Xavier Deluc

Xavier Deluc born 18 March 1958 is a French actor director and scriptwriter He is most known for acting in TV series such as Marc Eliot a French police drama Dolmen Brittany based family drama and 12 seasons of Research Unit another specialized French police drama as Captain Martin Bernier and starring role in movies including He Died with His Eyes Open in 1985 and Captive in 1986 Xavier Lepetit was born in Caen in Calvados His childhood was spent in JacobMesnil a hamlet just near BrettevillesurLaize He was raised in boarding school in Lisieux When he turned 14 he got involved in amateur dramatics and performed in his first short film Aged twenty he went to Paris and enrolls in the Cours Florent a private drama school The actor Robert Hossein then noticed him Xavier recalls that I was the only blond I was taken Hossein then gave him his first role as the young Edgar Linton in his play Les Hauts de Hurlevent Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë performed in the theater of BoulogneBillancourt and Lyon in 1979 It was under his birth name Xavier Lepetit while aged 22 that he debuted in his first film Les surdoués de la première compagnie directed by Michel Gérard in 1981 before joining Max Pécas for Belles blondes et bronzées also in 1981 and Les Branchés à SaintTropez in 1983 In 1984 he was in Yannick Bellons film La Triche The Cheat a distributor then asked him to take a pseudonym to improve the posters The actor thought of his weekends in LucsurMer on the Côte de Nacre where he spent a lot of his time he then becomes Xavier Deluc Thanks to his performance in the film he was named as the most promising actor at the 10th César ceremony of 1985 Then the following year at the 11th ceremony of the César where he is nominated as the best actor in a supporting role for He Died with His Eyes Open by Jacques Deray just after completing Robert Kramers sciencefiction film Diesel in 1985 He is also a theater actor performing in JeanClaude Brisvilles The Blue Villa at Espace Cardin theatre Paris in 1986 He then met director Jean Marais at the Théâtre des BouffesParisiens to don Hans costume in Jean Cocteaus play Bacchus in 1988 Xavier later said about Jean Marais that I did not know how to die and he taught me to die on stage In 1989 he starred with James Wilby and Serena Gordon in a twopart TV miniseries of A Tale of Two Cities for ITV Granada The production also aired on Masterpiece Theatre on the PBS in the United States In 1991 he started a campaign called No to drugs Yes to life based on his own previous drug abuse he then staged his selfwritten play called La Pluie du Soleil or The rain of the sun performed at the ComédieCaumartin theater In 1991 he also recorded a duet single with Viktor Lazlo called Baiser sacré on the Polydor label From 1998 to 2005 he starred in the Marc Eliot television series and then in 2006 he landed his most important role in his television career performing the Major then Lieutenant then Captain Martin Bernier main character of the series Research Unit which in 2018 reached the twelfth season with him being the only surviving cast member since the start Source Article Xavier Deluc from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30