Andy Gillet

Andy Gillet

Born: July 8, 1981
in Saint-Denis, Réunion
Andy Gillet (born 8 July 1981) is a French fashion model and actor primarily known for his work in European Auteur cinema in such films as Éric Rohmer's Romance of Astree and Celadon (2007) or Andrzej Żuławski's Cosmos (2015). As a model Gillet represented numerous brands for their ad campaigns including Hermès, Valentino or Burberry; the last two having been shot by Mario Testino and he was the face of the fragrance 'Kenzo Power' by Kenzo Takada.

Gillet grew up in Sallanches in Haute Savoie, the son of a policeman and a secretary, he has a younger brother. He completed his studies at Nancy Business School and moved to Paris.[

Before he could manage to make a living from acting, Gillet was a theater usher but didn't have enough money to enroll in the 'Eva-Saint-Paul Drama School'. Due to his androgynous beauty,] Gillet was then sent to Japan by an agency for four months to land modelling contracts but once in Tokyo, he found no work or relationship and felt lost in translation. From this failure, Gillet drew motivation declaring: "This period of hardship I went through there forced me to reflect and made me mature. I returned to France with the 'niaque': no more dilemmas, I want to play. I changed my life."

He first appeared on stage in the title role of Caligula, in a celebrated staging by Charles Berling. He made his television debut in 2005, in the role of Hugh Despenser the Younger in the remake miniseries Les Rois maudits, based on the French novel series of the same name by Maurice Druon. He also appeared in series such as Éternelle and Un village français.His debut in cinema came in 2006, with Nouvelle chance by Anne Fontaine and L'homme de sa vie by Zabou Breitman. The following year, he appeared in acclaimed director Eric Rohmer's final film, Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon.

Gillet publicly shares on social media that his partner is musician, singer and actor Brice Michelini from Cannes who appeared in Rebecca Zlotowski's Planétarium (2016). When asked why he chose to write the song Andy, I Love You (French: Andy, Je T'aime) and have him acting in the music video, Michelini declared: "Because I love Andy. Andy, he's the man I love. This name came to me before I even made music. Andy is a muse: not just mine, a lot of people's muse. For me it was a waste to live with a muse and not do anything with it."

Source: Article "Andy Gillet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Andy Gillet...

