in the 1995 [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre London]] production of ''[[A Little Night Music]]'', where "every word and note was fiercely projected",<ref>[[Rodney Milnes|Milnes, Rodney]]. At the musical - A Little Night Music - Royal National Theatre (Olivier). ''[[Opera (British magazine)|Opera]]'', November 1995, Vol 46 No 11, p1369.</ref> and of which a recording was later issued. In 2007 he was Voltaire/Pangloss (bilingually) in [[Robert Carsen]]'s production of ''[[Candide (operetta)|Candide]]'' at the [[Théâtre du Châtelet]] in Paris.<ref>Canning, Hugh. Report from Paris. ''Opera'', April 2007, Vol.58 No.4, p431-2.</ref> He appeared as Eric Thomson in [[Alain Resnais|Resnais]]'s [[Pas sur la bouche (2003 film)|2003 film version]] of the 1925 comédie musicale ''Pas sur la bouche'' by [[Maurice Yvain|Yvain]].

Wilson released ''Musicals'' on the [[EMI]] label in 1989 (re-issued in 2004), with [[John McGlinn]] conducting [[Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo]]. It features him singing songs of the American Musical Theatre catalogue, those well-known ("[[Maria (1956 song)|Maria]]" from ''[[West Side Story]]'', "There But For You Go I" from Lerner & Loewe's ''[[Brigadoon (musical)|Brigadoon]]'', "[[The ABC Café|The Cafe Song]]" from ''[[Les Misérables (musical)|Les Misérables]]'', "Johanna" from [[Stephen Sondheim]]'s ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (musical)|Sweeney Todd]]''), rare ("Love Song" from [[Kurt Weill]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]]'s ''[[Love Life (musical)|Love Life]]'', "It Must Be So" from [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''[[Candide (musical)|Candide]]'', and "Silly People", which was cut from Sondheim's ''[[A Little Night Music]]''), and those in-between ("Finishing the Hat" from ''[[Sunday in the Park with George]]'', "You Do Something to Me" from [[Cole Porter]]'s ''[[Fifty Million Frenchmen]]'', "Never Will I Marry" from [[Frank Loesser]]'s ''[[Greenwillow]]'').{{cn|date=June 2015}}

He has directed stage presentations of [[Alfred de Musset]]'s ''[[Les Caprices de Marianne]]'' starring Laure Marsac at Paris' [[Bouffes du Nord]] as well as [[Jean Racine]]'s ''[[Bérénice]]'' starring [[Kristin Scott Thomas]] and Didier Sandre at [[Avignon]] and then [[Chaillot]].{{cn|date=June 2015}}

[[File:Lambert Wilson Cannes 2016 2.jpg|thumb|Wilson at the [[2016 Cannes Film Festival]]]]
In 1989, his performance as [[Abbé Pierre]] in the film ''[[Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre]]'', for which he received the [[Prix Jean Gabin|Jean Gabin prize]], won him critical accolades. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, his screen career suffered from a series of box office failures, such as ''[[The Possessed (1988 film)|The Possessed]]'' and ''[[El Dorado (1988 film)|El Dorado]]''.

He later said that the French producers had come, at the time, to regard him as "box office poison". He eventually won back the favour of French audiences by appearing in the successful comedies ''[[Same Old Song]]'' (1997) and ''[[Jet Set (film)|Jet Set]]'' (2000).<ref name="Entretiens102106">Lambert Wilson and Hervé Pons, ''Entretiens'', Éditions du Rocher, 2009, pp. 102–106.</ref>

Wilson was cast in the role of [[List of Matrix series characters#Merovingian|The Merovingian]] in ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'' (2002) and ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]'' (2003), perhaps his best-known role in the American cinema. Being completely fluent in English, his strong French accent in the film is fabricated for the role.<ref name="NYTimes" /> The role also popularised the [[Necktie#Knots|Ediety tie knot]], now commonly referred to as "The Merovingian".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mensjournal.com/expert-advice/how-to-tie-a-tie-10-ways-20131031/the-merovingian|title=How to Tie a Tie – The Merovingian|author=Todd Plummer|access-date=26 October 2017|date=21 October 2013}}</ref>