Hubert Koundé
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Hubert Koundé is a French
actor and film director
. Koundé is best known for his role as Hubert in the film La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz
. He is also the author of a play: "Cagoule: Valentine and Yamina," performed in 2003 (Cagoule: Valentin et Yamina, montée en 2003). He made two short films: Qui se ressemble s'assemble and Menhir, and co-directed a feature film: Paris, la métisse. He has also worked on English language films such as The Constant Gardener
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He spent his childhood between France and Benin
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France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
actor and film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
. Koundé is best known for his role as Hubert in the film La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company....
. He is also the author of a play: "Cagoule: Valentine and Yamina," performed in 2003 (Cagoule: Valentin et Yamina, montée en 2003). He made two short films: Qui se ressemble s'assemble and Menhir, and co-directed a feature film: Paris, la métisse. He has also worked on English language films such as The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener (film)
The Constant Gardener is a 2005 drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carré novel of the same name. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a man who seeks to find the motivating forces behind his wife's murder.The film stars Ralph Fiennes,...
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He spent his childhood between France and Benin
Benin
Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located...
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Actor
- 1992 : Le Temps d'une nuit
- 1992 : Diên Biên PhuDien Bien Phu (film)Diên Biên Phu is a 1992 film written and directed by French veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer. With its huge budget, all-star cast, and realistic war scenes produced with the cooperation of the French and Vietnamese armies, Dîen Bîen Phu is regarded by many as one of the more important war movies...
by Pierre SchoendoerfferPierre SchoendoerfferPierre Schoendoerffer is a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician and since 2001 the President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.-Family:... - 1993 : Métisse by Mathieu KassovitzMathieu KassovitzMathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company....
: Jamal Saddam Abossolo M'bo - 1995 : La HaineLa HaineLa Haine is a 1995 French black-and-white film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is commonly released under its French title in the English-speaking world, although its American VHS release was entitled Hate. It is about three teenage friends and their struggle to live in...
by Mathieu KassovitzMathieu KassovitzMathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company....
: Hubert — nominated for the César Award for Most Promising ActorCésar Award for Most Promising ActorThis is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Most Promising Actor .-1980s:-1990s:*1991: Gérald Thomassin: Le petit criminel*1992: Manuel Blanc: J'embrasse pas... - 1996 : Colis postal
- 1996 : La Sicilia by Luc Pien : Désiré Mbuyu
- 1997 : Saraka bô by Denis Amar : Blanche-Neige
- 1997 : La Divine Poursuite by Michel DevilleMichel DevilleMichel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter.Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors...
: Mamadou - 1998 : Restons groupésRestons groupésRestons groupés is a French comedy film by Jean-Paul Salomé starring Emma de Caunes, Samuel Le Bihan, Bruno Solo, Bernard Le Coq, and Estelle Larrivaz....
by Jean-Paul SaloméJean-Paul SaloméJean-Paul Salomé is a French director.- Selected filmography :*1994 Les Braqueuses with Clémentine Célarié, Catherine Jacob and Annie Girardot...
: Aimé - 1999 : Simon le mage by Ildiko EnyediIldikó EnyediIldikó Enyedi is an Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She has directed seven films since 1989. She won the Golden Camera award for Az én XX. századom at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography:* Vakond...
- 2000 : Qui se ressemble s'assemble : le lecteur
- 2000 : Tout va bien, on s'en va by Claude MouriérasClaude MouriérasClaude Mouriéras is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1989. His film Dis-moi que je rêve was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
: Arthur - 2001 : Comment j'ai tué mon père d'Anne Fontaine : Jean-Toussaint
- 2001 : Ndeysaan (Le prix du pardon) by Mansour Sora WadeMansour Sora WadeMansour Sora Wade is a Senegalese film director of Lebou people ancestry. He studied at Paris 8 University and went on to direct the audiovisual archives for the Senegalese Ministry of Culture, a job he held from 1977 to 1985. He began making short films in 1983...
: Yatma - 2004 : The Constant GardenerThe Constant GardenerThe Constant Gardener is a 2001 novel by John le Carré. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered...
by Fernando MeirellesFernando MeirellesFernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films...
: Arnold Bluhm
Director
- 1998 : Menhir (short film)
- 2000 : Qui se ressemble s'assemble (short film)
- 2005 : Paris, la métisse
Television
- 1992 : Nestor BurmaNestor BurmaNestor Burma is a fictional character created by French crime novelist Léo Malet. In the series of crime novels featuring him one can isolate a subset of novels each set in a different quarter of Paris which Malet dubbed the "New Mysteries of Paris", homaging the most famous feuilleton of the 19th...
, 1 episode - 1995 : Les Cinq Dernières MinutesLes Cinq Dernières MinutesLes Cinq Dernières Minutes is a French television series starring Lily Fayol....
, episode Meurtre à l'université : Francis - 1997 : Les Enfants du Karoo
- 1998 : Maternité
- 2005 : Quelques jours en avril : Père Salomon
- 2005 : L'Arbre et l'oiseau : inspector Kwame
- 2006 : Plus belle la viePlus belle la viePlus belle la vie also known by the acronym PBLV is a French daily feuilleton télévisé created by Magaly Richard-Serrano, Bénedicte Achard, Georges Desmouceaux et Olivier Szulzynger, and produced by Hubert Besson, Michèle Podroznik and François Charlent...
, 5 episodes : Étienne Anglade - 2007 : Greco, episode Contact : Thierry Benesh
- 2008 : La Cour des grands, episode Alison : Virgil Bouaké
- 2008 : Central Nuit, episode Celui qui n'existe pas : Omar Touré
- 2008 : Le Voyage de la veuve : Léopold
Theater
- 2001 : Le Costume by Mothobe Mutloatse, directed by Peter BrookPeter BrookPeter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.-Life:...
- 2004 : Cagoule by and directed by Hubert Koundé