Romain Duris

In 1993, Duris was noticed whilst waiting in a queue by a casting director and was offered a part in the Cédric Klapisch film Le péril jeune (1994). His regular collaborations with Klapisch include the Spanish Apartment Trilogy (L'Auberge Espagnole, The Russian Dolls, and Chinese Puzzle), where he played French exchange student Xavier Rousseau, one of his best-known roles. Duris gained international recognition for his performance in the film The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), for which he won the Lumières Award for Best Actor and received his first nomination for the César Award for Best Actor. He has since gone onto become a major star in the French film industry and has starred in many successful and critically acclaimed films: Dans Paris (2006), Paris (2008), Heartbreaker (2010), The Big Picture (2010), Populaire (2012), Mood Indigo (2013), The New Girlfriend (2014), All the Money in the World (2017), The Animal Kingdom (2023), The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023) and The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023). His roles have ranged from gangsters as in Dobermann through romantic leads as in Heartbreaker to action heroes as in Arsène Lupin.