Mathieu Kassovitz (born 3 August 1967 in Paris) is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter of Hungarian Jewish and French descent.
He is the son of Hungarian-French actor/director/screenwriter Peter Kassovitz. His 1995 film La Haine, about delinquents in a slum North of Paris, was his Breakthrough Hit as a director and screenwriter. He's had roles in the likes of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie, Costa-Gavras' Amen and Steven Spielberg's Munich. He's also known for his activism, about ecology in particular.
He regularly collaborates with his friend Vincent Cassel.
Filmography as a director:
- Métisse (1993)
- La Haine (1995)
- Assassin(s) (1997)
- The Crimson Rivers (2000)
- Gothika (2003)
- Babylon A.D. (2008)
- Rebellion (2011)
Selected filmography as an actor:
- The City of Lost Children (1995) as a man in the street
- The Fifth Element (1997) as the mugger waiting at Korben Dallas' door
- Jakob the Liar (1999) as Herschel
- Amélie (2001) as Nino Quincampoix
- Birthday Girl (2001) as Yuri
- Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) as the physiognomist at the banquet
- Amen (2002) as Father Riccardo Montana
- Munich (2005) as Robert
- Louise-Michel (2008) as the farm's owner
- Angelique (2013) as Nicolas / Calembredaine
- Le Bureau des Légendes (2015-2020) as Guillaume Debailly aka "Malotru" and "Paul Lefebvre"
- War and Peace (2016) as Napoléon Bonaparte
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) as the peddler
- The Wolf's Call (2019) as ALFOST
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) as Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 (French dub)
