Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1967-07-25 (Age: 59)
Place of Birth
Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
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.
Filmography (46)
The Money Maker
2026
Prime Rush
2025
Cerfa
2025
The End of the Iron Age
2025
Robespierre
2024
The Good Teacher
2024
Not My Type
2022
Brother and Sister
2022
My Best Part
2020
Opération Finot
2019
Who You Think I Am
2019
A Violent Desire for Joy
2018
Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen
2018
Ce que vivent les roses
2018
