Life and career

Ulliel was born in Boulogne-Billancourt (a suburb of Paris), to Christine, a runway show producer, and Serge Ulliel, a stylist. He has a scar on his left cheek as a result of an attack from a doberman when he attempted to ride the dog like a horse at the age of six. He quipped that the scar increases his emotional acting abilities because it looks like a dimple.

Ulliel attended the University of Saint-Denis, where he studied cinema. He began acting while he was still at school, appearing in Une Femme En Blanc, a film for French television. He also performed at the Cours Florent, where he was discovered by Les égarés director André Téchiné.

He began appearing in made-for-television films during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and then began to be known as a film actor in France, as well as starring in the title role in the movie Hannibal Rising, his first English-language film.

In 2004, he starred in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement and won a César Award for Most Promising Actor for his performance.

In 2007, he appeared on the cover of the January issue of French Vogue with supermodel Doutzen Kroes.

Ulliel is the current face of Longchamp, a French leather and luxury goods company, along with Kate Moss.

Ulliel was chosen as the face of Chanel for its new men's fragrance, Bleu de Chanel. The film for the campaign was directed by Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese and debuted in August 2010.

He portrayed French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the 2014 biopic film Saint Laurent, which earned him a Lumières Award for Best Actor and a César Award for Best Actor nomination.

In 2016 he has three movies coming up: the lead role in Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World, opposite Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel and Nathalie Baye; will star in Guillaume Nicloux's Les Confins du Monde, opposite Gérard Depardieu and on Stephanie Di Giusto's The Dancer, an unconventional biopic of American dancer Loie Fuller.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1997	Mission protection rapprochée	Olivier Rousseau	Nicolas Ribowski	TV Series (1 Episode)
1998	Bonnes vacances	Joël	Pierre Badel	TV Movie
1999	Le refuge	Quentin	Christian François	TV Series (1 Episode)
	La bascule	Olivier Baron	Marco Pico	TV Movie
	Juliette	Nicolas Dastier	Jérôme Foulon	TV Movie
	Alias	Nicolas Trajet	Marina de Van	Short
2000	Julien l'apprenti	Julien at 14	Jacques Otmezguine	TV Movie
2001	Brotherhood of the Wolf	Louis	Christophe Gans
	L'oiseau rare	Gaspard	Didier Albert	TV Movie
2002	Summer Things	Loïc	Michel Blanc	Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor
2003	Strayed	Yvan	André Téchiné	Étoiles d'Or for Best Male Newcomer Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor
2004	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea	Leon	Peter Greenaway
	A Very Long Engagement	Manech Langonnet	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	César Award for Most Promising Actor
	Le dernier jour	Simon	Rodolphe Marconi
	Navarro	Thierry Morlaas	Patrick Jamain	TV Series (1 Episode)
2005	La maison de Nina	Izik	Richard Dembo
2006	Paris, je t'aime	Gaspard	Gus Van Sant
2007	Jacquou le Croquant	Jacquou	Laurent Boutonnat
	Hannibal Rising	Hannibal Lecter	Peter Webber
	L'inconnu		Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux	Short
2008	La troisième partie du monde	François	Eric Forestier
	The Sea Wall	Joseph	Rithy Panh
2009	Le Premier Cercle	Anton Malakian	Laurent Tuel
	Myster Mocky présente	Various	Jean-Pierre Mocky	TV Series Short (1 Episode)
	A Heavenly Vintage	The Vintner's Luck	Niki Caro
	Ultimatum	Nathanaël	Alain Tasma
2010	The Princess of Montpensier	Henri de Guise	Bertrand Tavernier
2011	The Art of Love	William	Emmanuel Mouret
2012	Mes amours décomposé(s)	Corps	Sacha Barbin	Short
	Tu honoreras ta mère et ta mère	Balthazar	Brigitte Roüan
2014	Saint Laurent	Yves Saint Laurent	Bertrand Bonello	Lumières Award for Best Actor Nominated - César Award for Best Actor Nominated - Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor
2016	It's Only the End of the World	Louis	Xavier Dolan
	The Dancer	Louis	Stéphanie Di Giusto
	Les Confins du monde		Guillaume Nicloux

Theatre

Year	Title	Author	Director	Notes
2012	Entertaining Mr Sloane	Joe Orton	Michel Fau
2015	Démons	Lars Norén	Marcial Di Fonzo Bo

Awards

Ulliel was nominated for a César Award for the category Most Promising Actor in 2002 and 2003. In 2004, he won that award for his role in A Very Long Engagement, which co-starred Audrey Tautou.

Personal life

Ulliel dated French actress Cécile Cassel from 2005 to 2007. Had a brief relationship with Charlotte Casiraghi in 2007 and dated Jordane Crantelle from 2008 to 2013.

Since 2013, Ulliel has been in a relationship with French model/singer Gaëlle Piétri. On November 9, 2015, it was announced that the couple was expecting their first child together. The birth of the couple's son was announced on February 9, 2016.

Decorations

• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (2015)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]