Benjamin Voisin (born 24 December 1996) is a French actor. For his role as David Gorman in the 2020 drama film ''

Summer of 85 ''Summer of 85'' () is a 2020 romantic drama film written and directed by François Ozon, partly based on the 1982 novel '' Dance on My Grave'' by Aidan Chambers. It stars Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin. It was released in France on 14 Jul ...

'', he shared the

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with his co-star

Félix Lefebvre Félix Lefebvre (born November 19, 1999) is a French actor. For his role as Alexis Robin in the dramatic film '' Summer of 85'', he was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2021. Biography Félix Lefebvre was born in 1999 an ...

, and was nominated for the

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Biography

Benjamin Voisin was born in December 1996 in Paris. His father, Marc Voisin, is a teacher at the

Cours Florent The Cours Florent is a private drama school in Paris, France, established in 1967 by French theater actor François Florent. The school's facilities are located on three sites in the 19th arrondissement of Paris: Rue Archereau, Rue Mathis, and ...

, and his mother is an accountant. He studied at the

Lycée Claude-Bernard The lycée Claude-Bernard is a French public school opened in 1938, both a collège and a lycée. It is located at 1, avenue du Parc-des-Princes in Paris, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, and bears the name of French doctor Claude Bernard ...

in the

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, where he grew up. He pursued drama studies at the Cours Florent, which he first joined in 2011 to attend youth workshops for three years. He then joined the acting programme in his second year. He also joined the

Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique The Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (; "National Academy of Dramatic Arts"; abbr. CNSAD) is France's national drama academy, located in Paris and a constituent college of University PSL. It is a higher education institution r ...

in 2017, a year after passing the competitive exam in 2016.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Voisin, Benjamin 1996 births 21st-century French male actors Cours Florent alumni French male film actors French male television actors French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni Living people Male actors from Paris Most Promising Actor César Award winners Most Promising Actor Lumières Award winners