Charles Berling (born 30 April 1958) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Charles Berling, son of a navy doctor, is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in

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); she died in 2004.Marion Vignal,
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'', 17 septembre 2011 When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then

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, then, at seven,

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. He studied acting at the Belgian school INSAS, in

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. He is the father of the actor Émile Berling.

Filmography

Theater

Narrator

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