Eric Ruf

Eric Ruf

Born: May 21, 1969
in Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, France
Éric Ruf (born 21 May 1969), is a French actor, set designer and theatre director. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1995. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1993, became a member in 1998 and took the role of managing director in 2014.

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The Three Musketeers: Milady
Title: The Three Musketeers: Milady
Character: Le Cardinal de Richelieu
Released: December 13, 2023
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But as the war goes on, they are tested physically, mentally and emotionally.
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Title: The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Character: Le Cardinal de Richelieu
Released: April 5, 2023
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.
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The Line
Title: The Line
Character: Serge
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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The Nameless Woman: The Story of Jeanne & Baudelaire
Title: The Nameless Woman: The Story of Jeanne & Baudelaire
Character: Charles Baudelaire (voice)
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: Movie
The story, hidden by historians and biographers, of Jeanne, a black woman, whose real name is unknown, who was the muse and companion of the mythical French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).
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My Dog Stupid
Title: My Dog Stupid
Character: Professeur Mazard
Released: October 30, 2019
Type: Movie
Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he discovers an unattractive, bad-mannered dog in his garden, he decides to adopt him and both start developing an unexpected friendship that inevitably upsets Henri’s family and neighbors.
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An Officer and a Spy
Title: An Officer and a Spy
Character: Sandherr
Released: September 30, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
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Maryline
Title: Maryline
Character: François Louis
Released: November 15, 2017
Type: Movie
A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris.
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Three Sisters
Title: Three Sisters
Character: Vassili
Released: September 4, 2015
Type: Movie
For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most expansively melancholy plays.
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My Golden Days
Title: My Golden Days
Character: Kovalki adulte
Released: May 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
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Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Title: Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Going Away
Title: Going Away
Character: Gilles Cambière
Released: September 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.
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Meurtre en trois actes
Title: Meurtre en trois actes
Character: Éric Escalette
Released: June 29, 2013
Type: Movie
With the ghost of Delphine, a sociétaire who committed suicide several months earlier, still hanging over the place, an unexplained series of backstage murders occurs at the Comédie-Française. Domont and his associate Strozzi investigate at this famous institution, where power plays and rivalries are the norm.
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Drumont, histoire d'un antisémite français
Title: Drumont, histoire d'un antisémite français
Character: Gustave Méry
Released: March 19, 2013
Type: Movie
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'Orsay
Title: 'Orsay
Character: Narrator
Released: February 2, 2012
Type: Movie
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Le partage de midi
Title: Le partage de midi
Character: Mesa
Released: June 3, 2011
Type: Movie
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The Marquise of Darkness
Title: The Marquise of Darkness
Character: Gobelin
Released: February 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Marie Madeleine Dreux, Marquise of Brinvilliers, was executed in 1676 for poisoning. Manipulated by her lover and having kept the aftereffects of her childhood, she does not hesitate to poison her father and two brothers to recover their inheritance.
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Title: À la recherche du temps perdu
Character: Charles Swann
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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Nobody Else But You
Title: Nobody Else But You
Character: Simon Denner
Released: January 12, 2011
Type: Movie
The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the tangled web of murder and small town politics in this off-beat mystery.
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The Big Picture
Title: The Big Picture
Character: Grégoire Kremer
Released: November 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.
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Title: Pigalle, la nuit
Character: Dimitri
Released: November 23, 2009
Type: TV
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The Third Part of the World
Title: The Third Part of the World
Character: Michel
Released: June 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears on a bicycle ride. Left alone in a big house, Emma becomes afraid and returns to Paris to continue her life as a real estate agent. Soon after, François' brother Michel contacts her and together they try to solve the mystery of François' disappearance. But when he encounters Emma, Michel begins to transform into a ghost. Emma slowly begins to realize she possesses a frightening power that she was not aware of.
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Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
Title: Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
Character: Brother Dominique
Released: October 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger (the first name was never used) in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony and violin in Paris, and after a brief period in Zürich, returned there to study with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d'Indy. He continued to study through the 1910s, before writing the ballet Le dit des jeux du monde in 1918, generally considered to be his first characteristic work.
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Without Me
Title: Without Me
Character: Thierry
Released: October 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
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Le Pendu
Title: Le Pendu
Character: Gustave Frémy
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: Movie
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Christian
Released: June 15, 2007
Type: Movie
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Rachel
Title: Rachel
Character: Stéphane Mancini
Released: August 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Like every weekend, nineteen-year-old student Rachel is babysitter to the two-year-old baby Hugo. When Hugo's single father has gone out for the night, Christine takes advantage of it to invite her good friend Christine.
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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Philippe de Poitiers
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: TV
A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy.
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My Angel
Title: My Angel
Character: Kovarski
Released: December 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Colette, lovely and vulnerable prostitute, accepts to take care of her unknown colleague's boy. She, herself, needs a child to make her loved ex return to her. So she's having two problems to solve at one time - to find a suitable "father" of her kid and to get off hand of Billy. Meanwhile, the relationship between Colette and Billy is developing, you just don't know in which way. Then, when she cannot get rid of Billy and realizes her ex has another women, the things between "Billy et Colette" are now quite transparent.
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Milady
Title: Milady
Character: Aramis
Released: January 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
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Phèdre
Title: Phèdre
Character: Hippolyte
Released: September 25, 2003
Type: Movie
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La Chanson du maçon
Title: La Chanson du maçon
Character: Simon
Released: June 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.
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Un pique-nique chez Osiris
Title: Un pique-nique chez Osiris
Character: Maxime Meyer
Released: May 21, 2001
Type: Movie
The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.
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Passionnément
Title: Passionnément
Character: Loïc
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: Movie
On the island of Porquerolles, Alice spies on Bernard, a man who has returned to France after living in Brazil for some years. The two had once been lovers, and Alice's obsession with Bernard -- which apparently didn't wane during their time apart -- sets in motion a string of events culminating with the aforementioned car crash. Dysfunction abounds.
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L'école des femmes
Title: L'école des femmes
Character: Horace
Released: June 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Theater play "L'école des femmes" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999.
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Place Vendôme
Title: Place Vendôme
Character: Phillipe Ternece
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
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Stolen Life
Title: Stolen Life
Character: Yann
Released: September 9, 1998
Type: Movie
Three women live together in an old rectory on the seashore. Alda lends her body to a string of carnal relationships but never commits her feelings. Olga, the elder sister, has opted for a reclusive life as the soul of the household. Her daughter, Sigga, is a young adolescent. The house harbors a finely balanced marriage between desire and memory—until Olga’s destiny tips the scales.
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The Proprietor
Title: The Proprietor
Character: Theodor
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: Movie
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
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Marie-Louise ou la permission
Title: Marie-Louise ou la permission
Character: Jean-Paul
Released: June 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Star crossed lovers are the focus of this French romantic comedy. Marie-Louise, an American, has come to Paris to meet her new lover, Jean-Paul who has a weekend pass from his military service post. Unfortunately they misunderstood each other's instructions and are each at different train stations. They begin desperate searches throughout the night to find each other. The are hindered by Jean-Paul's ex-lover Marie, whom he rejected. Marie will do anything to get rid of Marie-Louise and win Jean-Paul back. Marie-Louise has her own problems when Jean falls for her. Jean accidently gets her involved with the police after he is arrested on the suspicion of pickpocketing. Despite their travails, the couple still tries to find each other. In the end, they are assisted by a magical nun who finally reunites them.
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Cassandre
Title: Cassandre
Character: Père
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie