Trained at the Conservatoire, he entered cinema with Nina Companeez’s Faustine et le bel été in 1972 and quickly became a regular presence in French film, appearing in Bernard Queysanne’s The Man Who Sleeps, Costa-Gavras’s Section spéciale and Alain Resnais’s Stavisky during the mid-1970s. Throughout the following decades he worked with directors such as Joseph Losey (La Truite), Pierre Salvadori…