🌐 … a French/Paris-based actor with a global outlook ❚ A naturalized Canadian, member of Actra (SAG’s Canadian sister union) and past jury member for the Canadian Screen Awards
🎬 Played opp. Oscar® winner Cillian Murphy & 7 César© winners/nominees ❚ Roles of 6 nationalities, with an ear on languages/accents, and as many French ones ❚ One of few French actors with a Marvel credit: X-Men: Apocalypse
🎭 Stage start in Canada, soon praised by Radio-Canada, Le Devoir, Jeu ❚ In France, helped Résistantes enter the Top 10 of the Press Club at Off Avignon (the world’s top theatre festival), then toured it as far as La Réunion Island
🧳 Born in the Congo, raised in Nice ❚ Long before actor training, dove into the roles of: blues singer in Brittany; French Navy sailor in Djibouti; IBMer in Dublin; linguistics lecturer in Western Canada ❚ Ph.D from the U. of Alberta, for a psycholinguistics thesis (cited by a research team at the Max Planck Institute, world’s #1 in this field)
🎤🖊️ These days, open mics on guitar & vocals ❚ Bilingual ventures as a singer-songwriter: humorous love song awarded by the Société des Poètes et Artistes de France; 35 mm, a jazz E.P. (available on Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music) with a title track inspired by… CINEMA
