Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes. Career He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including Cobra and Space Sheriff Gavan (known in France as X-Or). His early TV appearances included Chorus (1975), the series Les Enfants du rock, again for A2, and then his breakthrough with Nulle part ailleurs for Canal+. In 1988, De Caunes started making an English-language version of his French music programme Rapido, for Janet Street-Porter's youth and entertainment programming strand DEF II, with new episodes of Rapido usually being broadcast as part of DEF II's Wednesday night schedule on BBC2. He then went on to create the long-running magazine programme Eurotrash for Channel 4, with this humorous post-pub entertainment show co-presented by Jean-Paul Gaultier for the few few series and featuring regular spots for European stars like Lolo Ferrari. He also presented a short-lived chat show on Channel 4 called Le Show. In addition, he appeared in an advertising campaign for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles ice lollies. From 2013 until 2015, he hosted the daily evening show Le Grand Journal on Canal+. He provided voices in the Aardman Animation TV show Rex the Runt. He is a long-time AIDS awareness campaigner, fronting the organisation (AIDS Solidarity). Filmography Film acting 1989: Pentimento – Charles 1996: – Jérôme 1997: – Antoine 1997: – Alex 1998: L'homme est une femme comme les autres – Simon Eskenazy 1999: Au cœur du mensonge – Germain-Roland Desmot 1999: – Claude 2000: – Pierre Nivel 2001: Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert – The narrator 2002: – The captain of the KKK 2002: Les Clefs de bagnole – an actor refusing to play in a Baffie film 2006: – Julien Rossi 2007: Mr. Bean's Holiday – Television presenter 2008: – Julien 2008: 48 heures par jour – Bruno 2009: – Simon Eskenazy 2010: Mumu – The Colonel 2021: Kaamelott: The First Chapter – Dagonet Television acting 1987: Objectif: Nul – Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff 1988-1992: Rapido - series presenter 1993–2007: Eurotrash – series presenter 1998: Bob le magnifique (made-for-television movie) by Marc Angelo - François Morin / Bob Saint Clar 2002: Les Amants du