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Cyril Descours

January 09, 2023

Cyril Descours (born 15 July 1983 in Frankfurt) is a French actor.[1] He has appeared in more than twenty feature films since 2000 as well as in French television films and series, and on stage.

Career

The mother of Cyril Descours was German and he spent much of his childhood in London. By four years of age he could speak in French, German and English.[2] He took part in drama from primary school onwards; and in 1999 enrolled at the Cours Florent where he remained for three years.[3] In 2002 and 2003, he was at the drama classes of the Conservatoire of the 10th arrondissement in Paris.[3] From 2005, he was a member of the Pas de Dieux theatre company, while completing his academic studies which led to him obtaining a Masters in literary translation.[4][3]

Descours's first stage role was in La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu by Jean Giraudoux. After acting in some short films and minor parts, his first major screen role was as Tristan, a 17-year-old who has to look after his baby son after the death of his girlfriend, in a 2003 television film L'Enfant de l'aube (The child of the dawn), directed by Marc Angelo and based on the novel by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, which attracted over 10 million viewers on TF1 for its broadcast on 14 January 2004.[5][3]

Around 2005 saw him in two films, as a French student in French for Beginners, and as a young man who meets a Moslem girl in the segment of Paris, je t'aime[6] directed by Gurinder Chadha; on television he featured as Ben in several episodes of the first series of a popular drama Clara Sheller, opposite Frédéric Diefenthal and Mélanie Doutey, and as the drug-dealing son of a farmer in Joseph.[7][8]

He went on to appear in further historical drama series both on French television, and briefly in the American series John Adams, before featuring in the major French television drama Sa raison d'être (What love means), which traced 30 years of AIDS in France through the experiences of one family.[9]

Descours played leading parts in his following screen roles. In the dysfunctional family in the adaptation of Mark Haddon's 2006 novel A Spot of Bother as the contemporary comedy drama Une petite zone de turbulences (A small area of turbulence), he portrayed the son whose reluctance to let his partner attend his sister's wedding causes their relationship to break down.[10] In Complices (Accomplices) he starred as the murdered male escort whose final weeks are shown interspersed with the investigation to find his killer;[11] this gained Descours a nomination to the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2011.[12][13] He then co-starred as an athlete recently blinded in an accident and stifled by the continual compassion of those around him who tries to rebuild his life through his sport in Régis Wargnier's La Ligne droite (Straight line);[14] for this role he trained alongside members of the French athletics squad and was filmed in front of 50,000 people during the Meeting Areva.[15]

He also co-starred in an adaptation of the 1956 novel Madame Solario, as the brother of the title character.[16] As a young man who goes to Paris to pursue a singing career he starred in the 2011 TV film Le Chant des Sirènes (The Siren's song) which won the prize for best film at the La Rochelle film festival that year.[7]

2013 brought another period drama Une femme dans la Révolution (A Woman during the revolution) where he played a young député of the Tiers-État, who has a passionate affair with a young peasant. In a short that year he played the lead singer in a pop group, Boys Band Théorie and also sang the theme song by Alex Beaupain.[17]

Leading and starring roles followed, in films - Ciel rouge (Red sky), shot entirely in Viet Nam, as Philippe Merlen, a French sergeant who deserts to save a Viet Minh prisoner, which results in a brief romance, Les Gardiennes (The care-taking women) as Georges - and television dramas such as Peur sur la base (On the base of fear) as a naval rating suspected of murder, Mystère au Louvre (Mystery at the Louvre) as Frédéric Delage, an acrobat who becomes involved in a daring jewel theft, the mini-series Laëtitia, based on real events, as Judge Martinot, and in another series De Gaulle, l’éclat et le secret (De Gaulle, the splendour and the secret) as Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel.

He took the lead role in a 2021 France 2 adaptation of Philippe Claudel's autobiographical novel Le Bruit des trousseaux (The jangling of bunches of keys) about a prison teacher who begins to sacrifice his own life through vicarious involvement with life in prison and that of its inmates, his students.[18]

In 2011 he featured with Emma Watson in a two-minute video advert for a new Lancôme perfume, filmed in Paris.[19]

Alongside screen work, Descours has continued in stage productions, in both classic and modern plays. In 2015 with three other actors (and musicians) he formed a group to practice non-verbal theatre skills on a regular basis;[20] this resulted in productions seen in Paris and Barcelona.

