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Lambert Wilson

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Ernest and Célestine return to Ernest's country to have his broken violin repaired. They discover that music is banned throughout the country. They will attempt to right this injustice in order to bring joy back to bear country.
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Lambert Wilson was born in Paris and studied acting at the Drama Centre in London.

A fluent English speaker, he made his feature film debut at the age of twenty-two in Fred Zinnemann's Five Days One Summer (1981) starring opposite Sean Connery. He went on to work with many of France's most prestigious auteur directors, playing leads in Andrzej Zulawski's La Femme Publique, (1983), Véra Belmont's Rouge Baiser (1984), André Téchiné's Rendez-vous, (Official Selection at Cannes and winner of the Best Director Award, 1984), Luigi Comencini's La Storia (1985), Claude Chabrol's Le Sang des Autres (1987), Philippe de Broca's Chouans (1987) and Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect (1987). He starred in his actor/director father Georges Wilson's feature film debut, La Vouivre (1988), and won the Jean Gabin Award for his performance in Denis Amar's Winter '54, (1989). Further film work includes James Ivory's Jefferson in Paris (1994) opposite Nick Nolte and Gwyneth Paltrow and John Duigan's The Leading Man, with Thandie Newton and John Bon Jovi (1996). He has made four films with Alain Resnais: Same Old Song (1997), Not on the Lips, 2003, Private Fears in Public Places, (2006) and You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (2012) and has worked with Jacques Doillon in Trop (peu) d'amour, (1997), Deborah Warner in The Last September, with Maggie Smith, Fiona Shaw, Jane Birkin and Michael Gambon (1998) and starred in Raùl Ruiz's Combat d'amour en songe (2000).

His more recent, English language work includes the Wachowski brothers' Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions (2001), Pitof's Catwoman (2004) with Halle Berry and Sharon Stone, Breck Eisner's Sahara, (2005), Michael Radford's Flawless (2006) with Demi Moore and Michael Caine, and Mathieu Kassovitz's Babylon A.D. (2007) with Vin Diesel and Charlotte Rampling. He has just starred in three international productions, Lulu Wang's Posthumous with Jack Huston and Britt Marling, Victor Levin's 5 to 7 with Anton Yelchin, Glenn Close and Frank Langella, and Suite Française, opposite Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas and Matthias Shoenaerts, all due for release in 2014.

Highlights from his latter French filmography include: Valérie Lemercier's Palais Royal! (2004), Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods and Men, Cannes Official Selection and Winner, Grand Prize of the Jury (2009), Bertrand Tavernier The Princess of Montpensier (2009), Alain Chabat's Le Marsupilami (2011), Philippe Le Guay's Cycling with Moliere (2012).

In the summer of 2013, he played the lead in Eric Lavaine's Barbecue, opposite Florence Foresti, Franck Dubosc, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Lionel Abelanski, Jérôme Commandeur, Valérie Crouzet, Sophie Duez et Lysiane Meis (2014).

Lambert Wilson is a Chevalier and Officier des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier and Officier de l'Ordre National du Merite.
BornAugust 3, 1958
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Lesley Manville and Lambert Wilson in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
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Lesley Manville and Lambert Wilson in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Lesley Manville and Lambert Wilson in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Lambert Wilson in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Fabrice Luchini, Maya Sansa, and Lambert Wilson in Bicycling with Molière (2013)
Michael Lonsdale, Jacques Herlin, Jean-Marie Frin, Philippe Laudenbach, Xavier Maly, Olivier Perrier, Loïc Pichon, Olivier Rabourdin, and Lambert Wilson in Of Gods and Men (2010)
Jacques Herlin, Jean-Marie Frin, Philippe Laudenbach, Xavier Maly, Loïc Pichon, Olivier Rabourdin, and Lambert Wilson in Of Gods and Men (2010)
Xavier Maly, Loïc Pichon, Olivier Rabourdin, Lambert Wilson, Sabrina Ouazani, and Abdellah Chakiri in Of Gods and Men (2010)
Lambert Wilson in Of Gods and Men (2010)
Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Marie Frin, Philippe Laudenbach, Xavier Maly, and Lambert Wilson in Of Gods and Men (2010)
Michael Lonsdale, Jacques Herlin, Jean-Marie Frin, Philippe Laudenbach, Xavier Maly, Loïc Pichon, Olivier Rabourdin, and Lambert Wilson in Of Gods and Men (2010)

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Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, and Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Reloaded
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  • Merovingian
  • 2003
Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Klaus Badelt, Alex Borstein, Bill Brzeski, Denise Di Novi, Michael Ferris, Anne Fletcher, Benita Ha, Sylvie Landra, Byron Mann, Mike Mitchell, Kennith Overbey, Theresa Rebeck, John Rogers, Ecstasia Sanders, Larry Sullivan, Shaina Tianne Unger, Peter Wingfield, Ursula Haczkiewicz, Stephanie Moseley, and Aaron Miko in Catwoman (2004)
Catwoman
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  • George Hedare
  • 2004
Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
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  • Merovingian
  • 2003
Gerard Butler, Frances O'Connor, and Paul Walker in Timeline (2003)
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  • Lord Arnaut
  • 2003

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  • Les choses simples (2023)
    Les choses simples
  • Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (2022)
    Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
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  • Lionel Abelanski, Valérie Crouzet, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Franck Dubosc, Sophie Duez, Lysiane Meis, Lambert Wilson, Jérôme Commandeur, and Caroline Anglade in Plancha (2022)
    Plancha
  • Lesley Manville in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
    Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
  • Totems (2021)
    Totems
  • Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Eréndira Ibarra, Jessica Henwick, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
    The Matrix Resurrections
  • Lambert Wilson and Virginie Efira in Benedetta (2021)
    Benedetta
  • Shuttlecock (2020)
    Shuttlecock
  • Isabelle Carré and Lambert Wilson in De Gaulle (2020)
    De Gaulle
  • Sara Giraudeau, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Manolis Mavromatakis, Eduardo Noriega, Lambert Wilson, Riccardo Scamarcio, Olga Kurylenko, Anna Maria Sturm, Frédéric Chau, Maria Leite, and Alex Lawther in The Translators (2019)
    The Translators
  • Lambert Wilson and Alexia Giordano in Papillons bleus (2019)
    Papillons bleus
  • Calls (2017)
    Calls
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  • Jules Benchetrit in In Your Hands (2018)
    In Your Hands
  • Diane Rouxel in Raising Colors (2018)
    Raising Colors

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    • August 3, 1958
    • Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
    • Georges Wilson
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    Recorded "Rédemption" by César Franck with Béatrice Uria-Monzon and Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, conducted by Michel Plasson (released 2000 from EMI Classics).
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    Screen tested for GoldenEye (1995) for the role of James Bond 007, appearing in test footage opposite Maryam d'Abo (Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights (1987)) as Tania Romanova, re-enacting scenes from From Russia with Love (1963).

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