Xavier Legrand (born 28 March 1979; Melun) is a French actor, direcor and screenwriter. Legrand was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the 2013 film Avant que de tout perdre (Just Before Losing Everything). His first feature Custody was in competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival and earned Legrand the Silver Lion for Best Director.

Filmography

• 2025Before What Comes After — Editor
• 2023The Successor — Director, Screenplay
• 2019Escape from Raqqa — Matray
• Mortel
• 2018Custody — Director, Writer
• 2016A Night in March — Thomas
• Blaise
• 2013Just Before Losing Everything — Director, Writer
• 2010Camus
• 2010Free Hands
• 2009La Ligne de fuite
• 2007Kaojikara
• 2007Point de fuite
• 2005Regular Lovers
• 1987Au Revoir les Enfants — Babinot

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2018Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe — self
• 2017The Soviet Revolution Told Through its Cinema — Self