On radio he has appeared as Léon in Madame Bovary on France Culture in 2017.[7]

Cyril Descours is a black belt in karate 2nd Dan, having started at the age of 12,[16] and also practices swimming, roller skating, snowboarding, tennis and riding.[3] He has co-authored two karate books for children.[21][22]

Filmography

Cinema

Television

  • 2003 : L'Enfant de l'aube, by Marc Angelo : Tristan (TF1)
  • 2004 : Les Montana, by Benoît d'Aubert : Johan Kowalski (France 2)
  • 2004–2005 : Clara Sheller (series 1) by Renaud Bertrand : Ben (France 2)
  • 2005 : Joseph, téléfilm of Marc Angelo : Léo Johassin (TF1)
  • 2006 : Le Président Ferrare by Alain Nahum (episode 'L'Affaire Gilles d'Aubert') : Romain (France 2)
  • 2006 : Vive la bombe ! by Jean-Pierre Sinapi : Philippe (Arte) (concerning the Béryl incident)
  • 2006 : Rilke et Rodin, une rencontre by Bernard Malaterre : Rainer Maria Rilke (Arte)
  • 2007 : L'Affaire Christian Ranucci : Le Combat d'une mère by Denys Granier-Deferre : Maître le Plantier (lawyer) (TF1)
  • 2007 : Sa raison d'être by Renaud Bertrand : Jérôme (France 2)
  • 2007 : John Adams by Tom Hooper : Citizen Genet (HBO) (in English)
  • 2008 : La reine et le cardinal by Marc Rivière – Louis XIV as a 20 year-old (France 2)
  • 2010 : Un village français (six episodes) : Yvon, a communist envoy from Paris (France 3)
  • 2011 : Le Chant des Sirènes by Laurent Herbiet : le garçon (broadcast by France 2 in June 2014)
  • 2013 : Une femme dans la Révolution by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe : Benjamin (France 3)
  • 2015 : La Fin de la nuit by Lucas Belvaux : Thomas Pian (RTB/France 3)
  • 2017 : Peur sur la base by Laurence Katrian : Nathan Berken (France 3)
  • 2017 : Mystère au Louvre by Léa Fazer : Frédéric Delage (France 2)
  • 2019 : Laëtitia (mini-series) by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade : Le Juge Martinot (France 2)
  • 2020 : De Gaulle, l’éclat et le secret (series) by François Velle : Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel (France 2)
  • 2021 : Le Bruit des trousseaux : Alexis Pasquier (TV film on France 2)

Theatre

References

  1. ^ "Cyril Descours". BFI.
  2. ^ Nicole Real, « Cyril Descours : « Je me suis entraîné !» », Télépro, no 3339, 1er mars 2018, p. 23.
  3. ^ a b c d e Télérama'vodkaster. Page for Cyril Descours, Acteur accessed 14 January 2021.
  4. ^ Interview de Cyril Descours sur citeartistes.com le 31/03/2005. accessed 28 April 2009.
  5. ^ Audience figures in 2004 on the site toutelatele.com. accessed 28 April 2009.
  6. ^ UniFrance page for Cyril Descours, actor, accessed 14 January 2021.
  7. ^ a b c Théâtre les deschargeurs page for Cyril Descours accessed 15 January 2021
  8. ^ Notre cinema - Joseph, 2005 accessed 15 January 2021.
  9. ^ IMDB page for Sa raison d'être accessed 16 January 2021.
  10. ^ James Travers. Review of Une petite zone de turbulences (2010) accessed 13 January 2021.
  11. ^ Roger Ebert. A corpse and how it got that way (review) 9 June 2010. accessed 14 January 2021.
  12. ^ 'Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma & Chaumet présentent Révélations 2011 accessed 15 January.
  13. ^ Et les "Révélations 2011" sont... accessed 15 January 2021.
  14. ^ Fabien Lemercier. Getting back on track in Wargnier’s La Ligne Droite. Cineuropa 28 May 2010. accessed 14 January 2021.
  15. ^ Interview de Cyril Descours, acteur du film La Ligne Droite, 7 March 2011. accessed 14 January 2021.
  16. ^ a b Interview de Cyril Descours, à l’affiche de “Madame Solario”. Homme Urbain accessed 15 January 2021.
  17. ^ Alex Beaupain. Bande originale (Capitol compilation 2014). (À ton bras - sung by Cyril Descours) accessed 14 January 2021.
  18. ^ Télé7 Jours article: Le bruit des trousseaux (France 2) Faut-il regarder ce téléfilm sur l'univers carcéral ? Published 8 November 2021, accessed 22 December 2022.
  19. ^ WATCH: Go behind the scenes of Emma Watson’s Lancôme ad Eleanor Young July 28, 2011. accessed 14 January 2021.
  20. ^ CAGE CompAGniE accessed 22 January 2021.
  21. ^ Christian Courtonne; Cyril Descours; Johny Luzio. J'apprends le karaté. Paris, Chiron, 2013. accessed 15 January 2021.
  22. ^ Christian Courtonne; Cyril Descours; Johny Luzio. L'école du karaté : découverte et initiation. Paris, Vigot, DL 2014. accessed 15 January 2021.
  23. ^ Théâtre du Palais-Royal – Troupe, accessed 4 June 2022.

