Benjamin Biolay

Benjamin Biolay

Born: January 20, 1973
in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France
Benjamin Biolay (born 20 January 1973) is a French singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is the brother of singer Coralie Clément—whose first three albums he wrote and produced—and the ex-husband of Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.

His low-key vocal style is somewhat similar to French pop star Étienne Daho. With the singer Keren Ann, whose first two albums he co-wrote and produced, he contributed several songs to Chambre avec Vue, the successful comeback album of singer Henri Salvador, and has since worked as a writer, arranger or producer for other icons of French music, including Juliette Gréco, Julien Clerc, Françoise Hardy, Vanessa Paradis and Nolwenn Leroy.

He wrote or performed most of the songs on the 2004 soundtrack to Clara et Moi by Arnaud Viard, and released the album Home with his wife the same year. After two more rock oriented albums in 2005 and 2007 he was dropped by his record company and began working on his first independent release, La Superbe, released on Naïve records in 2009. This was followed by the soundtrack album Pourquoi tu pleures in 2011 and Vengeance in 2012.

Benjamin was married to actress and singer Chiara Mastroianni from 2002 to 2005; they have a daughter, Anna, born 22 April 2003.

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

Movies for Benjamin Biolay...

Marcello Mio
Title: Marcello Mio
Character: Benjamin
Released: May 21, 2024
Type: Movie
Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name of Marcello, dresses like him and asks to now be considered an actor, not an actress. The people around her believe this to be a temporary joke, but Chiara is determined not to give up her new identity…
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Rosalie
Title: Rosalie
Character: Barcelin
Released: April 10, 2024
Type: Movie
France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair. She’s concealed her peculiarity all her life to stay safe, shaving to fit in. Until Abel, an indebted bar owner unaware of her secret, marries Rosalie for her dowry. Will Abel be able to love Rosalie and see her as the woman she is, once he finds out the truth?
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Just a Couple of Days
Title: Just a Couple of Days
Character: Arthur
Released: April 3, 2024
Type: Movie
After being reassigned from music to field reporting, a critic goes to a refugee camp near Paris during an evacuation. He experiences police violence and is thrust into becoming the face of the refugee cause.
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Title: The Trigger
Character: François Marens
Released: March 18, 2024
Type: TV
The stars of French football are celebrating the end of the season with a high-profile party full of glitz and glamour. But a scandal erupts when star player Fodé Thiam violently headbutts his coach and uses a racist slur against him, inciting angry demands to exclude Fodé from the team. The club hires Sam, a brilliant but emotionally unstable PR fixer, to diffuse the crisis and save the team's future.
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L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène
Title: L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène
Character: Self
Released: December 20, 2023
Type: Movie
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Benjamin Biolay Symphonique
Title: Benjamin Biolay Symphonique
Character: Self
Released: September 24, 2023
Type: Movie
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Summer Frost
Title: Summer Frost
Character: Franck
Released: July 26, 2023
Type: Movie
It’s summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet’s Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist painting of today’s France.
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Like an Actress
Title: Like an Actress
Character: Antoine
Released: March 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Anna is a talented and recognized actress. Arriving in her forties, she is going through a difficult time in her professional and personal life. She then discovers a power that allows her to change her physical appearance and transform into whoever she wishes. She will use this power to put her relationship to the test, at the risk of losing herself...
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Clara Luciani : Ça commence comme ça
Title: Clara Luciani : Ça commence comme ça
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Documentary on the French musician-singer.
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Title: Beau geste
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: TV
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The Line
Title: The Line
Character: Julien
Released: January 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Margaret, 35, has a history of violent behaviour which has cost her a romantic relationship. She has moved back in with her mother Christina, a fragile, immature 55-year-old woman who blames Margaret, her firstborn, for ruining her dreams of a career as a concert pianist. In a state of unbridled fury during an argument, Margaret hits Christina. The law steps in, further complicating family dynamics. As she awaits trial, Margaret is forbidden from coming into contact with her mother or within 100 metres of their home. This only intensifies her desire to be closer to her family. Every day, Margaret appears at this 100-metre threshold to see her 12-year-old sister Marion and give her music lessons.
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Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show
Title: Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: Movie
Musical Christmas Special hosted by Benjamin Biolay.
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Stella in Love
Title: Stella in Love
Character: Serge Vlaminck
Released: December 14, 2022
Type: Movie
For Stella, it’s her final year. But she says she doesn’t care! That year, she discovers the famous Parisian club, the Bains Douches, 80’s and its crazy nights. Her friends are just studying, her father has left with another woman and her mother is depressed. And then there is André who dances like a God… That year will decide her whole life. She pretends not to think about it…
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The World of Yesterday
Title: The World of Yesterday
Character: Didier Jansen
Released: March 30, 2022
Type: Movie
A moral tale and a political thriller: a few days before the term of her mandate, the President must make a major decision concerning the destiny of France.
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Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï
Title: Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï
Character: Membre du comité de soutien
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to Adrien. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
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Title: Rebecca
Character: Julien Lacoste
Released: November 18, 2021
Type: TV
Police detective hunts serial killer while dealing with disintegrating marriage, teen daughter who hates her, and violent temper "blackouts". French, with subtitles.
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France
Title: France
