Francis Leplay

Francis Leplay

Born: July 25, 1967
in Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Francis Leplay is a French actor and writer. An alumnus of France's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences Po, he began acting on television in episodes of the French detective series Julie Lescaut and Navarro. His first film role was in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's J'ai horreur de l'amour (I Hate Love) in 1997. His career took off in the 2000s, and he soon started acting in films by directors Sofia Coppola, Noémie Lvovsky, Arnaud Desplechin, and Benoît Jacquot as well as in the TV series Spiral. He has also acted in theater productions with directors Denis Podalydès and Lambert Wilson in venues such as Lincoln Center, the Mossovet Theatre, and the Bouffes du Nord. The Éditions du Seuil published two of his novels, 2006's Après le spectacle, a work of autofiction comparing intermittent acting work and romantic uncertainty, and 2009's Samuel et Alexandre, which follows two men staking out the bounds of their friendship. In 2021, Leplay and French-American filmmaker Isidore Bethel co-directed the docufiction hybrid film Acts of Love, which premiered at Hot Docs.

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The Good Teacher
Title: The Good Teacher
Character: Musil
Released: March 27, 2024
Type: Movie
Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.
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Title: Cristóbal Balenciaga
Character: Lucien LeLong
Released: January 19, 2024
Type: TV
Cristóbal Balenciaga makes his debut as a designer in Paris, but the designs that set a trend in Spain don't work well in the sophisticated empire of fashion where Chanel, Dior, and Givenchy set the trends. Guided by his obsession with control in all aspects of his life, Balenciaga will define his style and end up becoming the greatest of all.
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Not My Type
Title: Not My Type
Character: Le cadre Sacem
Released: June 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Marcia, a classy young Parisian singer, is recording an album with her idol Daredjane, a '70s rock icon. When Daredjane dies accidentally, Marcia needs to get approval from Daredjane's rights-holder, Anthony, a suburban market vendor in his thirties, to release their album. But Anthony never liked his distant relative, let alone her music. Their two worlds clash between good and bad taste, sophistication and rudeness, sincerity and lies. Unless love gets in the way...
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Brother and Sister
Title: Brother and Sister
Character: André Borkman
Released: May 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
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Title: Voltaire High
Character: Rene Hermen
Released: June 14, 2021
Type: TV
It’s the first day of the 1963 school year at Voltaire High! And for the first time, girls and boys will mingle. This first year of coeducation is full of surprises, both for teachers and students.
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My Best Part
Title: My Best Part
Released: October 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.
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Opération Finot
Title: Opération Finot
Character: Philippe Rivera
Released: July 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Charles Finot, a municipal employee, becomes the scapegoat of a local corruption scandal. A wild, wacky escape ensues. When he learns that he has been betrayed by Ada, his colleague and the woman he's in love with, Charles must take matters into his own hands.
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Who You Think I Am
Title: Who You Think I Am
Character: Serge
Released: February 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Claire, a romantically spurned 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to spy on her on-and-off lover.
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A Violent Desire for Joy
Title: A Violent Desire for Joy
Character: The Abbot
Released: December 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the Franciscan monastery of Saorge, near the Italian border. But everything changes with the arrival of the beautiful Marianne and a military detachment.
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Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen
Title: Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen
Character: Fouqier
Released: November 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Chronicle of the last months of Marie-Antoinette.Accused of having conspired against the new republic,with her children taken away and guillotined husband,in a rigged trial as the result of political negotiations and power struggles.
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Ce que vivent les roses
Title: Ce que vivent les roses
Character: Yahn Quemener
Released: January 9, 2018
Type: Movie
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Jealous
Title: Jealous
Character: Nathalie's doctor
Released: November 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.
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Tomorrow and Thereafter
Title: Tomorrow and Thereafter
Character: Monsieur Lesieur
Released: September 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It is a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother.
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Nelly
Title: Nelly
Character: Mathieu
Released: January 20, 2017
Type: Movie
A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan’s colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly’s alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked the literary world with her elegant writing and the lurid details of sex work in her autobiographical first novel, Whore, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller. Despite unprecedented success, Nelly’s remarkable life ended in tragedy.
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Kill Skills
Title: Kill Skills
Character: Our Friend
Released: July 1, 2016
Type: Movie
An assassin accidentally kills his fiancee, who happens to be the daughter of an Israeli gangster. Forced to flee, he starts working with a former mercenary, and they travel all over Europe doing dirty work for a rich industrialist.
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Les Cowboys
Title: Les Cowboys
Character: Train man
Released: November 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.
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The Clearstream Affair
Title: The Clearstream Affair
Character: Lawyer Denis Robert & Les Arènes
Released: February 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.
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3 Hearts
Title: 3 Hearts
Character: Le médecin
Released: September 9, 2014
Type: Movie
A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