External links

  • Cyril Descours at IMDb
  • Cyril Descours at Unifrance
  • Cyril Descours Vimeo channel
  • Cyril Descours performs Dorante's speech from Scene V of La Critique de L’École des femmes by Molière, 2020. French text = https://fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Critique_de_L%E2%80%99%C3%89cole_des_femmes/%C3%89dition_Quinet,_1663#Sc%C3%A8ne_VI

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Cyril Descours born 15 July 1983 in Frankfurt is a French actor 1 He has appeared in more than twenty feature films since 2000 as well as in French television films and series and on stage Contents 1 Career 2 Filmography 2 1 Cinema 2 2 Television 3 Theatre 4 References 5 External linksCareer EditThe mother of Cyril Descours was German and he spent much of his childhood in London By four years of age he could speak in French German and English 2 He took part in drama from primary school onwards and in 1999 enrolled at the Cours Florent where he remained for three years 3 In 2002 and 2003 he was at the drama classes of the Conservatoire of the 10th arrondissement in Paris 3 From 2005 he was a member of the Pas de Dieux theatre company while completing his academic studies which led to him obtaining a Masters in literary translation 4 3 Descours s first stage role was in La guerre de Troie n aura pas lieu by Jean Giraudoux After acting in some short films and minor parts his first major screen role was as Tristan a 17 year old who has to look after his baby son after the death of his girlfriend in a 2003 television film L Enfant de l aube The child of the dawn directed by Marc Angelo and based on the novel by Patrick Poivre d Arvor which attracted over 10 million viewers on TF1 for its broadcast on 14 January 2004 5 3 Around 2005 saw him in two films as a French student in French for Beginners and as a young man who meets a Moslem girl in the segment of Paris je t aime 6 directed by Gurinder Chadha on television he featured as Ben in several episodes of the first series of a popular drama Clara Sheller opposite Frederic Diefenthal and Melanie Doutey and as the drug dealing son of a farmer in Joseph 7 8 He went on to appear in further historical drama series both on French television and briefly in the American series John Adams before featuring in the major French television drama Sa raison d etre What love means which traced 30 years of AIDS in France through the experiences of one family 9 Descours played leading parts in his following screen roles In the dysfunctional family in the adaptation of Mark Haddon s 2006 novel A Spot of Bother as the contemporary comedy drama Une petite zone de turbulences A small area of turbulence he portrayed the son whose reluctance to let his partner attend his sister s wedding causes their relationship to break down 10 In Complices Accomplices he starred as the murdered male escort whose final weeks are shown interspersed with the investigation to find his killer 11 this gained Descours a nomination to the Cesar Award for Most Promising Actor in 2011 12 13 He then co starred as an athlete recently blinded in an accident and stifled by the continual compassion of those around him who tries to rebuild his life through his sport in Regis Wargnier s La Ligne droite Straight line 14 for this role he trained alongside members of the French athletics squad and was filmed in front of 50 000 people during the Meeting Areva 15 He also co starred in an adaptation of the 1956 novel Madame Solario as the brother of the title character 16 As a young man who goes to Paris to pursue a singing career he starred in the 2011 TV film Le Chant des Sirenes The Siren s song which won the prize for best film at the La Rochelle film festival that year 7 2013 brought another period