Romain Duris

Romain Duris has starred in WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY, CQ, L’AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE, LE DIVORCE, THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED, GADJO DILO, RUSSIAN DOLLS, DANS PARIS, MOLIERE, PARIS, and now HEARTBREAKER. He was born in Paris in 1974, and found his way onto the screen in a manner straight out of a movie: he was discovered on the street by a casting director in 1993. He made his debut a year later in Cédric Klapisch’s LE PÉRIL JEUNE. Over the next decade, Duris built a solid résumé in films like Roman Coppola’s CQ, Merchant-Ivory’s LE DIVORCE, Tony Gatliff’s GADJO DILO and EXILES, and Klapisch’s L’AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE and WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY and PARIS. With Jacques Audiard’s THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED, winner of the Berlin Film Festival’s top prize, Duris found his first real international breakthrough, and was nominated for the César Award, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, for Best Actor. He followed this up with an acclaimed performance in Christophe Honoré’s stylish drama DANS PARIS.