François Civil

Civil was born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris on 29 January 1990, His paternal grandmother is Tahitian and his paternal grandfather is Catalan. In addition to his native French, Civil also speaks English, Spanish, and a bit of Italian. Civil has a depigmentation of the skin of his arms and a lock of white hair since he was fifteen. He signed up for an acting class because he wanted to get closer to a girl who was taking acting lessons. The feeling was not mutual, but he ended up falling in love with theater. After spotting him at a school play, the mother of one of the students who was also a casting director encouraged him to continue on this path and insisted that he should go to auditions. Civil was also inspired to become an actor after watching the performance of Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). which he did not like. Civil was an hyperactive child and had trouble concentrating at school. Theatre, music and sports such as basketball helped him channel his energy and express himself. ==Career==

Early work (2005–2015) In 2005, while studying theater at the studio Le Magasin, Civil made his feature film debut with a small role in the comedy Le Cactus, directed by Michel Munz and Gérard Bitton. His second acting gig was an episode of the TV series Louis la Brocante. In 2006, he played the high school student Dread in the Disney Channel France teen sitcom series Trop la Classe!, that led him to participate in the 2007 Disney Channel Games representing France. Civil left Trop la Classe! when director Laurence Ferreira Barbosa offered him the leading role in her independent drama film Dying or Feeling Better () released in 2008, His performance, at the age of 18, earned him a nomination for the Lumière Award for Most Promising Actor, and a pre-nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2009. That same year, he appeared in the web-series Twenty Show released on Myspace, which later became a TV film broadcast by Arte in May 2009. He then continued his theater studies while filming for cinema and television, in particular with the main role in the short film In Our Blood (), directed by Guillaume Senez, for which he won the Best Actor award at the Brussels Short Film Festival and the double award for interpretation (Jury Award and Audience Award) at the 15th Jean Carmet Festival in Moulins. That same year, he did not go to class for all of his senior year because he knew he wanted to pursue acting. and received a second pre-nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He also reprised his role as Dread in the TV series Trop la Classe Café!, and appeared in the erotic drama film Elles directed by Małgorzata Szumowska, in which he played the teenage son of the protagonist portrayed by Juliette Binoche. In 2013, he won the Premier Rendez-vous prize at the Cabourg Film Festival for his performance in the comedy film Macadam Baby, written and directed by Patrick Bossard. Between 2013 and 2015, he starred on Canal+'s Casting(s), a short comedy series about the world of cinema created by Pierre Niney and Ali Marhyar. In 2014, he ventured into English-language productions, such as the independent British-Irish black comedy film Frank, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, in which he played Baraque, the bassist of the band Soronprfbs, led by the title character played by Michael Fassbender. Civil and the other actors of Frank performed the songs live in the film and in the album with the soundtrack. The band performed at concerts in real life to promote the film, such as the talk show The Colbert Report on 6 August 2014. Civil also played the urban explorer Papillon in the American horror film As Above, So Below, directed by John Erick Dowdle, and had a supporting role in the American mini-series ''Rosemary's Baby'', directed by Agnieszka Holland. but the channel did not pick it up as a series. After several appearances in French TV series, in 2015 Civil landed a recurring supporting role as aspiring actor Hippolyte Rivière in the popular comedy series Call My Agent! (), created by Fanny Herrero. He also had a supporting role in the thriller Made in France, directed by Nicolas Boukhrief. Breakthrough (2016–present) In 2016, he became known to the general public when he co-starred alongside Pierre Niney in the comedy film Five directed by Igor Gotesman, That same year, Civil and his co-stars from Five appeared in the music video for the song "Reuf" by French rapper Nekfeu, which was featured in the film's soundtrack. In 2017, he starred in the French action film Burn Out directed by Yann Gozlan. He also played the youngest sibling of Ana Girardot and Pio Marmaï in the drama Back to Burgundy (), directed by Cédric Klapisch. He was a member of the jury of the "33 short films" section of the 2018 Cabourg Film Festival, and was also a member of the Revelation jury at the 2018 Deauville American Film Festival presided by Cédric Kahn. The year 2019 allowed him to lead several projects: first the geopolitical thriller ''The Wolf's Call'' () by Antonin Baudry; then in Safy Nebbou's psychological thriller Who You Think I Am () alongside Juliette Binoche; which earned him the Best Actor award at the L'Alpe d'Huez Film Festival, and he also reunited with Cédric Klapisch and Ana Girardot in the romantic comedy Someone, Somewhere (), for which he earned a nomination for the Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actor. Civil won a Chopard Trophy for Male Revelation at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. That same year, he was a member of the jury for the 9th Nikon Film Festival presided by Marjane Satrapi, and was also a member of the feature film jury at the 11th Beaune International Thriller Film Festival presided by Benoît Jacquot. In 2020, he appeared in one episode of the Canal+ comedy series La Flamme, a spoof of reality dating competition shows. In 2021, he starred the film BAC Nord directed by Cédric Jimenez, in which he played a police officer from the Anti-Crime Squad (BAC) of Marseille opposite Gilles Lellouche and Karim Leklou, which earned Civil a nomination for the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. He also had a supporting role as a motel manager whose right forearm had a prosthesis with a baseball glove replacing his hand in the comedy TV film La Vengeance au Triple Galop, a parody of the 1983 Australian TV series Return to Eden, directed by Alex Lutz and Arthur Sanigou and broadcast by Canal+ on 4 October 2021. In 2022, he played the physiotherapist Yann in the comedy drama Rise () by Cédric Klapisch, for which he received his second César nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also lent his voice to the character Buzz Lightyear in the French version of the animated film Lightyear, and he voiced the character Phillip Graves in the French version of the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. In 2023, he portrayed D'Artagnan in two new French film adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers directed by Martin Bourboulon; ''The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady. D'Artagnan'' became his biggest commercial success, with over 3 million tickets sold in France. The same year, he played an undercover police officer who infiltrates a group of environmental activists in Romain Cogitore's romantic thriller A Place to Fight For (), the first French original film from Disney+. In November 2023, Civil was named Actor of the Year by GQ France's Men of the Year Awards. In 2024, Civil starred in the drama The Good Teacher (), directed by Teddy Lussi-Modeste, in Beating Hearts directed by Gilles Lellouche, and in Fiasco, a comedy miniseries co-created by Pierre Niney and Igor Gotesman for Netflix. In 2025, Civil starred in Arnaud Desplechin's drama Two Pianos, in which he portrays a pianist who lives an impossible love story. In September 2025, Civil was cast as Charles Darnay in the upcoming BBC One British miniseries A Tale of Two Cities, adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens. ==Other ventures==

