Mathieu Amalric (born October 25, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French actor and director.
The son of famous journalist and editor Jacques Amalric, he's best known in France for his 1990s/2000s roles in arthouse/auteur dramatic movies, most notably those of French director Arnaud Desplechin, in which he often played whimsical or eccentric intellectuals or artists with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, and often with serious family issues.
He has also appeared in bigger, more international productions in supporting roles, such as Munich and Quantum of Solace, and more recently several films of Wes Anderson.
Works on TV Tropes:
- Kings & Queen (2004) as Ismaël Vuillard
- Marie-Antoinette (2006) as a guest at the masquerade ball
- Munich (2006) as Louis
- Curious George (2006) as Piccadilly (French dub)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) as Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008) as François Besse
- Quantum of Solace (2008) as Dominic Greene
- The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) as Dieuleveult
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2010) as Foxy Fox (French dub)
- The Rabbi's Cat (2011) as the Prince (French voice)
- Cosmopolis (2012) as the Pastry Assassin
- Venus in Fur (2013) as Thomas Novacheck
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as Serge X
- The Dune (2014) as Moreau
- Sink or Swim (2018) as Bertrand
- Isle of Dogs (2018) as Duke (French dub)
- Sound of Metal (2019) as Richard Berger
- An Officer and a Spy (2019) as Alphonse Bertillon
- Oxygen (2021) as M.I.L.O. (voice)
- The French Dispatch (2021) as the Commissaire
Tropes & Trivia about his works:
- Production Posse:
- He has worked a lot with director Arnaud Desplechin in the 1990s and 2000s.
- More recently, he has appeared in several films of Roman Polański and Wes Anderson (and dubbed the main roles from the latter's animated films in French).
- Those Two Actors: He has appeared onscreen alongside Hippolyte Girardot in Kings & Queen, A Christmas Tale, Bird People, Ismael's Ghosts and The French Dispatch. And both also took part in the French dub of Isle of Dogs.
