
Acting
Francis Leplay
Born 1967-07-25 · Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Francis Leplay is a French actor, film director and novelist. An alumnus of France's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences Po, Leplay began acting on television in episodes of the French detective series Julie Lescaut and Navarro. His first film role was in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's J'ai horreur de l'amour (I Hate Love) in 1997. His career took off in the 2000s, and he soon started acting in films by directors including Sofia Coppola, Noémie Lvovsky, Arnaud Desplechin, and Benoît Jacquot as well as in the television series Spiral. Leplay has also acted in theater productions with directors Denis Podalydès and Lambert Wilson in venues including Lincoln Center, the Mossovet Theatre, and the Bouffes du Nord. The Éditions du Seuil published two of his novels, 2006's Après le spectacle, a work of autofiction comparing intermittent acting work and romantic uncertainty, and 2009's Samuel et Alexandre, which follows two men staking out the bounds of their friendship. In 2021, Leplay and French-American filmmaker Isidore Bethel co-directed the docufiction hybrid film Acts of Love, which premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Source: Article "Francis Leplay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Acting credits
6.7A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Marie Antoinette
2006
4.9Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
Brother and Sister
2022
7.1A Polish engineer relocates to France and becomes a legendary counterfeiter. Working solo, he crafts flawless fake francs worth millions over 14 years, earning the nickname "Cézanne of counterfeit money" for his artistic skill and output.
The Money Maker
2026
6.4Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.
The Good Teacher
2024
6.0A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Farewell, My Queen
2012
6.5Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.
Who You Think I Am
2019
5.5A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
3 Hearts
2014
10.0In September 1963, the Lycée Voltaire, until then reserved for boys, became co-educational and welcomed girls for the first time. Even if there were only a few girls, this opening was a real revolution. The life of the school was turned upside down.
Mixte 1963
2021
NRA look at the lives and loves of a group of young ex-patriates living in Paris.
The Cosmopolitans
2014
4.3An assassin accidentally kills his fiancee, who happens to be the daughter of an Israeli gangster. Forced to flee, he starts working with a former mercenary, and they travel all over Europe doing dirty work for a rich industrialist.
Kill Skills
2016
Brigitte and Eric, who work for the same company, have been married for eight years. One morning like any other, the couple arrives at the office. When lunchtime comes, sirens sound. Brigitte learns that a man has just committed suicide by jumping out of a window. It's Eric, her husband...
Seule
2008
6.3In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Time Regained
1999
7.0Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
Kings & Queen
2004
NRJuliette, twenty, falls in love. At the same time her father is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Youth
2013
6.4Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.
Les Cowboys
2015
5.4Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.
My Best Part
2020
6.0Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?
Bright Days Ahead
2013
5.9A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.
Jealous
2017
4.8Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, von Bulow, who won't accept Antoine's admission of lying, gives him $100,000, and promises $900,000 more when led to Jordan. Enticed by the money, Antoine, with the help of his friend Étienne, begins his search. He follows trails through Paris's night scene, gets beaten up and bitten, and meets Jordan's sister, Violaine. After a surreal night, he's hooked on her charms but leery of continuing his pursuit of Jordan. Von Bulow insists. Can he find Jordan, get his reward, and attract Violaine?
Love Bites
2001
6.3Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.
The Clearstream Affair
2015
7.5Chronicle of the last months of Marie-Antoinette.Accused of having conspired against the new republic,with her children taken away and guillotined husband,in a rigged trial as the result of political negotiations and power struggles.
Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen
2018
NRA staging of Pierre Corneille's play "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" by Denis Podalydès.
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
2012
6.2Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It is a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother.
Tomorrow and Thereafter
2017
5.3The week after the French elections, the President must appoint his prime minister. In exchange for a higher position, ambitious young parliamentary attaché Nino is charged with persuading his longestranged father, a reclusive senator, to accept the post. But Lionel Perrin isn’t the only candidate for the coveted position, and in the race for power absolutely nothing is off-limits… Nino embarks on a high stakes adventure risking everything, his love life and political ambitions alike.
Prime Rush
2025
Behind the camera
4.4When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, the filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project that his mother hates.
Acts of Love
2021
4.4When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, the filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project that his mother hates.
Acts of Love
2021
4.4When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, the filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project that his mother hates.
Acts of Love
2021