Sagamore Stevenin
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Sagamore Stévenin is a French actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, sometimes also listed Thomas Stévenin in film credits. Sagamore's father is the actor Jean-François Stévenin
Jean-François Stévenin
Jean-François Stévenin is a French actor. He has appeared in 150 films and television shows since 1968. He starred in the film Cold Moon, which was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Out 1...

. Also in the acting profession are his brother Louis-Robinson Stévenin and his sister Salomé Stévenin
Salomé Stévenin
Salomé Stévenin was born on 29 January 1985 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France. She began her acting career at the age of 3 when she appeared alongside her father in the film Peaux des Vaches in 1989...

. He began his career in the early 80s as a child actor. From then until 2006, he has been in around 25 French films and TV movies, becoming internationally known in 1999 as the main male role in the film Romance
Romance (1999 film)
Romance is a 1999 French movie written and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Caroline Ducey, pornographic actor Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin and François Berléand. The film features explicit copulation scenes, especially one showing Caroline Ducey's coitus with Rocco Siffredi...

directed by Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.-Life and career:Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort...

. This film ignited controversy due to its sexual themes and sparked public discussion about the difference between erotic art and pornography.

His first English-speaking role was as Etienne Balsan
Étienne Balsan
Étienne Balsan was a French socialite and heir. He came from the family of wealthy industrialists from Châteauroux who provided the army with uniforms and originated the famous cloth known as "blue horizon." Balsan is best known in the present day as having kept Coco Chanel as his mistress...

 in the 2008 television film Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel (film)
Coco Chanel is a 2008 television film directed by Christian Duguay and written by Ron Hutchinson, Enrico Medioli and Lea Tafuri. It stars Shirley MacLaine as Coco Chanel, the pioneering French fashion designer....

starring Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine is an American film and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career...

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From February to May 2006, Sagamore acted in Paris in a French stage rendition of A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess. The novel contains an experiment in language: the characters often use an argot called "Nadsat", derived from Russian....

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