serious roles. He has starred in 2009 as Etienne Balsan in Coco avant Chanel by Anne Fontain, with Audrey Tautou; as Jean-René in 2010 with Isabelle Carré in a comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris Émotifs anonymes about two extremely shy persons who fall in love, and also as August Maquet in L'autre Dumas by Safy Nebbou, alongside Gérard Depardieu and Dominique Blanc, a movie about the creative ghostwriter, Maquet, who played a crucial role in the production of French writer Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers. For his work in A Place on Earth (2013), Poelvoorde received a Magritte Award for Best Actor. The actor revealed in interviews, that he suffered from bipolar disorder. In 2019, during the shooting of the movie "Raoul Taburin a un secret", from the book by the writer Jean-Jacques Sempé, Benoît Poelvoorde had a bicycle accident and received 17 stitches. Selected filmography Voice acting 1996 : Les Guignols de l'info: Alain Madelin (1 episode) 2009 : A Town Called Panic Short films 1997 : Le Signaleur 1988 : Pas de C4 pour Daniel Daniel by Rémy Belvaux and André Bonzel References External links Theatre acting career summary (from L'Annuaire du Spectacle on the Centre de recherche et de documentation littéraires et théâtrales de la Communauté française de Belgique web site) 1964 births Belgian male actors Belgian male comedians Belgian film directors Living people Magritte Award winners People from Namur (city) People with bipolar disorder Walloon people Belgian male film actors 20th-century Belgian male actors 21st-century Belgian male actors