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Patrick Bruel

Actor, Additional Credits
Born May 14, 1959 (65 years)
Patrick Maurice Benguigui (born 14 May 1959), better known by his stage name Patrick Bruel, is a French singer-songwriter, actor and professional poker player.

Patrick is the son of Pierre Benguigui and Augusta Kammoun, daughter of Elie and Céline ben Sidoun.

In his youth, Bruel aspired to be a football player, but decided instead to pursue singing after seeing Michel Sardou in 1975. His first success came as an actor, in 1979's Le Coup de sirocco. He continued acting in films, on television, and in the theater while pursuing his singing career. His first single, "Vide" ("Empty"), released in 1982, was not a success, but the follow-up, "Marre de cette nana-là" ("Fed up with that chick"), was a hit.

In 2003, just before his partner, the writer and playwright Amanda Sthers, gave birth to his first child, Oscar, on 19 August, he changed his name to Bruel-Benguigui, combining his stage name with his birth name. On 21 September 2004, he wed the then 26-year-old Sthers; it was his first marriage. His second child, Léon, was born on 28 September 2005. The couple separated in 2007.

As of 2004, Bruel has acted in more than forty television and film productions, and has made five studio albums and several live albums. In 2002, Bruel released Entre Deux, a double CD of classic chanson that features duets with Charles Aznavour, Jean-Louis Aubert, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Alain Souchon and Renaud, among others. It sold two million copies and made Bruel France's best paid singer of the year. At the beginning of 2005, in response to the South Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, Bruel wrote the song "Et puis la terre" with Marie-Florence Gros, with whom he had begun a long-term collaboration in 1998, to benefit the Red Cross. His latest album, "Des souvenirs devant", was his fourth chart-topper in France.

Bruel is a world-class professional poker player. He won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 1998 for the $5,000 Limit Hold'em event. As of 2009. he has earned more than $900,000 in tournament play, of which his ten cash winnings at the WSOP account for $411,659. He also comments on the World Poker Tour in France.

In April 2020 he announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

Bruel has been a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 1993.

Source: Article "Patrick Bruel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies & Shows on Plex
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Known For
  • What's in a Name?
  • A Secret
  • The Jaguar
  • A Bag of Marbles
  • Paris-Manhattan
  • The Best Is Yet to Come
  • Sex, Love & Therapy
  • Comedy of Power
  • P.R.O.F.S.
  • The Murdered House
  • Wolf
  • K
  • Love at First Child
  • Le code a changé
  • Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles
  • Uncontrollable Circumstances
  • Sweetheart
  • Pretty Things
  • L'union sacrée
  • Low Profile
  • The Milk of Human Kindness
  • Holy Lands
  • O Jerusalem
  • Une vie à t'attendre

Filmography

2024
2023
2021
2020
Villa Caprice · as Gilles Fontaine
2020
2019
The Best Is Yet to Come · as César Montesiho
2019
2019
2018
2017
A Family · as Vincenzo
2017
2017
2017
A Bag of Marbles · as Roman
2016
2015
2015
2014
Sex, Love & Therapy · as Lambert
2014
Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles · as Philippe Dupin
2014
2013
Les gamins · as Agent Immobilier
2013
2012
2012
2012
What's in a Name? · as Vincent
2011
2011
lol:-) (TV Series) · as Various
2010
What War May Bring · as Cameo Appearance
2010
2010
2009
Le code a changé · as Alain
2008
2007
A Secret · as Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert
2007
Don't Do This, Don't Do That (TV Series) · as Gérard Grangier, Sosie De Patrick Bruel
2007
2006
O Jerusalem · as David Levin
2006
Comedy of Power · as Jacques Sibaud
2004
Wolf · as Nelson
2004
2001
Pretty Things · as Jacques
2001
1999
Lost & Found · as Rene
1998
1997
K · as L'inspecteur De Police Sam Bellamy
1996
The Jaguar · as François Perrin
1995
Sabrina · as Louis
1995
One Hundred and One Nights · as The First Speaker
1993
Low Profile · as Inspector Julien Segal
1993
Taratata 100% Live (TV Series) · as Performer
1992
Sweetheart · as Cristophe Vade
1990
There Were Days... and Moons · as The Musician Who Missed His Plane
1989
Secret Obsession · as Wanis
1989
1989
L'union sacrée · as Simon Atlan
1988
The Murdered House · as Séraphin Monge
1987
Attention bandits! · as Mozart
1986
Follow My Gaze · as The Musician
1985
P.R.O.F.S. · as Frédéric
1984
Led by the Nose · as Dany
1984
Marche à l'ombre · as Metro Guitarist (uncredited)
1983
Le grand carnaval · as Pierre-Marie Labrouche, Adopté Par Étienne
1983
Des larmes comme des couteaux · as Gabriel Capron, Dit Gaby
1983
Le bâtard · as Dan
1982
1982
Paris Saint-Lazare (TV Series) · as Manu
1982
1980
La mort en sautoir · as Chanteur D'un Groupe De Banlieue
1979
Le coup de sirocco · as Paulo Narboni
1967
Maigret (1967) (TV Series) · as Louis

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