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Becker attended the Conservatory of dramatic art in France, the court Florent (Olga Hörstig Prize) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art of London.
He was part of the promotion of Young Talents Cannes in 2010. That same year, he made his debut on screen in a variety of roles. He played a young politician in L'Assaut, directed by Julien Leclercq, an alcoholic hitchhiker in La Proie, directed by Eric Valette, a student in Marie-Castille Mention Schaar's Ma Première Fois and a young businessman in La Croisière, by Pascale Pouzadoux.
In 2010, he made his debut in Hollywood, playing Louis Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco, in the CW drama Gossip Girl. Initially, he signed on for two episodes in the fourth season. Later, his role was extended for another eighteen episodes.
In 2011, he played Xavier in the American film Damsels in Distress, directed by Whit Stillman (Oscar nominated for his film Metropolitan). The film closed the 68th Venice Film Festival and was selected at the Toronto Film Festival.
In 2012, Becker starred as Antoine Lavoisier in the American docufiction Mystery of the Matter, directed by Mr. Meyer. In 2013, Hugo played Isaac Dreyfuss, a football star involved in a terrorist affair, for two episodes of a BBC3 series.
In 2014, he played the role of Romain in the 6 episodes of the miniseries Chefs alongside Clovis Cornillac, for which he received the Adami Prize for the best promising actor at the Luchon festival.
In 2015, he played the lead role in the 12 episodes French series entitled Au service de la France, written by Jean-François Halin, for the role of André Merlaux, a young recruit of the French secret service, in the year 1960.
In 2016, he began playing the role of Cyril Balsan in the political drama series Baron Noir alongside Niels Arestrup, Kad Merad and Anna Mouglalis. In the same year, he starred in a main role alongside Yon González and Lluís Homar in the Spanish crime drama series Bajo sospecha. He played the role of a police officer infiltrated to find a missing person in a hospital in Madrid. He also played the role of Guillaume in the comedy Un jour mon prince!, by Flavia Coste.
In 2018, he starred in Xavier Durringer's Paradise Beach alongside Sami Bouajila, Kool Shen, Seth Gueko and Tewfik Jallab. In the same year, he starred in Jusqu'ici tout va bien, by Mohamed Hamidi, alongside Gilles Lellouche, Malik Bentalha and Sabrina Ouazani.
In 2019, he starred as Paul Vanhove in the Netflix science fiction series Osmosis. He is set to play a role as Paul WR in Le dernier voyage de l'énigmatique Paul W.R. by Romain Quirot and as Max in the film Döner directed by Jean-Luc Herbulot.
Hugo Becker is fluent in English and Spanish.
Since 2014, he is one of the producers at Nouvelle Donne Productions.- Actor
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French stage and screen actor, painter and ceramicist. The son of a professional soldier, Charrier was one of seven siblings. Of an artistic disposition early on, he attended Strasbourg's Haute école des arts du Rhin (School of Decorative Arts) in 1953 to study ceramics. Three years later, he trained for acting at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT) in Paris under the tutelage of actress Berthe Bovy. His career as a performer began after he was first employed as an extra at the Comédie-Française. This eventually led to Charrier being cast in a key role in Le Journal d'Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank) at the Théâtre Montparnasse. His performance impressed the director Marcel Carné who offered him the lead role in his film Les tricheurs (1958), starring alongside Pascale Petit, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Laurent Terzieff.
This proved to be the high point of Charrier's acting career, though he has appeared in other films by noted directors, including Babette Goes to War (1959) (Christian-Jaque), The Third Lover (1962) (Claude Chabrol) and Anatomy of a Marriage (1964) (André Cayatte). He famously turned down the offer to star in the hit movie Purple Noon (1960), based on the novel 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' by Patricia Highsmith. The coveted role went to Alain Delon instead.
In 1969, he co-founded (with Jean-Claude Brialy) a production company specializing in low budget films. The venture was not a success, however, and the company ceased production in 1975. Afterwards, Charriere moved away from show business and returned to his original muse. After continuing studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris grande école in 1980, he committed himself to being a full-time painter and has since been exhibiting his work at art houses ranging from Paris and Geneva to San Francisco.
Charrier has been married four times. His first wife (from 1959 to 1962) was the actress Brigitte Bardot. His current wife is the Japanese artist and photographer Makiko Kumano.- Actor
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Raphaël Lenglet was born on 10 December 1975 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. He is an actor and director, known for Elle (2016), High Lane (2009) and Candice Renoir (2013).- Alexandre Varga was born on 7 December 1976 in Metz, Moselle, France. He is an actor, known for Blues Stop (2003), The Sopranos (1999) and Pacific Criminal (2019).
