French actor Melvil Poupaud was born in Paris on January 26, 1973. He is little known in Russia, however, he is very popular and loved in his homeland.
His mother was connected to the world of cinema, and this helped Melville, at the age of ten, get his first role with director Raoul Ruiz in the film Pirate City, where he played a young devil child with a beautiful face and a black soul. Pupo’s first experience in cinema caused him a lot of enthusiasm and convinced him not only to work as an actor,
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French actor Melvil Poupaud was born in Paris on January 26, 1973. He is little known in Russia, however, he is very popular and loved in his homeland.
His mother was connected to the world of cinema, and this helped Melville, at the age of ten, get his first role with director Raoul Ruiz in the film Pirate City, where he played a young devil child with a beautiful face and a black soul. Pupo’s first experience in cinema caused him a lot of enthusiasm and convinced him not only to work as an actor, but also to create something himself. On his first fee from the film, the boy bought a video camera and began to shoot small films in which he acted as a director, actor, and cameraman in one person. In Raul Ruiz, the young actor starred in two more films - Awakened on the Bridge of Alma and In the Mirror. At the age of fourteen, Poupot received his first serious award “Cesar” as the most promising aspiring actor for his role in the film directed by Jacques Doyon “Fifteen-year-old girl”.
In 1992, on the wide screens of French cinemas, the film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud “The Lover” by the writer Marguerite Duras was released. On the performer of the main role Melville Pupo "fallen down" true fame, and the film adaptation became more popular than the novel itself.
In 1995, the actor starred in three films at once - "The Best Age", "Diary of the Seducer" and "Summer Tale". He worked with different directors, but almost every year he starred with his “godfather”. Raul Ruiz. In Three Lives and One Death, Pupo played with Marcello Mastroianni. With Catherine Deneuve, fate brought him together on one set of the film “Genealogies of Crime”, and in the film “Finding Time” was lucky to meet such stars as John Malkovich, Emmanuel Bear and Vincent Perez.
In the late nineties came the films with the participation of Pupo - "Shooting stars", "Kidnapping" "Queens for the day",
"Senses" .
But, perhaps, the most famous actor brought roles in the films “Farewell Time” directed by Ozon and “The Best Age” Didier Odefan. In the first, he played in a duet with the magnificent Jeanne Moreau, a homosexual photographer dying of cancer, and in the second, a strange and mysterious man with impure thoughts.
In recent years, the actor was still a lot and fruitfully starred in films of various genres - "Love with a Dictionary", "Lost Man", "In Zero Hour", "To Zero", "The Edge", "Lisbon secrets", "Orphan without an arm", "Water Ballet".
In 2002, Melville decided to try himself in the musical field, releasing a solo album “Simple appearance” with his own songs. In addition, the childhood passion for directing did not leave him in adulthood - in 2006 Pupo shot a full-length feature film "Melville", which was appreciated at the Cannes Film Festival.