Guillaume Canet Biography

Guillaume Canet (born 10 April 1973) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.

Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like Joyeux Nol, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach. In 2006, he turned to writing and directing with Tell No One and won a Csar Award for Best Director.

Canet has also received attention because of his personal life. He was formerly married to actress Diane Kruger. After they divorced in 2006, Canet had relationships with Carla Bruni and lodie Navarre. Since 2007, he has been in a relationship with Marion Cotillard.

Early life and career

Guillaume Canet was born in Boulogne-Billancourt on 10 April 1973 to a family of horse breeders. Canet intended to become a show jumper and performed with the junior French National Equestrian Team. However, after a fall from his horse at age 18 he turned to acting and enrolled in the Cours Florent drama school. In 1994, he appeared in the Thtre Hbertot production of La Ville dont le prince est un enfant with Christophe Malavoy. After working in various television shows and commercials, Canet made his film debut in the short film "Fils unique".

In 1997, he appeared in the thriller film Barracuda for which he won a prix d'interprtation (best actor award) at the Festival Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1999. The same year he was nominated for a Csar Award for his role as Vincent Mazet in the comedy film En plein cur. He then traveled abroad to film Danny Boyle's The Beach. After completing The Beach, Canet starred opposite Sophie Marceau in La fidlit and in Jerry Schatzberg's The Day the Ponies Come Back.

In 2002, Canet starred with Grard Depardieu in the science fiction film Vidocq. He also directed and wrote his first feature film the same year, Mon Idole, which also starred his wife Diane Kruger. In 2003, he appeared opposite Marion Cotillard in Yann Samuell's Love Me If You Dare which became a sleeper hit. Canet next appeared in the international production Joyeux Nol which tells the story of the World War I Christmas cease fire. The film"?which also featured Kruger"?was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Canet released his second feature film in 2006, Tell No One, an adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel of the same name. Tell No One was the ninth top grossing French film of 2006 and went on to win four Csar awards, including a Csar Award for Best Director for Canet.

His film Blood Ties was selected to be screened Out of Competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Personal life

In 1999, he started a relationship with German-born model and actress Diane Kruger. They were married on 1 September 2001. In January 2006, Canet and Kruger filed for divorce. Kruger later said that the marriage was not successful because their careers had kept them occupied in different parts of the world. After his divorce, he started dating Carla Bruni and then lodie Navarre.

Canet has been romantically involved with actress Marion Cotillard since October 2007; the two had known each other since 1997, and had starred together in the 2003 film Love Me If You Dare. They later appeared together in the 2009 film The Last Flight. The couple has attracted considerable attention from the French media, but for a long time they did not discuss their relationship and did not appear together on a red carpet event until the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. The couple has a son together, Marcel, born on 19 May 2011. They have not married.

In July 2012, photographer Jean-Claude Elfassi accused Canet of violence during an altercation as Canet and Cotillard arrived home from the hospital maternity ward with their new baby in May 2011. According to the photographer, Canet left his house with an iron bar and threatened him before police stepped in. Elfassi"?s son filmed the actor with his cell phone and while Canet made sure the footage was erased from the web, photos were published in French magazine Entrevue. Elfassi and his son attempted to sue the actor for "violence"? and "theft"? and their case was not only dismissed, but Elfassi faces charges for "false accusation"? and could spend nine months in jail.

Guillaume and Marion are expecting their second child.

Filmography

As actor

• 1995 : Fils unique, directed by Philippe Landoulsi (short-film)
• 1997 : Barracuda, directed by Philippe Ham, prix d'interprtation au Festival de Saint-Jean-de-Luz
• 1998 : Sentimental Education, directed by C. S. Leigh
• 1998 : Ceux2015 qui m'aiment prendront le train, directed by Patrice Chreau
• 1998 : En plein cur, directed by Pierre Jolivet, adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon, En cas de malheur
• 1999 : Trait d'union, directed by Bruno Garca (short-film)
• 1999 : Je rgle mon pas sur le pas de mon pre, directed by Rmi Waterhouse
• 2000 : J'peux pas dormir..., directed by Guillaume Canet (short-film)
• 2000 : The Beach (La Plage), directed by Danny Boyle
• 2000 : Fidelity (La Fidlit), directed by Andrzej ?u?awski
• 2000 : The Day the Ponies Come Back, directed by Jerry Schatzberg
• 2001 : ', directed by Antoine de Caunes
• 2001 : Vidocq, directed by Pitof
• 2002 : Le Frre du guerrier, directed by Pierre Jolivet
• 2002 : Mille millimes, directed by Rmi Waterhouse
• 2002 : Mon Idole, directed by Guillaume Canet
• 2003 : Love me if you dare (Jeux d'enfants), directed by Yann Samuell
• 2003 : Les Clefs de bagnole, directed by Laurent Baffie (only a cameo, as himself)
• 2004 : Narco, directed by Tristan Aurouet and Gilles Lellouche
• 2005 : Joyeux Nol, directed by Christian Carion
• 2005 : Hell (L'Enfer), directed by Danis Tanovic
• 2005 : Un ticket pour l'espace, directed by ric Lartigau
• 2006 : Tell No One (Ne le dis personne), directed by Guillaume Canet
• 2006 : Cars (French voice of Flash McQueen)
• 2007 : Ensemble, c'est tout, directed by Claude Berri
• 2007 : Darling, directed by Christine Carrire
• 2007 : La clef, directed by Guillaume Nicloux
• 2008 : Les Liens du sang, directed by Jacques Maillot
• 2008 : Voyage d'affaires, directed by Sean Ellis
• 2009 : Espion(s), directed by Nicolas Saada
• 2009 : L'affaire Farewell, directed by Christian Carion
• 2009 : The Last Flight, directed by Karim Dridi
• 2010 : Last Night, directed by Massy Tadjedin
• 2011 : Une vie meilleure, directed by Cdric Kahn
• 2011 : La nouvelle guerre des boutons, L'instituteur
• 2012 : The Players, Thibault
• 2013 : Jappeloup as Pierre Durand, Jr.
• 2013 : Turning Tide as Frank Drevil
• 2014 : In the Name of My Daughter as Maurice Agnelet
• 2014 : Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart as Franck
• 2015 : The Program as Michele Ferrari
• 2015 : Minions as Herb Overkill
• 2016 : Arctic Heart as Quignard
• 2016 : Czanne and I as mile Zola
• 2016 : The Siege of Jadotville as Falquez

As director

Year	Title	Notes
1996	Sans Regrets	Short Film
1998	Je taim	Short Film Writer
2000	Scnarios sur la drogue	TV Short Film
	J'peux pas dormir	Short Film Writer
2002	Mon Idole	Producer/Writer Nominated - Csar Award for Best Debut
2006	Tell No One	French Title: Ne le dis personne Writer Csar Award for Best Director Nominated - Csar Award for Best Film Nominated - Csar Award for Best Writing-Adaptation
2010	Little White Lies	also Writer
2013	Blood Ties	also Writer
2017	Rock'n Roll	also Writer

Frequent casting

Actor	Mon Idole (2002)	Tell No One (2006)	Little White Lies (2010)	Blood Ties (2013)	Rock'n Roll (2017)
Franois Cluzet
Marion Cotillard
Gilles Lellouche
Franois Berland
Anne Marivin
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