Vincent Macaigne

Vincent Macaigne born 19 October 1978 is a French actor theatre director and film director He is also a screenwriter and playwright Macaigne was raised in Paris the son of a French businessman and an Iranianborn painter He has an elder brother who is a forensic doctor He attended the CNSAD between 1999 and 2002 and staged his first play in 2004 Throughout the 2000s he acted in several theatre productions and also wrote and staged a number of plays He suffered two strokes at just thirty years old one of which occurred after his 2009 staging of the theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevskys The Idiot In an interview he said the stroke has had no lasting consequences to his health His short film What Well Leave Behind Ce quil restera de nous won the Grand Prix at the ClermontFerrand International Short Film Festival and was nominated for the César Award for Best Short Film In 2014 he received nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actor and the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor for his role in La Fille du 14 juillet His directorial feature film debut Dom Juan is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Molière It was screened in the Cineasts of the Present section at the 2015 Locarno International Film Festival Source Article Vincent Macaigne from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30