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3	Vincent Perez (born June 10, 1964 in Lausanne) is a Swiss actor, director, screenwriter, novelist and photographer of Spanish and German descent.
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5	He's been acting since the mid-1980s, mostly in French cinema. He made his [[StarMakingRole breakthrough]] in 1990 as Christian de Neuvillette in ''Film/CyranoDeBergerac'', and was nominated at the César awards for it (two other nominations would follow). He's also known for having played Ashe Corven in 1996's ''Film/TheCrowCityOfAngels'' and Marius de Romanus in the [[Film/QueenOfTheDamned 2002 adaptation]] of Creator/AnneRice's ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Queen of the Damned]]''.
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7	He has also directed two shorts and four feature-length films, three of which he wrote.
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9	!!Selected Filmography:
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11	[[AC:Roles:]]
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13	* ''Film/CyranoDeBergerac'' (1990) as Christian de Neuvillette
14	* ''Film/CaptainFracassasJourney'' (1990) as Baron Henri de Sigognac
15	* ''Film/SnowAndFire'' (1991) as Jacques Sénéchal
16	* ''Film/{{Indochine}}'' (1992) as Jean-Baptiste Le Guen
17	* ''Film/LaReineMargot'' (1994) as Joseph Boniface de La Môle
18	* ''Film/TheCrowCityOfAngels'' (1996) as [[Franchise/TheCrow Ashe Corven]]
19	* ''Film/OnGuard'' (1997) as Duke Philippe de Nevers
20	* ''[[Creator/MarcelProust Le Temps retrouvé]]'' (1999) as Morel
21	* ''Film/{{The Libertine\|2000}}'' (2000) as Denis Diderot
22	* ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'' (2002) as Marius de Romanus
23	* ''Film/{{Fanfan la Tulipe\|2003}}'' (2003) as Fanfan la Tulipe
24	* ''Literature/ArnTheKnightTemplar'' (2007) as Brother Guilbert
25	* ''[[Creator/VincentVanGogh At Eternity's Gate]]'' (2018) as the Director
26	* ''Film/AnOfficerAndASpy'' (2019) as Louis Leblois
27	* ''The Edge of the Blade'' (2023) as Louis Berchère
28	* ''Boléro'' (2024) as Cipa Godebski
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30	[[AC:Films he's directed:]]
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32	* ''L'Échange'' (1992, short)
33	* ''Rien dire'' (1999, short)
34	* ''Peau d'ange'' (2002)
35	* ''Film/{{The Secret\|2007}}'' (2007)
36	* ''Alone in Berlin'' (2016)
37	* ''The Edge of the Blade'' (2023)
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39	!!Tropes & Trivia in his works:
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41	* [[invoked]]FakeNationality: He's from UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} and has played in a lot of French films as French characters (being from a French-speaking canton helps).
42	* MrFanservice:
43	** In ''Indochine'', he spends most of his screentime staring vaguely past the camera with his open shirt flapping around his impressive pecs.
44	** He's also had a fair amount of {{shirtless scene}}s in some of the {{period piece}}s he's been in, those set in the 18th century at the heyday of libertinism in particular.
45	* [[invoked]]NoStuntDouble: He did use a stuntman for some scenes in ''The Crow: City of Angels''. However, he insisted on doing the stunts in the final scene, including falling from a building from five stories up, being beaten with a whip, and being hung from a streetlight.
46	* {{Swashbuckler}}:
47	** ''La Reine Margot'', ''On Guard'' and ''Fanfan la Tulipe'' (2003) had him display much kickass [[TheCavalierYears Cavalier Years]] rapier swordplay, and the panache that goes with it.
48	** ''Film/CaptainFracassasJourney'' is a {{subver\|ted Trope}}sion -- it plays out more like a comedy/melodrama around 17th century theatre and heavily {{downplay\|ed Trope}}s the swashbuckler elements of the source material.
49	* {{Typecasting}}: He used to be a regular face in French HistoricalFiction productions set in the [[TheCavalierYears 16th, 17th and 18th centuries]], such as ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', ''Captain Fracassa's Journey'', ''La Reine Margot'', ''On Guard'', ''The Libertine'', 2003's ''Fanfan la Tulipe'' and ''Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour''. Pretty much ''always'' as either TheCharmer or TheCasanova (his good looks helped).
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