Edouard and Charles
Title: Edouard and Charles
Character: Le Curator
Released: June 12, 2024
Type: Movie
Paris, at the beginning of the 21st century. Edouard is a painter, Charles is a poet. The two artists are friends, but their adverse circumstances begin to weigh on them. Gulcan, a foreigner, suddenly appears. He has an idea.
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Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Title: Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Released: September 13, 2023
Type: Movie
"Don Juan woman", according to the expression of Balzac. A princess, a great seductress. Of a diabolical intelligence. This woman, who has had many lovers - almost all the male characters of the "Comédie Humaine" -, will finally find love. The real one. The great one.
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Male Shorts: International V4
Title: Male Shorts: International V4
Character: Lover
Released: June 7, 2022
Type: Movie
The fourth volume of an amazing series, Male Shorts: International V4 features six brand-new short films focusing on men. The 6 short films are: Venus in Nykes [Vênus de Nyke] (2021); The Red Trinket [O Berloque Vermelho] (2021); Ten Times Love (2020); It's Just in My Head [È solo nella mia testa] (2020); Playtime [Giochi] (2021); It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse, But the Situation in Which They Live [Nicht die brasilianischen Homosexuellen sind pervers, sondern die Situation in der sie leben] (2021).
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Ten Times Love
Title: Ten Times Love
Character: Lover
Released: December 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Ten fragments of an exciting romance without love and feelings in the life of Numa, an anti-romantic hero of our liquid time.
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80,000 Years Old
Title: 80,000 Years Old
Character: Samuel
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: Movie
It’s summer. Celine, in her thirties, archaeologist, spends a weekend in her childhood home. Her archaeological research are mixed up with her memories of adolescence and some random reunions from her walks.
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An Easy Girl
Title: An Easy Girl
Character: Invité dîner
Released: August 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her own path, so long as it leads upwards… Despite the warnings of her best friend Dodo, she and Sofia will live through unforgettable encounters during a long summer that will mark them forever.
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Mystery at the Louvre Museum
Title: Mystery at the Louvre Museum
Character: Pierre Gamblin
Released: December 27, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Bonaparte: The Egyptian Campaign
Character: Desaix
Released: April 22, 2017
Type: TV
In the spring of 1798, Napoleon set out with 38,000 men and 10,000 sailors to conquer Egypt.
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Sleeping Beauty
Title: Sleeping Beauty
Character: Le roi de Kentz
Released: January 18, 2017
Type: Movie
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleeping Beauty in the kingdom of Kentz and breaking the spell over her. But his father, the king, doesn’t believe in fairy tales, and is completely opposed to Égon’s dream. It’s Maggie Jerkins, an archeologist from Unesco, who will provide Egon with the opportunity to follow his heart.
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The Misfortunes of François Jane
Title: The Misfortunes of François Jane
Character: Federick
Released: October 28, 2016
Type: Movie
'A series of tableaux deconstruct the inward journey of Francois Jane, marred by his obsession with Charlotte. By turns illuminating and self-destructive, they navigate separate delusional worlds tearing at each other's masks.'
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Joseph Morder tourne « La Duchesse de Varsovie »
Title: Joseph Morder tourne « La Duchesse de Varsovie »
Character: Self
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: Movie
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Chocolat
Title: Chocolat
Character: Transvestite
Released: February 3, 2016
Type: Movie
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
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Cosmos
Title: Cosmos
Character: Lucien
Released: December 3, 2015
Type: Movie
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
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Dom Juan & Sganarelle
Title: Dom Juan & Sganarelle
Character: Un type soirée (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Woman hero Dom Juan lives a life full of excesses and love affairs. When he seduces the nun Elvire, but shows no interest in her a short time later, he gets to deal with her vengeful brothers. Dom Juan and his assistant Sganarelle have to flee and set out on a journey full of strange encounters.
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French Blood
Title: French Blood
Released: June 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Marco Lopez, a former Neo-Nazi and skinhead, tries to leave his violent, racist and hateful past behind him.
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Duchess of Warsaw
Title: Duchess of Warsaw
Character: Valentin
Released: February 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Valentin is a young gay painter who lives in the imaginary world of his paintings. When he finds his grandmother Nina, a Polish Jewish émigré whith whom he feels very close, he confesses his lack of inspiration and loneliness. During these few days together in a psychedelic Paris, Valentin expresses more and more the need to know the past Nina always tried to hide …
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Les vacances continuent
Title: Les vacances continuent
Released: January 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Rose (Kate Moran) performs a series of gruesome acts on sleazy men.
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Fort Buchanan
Title: Fort Buchanan
Character: Roger Sherwood
Released: November 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Four seasons to tell the fluctuating moods and mores of a small community that shares its daily chores and life experiences in the military base of Fort Buchanan. In this imagined (perhaps dreamed?) location, peculiar habits respond to the needs of a peculiar environment. Roger, a fragile gay man, and his female companions, trying to cope with the absence of their husbands, go through their own brand of challenges for survival, with their own form of outdoor camaraderie, thought-occupying chat and DIY activities. Roger has a tough daughter who runs him ragged, but he has buddies willing to help: Justine, Denise, Pamela and Claudia-Joy.
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The French Trilogy
Title: The French Trilogy
Character: Self
Released: June 8, 2013
Type: Movie
The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.
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Fort Buchanan: Hiver
Title: Fort Buchanan: Hiver
Released: August 7, 2012
Type: Movie
When Roger's husband deploys to Djibouti, he's left alone at Fort Buchanan with his temperamental daughter Roxy. Her violent outbursts drive him to seek comfort in friends and self-confidence through boxing lessons with a personal trainer.
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The American Tetralogy
Title: The American Tetralogy
Character: The Hero
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Entirely made in California, the film brings together 30 American and European actors in an epic which crosses the mythical territories of that cinematic land from Zabriskie Point to Mulholland Drive. California is revisited through the movie memories incarnated by the very presence of famous actors and actresses. "The American Tetralogy" is a way of staging reality which questions the fictional nature of the movies.
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Title: The Destiny of Rome
Character: Octavian
Released: June 18, 2011
Type: TV
At the Battle of Philippi, Marc Antony and Octavian fight back their joint enemies to lay claim to Caesar's throne. Eleven years later, the two square off in the naval Battle of Actium to decide once and for all the destiny of Rome. The bitter personal rivalry between the two men climaxes when Marc Antony abandons his attacking forces to pursue the fleeing Cleopatra. This single act sounded the death knell of the Roman Republic and gave birth to an empire.
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Title: Mystère à Paris
Character: Pierre Gamblin
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: À la recherche du temps perdu
Character: Robert de Saint-Loup
Released: February 1, 2011
Type: TV
Follows a young man, Marcel, from his childhood in Combray to his discovery of social life among the upper classes.
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Virginie ou la capitale
Title: Virginie ou la capitale
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: A French Village
Character: Michel Billini
Released: June 4, 2009
Type: TV
The stories of the people of Villeneuve, a fictional subprefecture, in the Jura, in German–occupied France during the Second World War.
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La dérive
Title: La dérive
Character: Antonin
Released: May 6, 2009
Type: Movie
This film proposes the allegory of a social drift with all the power of romantic fascination that it can evoke. It is about a meeting oftwo young people formatted by a culture of success with two men embodying a nihilistic and dematerialized vision of society. This work treads the fine line that separates the hero from the loser.. Are these two men messiahs or a pair of wandering vagrants? Is this descent on the river closer to a descent into the fires of hell or rather an initiatory journey?
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Title: The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Character: Adrien Sauvignac
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
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Antique
Title: Antique
Character: Jean-Baptiste Evan
Released: November 13, 2008
Type: Movie
Jin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seon-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Su-young, crushing on Seon-woo, ex-boxer Ki-beom, and Seon-woo's French ex-boyfriend.
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The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Title: The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Character: Céladon
Released: September 2, 2007
Type: Movie
In an enchanted forest, back in the time of the Druids, the shepherd Céladon and the shepherdess Astrée share a pure and chaste love. Fooled by a suitor, Astrée dismisses Céladon, who throws himself into a river out of despair. She thinks he's dead, but he's been secretly rescued by some nymphs. Faithful to the promise he made to Astrée to never appear before her again, Céladon must overcome many obstacles to break the curse. Mad with love and despair, coveted by the nymphs, surrounded by rivals, and obliged to disguise himself as a woman to be near the one he loves, will he manage to make himself known without breaking his oath? A romance filled with doubt, hazards, and delicious temptations.
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Nouvelle chance
Title: Nouvelle chance
Character: Raphaël
Released: November 8, 2006
Type: Movie
How do you bring together such different people as Odette Saint-Gilles, an aging, forgotten actress living in a welfare home, Augustin Dos Santos, a pool boy at the Ritz Hotel, Bettina Fleischer, the heroine of a popular soap, and Raphael, a young, disturbingly handsome man? Together, will they have a last chance to make their dreams come true?
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The Man of My Life
Title: The Man of My Life
Character: Jeune homme Hugo
Released: October 11, 2006
Type: Movie
A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds ideas he has of himself unexpectedly challenged.
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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Hugh le Despenser
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: TV
A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy.