Vincent Cassel (Creator)

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Vincent Crochon (born 23 November 1966 in Paris, France), known as Vincent Cassel, is a French actor.

He is the son of actor Jean-Pierre Cassel and chief editor Sabine Cassel-Lanfranchi. Since his Star-Making Role in La Haine, he has become one of the most prominent actors of modern French cinema. Much like his father, he is also known for playing in English language films, such as Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Eastern Promises and Black Swan.

Throughout his career, he has put his eerie looks, intense Icy Blue Eyes stare and acting skills to good use, playing a sizeable collection of villainous, Ax-Crazy, deviant, jerkass, mood-swinging or simply weird characters and, alternatively, a good chunk of dashing characters, occasionally hamming it up with an outrageous accent in non-French productions. A lover of Brazil, he practices Capoeira, which has come in handy for his roles on occasion. Oh, and... he has also played James Bond... in a Brazilian comedy short. He's frequently worked with his friend Mathieu Kassovitz.

He was married to Monica Bellucci from 1999 to 2013. Since August 2018, he is married to French model Tina Kunakey, who is thirty years his junior.

Selected film roles:

La Haine (1995) as Vinz
Dobermann (1997) as Yann "Le Dob" Lepentrec
Elizabeth (1998) as the Duke of Anjou
Guest House Paradiso (1999) as Gino Bolognese
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) as Gilles de Rais
The Crimson Rivers (2000) as lieutenant Max Kerkerian
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) as Jean-François de Morangias
Shrek (2001) as Monsieur Robin Hood
Birthday Girl (2001) as Alexei
Read My Lips (2001) as Paul Angeli
Irr�versible (2002) as Marcus
Blueberry (2004) as Mike Blueberry
Ocean's Twelve (2004) as François Toulour, a.k.a. "The Night Fox"
- Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Sheitan (2006) as Joseph
Eastern Promises (2007) as Kirill
Mesrine (2008) as Jacques Mesrine
Our Day Will Come (2010) as Patrick
Black Swan (2010) as Thomas Leroy
The Monk (2011) as Ambrosio
A Dangerous Method (2011) as Otto Gross
Trance (2013) as Franck
Beauty and the Beast (2014) as the Beast
Tale of Tales (2015) as the King of Roccaforte
Child 44 (2015) as Major Kuzmin
Jason Bourne (2016) as the Asset
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (2017) as Paul Gauguin
The Emperor of Paris (2018) as Eugène-François Vidocq
Underwater (2020) as Captain Lucien
Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (2023) as Julius Caesar
The Three Musketeers (2023) as Athos