Antoine de Prekel

An actor who got an early start in movies, Antoine de Prekel made his cinema debut as a four-year-old in Xavier Giannoli's psychological thriller "Une aventure" (2005), which starred Ludivine Sagnier. Giannoli was impressed enough by de Prekel's budding talents that he cast him, again, in "Quand j'étais chanteur" (2006), a successful drama, starring Gérard Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric and Cécile De France, about a fading singer who falls for a real estate agent. In "Quand j'étais chanteur," de Prekel had a more sizeable role, playing the son of De France's single mother. The young thespian then had minor parts in Alanté Kavaïté's supernatural thriller "Fissures" (2006) and the working-class mini-series "Le cri" (2006), but moved on to bigger roles in the tele-movie "La voliére aux enfants" (2006) and the alien abduction-themed TV mini-series "Mystére" (2007), in which he was one of the key actors. In 2009, de Prekel portrayed French monarch Louis XIV between the ages of four and six in the two-part historical televisual epic La reine et le cardinal." That same year, he had a one-episode appearance in the French children's TV series "Joséphine, ange gardien," and, in 2010, he starred in a French theatre production of "Kramer vs. Kramer."