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Aurélien Recoing

ActorBorn May 5, 1958 (66 years)
Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director.

Aurélien Recoing is the son of Alain Recoing (puppeteer), and the brother of Éloi Recoing (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist, composer).

Born in Paris on May 5, 1958, Aurélien Recoing began training to be an actor in 1974 at Cours Florent, and studied at Quartier d'Ivry. In 1977, the actor-in-training, who spoke fluent English and a little Russian, joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris, where he studied under Jean-Pierre Miquel and Antoine Vitez. He has appeared in more than 30 plays and has directed stage performances of works by Thomas Bernhard, Fernando Pessoa and Paul Claudel. He was awarded the Prix Gérard Philipe in 1989.

In 1980, Aurélien Recoing took his first steps into the world of cinema, in Exploits of a Young Don Juan. Finding art-house cinema appealing to him, he worked with Philippe Garrel on Emergency Kisses (Les baisers de secours), and with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa on Modern Life. The actor rose to fame in 2001 thanks to Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps), in which he plays a man who invents a false life to avoid having to tell his friends and family that he has been fired from his job. As he became more and more in demand, he alternated between blockbusters such as Ruby & Quentin and That Woman and art-house films like L'Ennemi naturel and Orlando Vargas. Lending his talents to a number of unusual projects, in 2006 he portrayed a gamblers in 13 Tzameti, Géla Babluani's black-and-white thriller, and also appeared in Forgive Me (Pardonnez-moi), Maïwenn's home-movie style drama. In the same year, the physically imposing actor found himself transported back to 1914 France in Fragments of Antonin, and then to 1959 Kabylia in Florent Emilio Siri's Intimate Enemies. In 2008, he starred in Franck Llopis' Paris Nord-Sud and in La Saison des Orphelins. The following year, he was cast in Gilles Béhat's crime thriller Diamant 13 with Gérard Depardieu, and in Denis Dercourt's Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain dès l'aube).

He has made appearances in The Horde, directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, Xavier de Choudens' Joseph and the Girl with Jacques Dutronc, and Léon Desclozeaux's Cargo, the Lost Men in 2010. He appeared in Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Switch, as well as in Olias Barco's Kill Me Please, which won the Marc'Aurelio d'Oro for best film at Rome Film Festival in 2010. He also appeared in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Colour, which took the Palme d'Or at Cannes. In 2020 he appeared in Adults in the room. An upcoming appearance is in Grand Ciel an Arte Film.

He made his first short film as a director The Rifleman (Un Bon Tireur) which won an Award Winner for Best Drama in 2021. He is developing his first feature film Naked Hands (À Mains Nues) with Sensito Films Productions.

Source: Article "Aurélien Recoing" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • The Horde
  • Intimate Enemies
Known For
  • Blue Is the Warmest Colour
  • 13 Tzameti
  • Time Out
  • The Horde
  • Ruby & Quentin
  • Black Box
  • Kill Me Please
  • What Every Frenchwoman Wants
  • Counter Investigation
  • Switch
  • Adults in the Room
  • My Worst Nightmare
  • Cold Showers
  • Ghosts
  • Tout un hiver sans feu
  • Intimate Enemies
  • Hanging Offense
  • L'ennemi naturel
  • The Jewish Cardinal
  • Children's Play
  • Trepalium
  • Blue Note
  • Fragments of Antonin
  • Tomorrow at Dawn

Filmography

2024
2024
Bugarach (TV Series) · as Matéo Cortès
2023
The Plough · as Le Père
2022
2022
2022
Wind Land · as Guy
2022
What Pauline Is Not Telling You (TV Series) · as Procureur Pérez
2022
Deux femmes · as Commissaire André Faureins
2021
Black Box · as Claude Varins
2021
Crossroads (2022) (TV Series) · as Alain Breton
2020
La Garçonne (TV Series) · as Pardieu
2019
Adults in the Room · as Pierre Moscovici
2018
2017
Le scandale Clouzot · as Narrator (voice)
2017
Ruby Is Dead · as Marty
2016
Souffler plus fort que la mer · as Loïc, Le Père
2016
Trepalium (TV Series) · as Silas
2015
2015
The Cradle Will Fall · as Le Docteur H
2014
Pure Life · as Edgar Maufrais
2014
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond (TV Series) · as Admiral Francois Darlan
2013
Blue Is the Warmest Colour · as Adèle's Father
2013
The Jewish Cardinal · as Jean-Paul Ii
2012
The Returned (TV Series) · as Etienne
2011
My Worst Nightmare · as Thierry
2011
Switch · as Delors
2011
Orteguy · as Julien Ortéguy
2010
Pursuit · as Patrick
2010
Kill Me Please · as Docteur Krueger
2010
Joseph et la fille · as Raphaël
2010
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) · as Internet Stranger
2010
La Loi selon Bartoli (TV Series) · as Roland Verne
2009
The Horde · as Jiménez
2009
Tomorrow at Dawn · as Capitaine Déprées
2009
Le repenti · as Victor Fontanel
2009
Diamond 13 · as Ladje
2008
2008
The Rest of the Night · as Giovanni
2007
Opération Turquoise · as Capitaine Cormery
2007
2007
Paris Criminal Inquiries (TV Series) · as Père Roche
2007
2006
Sartre, Years of Passion · as Raymond Aron
2006
Pardonnez-moi · as Paul
2006
Fragments of Antonin · as Le Professeur Labrousse
2006
Un ami parfait · as Le Médecin
2006
Müetter · as Mathieu
2005
2005
Ghosts · as Pierre
2005
13 Tzameti · as Jacky
2005
Cold Showers · as Louis Steiner
2005
Orlando Vargas · as Orlando Vargas
2004
2004
L'ennemi naturel · as Monsieur Tanguy
2004
Souli · as Yann
2004
2003
Dans le rouge du couchant · as L'homme Au Cutter
2003
Ruby & Quentin · as Rocco
2003
Hanging Offense · as L'homme De L'identité Judiciaire
2003
A Son · as Max
2001
Time Out · as Vincent
2001
Children's Play · as L'inspecteur Mayens
2001
Un coeur oublié · as Denis Diderot
2000
Fidelity · as Bernard
2000
La vie moderne · as Georges
1998
La kiné (TV Series) · as Stopira
1996
1994
Aux petits bonheurs · as Le Photographe
1993
Sharpe (TV Series) · as Col. Gudin
1993
Louis: The Child King · as Coadjuteur De L'archevêque De Paris, Futur Cardinal De Retz
1992
Julie, Police Commissioner (TV Series) · as Marc Lefranc
1991
Nestor Burma (TV Series) · as Vialar
1991
Blue Note · as Auguste Clésinger
1990
L'Élégant Criminel · as François
1989
Emergency Kisses · as Comedian
1988
Les Tisserands du Pouvoir (TV Series) · as Jacques Roussel
1986
1967
Maigret (1967) (TV Series) · as M. Gourion
1958
The Last Five Minutes (TV Series) · as Gérard Lelong

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