Jacques Bonnaffé (born 22 June 1958) is a French actor and stage director. He has appeared in more than ninety films since 1980.

Debut

Jacques Bonnaffé was formed at the Lille Conservatory after his high school years in Douai (North) where he practiced amateur theater. At 20, he started in the film ''Anthracite'' directed by Édouard Niermans. In 1995, he is the French voice of actor

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in the film

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. He is also dedicated to poetry and readings of

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, Jules Mousseron or other authors such as Ludovic Janvier, Valérie Rouzeau, Jacques Darras or Jean-Pierre Verheggen. He directs plays with contemporary authors like Joseph Danan, Jean-Christophe Bailly in ''Nature loves to hide''. Since September 2015 he is everyday on

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for his column "Jacques Bonnaffé read Poetry".

Theater

Filmography

Awards and nominations

César Award Cesar or César may refer to: Arts and entertainment * César (film), ''César'' (film), a 1936 French romantic drama * César (film), ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt Places * Cesar, Portugal * Cesar Department, Colombia * Cesar R ...

Molière Award The Les Molière is the national theatre award of France and it recognises achievement of French theatre each year. The awards are considered the highest honour for productions and performances. Presided and decided by the ''Association profess ...

Audio books

He also recorded several audio books: *''

Discourse on the Method ''Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences'' () is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation ...

'' by

René Descartes René Descartes ( , ; ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and Modern science, science. Mathematics was paramou ...

(2003) *''Gargantua'' by

François Rabelais François Rabelais ( , ; ; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A Renaissance humanism, humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholars in the Renaissance, Gr ...

(2004) *''La main coupée'' by

Blaise Cendrars Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars (), was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European ...

(2005) *''L'Oral et Hardi'' by Jean-Pierre Verheggen (2003) *''L'Oral et Hardi'' by Jean-Pierre Verheggen (2013), Camino Verde version

External links

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