Fabrice Luchini was born in 1951. Passionate about literature and soul music, Philippe Labro spotted him and entrusted him with his first role in Don't Be Blue in 1969. Then, he played in Claire's Knee by Éric Rohmer, which made him his favourite actor, and at the same time discovered the theater by enrolling in the courses of Jean-Laurent Cochet, who transmitted to him his passion for the classical repertoire.
In more than 50 years of career, he played in more than 80 films with many directors, and in particular Pierre Zucca, Christian Vincent in La Discrète, a film which reveals him to the general public, Cédric Klapisch, Claude Lelouch, Yves Angelo, Philippe Le Guay, Edouard Molinaro, Benoit Jacquot, Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine, François Ozon, Bruno Dumont, Nicolas Pariser, Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, Tristant Séguéla and many others...
He published his first book Comédie française, ça a débuté comme ça with Flammarion in 2016, the story of a life placed under the sign of literature, for which he received the Coupole award.
But Fabrice Luchini is above all a theater actor who gave life to the texts of the greatest authors, from Samuel Beckett to William Shakespeare, including Gustave Flaubert, Sacha Guitry and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. He has also performed on stage readings of La Fontaine, Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Molière, Rimbaud, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Cau and Peguy. On stage, he was directed by famous artists like Bernard Stora, Laurent Terzieff, Maurice Bénichou or Michel Bouquet.