Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement. When he was 13, his mother apprenticed him to a hairdresser in a trendy parlor on Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdresser's son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert. At the same time he developed a great interest for literature (Balzac, Flaubert, Proust). His passion for soul music (James Brown) made him a regular of discothèques. This is where he met Philippe Labro, who gave him his first role in Tout peut arriver in 1969. He then studied acting under Jean-Laurent Cochet. However, it was his collaboration with Éric Rohmer that would make him popular for Le Genou de Claire in 1970, in which he played a small role as an adolescent. He appeared in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois, and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and in films directed by Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch, Édouard Molinaro. Thanks to Jean-Laurent Cochet, he later discovered theater, his true passion, which he described as "the only place where life is expressed... something that no school will ever teach". However, it was his role in La Discrète, directed by Christian Vincent in 1990, that made him well-known to the general public. He divides his work between cinema and theater, where since 1980 he has had considerable success with readings from the texts of La Fontaine, Nietzsche, Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit, Paul Valéry and Roland Barthes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabrice Luchini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Filmography

• 2026Hugo — Robert Zuchini, Co-Producer
• 2026Love Lessons — Émile
• 2025Natacha, (Almost) Air Hostess — Narrator
• 2025Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu — Christian
• 2024La Fontaine et le Confinement — Writer
• 2024Marcello Mio — Fabrice
• 2024The Empire — Belzébuth
• Class Act — Marcel Loiseau
• 2023For Better and for Worse — Jean Leroy
• LEGEND
• 2023The Baby — Joseph
• 2023The Crime Is Mine — Judge Rabusset
• 2022Fabrice Luchini : des écrivains parlent d'argent
• The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
• 2019Alice and the Mayor — Paul Theraneau
• 2019Joan of Arc — Roi Charles VII
• 2019Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol — Narrator (voice)
• 2019The Best Is Yet to Come — Arthur Dreyfus
• 2019The Mystery of Henri Pick — Jean Michel Rouche
• 2018A Man in a Hurry — Alain
• 2018The Emperor of Paris — Fouché
• 2016Slack Bay — André van Peteghem
• 2015Courted — Michel Racine
• 2015Un début prometteur — Francis Vauvel
• 2014A Visit to Hokusai — Narrator
• 2014Gemma Bovery — Martin
• 2014Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
• 2013Cycling with Molière — Serge Tanneur, Original Story
• 2012Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia — Jules César
• 2012In the House — Germain
• 2011The Women on the 6th Floor — Jean-Louis Joubert
• 2010My Father's Guests — Arnaud
• 2010Trophy Wife — Robert Pujol
• 2008A Day at the Museum — Guard at the Malraux museum
• 2008Le Point sur Robert — Fabrice Luchini
• 2008Paris — Roland Verneuil
• 2008The Girl from Monaco — Bertrand Beauvois
• 2007Moliere — M. Jourdain
• 2006Jean-Philippe — Fabrice / Self
• 2005La cloche a sonné — Simon Arcos
• 2004Intimate Strangers — William
• 2004Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine — Doctor Knock
• 2003The Cost of Living — Brett
• 2001Barnie's Minor Annoyances — Barnie
• 1999Keep It Quiet — Grégoire Jeancourt
• 1999Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
• 1999Nothing About Robert — Didier Temple
• 1998« Art » — Serge
• 1997An Air So Pure — Magnus
• 1997On Guard — Count Gonzague
• 1996Beaumarchais the Scoundrel — Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
• 1996Men, Women: A User's Manual — Fabio Lini
• 1995The Juliette Year — Camille Prader
• 1994Colonel Chabert — Derville
• 1993All That... for This?! — Fabrice Lenormand
• 1993The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque — Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur
• 1993Toxic Affair — The Analyst
• 1992Little Nothings — Lepetit
• 1992The Return of Casanova — Camille
• 1990Six crimes sans assassins — Simon
• 1990The Discreet — Antoine
• 1990Uranus — Jourdan
• 1988La Fée Carabine — Pastor
• 1988Lark, I'll Pluck You! — Jacques
• 1988The Color of the Wind — Serge
• 1987Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle — Le marchand de tableau
• 1987Les Oreilles entre les dents — Luc Fabri
• 1986Family Business — Shady Lawyer
• 1986Max My Love — Nicolas
• 1986Paradise Hotel — Arthur
• 1986Triple sec
• 1985P.R.O.F.S. — Michel
• 1985Robin — Frédéric
• 1984Emmanuelle 4 — Oswaldo
• 1984Full Moon in Paris — Octave
• 1983Il ne faut jurer de rien
• 1983Lettre de la Sierra Morena — Don Quichotte
• 1983Zig Zag Story — Bob Hemler
• 1982T'es folle ou quoi ? — Jean-François Sevran
• 1981Le Beau Monde — Jean-Pierre Davier
• 1981The Aviator's Wife — Mercillat
• Fantômas — Bonardin
• 1980Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme — Arthur
• 1978En répétant Perceval
• 1978Perceval — Perceval
• 1978Violette Nozière — Camus, student
• 1976Les Écrans déchirés — Fabrice
• 1976Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other) — Vincent Vergne
• 1974Immoral Tales — André - Story 1
• 1970Claire's Knee — Vincent
• 1969Tout peut arriver — Fabrice
• Anne et François — François Mitterrand

Appearances as themselves (19)

• 2025Laïcité, l'exception française - 120 ans, et maintenant ? — Self
• 2024Céline Dion, la bande originale de sa vie — Self - Guest
• 2022By Heart — Self
• 2020Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Les années Bouvard : le rire et l’impertinence — Self (archive footage)
• Quotidien — Self, Self - Guest
• Call My Agent! — Self
• 2012Luchini - Variations La Fontaine — Self
• 2008Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve) — Self
• On n'est pas couché — Self - Guest
• 2002A Day in the Life of French Cinema — Self
• 1998Par cœur — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• 1990Journey to the End of the Night — Self
• Aujourd'hui la vie — Self
• 1981Droit de Réponse — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Cérémonie des César — Self - Presenter, Self - Host
• 1975Né — Self