Patrick Bruel

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-05-14 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Tlemcen, Oran, France [now Algeria]

Patrick Bruel

Biography

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. He lived in the staff accommodation of the girls' school in Argenteuil where his mother was a teacher. 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 c...

Acting

2011

D'un film à l'autre

as Self (archive footage)

2001

Pretty Things

as Jacques

2000

2006

Comedy of Power

as Jacques Sibaud

2007

A Secret

as Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert

2012

Grégory Lemarchal - Cinq ans

as Self (archive footage)

2004

Wolf

as Nelson

2009

1988

The Murdered House

as Séraphin Monge

1989

Brothers in Arms

as Simon Atlan

2006

O Jerusalem

as David Levin

2013

The Brats

as Agent immobilier

1996

Jaguar

as François Perrin

1997

K

as Sam Bellamy

1985

P.R.O.F.S.

as Frédéric

1993

Low Profile

as Julien Segal

2012

2012

1979

The Kick of Sirocco

as Paulo Narboni

1987

Bandits

as Mozart

1998

Foul Play

as Patrick Bruel

1992

Sweetheart

as Cristophe Vade

2014

1984

1995

Sabrina

as Louis

2014

1982

Singles

as François

1984

Marche à l'ombre

as Metro guitarist (uncredited)

1998

Paparazzi

as Patrick Bruel

1983

1986

2017

1996

Men, Women: A User's Manual

as Self (uncredited)

2017

A Family

as Vincenzo

2014

2019

Holy Lands

as Michel

2019

The Best Is Yet to Come

as César Montesiho

2019

1995

One Hundred and One Nights

as The First Speaker

1983

Le Grand Carnaval

as Pierre-Marie Labrouche, adopté par Étienne

2021

Villa Caprice

as Gilles Fontaine

1986

Follow My Gaze

as The musician

1980

La Mort en sautoir

as Singer of a suburban band

1999

1990

There Were Days... and Moons

as Le musicien qui manque son avion

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