Bruno Wolkowitch is a French actor.
Bruno Wolkowitch | |
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 Bruno Wolkowitch in 2015 at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. | |
| Born | Bruno Jacques Wolkowitch Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Notable work |
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| Television |
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| Website | www.brunowolkowitch.com |
Early life and education
editBruno Wolkowitch (orig. Wołkowicz) is of Polish descent. His father was a tailor turned bookkeeper, and his mother a beautician who became a dermatology assistant.[1] He spent his childhood in Champigny-sur-Marne and then his adolescence in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne).[citation needed]
He trained as an actor from 1981 to 1984 at Studio 34 with Claude Mathieu. In 1984, he was awarded a Diploma of Drama at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris. From 1984 to 1987, he studied with Viviane Theophilides, Michel Bouquet, and Jean-Pierre Vincent. At the same time, he entered the Comédie-Française.[citation needed]
Career
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Wolkowitch then appeared in numerous television films and gained notice with the television series Madame le maire in 1997[citation needed] and PJ (Police judiciaire). In the latter series, Wolkowitch played Captain/Commander Vincent Fournier. He appeared in the first 100 episodes, from 1997 to March 2006 on France 2. Wolkowitch appeared in flashbacks for several seasons more.[2] In addition to his role as a field policeman, a pillar of the police station at PJ Saint-Martin, he continues to play other characters, notably that of Lagardère in a two-part television film of that name, aired in 2003.
He has also performed on stage. In 2006, he starred in Miss Julie, by August Strindberg, with Christine Citti – who played in the first two seasons of PJ – and Émilie Dequenne.[citation needed]
Personal life
editWolkowitch is also passionate about photography.
In October 2015, on France Inter radio station, the actor acknowledged having spent a very short stay in prison in Israel at the age of seventeen, to protect a friend on a narcotics-related charge. Since then, he has been barred from entering Israel.[3]
Filmography
editActing
editFilms
edit| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | For Those I Loved | Jurek | Robert Enrico | Credited in the credits under the name of "Bruno Volko" |
| 1984 | Hell Train | Roger Hanin | ||
| 1987 | Keep Your Right Up | Jean-Luc Godard | ||
| 1988 | L'enfance de l'art | Francis Girod | ||
| 1989 | Vent de Galerne | Bernard Favre | ||
| 1993 | Mauvais garçon | Jacques Bral | ||
| 1994 | Joan the Maiden | Jacques Rivette | ||
| L'Affaire | Sergio Gobbi | |||
| 1995 | L'Uomo proiettile (L'Homme canon) | Silvano Agosti | ||
| 1997 | La Chica | Bruno Gantillon | ||
| 1998 | Terminale | Terrien | Francis Girod | |
| 2004 | Le Grand Rôle | Steve Suissa | Voice off | |
| 2010 | The Tourist | French police commissioner | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | |
| 2012 | Love Is Not Perfect | Francesca Muci | ||
| 2013 | Chez nous c'est trois! | Claude Duty | ||
| A Five Star Life | Maria Sole Tognazzi | |||
| 2016 | La folle histoire de Max et Léon | Jonathan Barré, Palmashow | ||
| 2018 | Treat Me Like Fire | Ivo | Marie Monge |
Television
edit| Years | Title | Role | Creator | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Madame le maire | Jean-François Claire | ||
| 1987 | Mort aux ténors | Ivan | Serge Moati | In the series Série noire |
| Mont royal | Mario Philip Azzopardi | |||
| 1989 | Les Cinq Dernières Minutes | "The Cherubim are Not Angels"; directed by Jean-Pierre Desagnat | ||
| Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret | "The Auberge aux noyés"; directed by Jean-Paul Sassy | |||
| Quand le diable ricane | Armand Wahnoun | |||
| Les Jupons de la Révolution: Madame Tallien | Didier Grousset | |||
| 1990 | Le Vagabond des mers | José Varela | ||
| Force de frappe: Voie sans issue | Paolo Barzman | |||
| 1992 | Maigret | "Maigret and the Judge's House"; directed by Bertrand Van Effenterre | ||
| 1994 | Deux Millions de dollars dans un fauteuil | Yves Amoureux | ||
| Meurtres par procuration | Claude-Michel Rome | |||
| Mayday | Jean-Louis Daniel | |||
| 1995 | Passion mortelle | Claude-Michel Rome | ||
| 1996 | Dans un grand vent de fleurs | Guillaume Garlande | Gérard Vergez | |
| 1997 | Pour mon fils | Michaëla Watteaux | ||
| 1997–2005 | PJ | Vincent Fournier | ||
| 1997 | Jamais sans toi | Daniel Janneau | ||
| Vérité oblige | Prison director | "My Daughter... This Unknown"; directed by Claude-Michel Rome | ||
| 1998 | Famille de cœur | Gérard Vergez | ||
| Doppio Segreto | Marcello Cesena | |||
| 1999 | Marie et Tom | Dominique Baron | ||
| Mieux vaut tard que jamais | Luca Manfredi | |||
| 2000 | Les Cordier, juge et flic | Marc Singer | "Portrait with Scalpel" | |
| Remise de peine | Alberto Simone | |||
| 2001 | Méditerranée | Henri Helman | ||
| Le Gave | Christian Bonnet | |||
| La Faux | Jean-Dominique de La Rochefoucauld | |||
