Xavier Deluc

Xavier Deluc (born 18 March 1958) is a French actor, director and scriptwriter. He is most known for acting in TV series such as 'Marc Eliot' (a French police drama), Dolmen (Brittany based family drama) and 12 seasons of 'Research Unit' (another specialized French police drama) as 'Captain Martin Bernier', and starring role in movies including He Died with His Eyes Open in 1985 and Captive in 1986. Xavier Lepetit was born in Caen in Calvados. His childhood was spent in Jacob-Mesnil, a hamlet just near Bretteville-sur-Laize. He was raised in boarding school in Lisieux. When he turned 14 he got involved in amateur dramatics and performed in his first short film. Aged twenty, he went to Paris and enrolls in the Cours Florent (a private drama school). The actor Robert Hossein then noticed him. Xavier recalls that "I was the only blond, - I was taken!". Hossein then gave him his first role as the young 'Edgar Linton' in his play 'Les Hauts de Hurlevent' (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë), performed in the theater of Boulogne-Billancourt and Lyon in 1979. It was under his birth name, Xavier Lepetit while aged 22, that he debuted in his first film Les surdoués de la première compagnie, directed by Michel Gérard in 1981, before joining Max Pécas for Belles, blondes et bronzées (also in 1981) and Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez in 1983. In 1984, he was in Yannick Bellon's film La Triche (The Cheat), a distributor then asked him to take a pseudonym to improve the posters. The actor thought of his weekends in Luc-sur-Mer on the Côte de Nacre, where he spent a lot of his time, he then becomes Xavier Deluc. Thanks to his performance in the film, he was named as the most promising actor at the 10th César ceremony of 1985. Then the following year, at the 11th ceremony of the César, where he is nominated as the best actor in a supporting role for He Died with His Eyes Open by Jacques Deray, just after completing Robert Kramer's science-fiction film Diesel in 1985. He is also a theater actor, performing in Jean-Claude Brisville's The Blue Villa at Espace Cardin theatre (Paris) in 1986. He then met director Jean Marais at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens to don 'Hans' costume in Jean Cocteau's play Bacchus in 1988. Xavier later said about Jean Marais, that "I did not know how to die and (he) taught me to die on stage". In 1989, he starred with James Wilby and Serena Gordon in a two-part TV mini-series of A Tale of Two Cities for ITV Granada. The production also aired on Masterpiece Theatre on the PBS in the United States. In 1991, he started a campaign called 'No to drugs, Yes to life' based on his own previous drug abuse, he then staged his self=written play called 'La Pluie du Soleil' (or "The rain of the sun") performed at the Comédie-Caumartin theater. In 1991 he also recorded a duet single with Viktor Lazlo called "Baiser sacré" on the Polydor label. From 1998 to 2005, he starred in the Marc Eliot television series and then in 2006, he landed his most important role in his television career, performing the Major, then Lieutenant, then Captain Martin Bernier, main character of the series 'Research Unit', which in 2018 reached the twelfth season, with him being the only surviving cast member since the start. ... Source: Article "Xavier Deluc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Caen, Calvados, France, 1958-03-18

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No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	Les surdoués de la première compagnie	Fred	35
2	1981	Belles, blondes et bronzées	Marc	32
3	1983	The Seducers of Saint-Tropez	Christian	39
4	1984	The Cheat	Bernard	39
5	1985	Diesel	Drimi	47
6	1985	He Died with His Eyes Open	Hugo Spark	58
7	1985	The Temptation of Isabelle	Alain	56
8	1986	États d'âme	Michel	40
9	1986	Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée	Bernard	54
10	1986	Captive	D	27
11	1986	Private Tuition	Laurent	55
12	1987	La Brute	Jacques Vauthier	50
13	1987	Cayenne Palace	Mathieu	28
14	1988	Let Sleeping Cops Lie	Lutz	55
15	1993	L'homme au double visage	Serge Dauvet / Jacques Verdone	0
16	1994	Un jour avant l'aube	Lieutenant Maury	40
17	1995	L'Affaire Dreyfus	Lucien Herr	58
18	1996	The Orinoco Dam	Ugo	60
19	1997	Blood Sisters	Manocci	30
20	1998	The Pianist	Larsen	78
21	2004	Celle qui n'existait pas		0
22	2006	A Winter in Paris	L'homme d'Hélène	56
23	2008	Marié(s) ou presque	Philippe VRP	0
24	2014	Changement de cap	Alex Legrand	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1976	Police Commissioner Moulin	Veraghen	58
2	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
3	1984	Série noire		70
4	1984	The Octopus	Lorenzo Ribeira	79
5	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
6	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
7	1989	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Darnay	50
8	1991	Riviera	Christophe	10
9	1992	Love at First Sight	David	30
10	1994	Charlemagne, le prince à cheval	Roland	85
11	1996	Terre indigo	Pierre Vallogne / Louis Debarbera	0
12	1997	Sud lointain	Alban Saint Reaux	0
13	1997	Joséphine, Guardian Angel	Alexandre	59
14	1998	Marc Eliot	Marc Eliot	100
15	2002	La ligne noire	Commissaire Scherer	0
16	2005	La Battante	Jérôme Arfan	70
17	2005	Dolmen	Christian Bréhat	42
18	2006	Research Unit	Martin Bernier	84
19	2006	Camping paradis	Thierry	50
20	2013	Murders in...	Walter Beaumont	74
21	2017	Tomorrow Is Ours	Procureur Sébastien Perraud	63

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