Daniel Mesguich (born 15 July 1952) is a French
actor and director in theater and opera, and professor of stage acting school.
Biography
In 1970, he was admitted into 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 ...
, after which he opened the Théâtre du Miroir ("Mirror Theater"),
with whom he opened a course in drama. After ten years, he returned to the school to teach at the request of
Jean-Pierre Miquel, becoming the youngest professor on campus. He is currently the director of the school.
He has acted in over a hundred plays, fifty operas in France and abroad, and some 40 movies and television pieces.
The actor
William Mesguich is his son.
Actor
* 1978: ''
Molière
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'' by
Ariane Mnouchkine
* 1978: ''
Le Dossier 51'' by
Michel Deville
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Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level o ...
* 1979: ''
Love on the Run'' by
François Truffaut
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* 1981: ''
Quartet
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Classical String quartet
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'' by
James Ivory
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* 1983: ''
La Belle captive'' by
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the ''Nouveau Roman'' () trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simo ...
* 1990: ''
L'Autrichienne'' by
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Pierre Granier-Deferre (2 July 1927 – 16 November 2007) was a French film director and screenwriter.
His 1971 film ''Le Chat'' (The Cat) won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. His 19 ...
(as
Fouquier-Tinville
Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville (, 10 June 17467 May 1795), also called Fouquier-Tinville and nicknamed posthumously the Provider of the Guillotine was a French lawyer and accusateur public of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the French Rev ...
)
* 1994: ''
Jefferson in Paris'' by James Ivory
* 1996: ''
Limited Edition'' by
Bernard Rapp
* 2001: ''
The Musketeer'' by
Peter Hyams
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(as
King Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
...
)
* 2003: ''
Le Divorce'' by James Ivory
References
External links
*
Théâtre On Line
1952 births
Living people
French male film actors
People from Algiers
French people of Algerian descent
French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
Cours Florent alumni
Audiobook narrators
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