Julien Honoré

Artistic ability must have been stamped into the DNA of the Honoré family; Julien and his brother Christophe both entered the world of filmed entertainment, although in quite different ways. Unlike his writer/director sibling, Julien is almost exclusively an actor. He began his career as the 21st century dawned, with a role in the provocatively titled coming-of-age dramedy "Girls Can't Swim" in 2000. His next project was the first of several connected to his brother, a TV movie adaptation of Christophe's novel "Close to Leo" (2002). There was a brief gap between that effort and his next film, Raul Ruiz's 2005 fantasy drama "Le domaine perdu," in which he played the part of Augustin. The two brothers collaborated again on Julien's next film: Christophe co-wrote the script for "Aprés lui" (2007), a complex drama starring Catherine Deneuve as a woman who develops a relationship with the boy responsible for getting her son killed in a car accident. Appropriately enough, in the film Julien played a writer. Though many of Julien's films have been directed by his brother Christophe, in the late 2000s he began branching out somewhat. He played Pierre Archambault in the 2008 TV movie "Rien dans les poches," for example, and did his first series work in a 2010 episode of "Collection Fred Vargas."