Nicolas Giraud

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1978-11-12 (47 years old)

Place of Birth

Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France

Nicolas Giraud

Biography

Nicolas Giraud (born 12 November 1978) is a French actor and filmmaker. Giraud is known for playing the role of Peter in the 2008 action film Taken. He is the writer, director and lead actor of the short film Faiblesses (2009). Giraud played the lead role in L'Astronaute (2022), a French film that he wrote and directed. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicolas Giraud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

2011

The First Man

as Uncle Étienne (1924)

2023

The Astronaut

as Jim Desforges

2009

High Lane

as Fred

2008

Taken

as Peter

2010

2011

Coup d'éclat

as Cédric, le subordonné de Fabienne

2011

Voir la Mer

as Nicolas

2011

2007

In Your Wake

as Marco

2009

2014

2008

2015

Anton Tchekhov 1890

as Anton Tchékhov

2004

Sous le bleu

as Michel

2013

Dust

as M. Chabert

2015

Far from Men

as Lieutenant Le Tallec

2010

Elsewhere

as Patrick's brother

2011

2018

Close Enemies

as Rémi Rufo

2017

The Guardians

as Constant Sandrail

2010

Pas si simple

as Jean-Marc

Production

2009

Weaknesses

as Writer

2009

Weaknesses

as Director

2023

The Astronaut

as Director

2023

The Astronaut

as Screenplay

2023

2009

Weaknesses

as Production Design

2009

Weaknesses

as Editor

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