- Born in 1939, Isabel Corey started modeling in Paris in her teens for such magazines as Jardin des Modes, Elle and Madame Figaro, until she was discovered in the Latin Quarter were she lived with her parents by Jean Pierre Melville and offered the lead in his classic film noir, Bob le Flambeur. Following parts in such films as And God Created Woman (directed by Roger Vadim and with Brigitte Bardot), she continued her film career in Italy where she settled in Rome, to work with producers, directors and actors like Mauro Bolognini, Vittorio de Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, Dino de Laurentis, Roberto Rossellini, Martine Carol and many more.
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Régis Wargnier was born on 18 April 1948 in Metz, Moselle, France. He is a writer and director, known for East/West (1999), Indochine (1992) and La femme de ma vie (1986).- Elysse Adil (born 28 October 2010) is a Franco-British actress who made her TV debut in 2018 as a supporting actress in the BBC drama Eastenders.
In November 2020 Elysse was cast by Kate Ringsell to play Sadia in Fireworks a groundbreaking virtual production directed by two-time Oscar and BAFTA Award winner Paul Franklin (Interstellar, Inception), produced by BAFTA Award winner Annalise Davis (The Railway Man, Up There) for Wilder Films, and written by acclaimed screenwriter and playwright Steven Lally.
In Summer 2021 Elysse was cast by Nina Gold to portray Rana in the upcoming drama The Power (Amazon, Sister Pictures), adapted for screen by creator and Executive Producer Naomi Alderman and is based on her award-winning novel of the same name.
Her voice over credits include various projects from short film, video game (2023) and animation (2023).
In her spare time Elysse loves swimming, playing football and creative writing. She is passionate about politics and was elected in March 2021 as the youngest MYP in the UK for Youth Parliament representing Barnet council where she resides. - Director
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Jean-Marie Straub was born on 8 January 1933 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. He was a director and editor, known for Class Relations (1984), The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) and Sicily! (1999). He was married to Danièle Huillet. He died on 20 November 2022 in Rolle, Switzerland.- Production Manager
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Charles Henri David, writer, producer and director, was born on May 4, 1906 in the Lorraine region, in the city of Metz.
He entered the movie industry in the early 1930s, working for Pathé studios in France; he would become director of Pathé-Natan, and later in mid-1930s Head Producer (Directeur de production). There he met and worked with some of the would-be famous French directors, screenwriters and movie people of the time : Jean Renoir, Marc Allegret, Marcel Carné and the brothers Pierre and Jacques Prévert, often in his position as production manager of a series of films : Baby's Laxative (1931), La Chienne (1931) and Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931), It's in the Bag (1932) or Bizarre, Bizarre (1937).
He then started a collaboration with Zoltan and Alexander Korda, working as assistant producer in Sudan for The Four Feathers (1939) and assistant director in the British version of The Thief of Bagdad (1940).
He married his first wife Terese in 1928. They had a son and a daughter. They would later divorce.
During World War 2 Charles took the French Army uniform and served as interpreter with the RAF. The family emigrated to America in 1940 in time to escape the Nazi dominion of France. Like many other European emigrés Charles natural destiny was Hollywood. He worked as assistant producer for the Kordas in The Jungle Book (1942), he sold a story ("Fairy Tale Murder") to Universal and was offered to direct it, resulting in River Gang (1945), starring Gloria Jean. Then he became the director of Lady on a Train (1945), starring Deanna Durbin. They would wed in December 21, 1950 in France, and would stay married until his death, which took place in Paris on March 1, 1999, at the age of 92.- Actor
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Mike MacDonald was born on 21 June 1954 in Metz, Moselle, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Nutcracker Prince (1990), Chasing Robert (2007) and The Funny Farm (1983). He was married to Bonnie Lee Bayes. He died on 17 March 2018 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.- Director
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Le Prince was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion picture camera born in Metz, France. His father was a major of artillery in the French Army and an officer of the Légion d'honneur. When growing up, he reportedly spent time in the studio of his father's friend, the pioneer of photography Louis Daguerre, from whom he may have received some lessons on photography and chemistry before he was 10 years old. His education went on to include the study of painting in Paris and post-graduate chemistry at Leipzig University. He then moved to Leeds, England in 1866, after being invited to join John Whitley, a friend from college, in Whitley Partners of Hunslet, a firm of brass founders making valves and components. In 1869, he married Elizabeth Whitley, John's sister and a talented artist, and the two of them started a school of applied art, the Leeds Technical School of Art, and became well renowned for their work in fixing coloured photographs on to metal and pottery. In 1881, Le Prince went to the United States with his family where he began experiments relating to the production of 'moving' photographs, designing a camera that utilised sixteen lenses, which was the first invention he patented. After his return to Leeds in May 1887, he built a single-lens camera in mid-late 1888 used to shoot his motion-picture films. It was first used on 14 October 1888 to shoot what would become known as Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) and Accordion Player (1888). He later used it to film Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888). In September 1890, he was preparing for a trip to the United States, supposedly to publicly premiere his work and join his wife and children. Before this journey, he decided to return to France to visit his brother in Dijon. Then, on 16 September, he took a train to Paris but, having taken a later train than planned, his friends missed him in Paris. He was never seen again by his family or friends. The last person to see Le Prince at the Dijon station was his brother. The French police, Scotland Yard and the family undertook exhaustive searches, but never found him. Le Prince was officially declared dead on 16 September 1897.- Thallia was born on 15 March 1979 in Metz, France. She is an actress, known for La septième porte (2001), Sous le soleil (1996) and Drôles de jeux (2001).
