Benoît Petitjean

Benoît Petitjean

Born: January 21, 1982
in Paris, France
Benoît Petitjean (born in 1982) is a French actor and a horse rider.

He is a theatre and cinema actor, he initially trained under René Simon and completed several internships with director Jean Périmony to develop his acting skills. In 2005, he acted on the stage, in the play Grosse chaleur directed by Patrice Leconte. He was cast in several more roles in the 2000s. He then played in writer Feydeau's comic play L'Âge d'Or, directed in 2003 by Chantal Brière. In 2004, he played Hédiard in the musical Grosse Chaleur (Heat Wave), written by Laurent Ruquier. The young actor performs with Annick Alane, Catherine Arditi and Pierre Bénichou at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris.

He has also acted in a few TV films, such as Préjudices, by Frédéric Berthe in 2006, also La nouvelle Clara and Chat bleu, chat noir, by Jean-Louis Lorenzi in 2006. In the cinema, the actor is noticed in the dramatic comedy Enfin veuve (Finally widow) by Isabelle Mergault. In 2008, he returned to the stage, notably to Bouffes Parisiens in Open Bed, directed by Charlotte de Turckheim.

He was in a Civil solidarity pact with French television presenter Laurent Ruquier until 2018.

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Movies for Benoît Petitjean...

Jappeloup
Title: Jappeloup
Character: Éric Navet
Released: March 13, 2013
Type: Movie
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian
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Laurent Ruquier, on ne demande qu'à le connaître
Title: Laurent Ruquier, on ne demande qu'à le connaître
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 2012
Type: Movie
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Little White Lies
Title: Little White Lies
Character: Serveur hôtel Max
Released: October 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.
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Open Bed
Title: Open Bed
Character: Thomas
Released: April 26, 2008
Type: Movie
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Grosse chaleur
Title: Grosse chaleur
Character: Hédiard Merceron
Released: September 29, 2004
Type: Movie
On vacation in the Luberon, a high ranking civil servant, in love with the good old fashioned thinking, has to put up with a bunch of troublemakers in his haven of tranquillity and prevent them from watering in circles. Wife, child and mother-in-law in the front row, brother-in-law and sister-in-law as bonus gifts. Add to that a terrible heat wave and a mother left alone in her apartment in Paris... The cocktail is boiling, even explosive... with this heat it will be hard to keep it cool.