Charles Berling
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Charles Berling | |
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 Charles Berling in 2013 | |
| Born | 30 April 1958 Saint-Mandé, France |
| Occupations | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Charles Berling (born 30 April 1958) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.
Life and career
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Charles Berling, son of a navy doctor, is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco); she died in 2004.[1][2]
When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then Toulon, then, at seven, Tahiti.[citation needed]
He studied acting at the Belgian school INSAS, in Brussels.[citation needed] He is the father of the actor Émile Berling.[citation needed]
In October 2025, he joined the cast of Nicole Garcia's upcoming film Milo.[3]
Filmography
[edit]| † | Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Meurtres à domicile | Inspector Focard | Marc Lobet | |
| 1988 | Le crépuscule des loups | The SS soldier | Jean Chapot | TV movie |
| Les nouveaux chevaliers du ciel | Jacquier | Patrick Jamain | TV series (1 episode) | |
| 1989 | Laura und Luis | Frank Strecker | TV Mini-Series | |
| Condorcet | Michel Soutter | TV Mini-Series | ||
| 1990 | Sniper | Macet | Klaus Biedermann | TV movie |
| Monstre aimé | Frédéric Compain | TV movie Also Writer | ||
| 1992 | Salt on Our Skin | Roger | Andrew Birkin | |
| La femme à l'ombre | The lawyer | Thierry Chabert | TV movie | |
| 1993 | Just Friends | André | Marc-Henri Wajnberg | |
| Louis, the Child King | Roger Planchon | |||
| Couples et amants | Jean | John Lvoff | ||
| 1994 | Coming to Terms with the Dead | François | Pascale Ferran | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
| Dernier stade | Frédéric Noilla | Christian Zerbib | ||
| Consentement mutuel | Laurent | Bernard Stora | ||
| Un dimanche à Paris | Romaric | Hervé Duhamel | ||
| 1995 | Nelly and Mr. Arnaud | Jerôme | Claude Sautet | |
| Pullman paradis | Lucien Génin | Michèle Rosier | ||
| Le fabuleux destin de Madame Petlet | Camille de Casabianca | |||
| L'âge des possibles | Man at phone | Pascale Ferran | TV movie | |
| La grande collection | Jules | Jeanne Labrune | TV series (1 episode) | |
| 1996 | Ridicule | Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy | Patrice Leconte | Lumière Award for Best Actor Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| Love, etc. | Pierre | Marion Vernoux | ||
| 1997 | Dry Cleaning | Jean-Marie Kunstler | Anne Fontaine | Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| Les Palmes de M. Schutz | Pierre Curie | Claude Pinoteau | ||
| Obsession | Pierre Moulin | Peter Sehr | ||
| 1998 | L'Ennui | Martin | Cédric Kahn | Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train | Jean-Marie | Patrice Chéreau | Étoiles d'Or - Best Actor | |
| L'inconnu de Strasbourg | Jean-Paul | Valeria Sarmiento | ||
| La cloche | Charles Berling | Short Also Director & Writer | ||
| Un dimanche matin à Marseille | Renaud | Mario Fanfani | Short | |
| Une femme à suivre | Eddy | Patrick Dewolf | TV movie | |
| 1999 | The Bridge | Matthias | Frédéric Auburtin & Gérard Depardieu | |
| Fait d'hiver | Louis Riquier | Robert Enrico | ||
| 2000 | Sentimental Destinies | Jean Barnery | Olivier Assayas | Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| A Question of Taste | René Rousset | Bernard Rapp | ||
| Stardom | Philippe Gascon | Denys Arcand | ||
| Crime Scenes | Fabian | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | ||
