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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-04-30 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France

Charles Berling

Biography:

Charles Berling (born 30 April 1958) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.

Charles Berling, son of a navy doctor, is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco); she died in 2004.

When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then Toulon, then, at seven, Tahiti.

He studied acting at the Belgian school INSAS, in Brussels. He is the father of the actor Émile Berling.

Source: Article "Charles Berling" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Acting

2024

The Storyteller as Romain Gary

2023

Flo as Jacques Arthaud
Les Siffleurs as Stéphane Maulin

2022

Masquerade as Jean-Charles
The Island of Thirty Coffins as Raphaël Vorski

2021

Claude Sautet: A Subtle Director as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Damned of the Paris Commune as Gustave Courbet (voice)

2019

White as Snow as Bernard
A Clever Crook as Commissioner Marc Beffrois
Poseur as Jean
Three Days and a Life as Michel Desmedt

2018

Black Tide as Marc

2017

The Frozen Dead as Capitaine Martin Servaz

2016

Elle as Richard
Heartstrings as Le père de Marie
Marie Curie as Pierre Curie
Trepalium as Bartholomé

2015

The Clearstream Affair as Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke
We Were Young as Bilou
Capitaine Marleau as Carlos Dos Santos

2013

It Boy as Luc Apfel

2012

Bad Seeds as Pierre Verdier
Second Chances as Philippe Cabrera
More Than Honey as Narrator (french voice)

2011

Forbidden House as Benoît
Beirut Hotel as Mathieu

2010

Trader Games as Georges
Beyond Suspicion as Henri Schaeffer

2009

L'Abolition as Robert Badinter

2008

Quiet Chaos as Boesson
Summer Hours as Frédéric

2006

Made in Paris as Worms

2005

March of the Penguins as Father Penguin (voice)
Grabuge! as Maurice
The Art of Breaking Up as Édouard de Bois d'Enghien
Dalida as Lucien Morisse
Nina's House as Maurice Gutman

2004

Secret Agents as Eugène
The Sun Assassinated as Jean Sénac

2003

I'm Staying as Antoine
A Species Odyssey as Narrator (voice)
L'Odyssée de l'espèce as Narrator - French Version (voice)

2002

Demonlover as Hervé Le Millinec
Cravate club as Bernard
Jean Moulin as Jean Moulin

2001

Children's Play as Jacques Fauvel
Savage Souls as Reveillard
August 15th as Vincent

2000

Sentimental Destinies as Jean Barnery
Stardom as Philippe Gascon
Crime Scenes as Georges Fabian
A Matter of Taste as René Rousset

1999

Fait d'hiver as Louis Riquier
The Bridge as Matthias

1998

L'ennui as Martin

1997

Dry Cleaning as Jean-Marie Kunstler
Pierre and Marie as Pierre Curie
Obsession as Pierre Moulin

1996

Ridicule as Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy
Love, etc. as Pierre
L'Âge des possibles as Man at phone

1995

Pullman paradis as Lucien Génin

1994

Mutual Consent as Laurent

1992

1982

Meurtres A Domicile as Inspector Focard

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Sur les traces de Gustave Eiffel as Gustave Eiffel (voice)
Le diplôme as Martial

Directing

2008

Fin de partie as Stage Director