
Aurélien Recoing
Known for Acting · 93 credits
- Born
- 1958-05-05 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
Biography
Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director.
Aurélien Recoing is the son of Alain Recoing (puppeteer), and the brother of Éloi Recoing (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist, composer).
Born in Paris on May 5, 1958, Aurélien Recoing began training to be an actor in 1974 at Cours Florent, and studied at Quartier d'Ivry. In 1977, the actor-in-training, who spoke fluent English and a little Russian, joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris, where he studied under Jean-Pierre Miquel and Antoine Vitez. He has appeared in more than 30 plays and has directed stage performances of works by Thomas Bernhard, Fernando Pessoa and Paul Claudel. He was awarded the Prix Gérard Philipe in 1989.
In 1980, Aurélien Recoing took his first steps into the world of cinema, in Exploits of a Young Don Juan. Finding art-house cinema appealing to him, he worked with Philippe Garrel on Emergency Kisses (Les baisers de secours), and with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa on Modern Life. The actor rose to fame in 2001 thanks to Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps), in which he plays a man who invents a false life to avoid having to tell his friends and family that he has been fired from his job. As he became more and more in demand, he alternated between blockbusters such as Ruby & Quentin and That Woman and art-house films like L'Ennemi naturel and Orlando Vargas. Lending his talents to a number of unusual projects, in 2006 he portrayed a gamblers in 13 Tzameti, Géla Babluani's black-and-white thriller, and also appeared in Forgive Me (Pardonnez-moi), Maïwenn's home-movie style drama. In the same year, the physically imposing actor found himself transported back to 1914 France in Fragments of Antonin, and then to 1959 Kabylia in Florent Emilio Siri's Intimate Enemies. In 2008, he starred in Franck Llopis' Paris Nord-Sud and in La Saison des Orphelins. The following year, he was cast in Gilles Béhat's crime thriller Diamant 13 with Gérard Depardieu, and in Denis Dercourt's Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain dès l'aube).
He has made appearances in The Horde, directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, Xavier de Choudens' Joseph and the Girl with Jacques Dutronc, and Léon Desclozeaux's Cargo, the Lost Men in 2010. He appeared in Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Switch, as well as in Olias Barco's Kill Me Please, which won the Marc'Aurelio d'Oro for best film at Rome Film Festival in 2010. He also appeared in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Colour, which took the Palme d'Or at Cannes. In 2020 he appeared in Adults in the room. An upcoming appearance is in Grand Ciel an Arte Film.
Known For
TV Shows (8)
Movies (85)

Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013
as Adèle's Father

Exploits of a Young Don Juan
1986
as Adolphe

Ruby & Quentin
2003
as Rocco

Black Box
2021
as Claude Varins

The Clouzot Scandal
2017
as Narrator (voice)

13 Tzameti
2006
as Jacky

Trois Couples en quête d'orages
2005
as Rémi

Fidelity
2000
as Bernard

Pacific Fear
2024
as General

Pardonnez-moi
2006
as Paul

Diamond 13
2009
as Ladje

Adults in the Room
2019
as Pierre Moscovici

Belle and Sebastian: Next Generation
2022
as Yves

The Horde
2010
as Jiménez

The Plough
2023
as Simon

Counter Investigation
2007
as Josse

Cold Showers
2005
as Louis Steiner

Intimate Enemies
2007
as Vesoul

Switch
2011
as Delors

Time Out
2001
as Vincent

The Elegant Criminal
1990
as François

Despite the Night
2016
as Paul

Antarctica, in the footsteps of the Emperor
2016
as Narrator (voice)

Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça!
2013
as Vincent / Nuissbaum

Ghosts
2005
as Pierre

Natural Enemy
2004
as Monsieur Tanguy

The Blue Note
1991
as Auguste Clésinger

Fragments of Antonin
2006
as le professeur Labrousse

Kill Me Please
2010
as Docteur Krueger

Life's Little Treasures
1994
as Photographer

Louis, the Child King
1993
as Coadjuteur de l'Archevêque de Paris, futur Cardinal de Retz

Tomorrow at Dawn
2009
as Capitaine Déprées

My Worst Nightmare
2011
as Thierry

Joseph et la fille
2010
as Raphaël

The Rest of the Night
2008
as Giovanni

The Wrong Man
2012
as Daniel Varini

Opération Turquoise
2007
as Capitaine Cormery

Ruby Is Dead
2017
as Marty

Sea Workers
1986
as Gilliatt

Emergency Kisses
1989
as Comedian

The Jewish Cardinal
2013
as Jean-Paul II

Dark Night, October 17, 1961
2005
as Somveille

La fille et le garçon
2023
as Jean

Children's Play
2001
as l'inspecteur Mayens

Sartre, Years of Passion
2006
as Raymond Aron

La femme à abattre
1993
as Richard

Les Tisserands du pouvoir
1988
as Jacques Roussel

Premier cri
2002
as L'homme

Le Pays des ours
2003
as Henri

Red Sunset
2004
as L'homme au cutter

Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
1988

Two Women
2021
as Commissaire André Faureins

A Perfect Friend
2006
as le médecin
The Stranger
2007
as Yvan
Monsieur
as Monsieur Auguste Desmest

Textiles
2001
as Michel

The Soviet Revolution Told Through its Cinema
2017
as Self
Le repenti
2009
as Victor Fontanel

Müetter
2006
as Mathieu

La Vie à trois
1997
as Gilles Moutiers

Souffler plus fort que la mer
2017
as Loïc, le père

Hanging Offense
2003
as L'homme de l'identité judiciaire

L'ombre d'un flic
2011
as Julien Ortéguy

Pasteur et Koch : Un duel de géants dans la guerre des microbes
2018
as Narration

Modern Life
2000
as Georges

Pure Life
2014
as Edgar Maufrais

The Kid Tintouin
2011
as (Voice)

Le Pain du diable
2010
as Aimé Sailant

Souli
2004
as Yann

La Saison des orphelins
2008
as Achille

Le Crime des Renards
2005
as Baptiste

Poor Girl!
2003
as Paul

Le pays des enfants perdus
2004
as Dolor

Private Life
2007
as Guillaume Vaudrey

Grand ciel
2022
as Guy

A Son
2004
as Max

One Long Winter Without Fire
2005
as Jean

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
2013
as Harry

Orlando Vargas
2005
as Orlando Vargas
Le JT des nouvelles technos

Le Soulier de Satin
1987
as Ange Gardien / Archéologue / Diego Rodriguez

Cargo, the Lost Men
2010
as Buck

Des pierres en ce jardin
2015
as Pierre

Poursuite
2011

The Human Factor
2012
as Ernest (voice)
About Aurélien Recoing
Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director. Aurélien Recoing is the son of Alain Recoing (puppeteer), and the brother of Éloi Recoing (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist, composer). Born in Paris on May 5, 1958, Aurélien Recoing began training to be an actor in 1974 at Cours Florent, and studied at Quartier d'Ivry. In 1977, the actor-in-training, who spoke fluent English and a little Russian, joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris… With 93 credits spanning from 1986 to 2024, Aurélien Recoing has appeared in 85 films and 8 TV shows.
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Most Popular Aurélien Recoing Movies
- Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) — as Adèle's Father
- Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986) — as Adolphe
- Ruby & Quentin (2003) — as Rocco
- Black Box (2021) — as Claude Varins
- The Clouzot Scandal (2017) — as Narrator (voice)
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