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Title: The Cosmopolitans
Character: Philippe
Released: August 28, 2014
Type: TV
A dramatic comedy about a group of young American expats in Paris searching for love and friendship and an ocean of distance from their past.
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Youth
Title: Youth
Character: Frédéric
Released: July 2, 2013
Type: Movie
Juliette, twenty, falls in love. At the same time her father is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
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Bright Days Ahead
Title: Bright Days Ahead
Character: Le prof d'oenologie
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?
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Farewell, My Queen
Title: Farewell, My Queen
Character: Le comte d'Artois
Released: March 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
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Rien dans les poches
Title: Rien dans les poches
Character: 'Le lézard' #1
Released: December 14, 2008
Type: Movie
25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then short star of the song, and finally mother of a teenage girl, Esther, who flees as she fled her mother.
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Intrusions
Title: Intrusions
Character: Maître Pierre Marsac
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Pauline, une riche héritière, a été mariée contre son gré par son père à un de ses employés, François, qui l'avait mise enceinte.Quand, quelques mois plus tard, son mari lui annonce qu'il veut la quitter, Pauline, furieuse, laisse sur le téléphone de ce dernier des menaces de mort.Alexis Target, un ouvrier qui travaille dans la maison de Pauline, entend la jeune femme proférer ces menaces.François meurt, le soir même, dans un accident de voiture.Le jour de l'enterrement, Alexis revient voir Pauline en affirmant qu'il a exaucé son souhait et a tué François.Alexis entre alors par effraction dans la vie de Pauline. Car lui aussi poursuit une vengeance...
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Modern Love
Title: Modern Love
Character: Hervé
Released: March 10, 2008
Type: Movie
Several couples break up and get back together.
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Title: Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
Character: l'ex-animateur
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
Character: plaignant
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: TV
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The Price to Pay
Title: The Price to Pay
Character: Agent immobilier
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunching alone every day, one day he decides to invite his chauffeur to join him, and a relationship quickly develops as the two find they have much in common. Are they just cash machines for their wives? Don't they deserve some love in return? Jean-Pierre confiscates his wife's credit card, but things don't turn out exactly the way he'd hoped...
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Title: L'État de Grace
Character: Cédric Pierrot
Released: September 27, 2006
Type: TV
L'État de Grace was a French television show that featured France's first female president.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Doctor Delivery Provence
Released: May 24, 2006
Type: Movie
An Austrian teenager marries the Dauphin of France and becomes that country's queen following the death of King Louis XV in 1774. Years later, after a life of luxury and privilege, Marie Antoinette loses her head during the French Revolution.
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Zim and Co
Title: Zim and Co
Character: Inspecteur commissariat
Released: August 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Because of a motorcycle accident, a young man from the poor outskirts of Paris must find a steady job in order to avoid being sent to prison. He gets into more trouble trying to do that.
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Kings and Queen
Title: Kings and Queen
Character: Christian, le félon
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
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Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
Title: Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
Character: (voice)
Released: November 19, 2003
Type: Movie
In 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo spirits, delivers some weapons to rebels in Brazil and hunts for treasure with Rasputin.
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Clémence
Title: Clémence
Released: October 29, 2003
Type: Movie
Clémence is a fulfilled woman, happy with her job as an investigating judge and her family. But everything changes when she learns that her husband, Philippe, is cheating on her.
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Only Girls
Title: Only Girls
Character: Philippe Jean
Released: June 11, 2003
Type: Movie
After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the judicial system, like a mutual interest in shoes. Carole allows Tina to crash on her chesterfield... Carole spots a pimp trolling for young girls at a café. Carole failed to put him away the last time, but now, with Tina agreeing to be the bait, she has a chance for better luck... The two find they complement one another well, like champagne and cassis. Carole needs to go to Annecy to crack a crooked casino case. Annecy happens to be Tina's home town... Written by David Carless
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Love Bites
Title: Love Bites
Character: Photographer
Released: March 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, von Bulow, who won't accept Antoine's admission of lying, gives him $100,000, and promises $900,000 more when led to Jordan. Enticed by the money, Antoine, with the help of his friend Étienne, begins his search. He follows trails through Paris's night scene, gets beaten up and bitten, and meets Jordan's sister, Violaine. After a surreal night, he's hooked on her charms but leery of continuing his pursuit of Jordan. Von Bulow insists. Can he find Jordan, get his reward, and attract Violaine?
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Time Regained
Title: Time Regained
Character: Employee Jupien
Released: May 19, 1999
Type: Movie
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
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I Hate Love
Title: I Hate Love
Character: Association Member
Released: June 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.
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Rai
Title: Rai
Released: June 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence are a part of everyday life. The opportunity to escape seems nonexistent.
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Fils de
Title: Fils de
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: Frotter, frotter
Character: Lazare Masurel
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV