Hailing from France, he entered acting in the late 1980s with early television appearances and quickly moved into cinema, featuring in René Féret’s “Promenades d’été” (1993) and Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Three Colours: Red” the same year. A versatile screen presence, he later starred in Bertrand Tavernier’s “Capitaine Conan” (1996), Tonie Marshall’s “Venus Beauty Institute” (1998) and achieved inter…