Gaël Morel
Gaël Morel | |
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 Morel at the 2007 Deauville American Film Festival | |
| Born | 25 September 1972 Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Gaël Morel (born 25 September 1972) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Morel was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France, a town of 30,000 inhabitants outside Lyon. He grew up in the nearby village of Lacenas in the Villefranche district.
At the age of 15, Morel left home to pursue film studies in Lyon, and later moved to Paris. There he met French director André Téchiné, who cast him in the lead role of François in the multi-César Award-winning 1994 film Wild Reeds (Les Roseaux sauvages), which brought him fame, earning much critical praise for his performance and a 1995 César nomination for Most Promising Young Actor.
While his Wild Reeds co-stars Élodie Bouchez and Stéphane Rideau have both gone on to successful acting careers (he has often cast them in his own films), Morel has chosen to write and direct.
Filmography
[edit]As actor
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Wild Reeds (Les Roseaux sauvages) | François | André Téchiné |
| 1995 | Le Plus Bel Âge | Bertrand | Didier Haudepin |
| 1998 | Zonzon | Grandjean | Laurent Bouhnik |
| 2001 | Far | François | André Téchiné |
As director
[edit]| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1994 | La Vie à Rebours |
| 1996 | Full Speed (À toute vitesse) |
| 1999 | First Snow (Premières neiges) |
| 2002 | Under Another Sky (Les chemins de l'oued) |
| 2004 | 3 Dancing Slaves (Le Clan) |
| 2007 | After Him (Après lui) |
| 2008 | New Wave |
| 2011 | Our Paradise (Notre Paradis) |
| 2017 | Catch the Wind (Prendre le large) |
| 2024 | To Live, To Die, To Live Again (Vivre, Mourir, Renaître) |
Awards
[edit]- 1995 - César nomination : Meilleur Espoir Masculin (Most Promising Young Actor) for Les Roseaux sauvages
- 2002 - FIPRESCI Prize, Toronto International Film Festival, for Under Another Sky (Les chemins de l'oued)[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gaël Morel - AlloCiné" (in French). AlloCiné. Retrieved September 25, 2011.
- ^ "Cronenberg the big winner". Guelph Mercury, September 17, 2002.
External links
[edit]
- Gaël Morel at IMDb
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- French male film actors
- French film directors
- French male screenwriters
- 20th-century French screenwriters
- People from Villefranche-sur-Saône
- Male actors from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- 20th-century French male actors
- 21st-century French male actors
- French gay actors
- French gay writers
- French LGBTQ film directors
- French LGBTQ screenwriters
- 21st-century French screenwriters
- 21st-century French LGBTQ people
- 20th-century French LGBTQ people