Photography Civil is an amateur photographer. A series of photos taken by him entitled "Cambodia" were exhibited at the Atelier Couronnes in Paris between October and November 2017 during the Rencontres Photographiques du 10ème. In an interview for Madame Figaro in April 2019, Civil announced that he was working on a photographic project around his anxiety about the passing of time and aging, and that this project would see the light of day "in perhaps twenty years". he was a member of an electro-folk/alternative-rock group called Collective Kingdom, for which he was the singer, directed by his long-time friend Pierre Niney for the promotion of the perfume by Yves Saint Laurent. In December 2022, he composed along with Ferdinand Cros the music for the short film Here & Now starring his longtime friend Pierre Niney for the Dior perfume Bois d'Argent. Sports He has been playing basketball since he was a teenager, and rock climbing since 2016. Advertising campaigns In May 2021, Civil became the new ambassador of the Italian high jewelry brand Bulgari. Political views In September 2018, following the resignation of the French Minister of Ecology Nicolas Hulot, Civil co-signed the column "The greatest challenge in the history of humanity", calling on the government to take "firm and immediate" action in the face of the danger of global warming. In June 2023, Civil expressed his support to the French environmental activists known as "Zadists". In March 2024, Civil expressed his support to the #MeToo movement in French cinema and to actresses Judith Godrèche and Anouk Grinberg, for the liberation of women's voices and against sexist and sexual violence in French cinema. On 4 June 2024, he signed a petition addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron demanding France to officially recognize the State of Palestine. On 28 June 2024, Civil shared two Instagram Stories encouraging his followers to vote against the French far-right party National Rally and against their candidate for French prime minister, Jordan Bardella, for the then-upcoming French parliamentary elections whose first round took place on 30 June 2024. On 6 July 2024, a day before the second round of the elections, he shared a post against the National Rally candidates. ==Filmography==

Feature films Television Video games ==Theatre==