François Civil
Civil won a Chopard Trophy for Male Revelation at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and has earned two nominations for the César Award for Best Supporting Actor; for BAC Nord in 2022 and for Rise in 2023.[5] In 2011, he starred in the World War II drama 15 Lads (Nos résistances) directed by Romain Cogitore, in which he portrayed a member of the French Resistance[33] and received a second pre-nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actor.[34] He also reprised his role as Dread in the TV series Trop la Classe Café!, and appeared in the erotic drama film Elles directed by Małgorzata Szumowska, in which he played the teenage son of the protagonist portrayed by Juliette Binoche.[18] In 2015, he filmed a pilot for a TV series created by Alan Ball and produced by Elton John for HBO called Virtuoso, which would be set in the 18th century and feature young musical prodigies from all over Europe who studied at the prestigious Academy of Musical Excellence in Vienna, where he would play the young Spanish guitarist and flautist Isidoro,[46] but the channel did not pick it up as a series.[50] That same year, Civil and his co-stars from Five appeared in the music video for the song "Reuf" by French rapper Nekfeu, which was featured in the film's soundtrack.[52] He also played the youngest sibling of Ana Girardot and Pio Marmaï in the drama Back to Burgundy (Ce qui nous lie), directed by Cédric Klapisch.[55] The year 2019 allowed him to lead several projects: first the geopolitical thriller The Wolf's Call (Le Chant du loup) by Antonin Baudry;[56] then in Safy Nebbou's psychological thriller Who You Think I Am (Celle que vous croyez) alongside Juliette Binoche;[36] then he co-starred with Joséphine Japy in the romantic comedy Love at Second Sight (Mon Inconnue) directed by Hugo Gélin,[57] which earned him the Best Actor award at the L'Alpe d'Huez Film Festival,[58] and he also reunited with Cédric Klapisch and Ana Girardot in the romantic comedy Someone, Somewhere (Deux moi),[59] for which he earned a nomination for the Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actor.[67] In 2022, he played the physiotherapist Yann in the comedy drama Rise (En corps) by Cédric Klapisch,[68] for which he received his second César nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[73] The same year, he played an undercover police officer who infiltrates a group of environmental activists in Romain Cogitore's romantic thriller A Place to Fight For (Une zone à défendre), the first French original film from Disney+.[86] In December 2022, he composed along with Ferdinand Cros the music for the short film Here & Now starring his longtime friend Pierre Niney[50][87] for the Dior perfume Bois d'Argent.[91] In September 2018, following the resignation of the French Minister of Ecology Nicolas Hulot, Civil co-signed the column "The greatest challenge in the history of humanity", calling on the government to take "firm and immediate" action in the face of the danger of global warming.[94][95] On 4 June 2024, he signed a petition addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron demanding France to officially recognize the State of Palestine.