Mathieu Amalric (born October 25, 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker, best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, in which he played the lead villain, Steven Spielberg's Munich, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and The French Dispatch, and for his lead performance in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he drew critical acclaim. He has also won several César Awards and the Lumières Award.

Filmography

• 2027And Now It's Over — Joseph
• 2025A Private Life — Simon Cohen-Solal
• 2025Ange — Marco
• Comment Volodia devint Zelensky — Narrator
• 2025Filmlovers! — Paul Dédalus (The Filmmaker)
• 2025Four Rational People — Thanks
• 2025Nino — Homme bains publics
• 2025The Phoenician Scheme — Marseille Bob
• 2025Why War
• 2025Zelensky — Narrator (voice)
• 2024Before It's Too Late — Mathieu Amalric, Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2024Serpent's Path — Laval
• 2024Zorn III (2018 – 2022) — Director, Cinematography, Location Sound Recordist, Producer
• 2023A Brighter Tomorrow — Pierre
• 2023A Difficult Year — Henri Tomasi
• 2023A Prince — Alberto (voice)
• 2023Goodbye Vinyle — Maurice Faugère
• 2023Mars Express — Chris Royjacker (voice)
• 2023Spirit of Ecstasy — World Aid's Boss
• 2023Une Française à Kaboul : L'Aventure d'une vie — Voix off
• 2023Zorn I (2010 – 2016) — Director, Director of Photography, Location Sound Recordist, Producer
• 2022Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God — Sigmund Freud (voice)
• 2021Hold Me Tight — Screenplay, Director
• 2021Les Damnés de la Commune — Adolphe Thiers (voice)
• 2021Maîtres Anciens (Comédie) — Director
• 2021Mother Schmuckers — Le père
• 2021Oxygen — M.I.L.O
• 2021Pierre & Jeanne
• 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun — The Commissaire
• 2021Tralala — Tralala
• 2020Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty — Narrator (voice)
• 2020Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace — Narrator
• 2020Sound of Metal — Richard Berger
• 2020The Black Book — (voice)
• The Middleman — Olivier Tronier
• 2020Wonders in the Suburbs — Benoit Survenant, Producer
• 2020Ça a recommencé, l’émerveillement — Le mécanicien
• 2020Étroitement surveillé — Director
• 2019A Beautiful Summer
• 2019An Officer and a Spy — Bertillon
• 2019The Collection — Harry
• 2018A Tramway in Jerusalem
• 2018At Eternity's Gate — Dr. Paul Gachet
• 2018Islander — Narrator (voice)
• 2018John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection — Narrator (voice)
• 2018Sink or Swim — Bertrand
• 2018Zorn II (2016 – 2018) — Director, Cinematography, Location Sound Recordist, Producer
• 2017Barbara — Yves Zand, Director, Screenplay
• 2017Ismael's Ghosts — Ismaël Vuillard
• 2017Music is Music/Crazy Girl Crazy — Director
• 2017Premières répétitions : Barbara Hannigan vue par Mathieu Amalric — Director
• 2017Sleeping Beauty — Gérard Illinski, le précepteur
• 2017Tomorrow and Thereafter — Le père
• 2016Daguerrotype — Vincent
• 2016Never Ever — Jacques Rey
• 2016Struggle for Life — Galgaric
• 2016The Dunce — Boris
• 2016The Son of Joseph — Oscar Pormenor
• 2015C'est presque au bout du monde — Director
• 2015Edgar Morin, chronique d'un regard — Narration (voice)
• 2015Families — Jérôme Varenne
• 2015Hopper Stories — Director
• 2015L'homme tango
• 2015My Golden Days — Paul Dédalus
• 2015Of Shadows and Wings — Narrator
• 2015Spectrographies — The filmmaker
• The Bureau — Jean-Jacques, dit « JJA »
• 2015The Forbidden Room — Thadeusz M___ / Ostler
• 2015The Very Private Life of Mister Sim — Samuel
• 2015Winter Song — Bâtisseur
• Wolf Hall — Eustace Chapuys
• 2014Bird People — Le narrateur (voice)
• 2014If You Don't, I Will — Pierre
• 2014La Magie de Noël — Director
• 2014The Blue Room — Julien Gahyde, Director, Screenplay
• 2014The Dune — Moreau
• 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel — Serge X.
• 2014You I Tourneur
• 2013Break of Day — Patrick
• 2013Jimmy P. — Georges Devereux
• 2013Love Is the Perfect Crime — Marc
• 2013Next to Last (Autumn 63) — Writer, Director, Cinematography
• 2013The Anonymous — Roger Marion
• 2013Venus in Fur — Thomas
• 2012Camille Rewinds — Le prof de français sadique
• 2012Cosmopolis — André Petrescu
• 2012Lines of Wellington — Barão Marbot
• 2012Rich Is the Wolf — Producer
• 2012The Rest of the World — Paul
• 2012The Sinkholes — Georges
• 2012You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet — M. Henri
• 2011Chicken with Plums — Nasser-Ali Khan
• Platane — Mathieu Amalric
• 2011The Rabbi's Cat — Prince (voice)
• 2011The Silence of Joan — Preacher
