Life and career

Born in Tel Aviv to French-Algerian Jewish parents, he grew up in the outskirts of Paris. His acting debut was in Éric Rochant's Un monde sans pitié (1989), which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor. His first feature film as director was Ma femme est une actrice (2001), which co-starred Charlotte Gainsbourg, Attal's real-life partner.

He directed a couple of segments in the film New York, I Love You.

He acted in The Interpreter and Anthony Zimmer, and in Rush Hour 3 he played a French cab driver named George.

Personal life

Attal's longtime partner is French-Anglo actress-singer Charlotte Gainsbourg whom he met on the set of the 1991 film Aux yeux du monde. Gainsbourg and Attal are not married and Gainsbourg has attributed her reluctance to marry to the fact that her parents never married. Attal publicly proposed to Gainsbourg on the 19th of June, 2013 during an awards ceremony when he received the French National Order of Merit. However in April 2014 Attal confirmed that they were still unwed with no plans to officially marry.

Attal has three children with Gainsbourg: son Ben (born 1997) and daughters Alice (born 2002), and Joe (born 2011).

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
1989	Un monde sans pitié	Halpern	Éric Rochant	César Award for Most Promising Actor Acteurs à l'Écran - Michel Simon's Award
1991	Cauchemar Blanc		Mathieu Kassovitz	Short film
	Mauvais fille	Vincent	Régis Franc
	Aux yeux du monde	Bruno Fournier	Éric Rochant
1992	Amoureuse	Paul	Jacques Doillon
	Love After Love	Romain	Diane Kurys
1994	The Patriots	Ariel Brenner	Éric Rochant
1996	Delphine 1, Yvan 0	a man	Dominique Farrugia
	Portraits chinois	Yves	Martine Dugowson
	Love, etc.	Benoît	Marion Vernoux
1997	I Got a Woman (Short)	Arnaud	Yvan Attal	Alpe d'Huez International Comedy Film Festival - Best Short Film
	Saraka bô	Taïeb	Denis Amar
1998	Alissa	Luc Kaufmann	Didier Goldschmidt
	Cantique de la racaille	Gaston	Vincent Ravalec
1999	Mes amis	Eric	Michel Hazanavicius
	With or Without You	Benoit	Michael Winterbottom
	The Criminal	Mason	Julian Simpson
2000	Le prof	Hippolyte	Alexandre Jardin
2001	My Wife Is an Actress	Yvan	Yvan Attal	Cabourg Romantic Film Festival - Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Debut
2002	And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen	David	Claude Lelouch
	At Dawning (Short)	Falling Man	Martin Jones
2003	It's Easier for a Camel...	Man in park	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
	Bon Voyage	Raoul	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor
2004	Happily Ever After	Vincent	Yvan Attal
	Un petit jeu sans conséquence	Bruno	Bernard Rapp
2005	The Interpreter	Philippe	Sydney Pollack
	Anthony Zimmer	François Taillandier	Jérôme Salle
	Somewhere (Short)	Simon	Emmanuel Murat
	Munich	Tony (Andreas' Friend)	Steven Spielberg
2006	The Serpent	Vincent Mandel	Eric Barbier
2007	Le candidat	Michel Dedieu	Niels Arestrup
	Rush Hour 3	George	Brett Ratner
2008	La traque (TV Movie)	Serge Klarsfeld	Laurent Jaoui
	Orange Juice (Short)	Philippe	Ronan Moucheboeuf
2009	Je suis venu pour elle	Max	Ivan Taieb
	The Ball of the Actresses	Himself	Maïwenn
	Leaving	Samuel	Catherine Corsini
	Les regrets	Mathieu Liévin	Cédric Kahn
	Rapt	Stanislas Graff	Lucas Belvaux	Nominated - César Award for Best Actor
2011	Dans la tourmente	Max	Christophe Ruggia
	R.I.F.	Stephane Monnereau	Franck Mancuso
2012	One Night	Pierre Morvand	Lucas Belvaux
	Do Not Disturb	Ben Azuelos	Yvan Attal
2013	Délicate gravité (Short)	Paul	Philippe Andre
2014	Le Dernier Diamant	Simon Carrerra	Éric Barbier
	Son épouse	Joseph de Rosa	Michel Spinosa
2016	En Moi (Short)	the filmmaker	Laetitia Casta
2016	Ils sont partout

Dubbing

(French version)

• Tom Cruise :
  • Docteur William 'Bill' Harford : Eyes Wide Shut
  • Ethan Hunt : Mission: Impossible II
  • David Aames : Vanilla Sky
  • John Anderton : Minority Report
• James McAvoy :
  • Penelope : Max

[ Source: Wikipedia ]