Aurélien Recoing

Known for ActingBorn 1958-05-05 (age 68)Paris, France

Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director. Aurélien Recoing is the son of Alain Recoing (puppeteer), and the brother of Éloi Recoing (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist, composer). Born in Paris on May 5, 1958, Aurélien Recoing began training to be an actor in 1974 at Cours Florent, and studied at Quartier d'Ivry. In 1977, the actor-in-training, who spoke fluent English and a little Russian, joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris, where he studied under Jean-Pierre Miquel and Antoine Vitez. He has appeared in more than 30 plays and has directed stage performances of works by Thomas Bernhard, Fernando Pessoa and Paul Claudel. He was awarded the Prix Gérard Philipe in 1989. In 1980, Aurélien Recoing took his first steps into the world of cinema, in Exploits of a Young Don Juan. Finding art-house cinema appealing to him, he worked with Philippe Garrel on Emergency Kisses (Les baisers de secours), and with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa on Modern Life. The actor rose to fame in 2001 thanks to Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps), in which he plays a man who invents a false life to avoid having to tell his friends and family that he has been fired from his job. As he became more and more in demand, he alternated between blockbusters such as Ruby & Quentin and That Woman and art-house films like L'Ennemi naturel and Orlando Vargas. Lending his talents to a number of unusual projects, in 2006 he portrayed a gamblers in 13 Tzameti, Géla Babluani's black-and-white thriller, and also appeared in Forgive Me (Pardonnez-moi), Maïwenn's home-movie style drama. In the same year, the physically imposing actor found himself transported back to 1914 France in Fragments of Antonin, and then to 1959 Kabylia in Florent Emilio Siri's Intimate Enemies. In 2008, he starred in Franck Llopis' Paris Nord-Sud and in La Saison des Orphelins. The following year, he was cast in Gilles Béhat's crime thriller Diamant 13 with Gérard Depardieu, and in Denis Dercourt's Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain dès l'aube). He has made appearances in The Horde, directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, Xavier de Choudens' Joseph and the Girl with Jacques Dutronc, and Léon Desclozeaux's Cargo, the Lost Men in 2010. He appeared in Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Switch, as well as in Olias Barco's Kill Me Please, which won the Marc'Aurelio d'Oro for best film at Rome Film Festival in 2010. He also appeared in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Colour, which took the Palme d'Or at Cannes. In 2020 he appeared in Adults in the room. An upcoming appearance is in Grand Ciel an Arte Film. He made his first short film as a director The Rifleman (Un Bon Tireur) which won an Award Winner for Best Drama in 2021. He is developing his first feature film Naked Hands (À Mains Nues) with Sensito Films Productions. Source: Article "Aurélien Recoing" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.Read more

Movies & web series

Müetter

Orlando Vargas

Le pays des enfants perdus

Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça!

La femme à abattre

Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte

Pasteur et Koch : Un duel de géants dans la guerre des microbes

Private Life

La Vie à trois

Sharpe

Les Tisserands du pouvoir

L'ombre d'un flic

Cargo, the Lost Men

Dark Night, October 17, 1961

Black Box

Antarctica, in the footsteps of the Emperor

Emergency Kisses

Pure Life

The Jewish Cardinal

Blue Is the Warmest Color

13 Tzameti

The Kid Tintouin

Crossroads

Opération Turquoise

Souli

Grand ciel

The Soviet Revolution Told Through its Cinema

Souffler plus fort que la mer

Counter Investigation

Two Women

What Pauline Is Not Telling You

One Long Winter Without Fire

Adults in the Room

Ruby & Quentin

Time Out

The Clouzot Scandal

Fragments of Antonin

Le Pays des ours

Intimate Enemies

Kill Me Please

Red Sunset

Sartre, Years of Passion

Despite the Night

Bugarach

Tomorrow at Dawn

Ghosts

Hanging Offense

Belle and Sebastian: Next Generation