Gilles Lellouche

Gilles Lellouche born 5 July 1972 is a French actor and director Most known for his performances in Tell No One 2006 Mesrine 2008 Little White Lies 2010 The Players 2012 The Connection 2014 Cest la vie 2017 In Safe Hands 2018 and BAC Nord 2020 For his performances Lellouche was nominated for numerous acting César Awards including twice for Best Actor for In Safe Hands and BAC Nord As filmmaker he directed Sink or Swim 2018 and Beating Hearts 2025 for which he was nominated twice for the César Award for Best Director Lellouche was born in SavignysurOrge France to a father of AlgerianJewish descent and to a mother of Irish Catholic background His brother Philippe Lellouche is also an actor and director From 2002 to 2013 Lellouche was in a relationship with actress Mélanie Doutey with whom he had a daughter born on 5 September 2009 Since 2015 Lellouche has been in a relationship with former model and jewelry designer Alizée Guinochet with whom he had a son born in November 2022 In January 2017 following the backlash over director Roman Polanski being appointed as the president of the 2017 César Awards while being convicted of sexual abuse of a 13yearold girl and being a fugitive from justice since 1978 Lellouche expressed his support for the director in an interview with Le Parisien saying In France we make controversies of everything We die of this in this country In my opinion you have to be consistent Polanski has lived in France for forty years The facts he was accused of precede this arrival For all these years he has been doing films At that time it had to be forbidden to live in our territory or to work here But we welcomed him we gave him awards we praise him since he is a big director and he is part of the history of cinema I am not excusing the facts But why today more than yesterday should there be a scandal Whats going on with us Have we become Americans I dont agree with that We have many people in France that we have things to criticize and who are still in political social or economic life We did not put them in prison we did not make controversies Even the victim is tired of this story To make a scandal only today because he is the president of the Césars it does not make sense Polanski later dropped out of presiding over the Césars after the backlash which included a 61000signature petition and calls to boycott the ceremony Source Article Gilles Lellouche from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA