Early life

Jean Dujardin was born on 19 June 1972 and raised in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France region), a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. After attending high school, he went to work for the construction company of his father, Jacques Dujardin. Dujardin began contemplating a career in acting while serving his mandatory military service a few years later.

Career

Dujardin began his acting career performing a one-man show he wrote in various bars and cabarets in Paris. He first gained attention when he appeared on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous Ç Nous, which was formed by members of the Carré blanc theater.

From 1999 to 2003, Dujardin starred in the France production of the originally Canadian comedy series Un gars, une fille, alongside his future wife Alexandra Lamy, before transitioning to a career in film. The TV series charted the path of a relationship; each episode was less than ten minutes long. In 2005, he portrayed the titular surfer in the popular comedic film Brice de Nice and performed on its accompanying soundtrack.

In 2006, Dujardin starred as racist, sexist secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath in the comedy OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, a role which earned him an Etoile D'Or Award and a César Award nomination for Best Actor. The film's success spawned a sequel, OSS 117: Lost in Rio. In 2007, directed by Jan Kounen, he starred in the film 99F (99 francs), a very successful existential parody of an advertising exec, adapted from the eponymous best-seller written by Frédéric Beigbeder. This same year, he ventured in drama for the first time on the silver screen, playing a tortured father and cop in Franck Mancuso's Contre-enquête. In 2009, he appeared in A Man and His Dog alongside screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom he has often been compared. In 2010, he starred alongside Albert Dupontel, playing his character's cancer in The Clink of Ice, a French black comedy written and directed by Bertrand Blier.

In 2011, Dujardin starred as movie star George Valentin in the silent film The Artist, reuniting him with OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies director Michel Hazanavicius and his co-star in that film, Bérénice Bejo. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where he received the Best Actor Award. His performance garnered much critical acclaim and he received numerous nominations, including the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor.

On 15 January 2012, Dujardin won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He later went on to win the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor, and the BAFTA for Best Actor. He was also nominated for the César award of the best actor but lost it to Omar Sy for his role in the second most ever viewed movie in France Intouchables. Dujardin went on to win the Best Actor award at the 84th Academy Awards. In effect he is the fourth French actor to be nominated for an Oscar and the first to win the Best Actor. He has been described as France's answer to George Clooney. Following his Oscar nomination for his role in The Artist, WME agency signed the actor.

French film historian Tim Palmer has analyzed Dujardin's career and rise to success in France, noting how his formative roles were often unredeemable buffoons, very skillful portrayals of childlike men who aggressively and unabashedly reject the responsibilities and compromises of adult life. Dujardin's breakthrough roles as Brice de Nice and OSS 117 exemplified this tendency.

In February 2012, Dujardin appeared in Les Infidèles with co-star and friend Gilles Lellouche. He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals. In 2013, Dujardin starred in Éric Rochant's Möbius with Cécile de France and Tim Roth.

His second film that year was Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, playing alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and Kyle Chandler, among others. He appeared in The Monuments Men, directed by George Clooney, and co-starring Clooney, Matt Damon, and Cate Blanchett, and starred in the French film Le Petit Joueur.

In late 2014, Dujardin's most recent film, La French, was released in Europe and subsequently in the United States in early 2015. He plays a French police magistrate who tries to dismantle the French Connection and bring down the Unione Corse.

Personal life

Dujardin has been married twice and has three children. His first marriage, to Gaëlle, ended in 2003. They have two sons. In 2003, he started dating his on-screen partner Alexandra Lamy of the comedy series Un gars, une fille. They married in Anduze on 25 July 2009. In November 2013, it was announced that the couple had separated.

