
Aurélien Recoing
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Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director. Aurélien Recoing is the son of Alain Recoing (puppeteer), and the brother of Éloi Recoing (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist, composer). Born in Paris on May 5, 1958, Aurélien Recoing began training to be an actor in 1974 at Cours Florent, and studied at Quartier d'Ivry. In 1977, the actor-in-training, who spoke fluent English and a little Russian, joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris, where he studied under Jean-Pierre Miquel and Antoine Vitez. He has appeared in more than 30 plays and has directed stage performances of works by Thomas Bernhard, Fernando Pessoa and Paul Claudel. He was awarded the Prix Gérard Philipe in 1989. In 1980, Aurélien Recoing took his first steps into the world of cinema, in Exploits of a Young Don Juan. Finding art-house cinema appealing to him, he worked with Philippe Garrel on Emergency Kisses (Les baisers de secours), and with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa on Modern Life. The actor rose to fame in 2001 thanks to Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps), in which he plays a man who invents a false life to avoid having to tell his friends and family that he has been fired from his job. As he became more and more in demand, he alternated between blockbusters such as Ruby & Quentin and That Woman and art-house films like L'Ennemi naturel and Orlando Vargas. Lending his talents to a number of unusual projects, in 2006 he portrayed a gamblers in 13 Tzameti, Géla Babluani's black-and-white thriller, and also appeared in Forgive Me (Pardonnez-moi), Maïwenn's home-movie style drama. In the same year, the physically imposing actor found himself transported back to 1914 France in Fragments of Antonin, and then to 1959 Kabylia in Florent Emilio Siri's Intimate Enemies. In 2008, he starred in Franck Llopis' Paris Nord-Sud and in La Saison des Orphelins. The following year, he was cast in Gilles Béhat's crime thriller Diamant 13 with Gérard Depardieu, and in Denis Dercourt's Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain dès l'aube). He has made appearances in The Horde, directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, Xavier de Choudens' Joseph and the Girl with Jacques Dutronc, and Léon Desclozeaux's Cargo, the Lost Men in 2010. He appeared in Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Switch, as well as in Olias Barco's Kill Me Please, which won the Marc'Aurelio d'Oro for best film at Rome Film Festival in 2010. He also appeared in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Colour, which took the Palme d'Or at Cannes. In 2020 he appeared in Adults in the room. An upcoming appearance is in Grand Ciel an Arte Film. He made his first short film as a director The Rifleman (Un Bon Tireur) which won an Award Winner for Best Drama in 2021. He is developing his first feature film Naked Hands (À Mains Nues) with Sensito Films Productions. Source: Article "Aurélien Recoing" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Credits

Ruby & Quentin (2003)
as Rocco

Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
as Adèle's Father

Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986)
as Adolphe

Black Box (2021)
as Claude Varins

The Elegant Criminal (1990)
as François

Opération Turquoise (2007)
as Capitaine Cormery

13 Tzameti (2006)
as Jacky

Ghosts (2005)
as Pierre

Belle and Sebastian: Next Generation (2022)
as Yves

Monsieur (2026)
as Monsieur Auguste Desmest

Sea Workers (1986)
as Gilliatt

Grand ciel (2022)
as Guy

The Horde (2010)
as Jiménez

Premier cri (2002)
as L'homme

Pacific Fear (2024)
as General
L'Échappée (1998)
as Charles

Adults in the Room (2019)
as Pierre Moscovici

Hanging Offense (2003)
as L'homme de l'identité judiciaire

Despite the Night (2016)
as Paul

The Clouzot Scandal (2017)
as Narrator (voice)

Diamond 13 (2009)
as Ladje

Textiles (2001)
as Michel

Time Out (2001)
as Vincent

Le pays des enfants perdus (2004)
as Dolor

Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça! (2013)
as Vincent / Nuissbaum

Fidelity (2000)
as Bernard

L'intrus (—)
Actor

Intimate Enemies (2007)
as Vesoul

Poursuite (2011)
Actor

Emergency Kisses (1989)
as Comedian

Trois Couples en quête d'orages (2005)
as Rémi

Private Life (2007)
as Guillaume Vaudrey

Cold Showers (2005)
as Louis Steiner

Antarctica, in the footsteps of the Emperor (2016)
as Narrator (voice)

Joseph et la fille (2010)
as Raphaël

La femme à abattre (1993)
as Richard

Switch (2011)
as Delors

Müetter (2006)
as Mathieu

The Rest of the Night (2008)
as Giovanni

Counter Investigation (2007)
as Josse

La Vie à trois (1997)
as Gilles Moutiers

My Worst Nightmare (2011)
as Thierry
The Stranger (2007)
as Yvan

La Saison des orphelins (2008)
as Achille

Le Pays des ours (2003)
as Henri

Le Crime des Renards (2005)
as Baptiste

Children's Play (2001)
as l'inspecteur Mayens

Dark Night, October 17, 1961 (2005)
as Somveille

Orlando Vargas (2005)
as Orlando Vargas

The Plough (2023)
as Simon

The Kid Tintouin (2011)
as (Voice)

The Blue Note (1991)
as Auguste Clésinger

Red Sunset (2004)
as L'homme au cutter
En danger de vie (1998)
as Paul

Pure Life (2014)
as Edgar Maufrais

The Jewish Cardinal (2013)
as Jean-Paul II

Louis, the Child King (1993)
as Coadjuteur de l'Archevêque de Paris, futur Cardinal de Retz

Tomorrow at Dawn (2009)
as Capitaine Déprées

Kill Me Please (2010)
as Docteur Krueger

Poor Girl! (2003)
as Paul

Ruby Is Dead (2017)
as Marty

Fragments of Antonin (2006)
as le professeur Labrousse

Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte (1988)
Actor

La fille et le garçon (2023)
as Jean

Les Tisserands du pouvoir (1988)
as Jacques Roussel

Pardonnez-moi (2006)
as Paul

Pasteur et Koch : Un duel de géants dans la guerre des microbes (2018)
as Narration

Natural Enemy (2004)
as Monsieur Tanguy

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus (2013)
as Harry

Life's Little Treasures (1994)
as Photographer

Souffler plus fort que la mer (2017)
as Loïc, le père

The Wrong Man (2012)
as Daniel Varini
Le repenti (2009)
as Victor Fontanel

Sartre, Years of Passion (2006)
as Raymond Aron

Le Soulier de Satin (1987)
as Ange Gardien / Archéologue / Diego Rodriguez

A Son (2004)
as Max

L'ombre d'un flic (2011)
as Julien Ortéguy

The Soviet Revolution Told Through its Cinema (2017)
as Self

A Perfect Friend (2006)
as le médecin

Le Pain du diable (2010)
as Aimé Sailant

Modern Life (2000)
as Georges

The Human Factor (2012)
as Ernest (voice)

Two Women (2021)
as Commissaire André Faureins
Le JT des nouvelles technos (—)
Actor

One Long Winter Without Fire (2005)
as Jean

Cargo, the Lost Men (2010)
as Buck

Souli (2004)
as Yann

Des pierres en ce jardin (2015)
as Pierre





