Francis Perrin was born in 1947 in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. His parents, both technicians of the film have made part of the technical team of filming of the films of Sacha Guitry. He was hired at the Comédie-Franç... (Full Biography Below)
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Francis Perrin was born in 1947 in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. His parents, both technicians of the film have made part of the technical team of filming of the films of Sacha Guitry. He was hired at the Comédie-Française in 1972. Thus began a rich career as an actor, where he performed many time the repertoire of Molière : The imaginary invalid, The Bourgeois gentleman, The learned Women, Les fourberies de Scapin. He interprets the works of Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Jules Romains, Marcel Pagnol... He never left the theatre scenes. The film also begins to appeal to him for supporting roles. We note in boyfriend of Isabelle Adjani in The Slap in the face, Claude Pinoteau, and then at Claude Lelouch etPhilippe of Broca. The tv makes him in 1980, a great tribute with the tv-Antenna to Francis Perrin, where he played in three films, sketches, alongside Claude Jade several roles such as Perdican, Pierrot and Jean of the moon. In 1981, he starred in the film The King of cons by Claude Confortès. It creates little by little, an endearing character who encounters a great success in the first half of the 1980s : it carries out Head slaps, The Pretty heart and then It only happens to me. He co-wrote and played in The Beginner the role of "Francis Veber" and It only happens to me the role of "Francois Pepin" (in reference to the film director Francis Veber, who used at that time by the name of "François Perrin" in several of his films). At the end of the 1980s, he devoted himself mainly to his career in the theatre. It reviews all the same in several tv movies and the father of Audrey Tautou in Therese Desqueyroux, the last film of Claude Miller. In the 1990s, he became a member of the Big Heads of Philippe Bouvard. On the radio, it dissociates by his slight stutter and his laughter is inimitable, while the tv, it entertains millions of viewers by his complicity with Sim, in of uproarious skits, such as the physiotherapist, the medieval torture, the dental office... He has been director of the théâtre Montansier in Versailles from 1992 to 2000. In 2001, Francis Perrin joined Jean-Claude Brialy as co-artistic director of the Festival of Anjou, then was the director, in 2002 and 2003. In April 2007, he was promoted to officer of the Legion of honor. In 2002, he married Gersende Dufromentel, a student in 3rd year at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris. They have three children, Louis, born in 2002, Clarissa, born in 2004, and Baptist born in 2005. He said in a television interview to have 6 children in total.
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