| Comedy of Innocence | Serge | Raúl Ruiz | ||
| 2001 | Savage Souls | Reveillard | Raúl Ruiz | |
| How I Killed My Father | Jean-Luc | Anne Fontaine | ||
| 15 August | Vincent | Patrick Alessandrin | ||
| Un jeu d'enfants | Jacques Fauvel | Laurent Tuel | ||
| Fils de zup | Inspector Boyer | Gilles Romera | ||
| 2002 | Demonlover | Hervé Le Millinec | Olivier Assayas | |
| Cravate club | Bernard | Frédéric Jardin | ||
| Hypnotized and Hysterical | Arnaud | Claude Duty | ||
| Jean Moulin | Jean Moulin | Yves Boisset | TV movie | |
| 2003 | Père et fils | David | Michel Boujenah | |
| I'm Staying! | Antoine | Diane Kurys | ||
| Le soleil assassiné | Jean Senac | Abdelkrim Bahloul | ||
| 2004 | Secret Agents | Eugène | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | |
| 2005 | I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed | Georges Figon | Serge Le Péron & Saïd Smihi | |
| The Art of Breaking Up | Edouard de Bois d'Enghien | Michel Deville | ||
| Grabuge ! | Maurice | Jean-Pierre Mocky | ||
| La maison de Nina | Maurice Gutman | Richard Dembo | ||
| Dalida | Lucien Morisse | Joyce Buñuel | TV movie | |
| Permis d'aimer | Jean | Rachida Krim | TV movie | |
| Inséparables | Antoine | Élisabeth Rappeneau | TV series (3 episodes) | |
| 2006 | The Man of My Life | Hugo | Zabou Breitman | |
| Je pense à vous | Worms | Pascal Bonitzer | ||
| Marie-Antoinette | The voice | Francis Leclerc & Yves Simoneau | TV movie | |
| 2007 | Les murs porteurs | Simon Rosenfeld | Cyril Gelblat | |
| Notable donc coupable | Fabien Borda | Dominique Baron & Francis Girod | TV movie | |
| 2008 | Summer Hours | Frédéric Marly | Olivier Assayas (3) | |
| Quiet Chaos | Boesson | Antonello Grimaldi | ||
| Par suite d'un arrêt de travail... | Vincent Disse | Frédéric Andréi | ||
| L'abolition | Robert Badinter | Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | TV Mini-Series | |
| Myster Mocky présente | Brad | Jean-Pierre Mocky | TV series (1 episode) | |
| 2009 | Before Sundown | The soldier | Toby Morris | Short |
| 2010 | Insoupçonnable | Henri Schaeffer | Gabriel Le Bomin | |
| Krach | Georges | Fabrice Genestal | ||
| 2011 | Propriété interdite | Benoît | Hélène Angel | |
| Beirut Hotel | Mathieu | Danielle Arbid | TV movie | |
| 2012 | What's in a Name ? | Pierre | Alexandre de La Patellière & Matthieu Delaporte | |
| Comme un homme | Pierre Verdier | Safy Nebbou | ||
| Nos retrouvailles | Philippe Cabrera | Josée Dayan | TV movie | |
| Le reste du monde | The lawyer | Damien Odoul | TV movie | |
| 2013 | It Boy | Luc Apfel | David Moreau | |
| 2014 | The Clearstream Affair | Renaud Van Ruymbeke | Vincent Garenq | |
| 2015 | On voulait tout casser | Bilou | Philippe Guillard | |
| Une nuit au Grévin | Narrator | Patrice Leconte | TV movie | |
| Tu es mon fils | Paul | Didier Le Pêcheur | TV movie | |
| 2016 | Elle | Richard | Paul Verhoeven | |
| Le coeur en braille | Michel Boujenah | |||
| Le premier coup | The man | Caroline Proust & Etienne Saldés | Short | |
| Trepalium | Paris | Vincent Lannoo | TV Mini-Series | |
| Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge | ||||
| 2017 | The Frozen Dead | Martin Servaz | Laurent Herbiet | TV series |
| Capitaine Marleau | Carlos Dos Santos | Josée Dayan | TV series (1 episode) | |
| Reinventing Marvin | ||||
| 2019 | Who You Think I Am | Gilles | Safy Nebbou | |
| TBA | Milo † | TBA | Nicole Garcia |
Theater
[edit]| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | The Dybbuk | S. Ansky | Moshe Leiser | |
