Gilles Lellouche (; born 5 July 1972) is a French actor and director. Most known for his performances in Tell No One (2006), Mesrine (2008), Little White Lies (2010), The Players (2012), The Connection (2014), C'est la vie! (2017), In Safe Hands (2018) and BAC Nord (2020). For his performances, Lellouche was nominated for numerous acting César Awards, including twice for Best Actor for In Safe Hands and BAC Nord.

As filmmaker, he directed Sink or Swim (2018) and Beating Hearts (2025), for which he was nominated twice for the César Award for Best Director.

Early life Lellouche was born in Savigny-sur-Orge, France, to a father of Algerian-Jewish descent, and to a mother of Irish Catholic background. His brother Philippe Lellouche is also an actor and director.

Personal life From 2002 to 2013, Lellouche was in a relationship with actress Mélanie Doutey, with whom he had a daughter, born on 5 September 2009.

Since 2015, Lellouche has been in a relationship with former model and jewelry designer Alizée Guinochet, with whom he had a son, born in November 2022.

In January 2017, following the backlash over director Roman Polanski being appointed as the president of the 2017 César Awards while being convicted of sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl and being a fugitive from justice since 1978, Lellouche expressed his support for the director in an interview with Le Parisien, saying; "In France, we make controversies of everything. We die of this in this country. In my opinion, you have to be consistent. Polanski has lived in France for forty years. The facts he was accused of precede this arrival. For all these years, he has been doing films! At that time, it had to be forbidden to live in our territory or to work here. But we welcomed him, we gave him awards, we praise him since he is a big director and he is part of the history of cinema. I am not excusing the facts. But why, today more than yesterday, should there be a scandal? What's going on with us? Have we become Americans? I don't agree with that." [...] "We have many people in France that we have things to criticize and who are still in political, social or economic life. We did not put them in prison, we did not make controversies. Even the victim is tired of this story! To make a scandal only today because he is the president of the Césars, it does not make sense." Polanski later dropped out of presiding over the Césars after the backlash, which included a 61,000-signature petition and calls to boycott the ceremony.

Filmography As actor Year Title Role Director Notes 2001 My Wife Is an Actress The policeman Yvan Attal 2002 Whatever You Say Daniel Bénard Guillaume Canet 2003 Love Me If You Dare Sergei Nimov Nimovitch Yann Samuell 2004 Narco The twin skater Tristan Aurouet & Himself2005 Anthony Zimmer Müller Jérôme Salle Love Is in the Air Ludo Rémi Bezançon Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor2006 Tell No One Bruno Guillaume Canet On va s'aimer François Ivan Calbérac Le héros de la famille Jérôme Thierry Klifa2007 Room of Death Sylvain Alfred Lot Le dernier gang Milan Ariel Zeitoun Ma place au soleil Franck Eric de Montalier Ma vie n'est pas une comédie romantique Thomas Walkowic Marc Gibaja2008 Paris Franky Cédric Klapisch Mesrine Paul Jean-François Richet The Easy Way Vincent Goumard Jean-Paul Rouve The First Day of the Rest of Your Life The white rasta Rémi Bezançon 2009 Lascars Zoran Emmanuel Klotz & Albert Pereira-Lazaro2010 Little White Lies Éric Guillaume Canet Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor Point Blank Samuel Pierret Fred Cavayé The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Inspector Albert Caponi Luc Besson Krach Erwan Kermor Fabrice Genestal Une petite zone de turbulences Philippe Faure Alfred Lot2011 My Piece of the Pie Steve Delarue Cédric Klapisch Mineurs 27 Oscar Herrera Tristan Aurouet Platane Himself Éric Judor & Denis Imbert TV series (2 episodes)2012 Thérèse Desqueyroux Bernard Desqueyroux Claude Miller Nominated - Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor The Players Various Michel Hazanavicius, Jean Dujardin, ... JC comme Jésus Christ Himself Jonathan Zaccaï Nos plus belles vacances Narrator Philippe Lellouche Quand je serai petit Young Maurice Jean-Paul Rouve2013 The Informant Marc Duval Julien Leclercq The Ultimate Accessory Cyrille Cohen Valérie Lemercier2014 The Connection Gaëtan 'Tany' Zampa Cédric Jimenez Mea Culpa Franck Vasseur Fred Cavayé2015 Families Grégoire Piaggi Jean-Paul Rappeneau The Clearstream Affair Denis Robert Vincent Garenq Les gorilles Petrovitch Tristan Aurouet Call My Agent ! Himself Cédric Klapisch TV series (1 episode)2016 Sky Richard Fabienne Berthaud The Jews Norbert Yvan Attal2017 C'est la vie! James Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor The Man with the Iron Heart Václav Morávek Cédric Jimenez Plonger César Mélanie Laurent Rock'n Roll Himself Guillaume Canet Sous le même toit Yvan Hazan Dominique Farrugia2018 In Safe Hands Jean Jeanne Herry Nominated - César Award for Best Actor Paris Pigalle Serge / Georges Cédric Anger2019 Jusqu'ici tout va bien Fred Bartel Mohamed Hamidi Nous finirons ensemble Éric Guillaume Canet2020 BAC Nord Grégory Cerva Cédric Jimenez Nominated - César Award for Best Actor 2022 Kompromat Mathieu Jérôme Salle Smoking Causes Coughing Benzène Quentin Dupieux 2023 Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom Obelix Guillaume Canet All Your Faces Grégoire Jeanne Herry Daaaaaalí! Salvador Dalí Quentin Dupieux 2025 Asterix and Obelix: The Big Fight Obelix (voice) Alain Chabat Animated mini-series

As director Year Title Notes 1996 2 minutes 36 de bonheur Short film 2002 Pourkoi... passkeu Short film 2004 Narco (codirected with Tristan Aurouet) 2012 The Players Segment: "'Las Vegas" 2018 Sink or Swim Nominated - César Award for Best FilmNominated - César Award for Best DirectorNominated - César Award for Best Original Screenplay 2024 Beating Hearts Nominated - César Award for Best Director

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