Francis Leplay
Biography
Francis Leplay is a French actor, film director and novelist. An alumnus of France's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences Po, Leplay began acting on television in episodes of the French detective series Julie Lescaut and Navarro. His first film role was in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's J'ai horreur de l'amour (I Hate Love) in 1997. His career took off in the 2000s, and he soon started acting in films by directors including Sofia Coppola, Noémie Lvovsky, Arnaud Desplechin, and Benoît Jacquot as well as in the television series Spiral. Leplay has also acted in theater productions with directors Denis Podalydès and Lambert Wilson in venues including Lincoln Center, the Mossovet Theatre, and the Bouffes du Nord. The Éditions du Seuil published two of his novels, 2006's Après le spectacle, a work of autofiction comparing intermittent acting work and romantic uncertainty, and 2009's Samuel et Alexandre, which follows two men staking out the bounds of their friendship. In 2021, Leplay and French-American filmmaker Isidore Bethel co-directed the docufiction hybrid film Acts of Love, which premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Source: Article "Francis Leplay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
The Sentinels
Voltaire High
Marie Antoinette
Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
Cristóbal Balenciaga
The Money Maker
Farewell, My Queen
All Movies (47)
- The Money Maker2026 · as Victor
- Prime Rush2025 · as Guy
- Cerfa2025
- The End of the Iron Age2025 · as Le Président de la République
- Robespierre2024
- The Good Teacher2024 · as Mr. Musil
- Not My Type2022 · as Le cadre Sacem
- Brother and Sister2022 · as André Borkman
- Mixte 19632021 · as Rene Herman
- My Best Part2020
- Opération Finot2019 · as Philippe Rivera
- Who You Think I Am2019 · as Serge
- A Violent Desire for Joy2018 · as The Abbot
- Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen2018 · as Fouqier
- Ce que vivent les roses2018 · as Yahn Quemener
- Jealous2017 · as Nathalie's doctor
- Tomorrow and Thereafter2017 · as Monsieur Lesieur
- Nelly2017 · as Mathieu
- Kill Skills2016 · as Our Friend
- Les Cowboys2015 · as Train man
- The Clearstream Affair2015 · as Lawyer Denis Robert & Les Arènes
- 3 Hearts2014 · as Le médecin
- The Cosmopolitans2014 · as Philippe
- Youth2013 · as Frédéric
- Bright Days Ahead2013 · as Le prof d'oenologie
- Looking for Hortense2012 · as Marco
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme2012 · as Le Maître de philosophie
- Farewell, My Queen2012 · as Le comte d'Artois
- Imogène McCarthery2010 · as Gowen Ross
- Rien dans les poches2008 · as 'Le lézard' #1
- Seule2008 · as Antoine Nardier
- Intrusions2008 · as Maître Pierre Marsac
- Modern Love2008 · as Hervé
- Le Mental de l'équipe2008
- The Resistance: Live Free or Die2008 · as Gilbert Lesage
- The Price to Pay2007 · as Agent immobilier
- Marie Antoinette2006 · as Doctor Delivery Provence
- Zim and Co2005 · as Inspecteur commissariat
- Kings & Queen2004 · as Christian, le félon
- Clémence2003 · as Alain Dorcières
- Only Girls2003 · as Philippe Jean
- Ma caméra et moi2002 · as Le jeune homme
- Love Bites2001 · as Photographer
- Jamel Show1999 · as Self
- Time Regained1999 · as Employee Jupien
- I Hate Love1997 · as Association Member
- Rai1995
All TV Shows (9)
- Mitterrand confidentiel2026 · as Pierre Pingeot
- The Sentinels2025 · as Le Ministre de la Guerre, Millerand
- Frotter, frotter2025 · as Lazare Masurel
- Cristóbal Balenciaga2024 · as Lucien LeLong
- Voltaire High2021 · as Rene Hermen
- The Cosmopolitans2014 · as Philippe
- Fais pas ci, fais pas ça2007 · as plaignant
- Fais pas ci, fais pas ça2007 · as l'ex-animateur
- L'État de Grace2006 · as Cédric Pierrot