Character: Fred de Meurs
Released: August 25, 2021
Type: Movie
A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
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Madame Claude
Title: Madame Claude
Character: The chief of police
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the french political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
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Appearances
Title: Appearances
Character: Henry
Released: September 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The perfect picture crumbles when Ève discovers that Henri is cheating on her. On an impulse, she finds revenge with Jonas, a perfect young Austrian guy. But he’s not who she thought he was. This will lead them to an irreversible spiral.
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Le festival des festivals
Title: Le festival des festivals
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2020
Type: Movie
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Divorce Club
Title: Divorce Club
Character: Blaise
Released: July 14, 2020
Type: Movie
After 5 years of marriage, Ben is still madly in love. Until the day he discovers in public that his wife is cheating on him: humiliated and dumped in the process.
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Title: The Eddy
Character: Franck Lévy
Released: May 8, 2020
Type: TV
The owner of a Paris jazz club gets tangled up with dangerous criminals as he fights to protect his business, his band and his teenage daughter.
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Ordinary Day
Title: Ordinary Day
Released: October 10, 2019
Type: Movie
May 1, 1999. Romain's first day in an unknown world, that of porn. In this environment, totally in the hands of women, he is one of the only men. Sometimes disoriented, Romain discovers colorful individuals, tired of their lives and their jobs.
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On a Magical Night
Title: On a Magical Night
Character: Richard Warrimer 40 ans
Released: October 9, 2019
Type: Movie
After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of her apartment, her husband and the life she shared with him. While she wonders if she made the right decision, many of the people in her life offer their opinions on the matter. They intend to let her know, whether she likes it or not, on what proves to be a life-changing evening.
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Title: The secret song
Character: Self
Released: December 29, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Basique, le concert
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: TV
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Number One
Title: Number One
Character: Marc Ronsin
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The conguest, which was at first thrilling, turns to complete war with the men who still dominate.
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Memoir of War
Title: Memoir of War
Character: Dionys Mascolo
Released: August 17, 2017
Type: Movie
In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistance fighter and then deported, while she maintains a tense relationship with her ambiguous lover and a dangerous game with a French collaborationist. Even when the Liberation arrives, she must still endure the unbearable pain of waiting.
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The Poisoning Angel
Title: The Poisoning Angel
Character: Matthieu Veron
Released: January 18, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1800, Brittany is on its knees, overwhelmed by the regime in place and by the omnipotent clergy. It founders in an economic slump without end in sight and, in the middle of all this, a young, suffering girl pushes back as best she can. She is known as the "Poisoning Angel," an isolated child, mistreated by life and rocked by morbid thoughts. She will become one of the world's most notorious serial killers and will sow death, perhaps merely to be looked at and loved.
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Personal Shopper
Title: Personal Shopper
Character: Victor Hugo
Released: December 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
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Faultless
Title: Faultless
Character: Gilles
Released: July 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Constance, a 40-years-old real estate agent, gets fired from her job. With no options left, she contacts her former boss, from the small agency where she started her career. To her surprise, he is hiring, but explains he may have already found someone. Constance is convinced she will get the job because of her experience and extensive qualifications. But when Audrey, a younger and prettier woman, is hired instead, it proves too much for Constance to take.
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Vicky
Title: Vicky
Character: Moy
Released: June 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A 30-year-old woman discovers her true self when she becomes a bar singer.
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The Man After
Title: The Man After
Character: Paul
Released: February 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A couple faces the difficulties of creating a life together and find happiness. Should Suzanne run away from her man to be at peace? Would a new lover help her find herself?
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Encore heureux
Title: Encore heureux
Character: Antoine
Released: January 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Okay, Marie is a little tired of the insouciance of her husband Sam, framework sup unemployed for 2 years. Agree, it is very tempted to be seduced by this beautiful stranger who made him the Court. Okay, there is also the daughter piano competition... If this balance light and crazy about standing, an unexpected event throws the family on an even crazier way.
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Title: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Character: Michel Caravaille
Released: August 5, 2015
Type: Movie
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...
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The Easy Way Out
Title: The Easy Way Out
Character: Gérard
Released: March 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
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Gaby Baby Doll
Title: Gaby Baby Doll
Character: Nicolas
Released: December 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Gaby mustn’t be left alone at night. Yet that’s exactly what her boyfriend Vincent does, to test her love for him. She struggles against her natural instincts and quickly exhausts the patience of the local guys. But Gaby decides to turn to castle warden Nicolas, an expert in loneliness, for help.
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GHB: To Be or Not to Be
Title: GHB: To Be or Not to Be
Character: L'amoureux
Released: November 12, 2014
Type: Movie
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
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Tourist Office
Title: Tourist Office
Character: The taxi driver
Released: May 14, 2014
Type: Movie
When Agathe moves to Paris, she discovers city life, liberty, and love. But the city's picture-perfect scenery and the dreamy soundtrack of the young woman's days and nights contrast with the cold detachment of its inhabitants.
