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Mathieu Carrière

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Mathieu Carrière (German: [maˈtjø kaˈʁjɛʁ] ⓘ; born 2 August 1950) is a German stage and screen actor with strong French connections. He has appeared in around 250 films worldwide and in 4000 hours of television. Carrière is also a director and a writer and is known as an advocate for the rights of fathers.

Mathieu Carrière
Carrière in 2004
Born (1950-08-02) 2 August 1950 (age 74)
Hanover, West Germany
Occupations
  • Actor
  • writer
  • director
Years active1964–present
ChildrenAlice Carrière, Elena Carrière
ParentBern Carrière
RelativesMareike Carrière (sister)
Till Carrière (brother)

Life

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Carrière was born near Hanover of two psychotherapists and grew up in Berlin and Lübeck. He attended the Jesuit boarding school Lycée Saint-François-Xavier in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's first major film, Volker Schlöndorff. In 1969, Carrière moved to Paris to study philosophy with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and continue his acting.

In 1983, he married the American artist Jennifer Bartlett with whom he had a daughter, Alice Carrière, the author of the Spiegel & Grau memoir Everything/Nothing/Someone that recounts the author's challenging life in their household.[1][2] They divorced in the early 1990s. He lives in Hamburg and Paris. His sister Mareike Carrière was also an actress.

Career

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After playing the young Tonio at the age of 13 in Rolf Thiele's 1964 film Tonio Kröger; he next played a main part in the 1966 German movie Der junge Törless (Young Törless). Other film roles include major appearances in Andrzej Wajda's Gates to Paradise (1967), Harry Kümel's Malpertius (1971) and Roger Vadim's Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973). Carrière has performed on film with Orson Welles in Malpertius (1971), Brigitte Bardot in Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973), Romy Schneider in The Sanssouci Walker (1982) and Isabelle Huppert in Malina (1991).

In 1980, Carrière was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.[3]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ [1] Kirkus: 4 New Memoirs To Wrap Up Your Summer Reading by Tom Beer, AUG. 3, 2023
  2. ^ Clement, Jennifer (2023-08-28). "From Paris to the West Village, a Memoir of Privilege and Pain". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  3. ^ "Berlinale 1980: Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
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