Vincent Cassel
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Vincent Cassel (born November 23 1966) is a French actor.
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Biography
Personal life
Cassel was born Vincent Crochon in Paris, the son of Sabine Litique, a journalist, and French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel. He is married to Italian actress Monica Bellucci, with whom he has a daughter, Deva Cassel, born September 12, 2004, in Rome, Italy. His brother Mathias is a member of the French rap group Assassin. He has a passion for Capoeira and displayed his talent in the movie Ocean's Twelve.
Career
His breakthrough role was in Mathieu Kassovitz's critically acclaimed film La Haine where he played a troubled youth from the decrepit outskirts of Paris. Cassel has gone on to act in a variety of films such as the moody L'Appartement, the violent Dobermann, genre-bending Le Pacte des Loups and in the highly controversial Irréversible, where he appeared frontally nude.
Cassel has also done a number of English language films, such as Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, Derailed, Birthday Girl, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Elizabeth, Eastern Promises, and Shrek (as the voice of Monsieur Hood). in 2006, he appeared in Sheitan, in which he played a shepherd who carries out satanic rituals.
Filmography
2000s
- Mesrine (2007)
- Sa Majesté Minor (2007)
- Ocean's Thirteen (2007) — François Toulour
- Eastern Promises (2007)
- Sheitan (2006) — Joseph (also Produced)
- Derailed (2005) — LaRoche
- Ocean's Twelve (2004) — François Toulour
- Agents Secrets (2004) — Brisseau
- Blueberry (2004) — Mike S. Blueberry
- The Reckoning (2003) — Lord De Guise
- Irréversible (2002) — Marcus
- Ice Age (2002) — Diego (French version voice)
- Read My Lips (2001) — Paul
- Birthday Girl (2001) — Alexei
- Shrek (2001) — voice of Monsieur Hood
- Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) — Jean-François de Morangias
- The Crimson Rivers (2000) — Max Kerkerian
1990s
- Guest House Paradiso (1999) — Gino Bolognese
- The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) — Gilles de Rais
- Elizabeth (1998) — Duc d'Anjou
- Come mi vuoi (1997) — Pasquale
- Dobermann (1997) — Yann le Pentrec (Dobermann)
- L'Appartement (1996) — Max
- L'élève (1996) — Julien (based on Henry James' novella "The Pupil")
- Jefferson in Paris (1995) — Camille Desmoulins
- La Haine (1995) — Vinz
- Métisse (1993) — Max