drama Une femme dans la Revolution A Woman during the revolution where he played a young depute of the Tiers Etat who has a passionate affair with a young peasant In a short that year he played the lead singer in a pop group Boys Band Theorie and also sang the theme song by Alex Beaupain 17 Leading and starring roles followed in films Ciel rouge Red sky shot entirely in Viet Nam as Philippe Merlen a French sergeant who deserts to save a Viet Minh prisoner which results in a brief romance Les Gardiennes The care taking women as Georges and television dramas such as Peur sur la base On the base of fear as a naval rating suspected of murder Mystere au Louvre Mystery at the Louvre as Frederic Delage an acrobat who becomes involved in a daring jewel theft the mini series Laetitia based on real events as Judge Martinot and in another series De Gaulle l eclat et le secret De Gaulle the splendour and the secret as Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel He took the lead role in a 2021 France 2 adaptation of Philippe Claudel s autobiographical novel Le Bruit des trousseaux The jangling of bunches of keys about a prison teacher who begins to sacrifice his own life through vicarious involvement with life in prison and that of its inmates his students 18 In 2011 he featured with Emma Watson in a two minute video advert for a new Lancome perfume filmed in Paris 19 Alongside screen work Descours has continued in stage productions in both classic and modern plays In 2015 with three other actors and musicians he formed a group to practice non verbal theatre skills on a regular basis 20 this resulted in productions seen in Paris and Barcelona On radio he has appeared as Leon in Madame Bovary on France Culture in 2017 7 Cyril Descours is a black belt in karate 2nd Dan having started at the age of 12 16 and also practices swimming roller skating snowboarding tennis and riding 3 He has co authored two karate books for children 21 22 Filmography EditCinema Edit 2000 Le Jour de grace short by Jerome Salle Grandjean 2004 Troubles Sens by Anna Condo le serveur waiter 2005 Ming d or short by Jennifer Devoldere 2005 Franzosisch fur Anfanger by Christian Ditter Matthieu 2006 Paris je t aime collective film in the segment Quais de Seine directed by Gurinder Chadha Francois 2007 Silence on voudrait bien s aimer short by Alain Minot Jeannot 2009 Une petite zone de turbulences by Alfred Lot Mathieu Muret 2010 Complices by Frederic Mermoud Vincent 2011 La Ligne droite by Regis Wargnier Yannick 2011 Madame Solario by Rene Feret Eugene Harden 2013 Boys Band Theorie short by Christophe Charrier Nathan 2014 Passer l hiver by Aurelia Barbet Michel the man in the van 2015 Ciel Rouge by Olivier Lorelle Philippe Merlen 2017 Chez nous by Lucas Belvaux Jean Baptiste Verhaeghe 2017 Les Gardiennes by Xavier Beauvois GeorgesTelevision Edit 2003 L Enfant de l aube by Marc Angelo Tristan TF1 2004 Les Montana by Benoit d Aubert Johan Kowalski France 2 2004 2005 Clara Sheller series 1 by Renaud Bertrand Ben France 2 2005 Joseph telefilm of Marc Angelo Leo Johassin TF1 2006 Le President Ferrare by Alain Nahum episode L Affaire Gilles d Aubert Romain France 2 2006 Vive la bombe by Jean Pierre Sinapi Philippe Arte concerning the Beryl incident 2006 Rilke et Rodin une rencontre by Bernard Malaterre Rainer Maria Rilke Arte 2007 L Affaire Christian Ranucci Le Combat d une mere by Denys Granier Deferre Maitre le Plantier lawyer TF1 2007 Sa raison d etre by Renaud Bertrand Jerome France 2 2007 John Adams by Tom Hooper Citizen Genet HBO in English 2008 La reine et le cardinal by Marc Riviere Louis XIV as a 20 year old France 2 2010 Un village francais six episodes Yvon a communist envoy from Paris France 3 2011 Le Chant des Sirenes by Laurent Herbiet le