Bastien Bouillon

ActivitiesActor, Director, Screenwriter

SecteurCinema

Biography

Bastien Bouillon began his career in 2009, acting in the series RIS, Central Nuit, and Boulevard du Palais. His role in Declaration of War was the beginning of a lasting collaboration with Valérie Donzelli, with whom he would work again in Hand in Hand (2012) and Marguerite et Julien, in Competition at Cannes in 2015.
In 2014, his role in Julie Lopes-Curval’s High Society earned him a Lumières Award nomination for Most Promising Actor. A loyal actor, he has worked notably several times with Dominik Moll, in Only the Animals in 2019 and in the lead role of The Night of the 12th, presented in the Cannes Première strand at Cannes 2022. A role for which he has again been nominated, three years after Sébastien Betbeder’s Up the Mountain, for a César Award for Most Promising Actor.

Filmography(62)

No Way Back

(2024)

The Incredible Snow Woman

(2024)

The Count of Monte Cristo

(2024)

Off-season

(2023)

The Horla

(2023)

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Monsieur Aznavour

(2023)

Chasing Johnny

(2023)

Nocomodo

(2022)

Oussekine

(2022)

Out of the Blue

(2022)

Pharmakon

(2022)

The Three of Us

(2022)

Umami

(2022)

The Night of the 12th

(2022)

Bye Bye

(2021)

People

(2021)

Astrakan

(2021)

Simone: The Journey of the Century

(2021)

A Radiant Girl

(2021)

A World Free of Crisis

(2020)

Jesus 2020

(2020)

Jour & nuit

(2020)

Moha

(2020)

Perles

(2020)

So That Nothing Changes

(2020)

Starring Grandma

(2020)

Flawless

(2019)

The End of Love

(2019)

Jumbo

(2019)

Only the Animals

(2019)

Up The Mountain

(2019)

Second Son

(2018)

The Mystery of Henri Pick

(2018)

Il était une fois mon prince viendra

(2017)

Féminin plurielles

(2017)

Baby Love

(2016)

Guillaume Drifting

(2016)

The Turtle

(2016)

Carnivores

(2016)

Promise at Dawn

(2016)

La Prunelle de mes yeux

(2016)

Parisienne

(2015)

On the Bench

(2014)

The Contribution

(2014)

Marguerite et Julien

(2014)

Quand je ne dors pas

(2014)

High Society

(2014)

My Sense of Modesty

(2013)

Waging War

(2013)

Indesirables

(2013)

Pour la France

(2012)

Rose Now

(2012)

The Tenant

(2012)

2 Autumns 3 Winters

(2012)

Hand in Hand

(2012)

Just as Well

(2011)

Thursday the 19th

(2011)

The Players

(2011)

War of the Buttons

(2011)

The Line That Divides

(2010)

Declaration of War

(2010)

Sphinx

(2009)

Media Gallery

11 JANUARY 2023

10 to Watch 2023 : 10 new French talents to discover

They have been grabbing attention in recent months at the festivals of Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, New York, San Sebastián... They’ll be seen on screens around the world in 2023. They are the new faces of French cinema, and they are UniFrance's 10 to Watch 2023.

Unifrance is proud to to focus the spotlight on this new generation of directors, actors, and actresses, who contribute so fully to the effervescence of French cinematographic creation, and to encourage the distribution of their films beyond France’s borders.
Unifrance 10 to Watch 2022

Dali Benssalah, actor
Bastien Bouillon, actor
Davy Chou, director
Céline Devaux, director
Lyna Khoudri, actress
Paul Kircher, actor
Charlotte Le Bon, director
Annabelle Lengronne, actress
Rebecca Marder, actress
Nadia Tereszkiewicz, actress