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.

Filmography

• Mitterrand confidentiel — Pierre Pingeot
• 2026The Money Maker — Victor
• 2025Cerfa
• Frotter, frotter — Lazare Masurel
• 2025Prime Rush — Guy
• 2025The End of the Iron Age — Le Président de la République
• The Sentinels — Le Ministre de la Guerre, Millerand
• Cristóbal Balenciaga — Lucien LeLong
• 2024Robespierre
• 2024The Good Teacher — Mr. Musil
• 2022Brother and Sister — André Borkman
• 2022Not My Type — Le cadre Sacem
• 2021Acts of Love — Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
• 2021Mixte 1963 — Rene Herman
• Voltaire High — Rene Hermen
• 2020My Best Part
• 2019Opération Finot — Philippe Rivera
• 2019Who You Think I Am — Serge
• 2018A Violent Desire for Joy — The Abbot
• 2018Ce que vivent les roses — Yahn Quemener
• 2018Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen — Fouqier
• 2017Jealous — Nathalie's doctor
• 2017Nelly — Mathieu
• 2017Tomorrow and Thereafter — Monsieur Lesieur
• 2016Kill Skills — Our Friend
• 2015Les Cowboys — Train man
• 2015The Clearstream Affair — Lawyer Denis Robert & Les Arènes
• 20143 Hearts — Le médecin
• 2014The Cosmopolitans — Philippe
• The Cosmopolitans — Philippe
• 2013Bright Days Ahead — Le prof d'oenologie
• 2013Youth — Frédéric
• 2012Farewell, My Queen — Le comte d'Artois
• 2012Le Bourgeois gentilhomme — Le Maître de philosophie
• 2012Looking for Hortense — Marco
• 2010Imogène McCarthery — Gowen Ross
• 2008Intrusions — Maître Pierre Marsac
• 2008Le Mental de l'équipe
• 2008Modern Love — Hervé
• 2008Rien dans les poches — 'Le lézard' #1
• 2008Seule — Antoine Nardier
• 2008The Resistance: Live Free or Die — Gilbert Lesage
• Fais pas ci, fais pas ça — plaignant, l'ex-animateur
• 2007The Price to Pay — Agent immobilier
• L'État de Grace — Cédric Pierrot
• 2006Marie Antoinette — Doctor Delivery Provence
• 2005Zim and Co — Inspecteur commissariat
• 2004Kings & Queen — Christian, le félon
• 2003Clémence — Alain Dorcières
• 2003Only Girls — Philippe Jean
• 2002Ma caméra et moi — Le jeune homme
• 2001Love Bites — Photographer
• 1999Time Regained — Employee Jupien
• 1997I Hate Love — Association Member
• 1995Rai

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1999Jamel Show — Self