Guillaume Canet

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Guillaume Canet
Guillaume Canet, December 2006
Born	10 April 1973 (1973-04-10) (age 36) Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Occupation	Actor/Director
Years active	1994–present
Spouse(s)	Diane Kruger (ex-wife, 2001-2006)
Domestic partner(s)	Marion Cotillard (girlfriend, 2007–present)
Official website

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

Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like Joyeux Noël, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach. In 2006, he turned to writing and directing with Tell No One and won a César 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 he began a relationship with Marion Cotillard that was closely followed by the media.

Life and career

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.¹ 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 Théâtre Hébertot 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'interprétation (best actor award) at the Festival Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1999. The same year he was nominated for a César Award for his role as Vincent Mazet in the comedy film En plein cœur. He then traveled abroad to film Danny Boyle's The Beach. After completing The Beach, Canet starred opposite Sophie Marceau in La fidélité and in Jerry Schatzberg's The Day the Ponies Come Back. In 1999, he began dating German model-actress Diane Kruger. They were married on 1 September 2001.

In 2002, Canet starred with Gérard 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.² Canet next appeared in the international production Joyeux Noël 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.

In January 2006, Canet and Kruger filed for divorce although they remain friends. Kruger later said that the marriage had not been successful because their careers had kept them occupied in different parts of the world.³

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 César awards, including a César Award for Best Director for Canet.⁴

Canet began dating his Love Me If You Dare co-star Marion Cotillard in 2007. The couple later appeared together in the 2009 film The Last Flight. Their relationship has attracted considerable attention from the French media who have dubbed them Brad Pitt et Angelina Jolie à la française (the French Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie).

In 2009, Canet made news by wearing a White Knot to the Academy Awards ceremony in order to show his support for the marriage equality movement.⁵

Filmography as an actor

• 1995 : Fils unique, directed by Philippe Landoulsi (short-film).
• 1997 : Barracuda, directed by Philippe Haïm, prix d'interprétation au Festival de Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
• 1998 : Sentimental Education, directed by C. S. Leigh.
• 1998 : Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train, directed by Patrice Chéreau.
• 1998 : En plein cœur, directed by Pierre Jolivet, adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon, En cas de malheur.
• 1999 : Trait d'union, directed by Bruno García (short-film).
• 1999 : Je règle mon pas sur le pas de mon père, directed by Rémi Waterhouse.
• 2000 : J'peux pas dormir..., directed by Guillaume Canet (short-film).
• 2000 : The Beach (La Plage), directed by Danny Boyle.
• 2000 : La Fidélité, directed by Andrzej Żuławski.
• 2000 : The Day the Ponies Come Back, directed by Jerry Schatzberg.
• 2001 : Les Morsures de l'aube, directed by Antoine de Caunes.
• 2001 : Vidocq, directed by Pitof.
• 2002 : Le Frère du guerrier, directed by Pierre Jolivet.
• 2002 : Mille millièmes, directed by Rémi 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 Noël, directed by Christian Carion.
• 2005 : Hell (L'Enfer), directed by Danis Tanovic.
• 2005 : Un ticket pour l'espace, directed by Éric Lartigau.
• 2006 : Tell No One (Ne le dis à 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 Carrière.
• 2007 : La Clef, directed by Guillaume Nicloux.
• 2008 : Les Liens du sang, directed by Jacques Maillot.
• 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.
• 2010 : Les Petits Mouchoirs

Filmography as a director

• 1996 : Sans regrets (short-film)
• 1998 : Je taim (short-film)
• 2000 : Scénarios sur la drogue (short-film)
• 2000 : J'peux pas dormir (short-film)
• 2002 : Mon idole
• 2006 : Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)
• 2010 : Les Petits Mouchoirs

References

External links

• Official site
• Guillaume Canet at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e César Award for Best Director 1976: Bertrand Tavernier • 1977: Joseph Losey • 1978: Alain Resnais • 1979: Christian de Chalonge • 1980: Roman Polanski • 1981: François Truffaut • 1982: Jean-Jacques Annaud • 1983: Andrzej Wajda • 1984: Ettore Scola • 1985: Claude Zidi • 1986: Michel Deville • 1987: Alain Cavalier • 1988: Louis Malle • 1989: Jean-Jacques Annaud • 1990: Bertrand Blier • 1991: Jean-Paul Rappeneau • 1992: Alain Corneau • 1993: Claude Sautet • 1994: Alain Resnais • 1995: André Téchiné • 1996: Claude Sautet • 1997: Patrice Leconte and Bertrand Tavernier • 1998: Luc Besson • 1999: Patrice Chéreau • 2000: Tonie Marshall • 2001: Dominik Moll • 2002: Jean-Pierre Jeunet • 2003: Roman Polanski • 2004: Denys Arcand • 2005: Abdellatif Kechiche • 2006: Jacques Audiard • 2007: Guillaume Canet • 2008: Abdellatif Kechiche • 2009: Jean-François Richet

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