Michel Fau (born 1964) is a French comedian, actor and theatre director. At 18, he left his hometown for training at French National Academy of Dramatic Arts from 1986 to 1989. He trained with Michel Bouquet, Gerard Desarthe and Pierre Vial. He has appeared on stage regularly in works directed by Olivier Py and he also worked with Olivier Desbordes, Jean Sébastien Rajon, Pierre Guillois, Jean-Luc Lagarce, Jean-Michel Rabeux, Jean-Claude Penchenat, Laurent Gutmann, Stéphane Braunschweig, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain, Léa Drucker, Gaspard Ulliel, Julie Depardieu, Charlotte de Turckheim, Chantal Ladesou, Catherine Frot, Samir Guesmi, ... In cinema, he worked with directors like Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Gilles Bourdos, Albert Dupontel, Dominik Moll, François Ozon, Benoît Jacquot, Noémie Lvovsky, Nina Companeez, Jean-Michel Ribes, Xavier Giannoli, Christophe Honoré, Josée Dayan, André Téchiné, ... He occasionally directs an interpretation workshop at the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts. During the Night of the 2011 Molière Award, he made a cover of Carla Bruni's song Quelqu'un m'a dit in a parody of classical singer. Source: Article "Michel Fau" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2025Lorsque l'enfant paraît — Charles Jacquet, Stage Director
• 2025The Great Arch — François Mitterrand
• 2024Borgo — Le commissaire
• 2024Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema — Jean-Pierre Léaud
• 2023Habib — Director
• 2023Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan — Honoré de Balzac
• 2023Not Now, Darling — Steve Bodley
• 2023The Crime Is Mine — Attorney General
• Le Figaro La Nuit
• The King’s Favorite — Gabriel Antoine Le Camus
• 2021Les Heureux — Victor Hugo
• Un monde, un regard
• 2020I Love You Coiffure — Patrick (segment "Le Salon de coiffure")
• 2020La fuite — Uncle
• 2020Le Postillon de Lonjumeau — Rose, Director
• 2019Amor maman — Michel
• 2019Jacques Offenbach - Die schöne Helena — Menelaos, Director
• 2019L'Odyssée Offenbach — Hippolyte de Villemessant
• 2019La Belle Hélène — Ménélas, Director
• 2018Alien Crystal Palace — Hambourg
• 2018Paris Pigalle — Maurice Vogel
• 2018The Most Assassinated Woman in the World — André
• 2017Fleur de cactus — Julien Deforges, Director
• 2017Golden Years — Samuel
• 2017Open at Night — Directeur bar branché
• 2017Ordeal — Karl Kaplan
• 2016On refait le boulevard
• 2015Arletty: A Guilty Passion — Sacha Guitry
• Capitaine Marleau — Marc Durieux, Claude
• 2015Marguerite — Atos Pezzini / Divo
• 2015Un amour qui ne finit pas — Jean
• 2014Brèves de comptoir — L'écrivain
• 20139 Month Stretch — Gynécologue
• 2013Ciboulette — La Comtesse de Castiglione, Stage Director
• 2011Requiem for a Killer — Le Chef d'orchestre
• À la recherche du temps perdu — Jupien
• 2010L'Orestie
• 2010Les Enfants de Saturne — Ré
• 2009Le Soulier de satin
• 2007Illusions comiques
• 2006Gaspard le bandit — Riboux
• 2005Foon — Miss Petchers
• 2003Swimming Pool — First Man
• 2002Le petit vélo dans la tête — (voice)
• 2000Closed Eyes — Michel
• 2000With a Friend Like Harry... — Eric
• 1999Le Créateur — Nicolas
• 1990Cyrano de Bergerac — Ragueneau's 2nd Poet
• Montagnes Russes
• The Third Hand

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2025La Grande Soirée du 31 de Paris — Self : Guest
• 2024Bernard Duvert, l'Esprit souffle où il veut — Self
• 2023Merci Zaza - La Folle Histoire de la Cage aux Folles — Self / Speakerine
• 2018Muriel Robin, oser être soi... — Self
• 2015L'échappée, à la poursuite d'Annie Le Brun — Self
• 2011Michel Fau - Récital emphatique — Self
• La revue de presse — Self
• Salut les Terriens ! — Self - Guest