He is currently in a relationship with French ice dancer Nathalie Péchalat. On June 27, 2015, it was announced that the couple was expecting their first child. In December, 2015, Nathalie Péchalat gave birth to a girl, Jeanne.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2002	À l'abri des regards indiscrets	Jean-Luc	Ruben Alves Hugo Gélin	Short
	If I Were a Rich Man	Weston the seller	Gérard Bitton Michel Munz
2003	Toutes les filles sont folles	Lorenzi	Pascale Pouzadoux
	Bienvenue chez les Rozes	Mathieu Gamelin/MG	Francis Palluau
	Les Clefs de bagnole	Himself	Laurent Baffie
2004	Cash Truck	Jacques	Nicolas Boukhrief
	Mariages !	Alex	Valérie Guignabodet
	Les Dalton	Cowboy	Philippe Haïm
	Rien de grave	The travelling salesman	Renaud Philipps	Short
2005	La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre	Himself	Michel Muller
	Brice de Nice	Brice of Nice/Brice Agostini	James Huth	Also co-writer NRJ Ciné Award for Best Look NRJ Ciné Award for Best Quote
	L'Amour aux trousses	Franck	Philippe de Chauveron
	Il ne faut jurer de rien !	Valentin	Eric Civanyan
2006	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies	Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117	Michel Hazanavicius	Étoile d'Or Award for Best Actor Nominated—César Award for Best Actor Nominated—Globe de Cristal for Best Actor Nominated—NRJ Ciné Award for Actor of the Year Nominated—NRJ Ciné Award for Best Look Nominated—NRJ Ciné Award for Best Kiss Nominated—NRJ Ciné Award for Best Quote Nominated—Raimu Award for Comedy
2007	Contre-enquête	Richard Malinowski	Franck Mancuso
	Hellphone	The warrior of the cellar	James Huth
	Deux sur la balançoire	Jerry Ryan	Yves Di Tullio Bernard Murat	TV Movie
	Cherche fiancé tous frais payés	The host club	Aline Issermann
	99 Francs	Octave Parango	Jan Kounen	Raimu Award for Comedy Nominated—Étoile d'Or Award for Best Actor
2008	Ca$h	Cash	Éric Besnard
2009	A Man and His Dog	The Worker	Francis Huster
	OSS 117: Lost in Rio	Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117	Michel Hazanavicius	Nominated—Globe de Cristal for Best Actor
	Lucky Luke	Lucky Luke	James Huth	Also co-writer
2010	Little White Lies	Ludo	Guillaume Canet
	The Clink of Ice	Charles Faulque	Bertrand Blier
	Un balcon sur la mer	Marc Palestro	Nicole Garcia	Swann d'Or for Best Actor
2011	The Artist	George Valentin	Michel Hazanavicius	Academy Award for Best Actor AACTA International Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Hollywood Film Festival Spotlight Award Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Santa Barbara International Film Festival Cinema Vanguard Award Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Étoile d'Or Award for Best Actor Women Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screen Couple Nominated—Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Award for Best Actor Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—César Award for Best Actor Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated—European Film Award for Best Actor Nominated—Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated—Lumières Award for Best Actor Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Women Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
2012	Les Infidèles	Fred/Olivier/François/Laurent/James	Emmanuelle Bercot Jean Dujardin Michel Hazanavicius Jan Kounen Gilles Lellouche	Also co-director, co-writer and co-producer
2013	Möbius	Moïse	Éric Rochant
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Jean-Jacques Saurel	Martin Scorsese
	9 Month Stretch	Sign Language Interpreter	Albert Dupontel
2014	The Monuments Men	Jean-Claude Clermont	George Clooney
	The Connection	Pierre Michel	Cédric Jimenez
2015	Un plus une	Antoine Abeilard	Claude Lelouch
2016	Up for Love	Alexandre	Laurent Tirard
	Brice de Nice 3	Brice	James Huth

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996-1999	Carré Blanc / Nous C Nous	Various	TV sketches
1997-1998	Farce Attaque	Himself	Also co-writer
1999-2003	Un gars, une fille	Jean	Lead role opposite later lover and wife Alexandra Lamy
2007	Palizzi		Also creator and director
2012	Saturday Night Live	George Valentin-like character	Appeared in the "Les jeunes de Paris" sketch
2013	Le débarquement	Various	TV Series (2 Episodes)
	Platane	Himself	TV Series (1 Episode: "La fois où il a cru que le signe c'était un zodiac")

Music video

• 2005 : "Le Casse de Brice" (directed by J.G. Biggs)

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