Vincent Cassel
Acting · Directing · Production
Born November 23, 1966, Paris, France
Vincent Cassel (born November 23, 1966) is a French actor. He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine, for which he received two César Award nominations. He garnered wide recognition with English-speaking audiences for his performances in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007), as well as Eastern Promises (2007), Black Swan (2010), and Jason Bourne (2016). Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One (both in 2008). In 2020, he portrayed Engerraund Serac in the HBO television series Westworld.
Filmography
- 2027Dumas: Black Devil
- 2027The Last Druid
- 2026Parallel Tales — Pierre / Nicolas
- 2026Sacrifice — Ben Bracken
- 2026The Hunchback: Soul of Paris — Quasimodo
- 2025Banger — Luis / Scorpex
- 2025The Colosseum
- 2025The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse — Charon
- 2025The Shrouds — Karsh Relikh
- 2024Damaged — Walker Bravo
- Fiasco — Robin Jacomet
- 2024Saint-Exupéry — Henri Guillaumet
- 2023Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom — Jules César
- Liaison — Gabriel Delage, Executive Producer
- 2023The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan — Athos
- 2023The Three Musketeers: Milady — Athos
- 6 x confiné.e.s — Scorpex
- 2021Becoming Cousteau — (voice)
- 2021Fake News — Actor in Guillaume Kekchoz's new film, Co-Producer
- 2020A Friendly Tale... — Marc
- 2020Underwater — Captain Lucien
- 2019The Specials — Bruno Haroche
- 2018Black Tide — François, Producer
- 2018Default — IMF Managing Director
- 2018Li Na: My Life
- 2018The Emperor of Paris — Vidocq
- 2018The Great Mystical Circus — Jean-Paul
- 2018The World Is Yours — Henri
- 2017Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti — Paul Gauguin
- Roi de la vanne
- 2017The Man Who Unlocked the Universe — Narrator
- 2017The Movie of My Life — Nicolas Terranova
- 2016It's Only the End of the World — Antoine
- 2016Jason Bourne — Asset
- Westworld — Serac
- 2015Child 44 — Major Kuzmin
- 2015My King — Georgio Milevski
- 2015One Wild Moment — Laurent
- 2015Partisan — Gregori
- 2015Tale of Tales — King of Strongcliff
- 2015Violence en réunion — Vincent Battisti
- 2014Beauty and the Beast — The Beast
- 2014Rio, I Love You — Zé
- 2013Trance — Franck
- 2011A Dangerous Method — Otto Gross
- 2011Black Swan: Metamorphosis — Self, Thanks
- Platane — Vincent Cassel
- 2011The Monk — Frère Ambrosio
- 2010Black Swan — Thomas Leroy / The Gentleman
- Great Migrations
- 2010Our Day Will Come — Patrick, Producer
- 2009Adrift — Matias
- 2009Round Da Way — Tony Merguez (voice)
- 2008Mesrine: Killer Instinct — Jacques Mesrine
- 2008Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — Jacques Mesrine
- 2007Eastern Promises — Kirill
- 2007His Majesty Minor — Satyre
- 2007Ocean's Thirteen — François Toulour
- 2006FBI Zoo — Walt
- 2006Satan — Joseph, Producer
- 2005Derailed — LaRoche
- 2004Blueberry — Mike Blueberry
- 2004Ocean's Twelve — François Toulour
- 2004Secret Agents — Brisseau
- 2004The Reckoning — Lord De Guise
- 2003Kourtrajmé Vol 1 — Vincent
- 2003Le Chat d'la grand mère d'Abdel Krim — Vinz
- Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme — Corsini
- 2002Irreversible — Marcus, Co-Producer
- 2002La barbichette — Vinz
- 2001Birthday Girl — Alexei
- 2001Brotherhood of the Wolf — Jean-François de Morangias
- 2001Dear Father
- 2001Read My Lips — Paul Angeli
- 2001Shrek — Monsieur Hood (voice)
- 2001Tarubi, l'arabe strait 2 — Vinz
- 2000The Crimson Rivers — Max Kerkerian
- 1999Femmes enragées — Vincent
- 1999Guest House Paradiso — Gino Bolognese
- 1999The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc — Gilles de Rais
- 1999Unruly — Pitou
- 1998Compromis — Le jeune premier
- 1998Elizabeth — Duc d'Anjou
- Lascars — Graffeur
- 1998Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences) — Michael
- 1997As You Want Me — Pasquale
- 1997Dobermann — Yann Le Pentrec aka Dobermann
- 1997Shabbat Night Fever — Director, Writer, Producer
- 1996The Apartment — Max
- 1996The Pupil — Julien
- 3000 scénarios contre un virus
- 1995Adultery (A User's Guide) — Bruno
- 1995Blood of the Hunter — Pastamoo
- 1995Jefferson in Paris — Camille Desmoulins
- 1995La Haine — Vinz
- 1995Valse Nocturne — Vincent
- 1995Women — Eric
- C'est mon histoire — Vincent
- 1994Elle voulait faire quelque chose — Vincent
- 1994Putain de porte — Vincent
- 1993Dose mortelle
- 1993Métisse — Max
- 1992Hot Chocolate — Dédé
- 1992Un dimanche sans ailes
- Warburg: A Man of Influence — Vincent
- 1991Les Clés du Paradis — Vincent
- 1991Les Dessous de la passion — Christopher / The Photograph
- 1989Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête — Pierre
- Blake & Mortimer: The Yellow M — Pr Septimus
- Capoeira, les guerriers de la danse — Producer
- Eleven Missing Days
- Trivial Of My Life — Gaston Delacroix
Appearances as themselves (22)
- Cannorama — Self - Guest
- 2026Music, Fashion, Film — Self (voice)
- 2023Au cœur du Papotin — Self
- Beau geste — Self
- 2023One Night with Asterix & Obelix — Self - Actor
- Têtàtête(s) — Self - Guest
- Hot Ones — Self - Guest
- Le Late avec Alain Chabat — Self
- 2021Irréversible : à l'envers et contre tout — Self
- 2019The Irreversible Odyssey — Self
- 2016Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible — Self
- Clique — Self - Guest
- 2012Il était une fois... « La Haine » — Self - Actor (archive footage)
- 2011Belmondo, itinéraire... — Self
- C à vous — Self - Guest
- 2006Ten Years of La Haine — Self
- 2006The Making of Derailed — Self
- 2005Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône — Self
- Burger Quiz — Self
- 2001Les Rivières pourpres: L'enquête — Self
- 1999The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso' — Self
- Vivement dimanche — Self