Olivier Sitruk

Acting

Olivier Sitruk

Born 1970-12-25 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Olivier Sitruk (born December 25, 1970 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France), is a French comedian, actor, and producer, who has appeared in 44 films and television shows. After considering a career as an archaeologist, Sitruk changed his mind and discovered a passion for theater in high school. At age 16, he began his acting career, enrolling in the Conservatoire National de Nice. Sitruk made his English-language movie premiere in 2008, starring alongside Shirley MacLaine and Barbora Bobuľová in the Lifetime original biographical film, Coco Chanel. The television movie debuted on September 13, 2008 with a viewership of 5.2 million, the second-highest rated made-for-TV film of 2008. Sitruk played Boy Capel, a self-made man who was "the love of [Chanel's] life." He is related to actor Jules Sitruk and former Chief Rabbi of France Joseph Sitruk. He has been married to actress Alexandra London since 2003. Source: Article "Olivier Sitruk" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Divine Émilie poster
2.0

The life of Émilie du Châtelet, mathematician and physicist during the Enlightenment.

Divine Émilie

2007

3 Guys, 1 Girl, 2 Weddings poster
4.7

Romance meets farce against the backdrop of a quiet campaign to legalize gay marriage. Laurent loves his roommate Dan, who's straight and a playboy. Laurent can't bring himself to tell Dan, but is content to share a flat and to party with him. Then Camille comes along, Dan falls hard, and Laurent is beside himself: he tries to sabotage the relationship, but each effort backfires. After Dan moves in with Camille, Laurent enlists the help of Sam, his new lesbian flatmate, and Nick, a long-time gay friend. As the lovers head toward marriage, Laurent becomes more desperate. His efforts may be having an effect, if not on Dan, then on Camille. Which love will triumph?

3 Guys, 1 Girl, 2 Weddings

2004

The Great Role poster
5.5

When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his friends try out for the role of Shylock. Thinking he has finally been cast in an important film role after years of obscurity, Maurice rushes home to tell his beloved wife, Perla. Later, Maurice discovers the part has gone to a famous American star, but he must play the role of his life to be sure Perla, who has become very ill with cancer, doesn't find out.

The Great Role

2004

Deux au carré poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Deux au carré

2015

24 Days poster
6.6

When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".

24 Days

2014

Fracassés poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fracassés

2008

Chase poster
5.2

The quiet Luis commits a robbery. Two of his childhood friends try to help him get away with it.

Chase

2011

Mémoire morte poster
NR

Ania Kowalski has a large scar on her skull and lives under constant medical control. If her apartment is comfortable, her actions, gestures and moods are recorded and analyzed by several hidden cameras. Ania will told her terrible story to Bruno Manali, a young reporter who stays with her and night and day.

Mémoire morte

2002

Cassos poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Cassos

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La seringue

1994

Aime-moi poster
7.0

Clarisse's life is nothing fancy: she wears herself out waiting tables in a lousy Parisian bistro. One busy day at work, a stranger's going to turn her life upside down by declaring his love...

Aime-moi

2009

Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir poster
6.3

The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a supposedly funny story.

Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir

1997

Les Mystères de l'école de gendarmerie poster
7.0

Emma and Adrien are all set for a romantic getaway. But then Adrien is called to investigate a murder, after an instructor is found hanged at the gendarme academy.

Les Mystères de l'école de gendarmerie

2021

Obsession(s) poster
5.4

A grizzly cat-and-mouse game between imprisoned serial killer, Marc Douelec, and Sarah Lisbourn, a police officer who is preoccupied with the murder investigation that surrounds the death of her mother. Douelec is behind bars for the crime but refuses to reveal the location of his victim’s body in favour of tormenting Lisbourne.

Obsession(s)

2010

Fresh Bait poster
6.4

With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts a plan where she seduces clueless men and accompanies them to their places, then allows Eric and Bruno to break in. But the three soon encounter trouble after one of their schemes ends in murder.

Fresh Bait

1995

Warriors poster
5.1

Kosovo, winter 1999. KFOR forces perform their humanitarian task while trying to maintain a difficult neutrality between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs. A platoon of Spanish Army engineers becomes unwittingly caught up in the spiral of violence between the two sides.

Warriors

2002

Venise sous la neige poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Venise sous la neige

2017

Cavalcade poster
5.2

Leo, an accomplished playboy, neglects his girlfriend and enjoys parties. His girlfriend parts from him and then, when he wants to see her once more, he suffers an accident. He survives, but his whole life is about to change when he becomes wheelchair-bound.

Cavalcade

2005

Marteau Rouge poster
NR

An old rocker starts a tour in the south of France, hitting the road in his old truck with two young men who are his opening act. Along the way, he stops to pick up hitchhikers...

Marteau Rouge

1996

Irène poster
5.8

Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a house painter.

Irène

2002

Before You Leave poster
6.1

A group of friends in their thirties meet for a weekend in a mountain chalet for what will be a sort of review of an era in their lives and their relationships.

Before You Leave

2005

The Blond Boy from the Casbah poster
5.3

The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son.

The Blond Boy from the Casbah

2023

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Traquée

2002

Le gai mariage poster
NR

Henry de Sacy, inveterate Don Juan, learns that he will inherit a million euros from his old aunt, on condition that he gets married within the year. As he refuses to depart from his love of women, his friend Norbert, a lawyer, offers him to marry a man. Thus he would respect his aunt's last wishes without losing his freedom. Seduced, Henri offers this unusual contract to his friend Dodo who is single and unemployed. But this marriage for the better will quickly turn into a nightmare...

Le gai mariage

2015

Behind the camera