Fabrice Luchini was born in Paris, into an Italian immigrant family from
Assisi who were greengrocers. He grew up around the neighbourhood of
Goutte d'Or in Paris's
18th arrondissement. When he was 13, his mother apprenticed him to a hairdresser in a trendy parlour in Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdresser's son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert. His first film role was in
Tout peut arriver in 1969, directed by
Philippe Labro. He then appeared in
Éric Rohmer's
Le Genou de Claire in 1970 playing a small role as an adolescent. He went on to appear in Rohmer's
Perceval le Gallois and
Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and also in films directed by
Walerian Borowczyk,
Nagisa Oshima,
Claude Chabrol,
Claude Lelouch,
Cedric Klapisch and
Édouard Molinaro. In 1990 he appeared in
Christian Vincent's
La Discrète. For his role in the 2015 film
Courted he won the
Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the
72nd Venice International Film Festival. ==Filmography==