| Ça | Sabra Ben Arfa & Charles Berling | Marie-Pierre Meinzel | ||
| 1982 | Passage Hagard | Compagnie des Mirabelles | Compagnie des Mirabelles | |
| 1983 | Dernières Nouvelles de la peste | Bernard Chartreux | Jean-Pierre Vincent | |
| 1984 | The Homecoming | Harold Pinter | Stuart Seide | |
| Entre chiens et loups | Christoph Hein | Bernard Sobel | ||
| Les Orphelins | Jean-Luc Lagarce | Christiane Cohendy | ||
| 1985 | The School for Wives | Molière | Bernard Sobel (2) | |
| 1986 | What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet |
Jean Genet | Jean-Michel Rabeux | |
| Der Park | Botho Strauß | Claude Régy | ||
| Les Voisins | Michel Vinaver | Alain Françon | ||
| Succubations d’Incubes | A.P.A. | Charles Berling | ||
| 1988 | Le Public | Federico García Lorca | Jorge Lavelli | |
| The Green Cockatoo | Arthur Schnitzler | Michel Didym | ||
| 1988–89 | Dear Monster | Javier Tomeo | Jacques Nichet | |
| 1990 | The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | Jean-Louis Martinelli | |
| Conversations d'idiots | Dominique Ducos | Walter Le Moli | ||
| 1991 | Une sale histoire | Jean Eustache & Jean-Noël Picq | Jean-Louis Martinelli (2) | |
| 1992 | The Church | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Jean-Louis Martinelli (3) | |
| 1993 | With My Own Hands | Pascal Rambert | Pascal Rambert | |
| Le Chasseur de lions | Javier Tomeo | Jean-Jacques Préau | ||
| Le Bavard | Louis-René des Forêts | Michel Dumoulin | ||
| 1993–94 | Merchants of Glory | Marcel Pagnol & Paul Nivoix | Jean-Louis Martinelli (4) | |
| 1995 | In a Year of 13 Moons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Jean-Louis Martinelli (5) | |
| 1995–96 | Roberto Zucco | Bernard-Marie Koltès | Jean-Louis Martinelli (6) | |
| 1996 | La Cour des comédiens | Antoine Vitez | Georges Lavaudant | |
| Ordure (Dreck) | Robert Schneider | Charles Berling (2) | ||
| 1997 | L'Histoire du soldat | Igor Stravinsky | Emmanuel Plasson | |
| 1998 | Oedipus the King | Sophocles | Jean-Louis Martinelli (7) | |
| 2001 | Cravate club | Fabrice Roger-Lacan | Isabelle Nanty | |
| 2002 | Voyage en Afrique | Jacques Jouet | Jean-Louis Martinelli (8) | |
| 2004 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier (2) | |
| 2005 | Pour ceux qui restent | Pascal Elbé | Charles Berling (3) | |
| 2006-07 | Caligula | Albert Camus | Charles Berling (4) | |
| 2007 | L'Histoire du soldat | Igor Stravinsky | Michael Lonsdale | |
| 2008-09 | Endgame | Samuel Beckett | Charles Berling (5) | |
| 2009 | The Walk | Bernard-Marie Koltès | Michel Didym (2) | |
| 2010 | L'Infâme | Roger Planchon | Jacques Rosner | |
| Le Donneur de bain | Dorine Hollier | Dan Jemmett | ||
| 2011 | Ithaka | Botho Strauß | Jean-Louis Martinelli (9) | |
| 2012-13 | Gould et Menuhin | Christiane Cohendy | Charles Berling (6) | |
| 2013-14 | Address Unknown | Kressmann Taylor | Delphine de Malherbe | |
| 2014 | Dreck | Robert Schneider | Charles Berling (7) | |
| 2015 | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller | Ivo van Hove | Pending - Molière Award for Best Actor |
Narrator
[edit]Notes and sources
[edit]- ^ Françoise Dargent, "Charles Berling : les secrets de ma mère", Le Figaro, 11 octobre 2011
- ^ Marion Vignal, "Charles Berling: "Rester insolent, c'est vital"", L'Express, 17 septembre 2011
- ^ Combelles, Julien (28 October 2025). "Cinéma. Marion Cotillard, Artus, Laure Calamy, Charles Berling... Casting XXL pour le film "Milo", tourné dans la Drôme". Le Dauphiné libéré (in French).
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