Patrick Chesnais
Birthday: 1947-03-18
Place of Birth: La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Biography: Patrick Chesnais (born 18 March 1947) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Patrick Chesnais was born in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1989, he won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the film La Lectrice directed by Michel Deville. In 1994, he starred in Harold Pinter's Le Retour, and in 1992, in La Belle Histoire by Claude Lelouch. He starred in Hany Tamba's Melodrama Habibi in 2008. He is married to fellow actor Josiane Stoléru. Source: Article "Patrick Chesnais" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Not Here to Be Loved
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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The Austrian
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Te quiero
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J'invente rien
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Like Thunder in a Cloudless Sky
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Laval, le collaborateur
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The Price to Pay
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Cheating Love
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Change of Plans
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Sexes très opposés
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Melodrama Habibi
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Blame It on Mum
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Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste
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Irène
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The Beautiful Story
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The Children of the Century
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novel...
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Home Sweet Home
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Mixed Marriage
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L'Œil du maître
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We are Red Star
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Chroma
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Drôles d'oiseaux
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Les Sacrifiés
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The Landlords
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Dossier 51
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Kennedy et moi
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You Will Be My Son
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La Lectrice
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Tu vas rire, mais je te quitte
The complicated life of a wannabe actress who meets an older writer in the midst of a crisis....
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In Gold We Trust
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There Were Days... and Moons
How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie show...
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Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
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Life's Little Treasures
This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few ...
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Le ventre de Juliette
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Charming Fellow
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Promotion canapé
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Make Room for Tomorrow
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Welcome Aboard
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First Voyage
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Thank You Satan
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All Girls Cry
Romantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move forw...
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Feu sur le candidat
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60 Going On 12
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Kiss Me
The life of a twelve-year-old living with her mother is disrupted by the arrival of a very young man...
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Bright Days Ahead
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Snow
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The Islanders
The story takes us to an island with no future, given that it’s already partly submerged underwater....
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The List of My Desires
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La Braconne
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Où es-tu maintenant ?
Mathieu disappeared ten years ago. Every year, he calls on Mother's Day. But his mother cannot stand...
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Bleu Catacombes
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Another Alice
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Blanche and Marie
A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husban...
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Tous Inconnus
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Out of Whack
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The Great Restaurant II
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J'irai cracher sur vos tongs
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La Tournée
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The Roommates Party
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Netchayev is Back
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The Summer of All My Parents
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Casablanca Driver
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The Exes
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Climax
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The Emperor of Paris
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Noir Enigma
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The Castaways of Turtle Island
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The Imprint of Giants
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The Maiden and the Wolves
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Me and El Che
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Monsieur Albert
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Demi-sœurs
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School Is Over
Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to b...
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Adopt a Daddy
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Fool's Game
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Sweetheart
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La Pagaille
To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means ...
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Cocktail Molotov
"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn ...
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Pas d'amour sans amour!
After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being una...
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When Granny Meets Grandpa
Everyone's favorite fun-loving Granny Aurore goes overboard while partying and has a little accident...
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Him
Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany...
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Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés
Show recorded at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy on January 27 and 28, 2013 for the benefit of ...
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My Mother Is Crazy
A road trip comedy about a crazy mother who has a tense relationship with her son....
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Triplex
A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend beco...
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Sidecar
The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate....
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Totally Nuts
Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses...
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Cap Canaille
Paula Barretto (Juliet Berto) is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the dr...
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Feu la mère de Madame
A staging of Georges Feydeau's play "Feu la mère de Madame" by Jean-Luc Moreau....
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Man of My Life
Simon is getting better. His job as a publisher is going smoothly. Suddenly, out of the blue, his ps...
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Chère canaille
Francis Lebovic, an ex-voyou turned sex worker, is not lacking in charm or elegance. David, his thir...
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