Jean-Paul Rouve (; born 26 January 1967) is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He is a founding member of the Les Robins des Bois
comedy troupe
A comedy troupe is a group of comedians and associated Employment, personnel who work together to perform comedy as entertainment. The term is often used interchangeably with comedy group, and the troupe may specialize in a specific comedic genr ...
, active from 1996 onwards.
He has appeared in over 70 film and television productions since 1993, having held roles in comedy films such as ''
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'' (2002), ''
RRRrrrr!!!'' (2004), ''
Those Happy Days'' (2006) and ''
Les Tuche
''Les Tuche'' is a 2011 French comedy film directed by Olivier Baroux. Three sequels had been released since the first opus.
In the film, a perpetually unemployed lower class family wins a fortune in a lottery. The nouveau riche family then att ...
'' (2011).
Personal life
A native of
Dunkirk
Dunkirk ( ; ; ; Picard language, Picard: ''Dunkèke''; ; or ) is a major port city in the Departments of France, department of Nord (French department), Nord in northern France. It lies from the Belgium, Belgian border. It has the third-larg ...
, Rouve graduated from 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 ...
drama school in Paris, where he studied theatre in the class of
Isabelle Nanty
Isabelle Nanty (; born 21 January 1962) is a French actress, film and theatre director and screenwriter.
Career
Nanty was a teacher for several years at the Cours Florent. She then received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising A ...
(with whom he would later star in several productions), alongside
Pierre-François Martin-Laval
Pierre-François Martin-Laval (nicknamed "PEF") is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. PEF is well known in France for his acting performances in musical comedy but also in serious plays. He studied at the famous Fre ...
,
Marina Foïs
Marina Sylvie Foïs (born 21 January 1970) is a French actress.
Life and career
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in a family from Russian people, Russian, Egyptian Jews, Jewish Egyptian, German people, German a ...
,
Maurice Barthélemy, Pascal Vincent and
Élise Larnicol. Together, the six would form The Royal Imperial Green Rabbit Company troupe, which would soon become Les Robins des Bois.
Rouve lived several years with the novelist Bénédicte Martin; the couple had a son.
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Filmography
Filmmaker
Actor
References
External links
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1967 births
Living people
French male film actors
French male television actors
People from Malo-les-Bains
Male actors from Hauts-de-France
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
Cours Florent alumni
French film producers
French male stage actors
Most Promising Actor César Award winners
20th-century French male actors
21st-century French male actors