• 2010Joann Sfar (drawings) — Himself, Director
• 2010On Tour — Joachim Zand, Director, Writer
• 2010On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! — Co-Director
• 2010The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec — Dieuleveult
• 2010The Screen Illusion — Director
• 2009Calder: Sculptor of Air — Récitant / Narrator (voice)
• 2009Director Marc Forster
• 2009Happy End — Robinson
• 2009Park Benches — Father with pram
• 2009Visage — Man in Bushes
• 2009Wild Grass — Bernard de Bordeaux
• 200857,000 Kilometers Between Us — Simon
• 2008A Christmas Tale — Henri
• Dieu seul me voit (Versailles-Chantiers) - version interminable — 'Atchoum'
• 2008Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — François Besse
• 2008On War — Bertrand
• 2008Quantum of Solace — Dominic Greene
• 2007A Secret — François Grimbert at 37 years old
• 2007Actresses — Denis
• 2007Deux cages sans oiseaux — Director
• 2007Heartbeat Detector — Simon Kessler
• 2007Michou d'Auber — Jacques
• 2007Salut Vladimir !
• 2007The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Jean-Dominique Bauby
• 2007The Story of Richard O — Richard O.
• 2007À l'instar du Père Noël et de la pizza — Director
• 2006A Curtain Raiser — Pierre
• 2006Fragments sur la grâce
• 2006Les mâtines — Serge
• 2006Marie Antoinette — Man at Masked Ball
• 2006The Big Apartment — Martin
• 2006The Signs — The Man
• 2006The Singer — Bruno
• 2005I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed — Philippe Bernier
• 2005Munich — Louis
• 2005The Moustache — Serge Schaeffer
• 200414,58 euros — Director
• 2004Au large de Bad Ragaz — Alex
• 2004Kings & Queen — Ismaël Vuillard
• 2004Les parallèles — Simon
• 2004The Bridge of Arts — Un spectateur du Nô
• 2003A Man, a Real One — Boris
• 2003A Sight for Sore Eyes — The art teacher
• 2003Malus — Director
• Masculin/Féminin — Director
• 2003My Children Are Different — Gérald
• 2003Public Affairs — Writer, Director
• 2002Monday Morning — voice
• 2002Shipwrecked on Route D17 — René
• 2002Special Delivery — Stéphane
• 2002Wimbledon Stage — Director, Writer
• 2001Boyhood Loves — Paul
• 2001Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance — Luigi Scarofolo
• 2000Roland's Pass — Roland
• 2000The False Servant — Lélio
• 2000The Marcorelle Affair — Fourcade
• 1999Farewell, Home Sweet Home — a drinker at bar
• 1999Late August, Early September — Gabriel
• 1999Three Bridges on the River — Arthur Echéant
• 1998Alice and Martin — Benjamin Sauvagnac
• 1998L'interview — Julien Bernardini
• 1998On a très peu d'amis — Ivan
• 1998Only God Sees Me — Atchoum
• 1997Genealogies of a Crime — Yves
• 1997Mange ta soupe — Director, Scenario Writer
• 1996Diary of a Seducer — Sebastien
• 1996My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument — Paul Dédalus
• 1995Tom est tout seul — Friend of Tom (uncredited), Assistant Director
• 1994A Letter to L... — Assistant Director
• 1994Bête de scène — Assistant Director
• 19938 bis — Director
• 1993Les Yeux au Plafond — Director, Writer
• 1993Sauve-toi — Unit Manager
• 1993The Absence — Assistant Director
• 1993The Diary of Lady M — Assistant Director
• 1992Border Line — Uncredited (restaurant patron), Second Assistant Director
• 1992Chasing Butterflies
• 1992The Sentinel — Un étudiant en médecine
• 1990Sans rires — Director, Screenplay
• 1990The Van Gogh Wake — Assistant Director, Assistant Editor
• 1987Au Revoir les Enfants — Assistant Director Trainee
• 1986La Seule différence c'est que les cafés sont plus chers — Director
• 1985Favorites of the Moon — Julien
• 1985Marre de café — Director
• Ad Vitam Eternam
• An Odd Enchantment
• Autobiographie d'un poulpe — Director, Screenplay
• Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien — Voix off
• Tu n'auras pas mes larmes

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2023Ne soyez pas vous-même — Self
• 2021Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande — Self
• 2018Amalric, l’art et la matière — Self
• 2018Jusqu’au 23 Juillet — Self - Interviewee
• 2018The Exiled — Self
• 2017Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait — Self
• 2016Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture — Self
• 2016Un, parfois deux — Self
• 2015Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran — Self
• 2014Illustrious & Unknown: The Man Who Saved the Louvre — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2013Biette — Self
• 2012Bond on Location — Self / Dominic Greene
• 2012Citizens of Cosmopolis — Self
• 2008Les amants cinéma — Self
• 2002L'héroïque cinématographe — Self (voice)
• 2001Léaud l'unique — Self - actor
• Cinématon n°1938 : Mathieu Amalric — self