Biography

Manuel Blanc was born on June 12, 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. His first movie, the André Téchiné classic I Don't Kiss (1991), earned him a César Award as Most Promising Actor in 1992 and established him in the French film and theater world. In his vast and varied career that has spanned over three decades, Blanc has worked with maverick directors like Jacques Deray, Josée Dayan, Édouard Molinaro, Werner Schroeter, Jérôme Savary and Philippe Calvario.

In 2001, he won the prestigious Molière Award for "Ladies Night", a comedy written by Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair, adapted for the French stage by Jacques Collard. Other theater roles included "Tempête sur le pays d'Égypte" (1993/94), "Dommage qu'elle soit une putain" de John Ford (1997), "Trouée dans les nuages" (2005), "Journal secret" (2006) and "Parasites" (2009).

His most memorable films in the 1990s were Un crime (1993) with Alain Delon, Des feux mal éteints (1994) with Maria de Medeiros, Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996) with Fabrice Luchini and 1999 Madeleine (1999) with Anouk Aimée. With a bunch of high-budget movies and a huge pile of short films under his belt, Blanc became a household name with starring roles on popular TV shows like La rivière Espérance (1995), Contraband (2012), The Chalet (2017) (a mystery series produced by Netflix) and Chronicles of the Sun (2018).

He is one of director Antony Hickling's favorite actors. Hickling cast him in half a dozen short films as well as in his feature films Little Gay Boy (2013), One Deep Breath (2014), Where Horses Go to Die (2016) and Down in Paris (2021).

In addition to French, Manuel Blanc speaks English fluently. In 2014, his first novel "Carnaval" was published, followed by his second book "Les corps électriques" in 2018.
- IMDb mini biography by: El-Hibri