garcon broadcast by France 2 in June 2014 2013 Une femme dans la Revolution by Jean Daniel Verhaeghe Benjamin France 3 2015 La Fin de la nuit by Lucas Belvaux Thomas Pian RTB France 3 2017 Peur sur la base by Laurence Katrian Nathan Berken France 3 2017 Mystere au Louvre by Lea Fazer Frederic Delage France 2 2019 Laetitia mini series by Jean Xavier de Lestrade Le Juge Martinot France 2 2020 De Gaulle l eclat et le secret series by Francois Velle Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel France 2 2021 Le Bruit des trousseaux Alexis Pasquier TV film on France 2 Theatre Edit1999 La guerre de Troie n aura pas lieu of Jean Giraudoux 2000 Le Mariage de Figaro of Beaumarchais 2001 Les Femmes savantes of Moliere 2001 Art of Yasmina Reza 2001 Le Dindon of Georges Feydeau 2002 Il est important d etre Aime The Importance of Being Earnest of Oscar Wilde 2002 Qui a peur de Virginia Woolf of Edward Albee 2003 Romeo and Juliet of Shakespeare 2004 Tartuffe of Moliere 2005 Les Caprices de Marianne of Alfred de Musset 2005 Demandes en Mariage of Michel Melki 2006 Don Qui of Leela Alaniz 2007 Palindromes of Leela Alaniz 2017 O Gilgamesh of Edgar Alemany CAGE Compagnie 2019 22 Edmond of Alexis Michalik Theatre du Palais Royal Leonidas Volny Christian 23 References Edit Cyril Descours BFI Nicole Real Cyril Descours Je me suis entraine Telepro no 3339 1er mars 2018 p 23 a b c d e Telerama vodkaster Page for Cyril Descours Acteur accessed 14 January 2021 Interview de Cyril Descours sur citeartistes com le 31 03 2005 accessed 28 April 2009 Audience figures in 2004 on the site toutelatele com accessed 28 April 2009 UniFrance page for Cyril Descours actor accessed 14 January 2021 a b c Theatre les deschargeurs page for Cyril Descours accessed 15 January 2021 Notre cinema Joseph 2005 accessed 15 January 2021 IMDB page for Sa raison d etre accessed 16 January 2021 James Travers Review of Une petite zone de turbulences 2010 accessed 13 January 2021 Roger Ebert A corpse and how it got that way review 9 June 2010 accessed 14 January 2021 Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema amp Chaumet presentent Revelations 2011 accessed 15 January Et les Revelations 2011 sont accessed 15 January 2021 Fabien Lemercier Getting back on track in Wargnier s La Ligne Droite Cineuropa 28 May 2010 accessed 14 January 2021 Interview de Cyril Descours acteur du film La Ligne Droite 7 March 2011 accessed 14 January 2021 a b Interview de Cyril Descours a l affiche de Madame Solario Homme Urbain accessed 15 January 2021 Alex Beaupain Bande originale Capitol compilation 2014 A ton bras sung by Cyril Descours accessed 14 January 2021 Tele7 Jours article Le bruit des trousseaux France 2 Faut il regarder ce telefilm sur l univers carceral Published 8 November 2021 accessed 22 December 2022 WATCH Go behind the scenes of Emma Watson s Lancome ad Eleanor Young July 28 2011 accessed 14 January 2021 CAGE CompAGniE accessed 22 January 2021 Christian Courtonne Cyril Descours Johny Luzio J apprends le karate Paris Chiron 2013 accessed 15 January 2021 Christian Courtonne Cyril Descours Johny Luzio L ecole du karate decouverte et initiation Paris Vigot DL 2014 accessed 15 January 2021 Theatre du Palais Royal Troupe accessed 4 June 2022 External links EditCyril Descours at IMDb Cyril Descours at Unifrance Cyril Descours Vimeo channel Cyril Descours performs Dorante s speech from Scene V of La Critique de L Ecole des femmes by Moliere 2020 French text https fr m wikisource org wiki La Critique de L E2 80 99 C3 89cole des femmes C3 89dition Quinet 1663 Sc C3 A8ne VI Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cyril Descours amp oldid 1129141755, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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