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Left Over - Intimate Politics
Title: Left Over - Intimate Politics
Character: Paul Alder
Released: November 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Two couples, Chris Bailey and Judith Lazard, along with Paul Adler and Albertine Langlois, meet for dinner on the 9th of July 2006, the night of the Football World Cup Final between France and Italy. Their conversations wander from intimate subjects to substantial political comments in such an intricate manner that their personal lives and their perception of the ideological struggle, the battle for the leadership of the french left, are more and more difficult to differenciate. For six years, their political attitudes evolve with the changing image of themselves and each other.
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Under the Rainbow
Title: Under the Rainbow
Character: Maxime
Released: March 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's found the right one. But then again, when she meets Maxime, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others? Of course Sandro has problems of his own : his father, Pierre, just bumped into Madam Irma at his father's funeral and this reminded him of the date of his own death which Madame Irma had predicted ages ago. Now Pierre is unable to make any plans, not with his new partner Eleonore, nor with Sandro. And Maxime has his own problems, and so does Eleonore, Marianne, Jacqueline and many others. But don't worry, in the end, they'll all live happily ever after.
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Mariage à Mendoza
Title: Mariage à Mendoza
Character: Xavier
Released: January 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Marcus and his brother Antoine head to Argentina for their cousin’s wedding. They plan to explore all that Buenos Aires has to offer before making the trip to Mendoza in the west. Marcus is thrilled to be on the road and determined to have fun, while Antoine is depressed after being dumped by his wife, who refused to come with them at the last minute. Marcus will do anything it takes to cheer up his little brother. After a very caliente evening in the capital, they hit the road, discovering Argentina vineyard’s and making unlikely encounters –with a crackpot receptionist, a divine beauty, a pregnant ewe, and a guy afflicted by Stendhal syndrome –until, at the end of their journey, the two brothers find peace.
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Petite fille
Title: Petite fille
Character: Gabriel
Released: September 9, 2011
Type: Movie
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Bachelor Days Are Over
Title: Bachelor Days Are Over
Character: Le Marié
Released: June 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub singer, is obviously the woman of his dreams. What to do? Cancel the wedding and create a scandal but be able to live with a woman he loves truly and loves him in return? Or be a good boy and not disappoint the company but say farewell to happiness. For four days, Arnaud goes to and fro aimlessly between Anna and Léa, between his eccentric sister and his self-centered mother, between hope and depression.
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Qui a envie d'être aimé ?
Title: Qui a envie d'être aimé ?
Character: Alain
Released: February 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Antoine is forty years old. Happily married to a woman he loves, father to two beautiful children, a brilliant lawyer, one could say that he has made a success of his life. But one day Antoine has an unexpected, irrational, and earth-shattering encounter. One that is also a little scandalous as well. Antoine encounters God, something he just did not expect. Not at all ! Nor did his wife.
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The Pack
Title: The Pack
Character: Max
Released: September 29, 2010
Type: Movie
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during the night but gets kidnapped by the bartender, La Spack, who turns out to be Max's mother and needs to feed her kids, 'The pack', a bunch of blood lusting ghouls. Charlotte now faces a terrifying reality: these ghouls are already dead... and hungry. Alone and in the middle of nowhere, she quickly realizes... she's next on the menu!
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Stella
Title: Stella
Character: Serge, le père de Stella
Released: November 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents' bar.
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Didine
Title: Didine
Character: François
Released: January 23, 2008
Type: Movie
Alexandrine, 35, who everyone nicknames Didine, peacefully goes with the flow, the opposite of her best friend Muriel. In this way, she one day crosses the threshold of a elderly person caregivers’ agency where, faced with an extrovert teenager, a charming man, and a cruel, elderly woman, she takes hold of her existence and encounters love.
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Cold Blooded
Title: Cold Blooded
Character: Tony
Released: September 14, 2007
Type: Movie
"Cold Blooded" - The meeting between a fragile woman and a depressed soldier builds a dangerous alliance.
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: La Boîte à musique
Character: Self
Released: July 14, 2006
Type: TV
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Why (Not) Brazil?
Title: Why (Not) Brazil?
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: Movie
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
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Title: La chanson de l'année
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Through the Night with...
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2002
Type: TV
Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany. The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit. Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.
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Title: L'Invité
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
The show features an interview with a famous personality from the world of politics, economics or culture.
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Title: Star Academy
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 2001
Type: TV
Star Academy is a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equally successful show in Quebec called Star Académie. It is broadcast on TF1. At the end of each season, selected contestants would go on tour around France, Morocco, Switzerland, Belgium, Tunisia, and other French-speaking countries.
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Title: Burger Quiz
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: NRJ Music Awards
Character: Nominated
Released: January 22, 2000
Type: TV
The NRJ Music Awards are an awards ceremony broadcast on television and radio. It was created in 2000 by the NRJ radio station in partnership with the TF1 television channel.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self (Male Artist & Album of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self (Album Révélation of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self (Male Artist & Song/Variety Album of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self (Song/Variety Album of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV