Vincent Lindon


Vincent Lindon is a French actor and filmmaker. For his role in the film The Measure of a Man, Lindon won Best Actor at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor at the 41st César Awards and the IFFI Best Actor Award at the 46th International Film Festival of India.
Lindon was selected as the president of the jury for the main competition section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2024, Lindon was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice International Film Festival for his lead role in The Quiet Son.

Early life and education

Vincent Lindon is the son of Laurent Lindon, who was director of the company Audioline. He is the grandson of Raymond Lindon, who served as the magistrate and mayor of Étretat between 1929 and 1959, as well as the nephew of Jérôme Lindon, director of Les Éditions de Minuit. He is also the great-grandson of Fernande Citroën, the older sister of André Citroën and wife of Alfred Lindon, a Jewish jeweler and modern art collector originally from Kraków, Poland. Through his mother, Alix Dufaure, a journalist for Marie Claire, Lindon is a descendant of French Prime minister Jules Dufaure and Marshal Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans.
Lindon completed studies at the Lycée Victor-Duruy, where he obtained a baccalauréat scientifique. He then enrolled in an école supérieure de commerce, but lost interest in his studies after 22 days. In 1979, his mother secured an internship for him as a costume design assistant on the set of Alain Resnais' film My American Uncle, on which he worked with actor Gérard Depardieu. He then spent six months in New York working as an assistant in charge of radio promotion with his uncle, Eric Dufaure, founder of the label Cachalot Records. When he returned to Paris, his father-in-law Pierre Bénichou secured a position for him managing the microphones for the tour of comedian Coluche in 1981. He was also a courier for the newspaper Le Matin de Paris before entering the Cours Florent drama school.

Career

Since 1980, Vincent Lindon has worked with renowned film directors Claude Sautet, Claude Lelouch, Coline Serreau, Bertrand Blier, Claire Denis, Emmanuel Carrère, Nicole Garcia, Stéphane Brizé, Jacques Doillon, Xavier Giannoli, Julia Ducournau, Alain Cavalier, Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoît Jacquot, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Diane Kurys, Claude Pinoteau, Pierre Jolivet.
In 2005, he won the Swann d'Or for best actor at the Cabourg Film Festival for La Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère.
In 2013, he chaired the jury of the 39th Deauville American Film Festival.
In 2015, he earned the Best Actor Award at the 68th Cannes Film Festival and then the César Award for Best Actor at the 41st ceremony for the film The Measure of a Man directed by Stéphane Brizé.
In May 2022, he was appointed as president of the jury for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, succeeding Spike Lee.
In 2024, he starred in the film Le Deuxième Acte directed by Quentin Dupieux, which was the opening film for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival
Lindon was also awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 2024 Venice Film Festival for his lead role in The Quiet Son.

Personal life

In the 1980s, Lindon was in a relationship with Claude Chirac, daughter of President Jacques Chirac, for nearly ten years. Lindon later had a highly-publicised relationship with Caroline, Princess of Monaco. Lindon has a son, Marcel, born in 1996. He married actress Sandrine Kiberlain in 1998, with whom he has a daughter, Suzanne, born in 2000. The couple met in 1993 on the set of the film L'Irrésolu. They separated in 2003. Lindon later dated Chiara Mastroianni after playing the love interest of her mother Catherine Deneuve in Belle maman.

Selected filmography

YearTitle avec amour et acharnementRole JeanNotes
1982Guy de MaupassantUn mec sur la plageUncredited
1983Le Fauconthe inspector
1984L'AdditionMagnum
1984Notre histoireBrechet
1985Parole de flicDax
1986Betty BlueRichard
1986Suivez mon regarda scoundrel
1986Prunelle BluesFernand
1986Half Moon StreetSonny
1986Yiddish ConnectionZvi
1987Dernier été à TangerRoland Barrès
1987A Man in LoveBruno Schlosser
1988Quelques jours avec moiFernand
1988L'ÉtudianteNed
1990La Baule-les-PinsJean-Claude
1990Il y a des jours... et des lunesThe innkeeper
1990Gaspard et RobinsonRobinson
1991Netchaïev est de retourDaniel Laurencon / Netchaiev
1991La CabineShort
1992La Belle HistoireSimon Choulel
1992La CriseVictor Barelle
1993Tout ça... pour ça !Lino
1994L'IrrésoluFrançois
1995La HaineA very drunk man
1996Vite strozzateFrancesco
1996Les VictimesPierre Duval
1996La Belle VerteMax
1997FredFred
1997Seventh HeavenNico
1998PaparazziMichel Verdier
1998The School of FleshChris
1999Belle mamanAntoine
1999My Little BusinessIvan Lansi
1999Pas de scandaleLouis Jeancourt
2001Mercredi, folle journée!Martin Socoa
2001ChaosPaul
2002Le Frère du guerrierThomas
2002Vendredi soirJean
2003Sole SistersBruno
2003The Cost of LivingCoway
2003Les Clefs de bagnolethe actor who refuses to work with Laurent
2004La Confiance règneChristophe Gérard
2005The MoustacheMarc Thiriez
2005L'AvionPierre
2006Charlie SaysSerge
2007Je crois que je l'aimeLucas
2007Ceux qui restentBertrand Liévain
2008London mon amourMathias
2008Chasseurs de dragonsLian-ChuFrench version, voice
2008Anything for HerJulien Auclert
2009WelcomeSimon Calmat
2009Mademoiselle ChambonJean
2011Un coeur qui batThe narratorTelevision film
2011La permission de minuitDavid
2011PaterVincent Lindon
2011All Our DesiresStéphane
2011ComplicesVincent LindonVideo short
2012AugustineProfesseur Jean-Martin Charcot
2012A Few Hours of SpringAlain Évrard
2013BastardsMarco Silvestri
2014Mea CulpaSimon
2015Diary of a ChambermaidJoseph
2015The Measure of a ManThierry Taugourdeau
2015The Little PrinceBusinessmanFrench version, voice
2015The White KnightsJacques Arnault
2017RodinAuguste Rodin
2018Isle of DogsChiefFrench version, voice
2018The ApparitionJacques Mayano
2018At WarLaurent Amédéo
2019Casanova, Last LoveCasanova
2021TitaneVincent Legrand
2021Another WorldPhilippe Lemesle
2021Enquête sur un scandale d'ÉtatJacques Billard
2022Both Sides of the BladeJean
2023Of Money and BloodSimon WeynachterTelevision series
2024The Second ActGuillaume
2024The Quiet SonPierre
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