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Wolf Ackva was born on 30 July 1911 in Montigny, Metz, Lorraine, Germany [now Montigny-lès-Metz, Moselle, France]. He was an actor and composer, known for The Count of Monte Cristo (1979), Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger (1965) and Die Fledermaus (1959). He was married to Els Ackva. He died on 16 January 2000 in Fahrenzhausen, Bavaria, Germany.- Script and Continuity Department
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Natalie Perrey was born on 28 February 1929 in Metz, Moselle, France. She was an actress and editor, known for The Night of the Hunted (1980). She was married to Jean-Noël Delamarre. She died on 26 March 2012 in Paris, France.- Writer
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Paul Verlaine was born on 30 March 1844 in Metz, France. He was a writer, known for French Kiss (1995), Stonehearst Asylum (2014) and Norwegian Wood (2010). He was married to Mathilde Meuté de Fleurville. He died on 8 January 1896 in Paris, France.- Jacqueline Roman was born on 17 March 1920 in Metz, Moselle, France. She was an actress, known for Histoire de chanter (1946), Espoirs... (1941) and Ma soeur de lait (1938). She was married to Gérard Oury. She died on 6 June 1981 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Noëlle Leiris was born on 27 December 1928 in Metz, Moselle, France. She is an actress, known for Famous Love Affairs (1961), Les mystères de Paris (1980) and Rocambole (1964). She was previously married to Jean-Pierre Marielle.
- Micheline Boudet was born on 28 April 1926 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. She was an actress, known for Would-Be Gentleman (1958), Le malade imaginaire (1959) and Le barbier de Séville ou La précaution inutile (1960). She was married to Julien Bertheau. She died on 5 July 2022 in Serville, Eure-et-Loir, France.
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- Soundtrack
Monique Messine was born on 2 April 1940 in Metz, Moselle, France. She was an actress, known for Vivre sa vie (1962), Highlander (1992) and Le tracassin ou Les plaisirs de la ville (1961). She died on 11 July 2003 in Guyancourt, Yvelines, France.- Writer
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- Actor
Walter Ulbrich was born on 15 June 1910 in Metz, Lorraine, Germany. He was a writer and producer, known for Under the Bridges (1946), The Taste of Violence (1961) and Tom Sawyers und Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer (1968). He died on 13 November 1991 in Unterpfaffenhofen, Bavaria, Germany.- Production Manager
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Séverine Barré was born on 1 December 1983 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Séverine is a production manager, known for Revenge (2017), Personal Shopper (2016) and 99 Francs (2007).- Theo Shall was born on 24 February 1896 in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany [now Moselle, France]. He was an actor, known for Anna Christie (1930), Ten Minute Alibi (1935) and Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955). He died on 4 October 1955 in East Berlin, East Germany.
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Claude Santelli was born on 17 June 1923 in Metz, Moselle, France. He was a writer and producer, known for Jacques le fataliste et son maître (1984), L'ami Maupassant (1986) and Les cent livres des hommes (1970). He was married to Andrée Collet and Michèle Delons. He died on 14 December 2001 in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Anthony Gildès was born on 13 August 1856 in Metz, France. He was an actor, known for Le malade imaginaire (1934), Fanfare d'amour (1935) and Ils étaient neuf célibataires (1939). He died on 6 October 1941 in Paris, France.
- Jutta Jol was born on 4 February 1896 in Metz, Lorraine, Germany [now Metz, Moselle, France]. She was an actress, known for Der gefesselte Polo (1929), Ein Lied geht um die Welt (1933) and Love's Carnival (1924). She died on 26 October 1981 in Berlin, Germany.