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Olivier Gourmet

Highest Rated: 100% The Royal Exchange (2017)

Lowest Rated: 40% De Gaulle (2020)

Birthday: Jul 22, 1963

Birthplace: Namur, Belgium

Olivier Gourmet had one of the most euphonious names in show business since Benedict Cumberbatch, and it belied his Everyman appearance. But beneath his ordinary looks and black-framed glasses was an actor capable of great complexity and subtlety in his work. Gourmet was born on July 22, 1963 in Namur, Belgium, and he grew up in the village of Mirwart, where his father traded cattle and ran a farm, and his mother was a hotel cook. Both parents had a strong work ethic, which they instilled in their son. (Eventually, Gourmet's wife took over the hotel his mother worked in.) At one point, Gourmet thought of being a sportswriter, but fell into acting by accident when he had to fill in for a friend in a school production. He loved being onstage, but his father didn't want his son to go into acting. Still, Gourmet applied for the Conservatoire royal de Liege, where he studied drama, and won a First Prize award. Gourmet moved to Paris, where he hooked up with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardene, a filmmaking team who were also from Belgium. This was Gourmet's breakthrough as an actor, and they grew so close as a creative team that Olivier often called himself the third Dardene brother. The drama "La Promesse" (1996) put the team on the map, with Gourmet playing a man who took advantage of illegal immigrants. Next came "Rosetta" (1999), which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, "Le Fils" (2002), which won Gourmet the Best Actor award at Cannes, and "L'enfant" (2005), which won the Dardene Brothers the Palme d'Or for a second time. All of these films dealt with complex and difficult subjects, and Gourmet played characters that proved his versatility and depth.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 57% The Royal Exchange
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100% 62% Black Venus
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100% 86% A Wedding
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100% 67% All Out
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97% 82% Read My Lips
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96% 77% The Kid With a Bike
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95% 90% The Promise
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93% 66% Home
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90% 69% When the Tide Comes In ...
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90% 83% Rosetta
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Filmography

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Fanon 2024 Actor Retro Therapy 2024 Actor Mayhem! 81% 60% 2023 Narong Actor Turtles 2023 Henri Janssens Actor L'établi 2023 Klatzman Actor On the Edge 2022 Le commissaire Actor The Colors of Fire 2022 Charles Péricourt Actor Simone: Woman of the Century 71% 73% 2021 Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006) Actor Eugénie Grandet 2021 Actor De Gaulle 40% 25% 2020 Paul Reynaud Actor Beasts 2020 Bernard Bresset Actor Rouge 80% 83% 2020 Stéphane Perez Actor Conviction 2019 Maître Eric Dupond-Moretti Actor An Officer and a Spy 76% 82% 2019 Actor Conviction (Une intime conviction) 2019 Actor Those Who Work 80% 2019 Frank Actor One Nation, One King 2018 L'oncle Actor Cyrano, My Love 80% 94% 2018 Constant Coquelin Actor Above the Law 73% 2017 Frank Valken Actor The Young Karl Marx 63% 71% 2017 Pierre Proudhon Actor The Midwife 88% 77% 2017 Paul Baron Actor The Royal Exchange 100% 57% 2017 Philippe d'Orléans le régent Actor Back in Business 2016 Edmond Zweck Actor All Out 100% 67% 2016 Joseph Oller Actor A Wedding 100% 86% 2016 André Actor
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