| 2002 | Garonne | Claude d'Anna | ||
| La Parité | Gérard Vergez | |||
| Trop plein d'amour | Steve Suissa | |||
| 2003 | Qu'elle est belle la quarantaine! | Alexis Lecaye | ||
| Lagardère | Henri de Lagardère / Le Bossu | Henry Helman | ||
| 2004 | Le Frangin d'Amérique | Jacques Fansten | ||
| 2005 | Je t'aime à te tuer | Alain Wermus | ||
| Retrouver Sara | Claude d'Anna | |||
| 2007 | Rock'n Roll Circus | Alain Robillard | ||
| 2008 | Sagan | Philippe | Diane Kurys | |
| Hold-up à l'italienne | Claude-Michel Rome | |||
| Grands reporters | Gilles de Maistre | |||
| 2009 | PJ | Vincent Fournier | ||
| 2009–10 | Les Toqués | Monsieur B | "The Gold Rush", "The Trojan Horse" | |
| 2010 | Le Désamour | Daniel Janneau | ||
| 2011 | Coup de chaleur | Christophe Barraud | ||
| La République des enfants | Garcin | Jacques Fansten | ||
| 2012–16 | Spin | Simon Kapita | Frédéric Tellier, Jean-Marc Brondolo | |
| 2012 | Ragazze sul web | Marco Pontecorvo | ||
| 2013 | Rouge Brésil | Sylvain Archambault | ||
| Pourquoi personne me croit? | Jacques Fansten | |||
| Cherif | "False Pretenses"; directed by Vincent Giovanni | |||
| À corde tendue | Pierre-Antoine Hiroz | |||
| 2015 | Accusé | "The Story of Simon"; directed by Didier Bivel | ||
| Un père coupable | Caroline Huppert | |||
| Meurtres à Carcassonne | Julien Despaux | |||
| Borderline | Olivier Marchal | |||
| 2016 | Mongeville | "Living Legend"; directed by René Manzor | ||
| Caïn | Season 4, "The Prisoners"; by Christophe Douchand | |||
| 2017 | Cassandre | Episode 5 "Backfire"; by Hervé Renoh | ||
| La Loi de Valérie | Thierry Binisti | |||
| 2020 | Baby | Christophe | Episode 3x01, 3x02 |
Short films
edit| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Un coin de table | Josiane Maisse |
| 1993 | Qui est-ce qui a éteint la lumière? | Xavier Auradon |
| 1994 | Parlez après le signal sonore | Olivier Jahan |
| 1997 | Amour néanmoins | Frédéric Darie |
Dubbing
edit| Year | Title | Director | Role | Actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Romeo Is Bleeding | Peter Medak | Jack Grimaldi | Gary Oldman |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | Michael McManus | Stephen Baldwin |
| The Crossing Guard | Sean Penn | John Booth | David Morse | |
| 1996 | Sleepers | Barry Levinson | Sean Nokes | Kevin Bacon |
Directorial works
edit| Year | Title | Creator | Co-director | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Ordinaire et Disgracié | Claude Mollet | Hervé Pierre | Théâtre de la Ville |
Music videos
edit| Year | Song | Artist | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Babe | Viktor Lazlo | Philippe Gautier |
Theatre
edit| Year | Title | Creator | Director | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autopsie | Pascal Cantelle | ||||
| L'Épreuve | Éric Tallien | ||||
| 1984 | Parking du ciel | Emmanuel Weisz | Munich | ||
| 1985 | The Balcony | Jean Genet | Georges Lavaudant | Comédie-Française | |
| 1986 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Jean-Pierre Vincent | ||
| The Tempest | Alfredo Arias | Festival d'Avignon Théâtre de la Commune | |||
| 1987 | Polyeucte | Pierre Corneille | Jorge Lavelli | Comédie-Française | |
| 1988 | The Changeling | Thomas Middleton, William Rowley | Stuart Seide | Théâtre de Gennevilliers | |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | Jacques Kraemer | Théâtre de Boulogne-Billancourt | ||
| Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien | Gabriele D'Annunzio, Claude Debussy | Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jean-Paul Chambas | Villa Medici Rome | ||
| 1989 | The Moods of Marianne | Alfred de Musset | France Rousselle | Théâtre du Gymnase Marseille | |
| 1993 | Le Mal court | Jacques Audiberti | Pierre Franck | Théâtre de l'Atelier | |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | Michel Fagadau | Théâtre Marigny | ||
| 2005 | Derniers Remords avant l'oubli | Jean-Luc Lagarce | Jean-Pierre Vincent | CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient, La Criée | As Pierre |
| 2006 | Miss Julie | August Strindberg | Didier Long | Théâtre Marigny | As Jean, the valet |
| 2007 | It's Only the End of the World | Jean-Luc Lagarce | François Berreur | MC2, Nouveau théâtre de Besançon, Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Théâtre des Célestins, Théâtre de la Manufacture | Tour |
| 2008 | TNBA | ||||
| Equus | Peter Shaffer | Didier Long | Théâtre Marigny | ||
| 2010 | Le Donneur de bain | Dorine Hollier | Dan Jemmett | ||
| 2011 | Pluie d’enfer | Keith Huff | Benoît Lavigne | Pépinière Théâtre | |
| 2014 | Le Secret de Poussinette | Bruno Wolkowitch | Comédie Saint-Michel | ||
| 2015 | Danser à Lughnasa | Brian Friel | Didier Long | Théâtre de l'Atelier |
References
edit- ^ "Biographie sur le site web" (in French). Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ P.J. at IMDb
- ^ "La bande originale" (in French). Archived from the original on 20 October 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
External links
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- Official website (in French)
- Bruno Wolkowitch at IMDb
- Bruno Wolkowitch on the France 2 website (in French)
