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 has been married twice, once to Monica Bellucci from 1999 to 2013 and to French model Tina Kunakey (who is thirty years his junior) from 2018 to early 2023. As of late 2023 he is in a relationship with Brazilian model Narah Baptista, who is also 30 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
- Irréversible (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
Other roles:
- Thé à la menthe (2005 music video) as the man fixing his car
- Porta dos Fundos: 007 in Brazil (2018) as James Bond
- Westworld as Engerraund Serac (2020, Season 3)
- Tekken 8 (2024) as Victor Chevalier
French Dubbing Works:
- Charles in Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Samuel Faulkner in Nine Months
- Monsieur Hood in Shrek
- Diego in the Ice Age film series
- Rodney Copperbottom in Robots
- Tony Merguez in Lascars (The Film of the Series)
- Chuck Baker in Planet 51
- The Fox in The Little Prince
