Biography
Francis Leplay is a French actor, film director and novelist. An alumnus of France's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences Po, Leplay began acting on television in episodes of the French detective series Julie Lescaut and Navarro. His first film role was in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's J'ai horreur de l'amour (I Hate Love) in 1997. His career took off in the 2000s, and he soon started acting in films by directors including Sofia Coppola, Noémie Lvovsky, Arnaud Desplechin, and Benoît Jacquot as well as in the television series Spiral. Leplay has also acted in theater productions with directors Denis Podalydès and Lambert Wilson in venues including Lincoln Center, the Mossovet Theatre, and the Bouffes du Nord. The Éditions du Seuil published two of his novels, 2006's Après le spectacle, a work of autofiction comparing intermittent acting work and romantic uncertainty, and 2009's Samuel et Alexandre, which follows two men staking out the bounds of their friendship. In 2021, Leplay and French-American filmmaker Isidore Bethel co-directed the docufiction hybrid film Acts of Love, which premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Source: Article "Francis Leplay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Acted in 52
2020s
- 2026
Mitterrand confidentiel
Pierre Pingeot · 4 episodes
- 2025
Prime Rush
Guy
Cerfa
Movie
The End of the Iron Age
Le Président de la République
Frotter, frotter
Lazare Masurel · 4 episodes
- 2024
Robespierre
Movie
- 2022
- 2021
Mixte 1963
Rene Herman
- 2020
My Best Part
Movie
2010s
- 2019
Opération Finot
Philippe Rivera
- 2018
A Violent Desire for Joy
The Abbot
Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen
Fouqier
Ce que vivent les roses
Yahn Quemener
- 2017
Jealous
Nathalie's doctor
Tomorrow and Thereafter
Monsieur Lesieur
Nelly
Mathieu
- 2016
Kill Skills
Our Friend
- 2015
- 2014
The Cosmopolitans
Philippe
The Cosmopolitans
Philippe · 1 episode
- 2013
Youth
Frédéric
- 2012
Looking for Hortense
Marco
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Le Maître de philosophie
- 2010
Imogène McCarthery
Gowen Ross
2000s
- 2008
Rien dans les poches
'Le lézard' #1
Intrusions
Maître Pierre Marsac
Modern Love
Hervé
Le Mental de l'équipe
Movie
- 2007
The Price to Pay
Agent immobilier
- 2006
L'État de Grace
Cédric Pierrot · 3 episodes
- 2005
Zim and Co
Inspecteur commissariat
- 2004
Kings & Queen
Christian, le félon
- 2003
Clémence
Alain Dorcières
Only Girls
Philippe Jean
- 2002
Ma caméra et moi
Le jeune homme
- 2001
1990s
- 1999
Time Regained
Employee Jupien
- 1997
I Hate Love
Association Member
- 1995
Rai
Movie
Directed 1
2020s
- 2021
Acts of Love
Director
Edited 1
2020s
- 2021
Acts of Love
Editor
Produced 1
2020s
- 2021
Acts of Love
Producer
Wrote 1
2020s
- 2021
Acts of Love
Writer
Appearances1
1990s
- 1999
Jamel Show
Self