Jean Dujardin
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Jean Edmond Dujardin (born 19 June 1972) is a French actor, comedian, parody, and television producer.
He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Paris before appearing in comedic television shows and films.
He first came to fame with the film Ungars, an unmanned puppetry, in which he starred alongside his partner Alexandra Lamy before finding fame in films such as Brice de Nice, Michel Hazanavicius' OSS 117: Lost in Rio and 99 Francs. Dujardin's appearance in George Valentin's 2011 award-winning silent film The Artist gained international fame and acclaim.
He was nominated for numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, the Best Actor Award in a Leading Role, and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor.
He appeared in Martin Scorsese's 2013 black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street and George Clooney's 2014 historical drama The Monuments Men.
Early life
Jean Dujardin was born in Paris on 19 June 1972 and raised in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-France, a commune in Paris's western suburbs. After high school, he began working for his father, Jacques Dujardin, building his house. While serving his mandatory military service a few years later, Dujardin began considering a career in acting.
Personal life
Dujardin has been married three times and has four children. In 2003, he married Galle Demars, his first marriage. They have two sons who were born in 2000 and 2001. Alexandra Lamy, the actor of Ungars, a fille, met at the audition and fell in love while shooting the film in 2003. On July 25, 2009, they married in Anduze. The couple announced their divorce in November 2013.
After following Nathalie Péchalat's journey to Japan to watch her compete in the world ice skating championships, they had a daughter named Jeanne in December 2015. They married in a small ceremony on May 19th, 2018. In February 2021, Nathalie Péchalat gave birth to her daughter Alice.
Career
Jean Dujardin began acting in various bars and cabarets in Paris, performing a self-written one-man show. He first came to fame when he appeared on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the French comedy group Nous Nous, which was founded by Carré blanc actors.
Dujardin appeared in the original French comedy series Ungars, une fille, with his future wife Alexandra Lamy, before transferring to film in 1999. Each episode was less than ten minutes long, and the TV series followed a pattern of a marriage. He portrayed the titular surfer in the Brice de Nice film in 2005 and performed on its accompanying soundtrack.
In 2006, Dujardin appeared in the comedy OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, as a racist, sexist secret agent, earning him the Etoile D'Or Award and a César Award nomination for Best Actor. OSS 117: Lost in Rio, the film's popularity, inspired a sequel. He appeared in the film 99F (99 francs), a very popular existential parody of an advertising executive based on Frédéric Beigbeder's eponymous best-seller's script. For the first time on the silver screen, he plunged in drama this year, playing a tortured father and cop in Franck Mancuso's Contre-enquête. He appeared in A Man and His Dog in 2009 alongside screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom he has often been compared. In The Clink of Ice, a French black comedy written and directed by Bertrand Blier, he appeared alongside Albert Dupontel in 2010.
In 2011, Dujardin appeared in the silent film The Artist, reuniting him with OSS 117: Bérénice Bejo, director Michel Hazanavicius and his co-star. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where he received the Best Actor Award. His appearance attracted acclaim, and he has received multiple awards, including the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and the Screen Actor Guild Award for Best Actor.
Dujardin received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy on January 15, 2012. He went on to win the Screen Actor Guild for Best Actor and the BAFTA for Best Actor later this year. He was also nominated for the César award for the best actor in France, but Omar Sy was also nominated for the second most viewed film in Intouchables. At the 84th Academy Awards, Dujardin went on to win the Best Actor award. In effect, he is the fourth French actor to be nominated for an Academy and the first to win the Best Actor award. The actor was signed by WME after being nominated for his work in The Artist.
Tim Palmer, a French film historian, has analyzed Dujardin's career and ascension to France, noting how his formal roles were often unredeemable buffoons, portraying childlike boys in an ageless way. Brice de Nice and OSS 117, Dujardin's breakthrough roles as Brice de Nice and OSS 117 exemplified this tendency.
Dujardin appeared in Les Infidèles with co-star and colleague Gilles Lellouche in February 2012. He was accepted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012, as well as 175 others. Dujardin appeared in Éric Rochant's Möbius in 2013 with Cécile de France and Tim Roth.
Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and Kyle Chandler, among others in his second film of the year. He appeared in The Monuments Men, a George Clooney directed by George Clooney and co-starring Clooney, Matt Damon, and Cate Blanchett, as well as appearing in Le Petit Joueur in France.
La French, a late 2014, was released in Europe and then in the United States in early 2015. He plays a French police magistrate who is determined to destabilize the French Connection and bring down the Union of Corse.