Xavier Deluc
Xavier Deluc (born 18 March 1958) is a French actor, director and scriptwriter. He is most known for acting in TV series such as 'Marc Eliot' (a French police drama), Dolmen (Brittany based family drama) and 12 seasons of 'Research Unit' (another specialized French police drama) as 'Captain Martin Bernier', and starring role in movies including He Died with His Eyes Open in 1985 and Captive in 1986. Xavier Lepetit was born in Caen in Calvados. His childhood was spent in Jacob-Mesnil, a hamlet just near Bretteville-sur-Laize. He was raised in boarding school in Lisieux. When he turned 14 he got involved in amateur dramatics and performed in his first short film. Aged twenty, he went to Paris and enrolls in the Cours Florent (a private drama school). The actor Robert Hossein then noticed him. Xavier recalls that "I was the only blond, - I was taken!". Hossein then gave him his first role as the young 'Edgar Linton' in his play 'Les Hauts de Hurlevent' (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë), performed in the theater of Boulogne-Billancourt and Lyon in 1979. It was under his birth name, Xavier Lepetit while aged 22, that he debuted in his first film Les surdoués de la première compagnie, directed by Michel Gérard in 1981, before joining Max Pécas for Belles, blondes et bronzées (also in 1981) and Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez in 1983. In 1984, he was in Yannick Bellon's film La Triche (The Cheat), a distributor then asked him to take a pseudonym to improve the posters. The ...
Marié(s) ou presque (2008)
Coustaud and Milka have to organize a memorable party to bury the boy life of their friend Tom. They go into their usual cafe, where all the guests that night give their opinion of the marriage, its setbacks and its amenities. (more)
Coustaud and Milka have to organize a memorable party to bury the boy life of their friend Tom. They go into their usual cafe, where all the guests that night give their opinion of the marriage, its setbacks and its amenities. (more)
Un jour avant l'aube (1994)
At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany. (more)
At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany. (more)
Blood Sisters (1997)
Melanie can't stand her life anymore, a source of too much suffering. One day she decides to end it all and sets off in a stolen car on a suicidal race on the highway. But at a gas station, a somewhat eccentric old woman discreetly slips into the vehicle. Garance ... (more)
Melanie can't stand her life anymore, a source of too much suffering. One day she decides to end it all and sets off in a stolen car on a suicidal race on the highway. But at a gas station, a somewhat eccentric old woman discreetly slips into the vehicle. Garance ... (more)
Celle qui n'existait pas (2004)
Anna, a young Russian student, finds herself in France, forced into prostitution by a mafia network. She manages to escape, but in an illegal situation and without money, she finds herself on the street. She meets two undocumented migrants, a Senegalese and a ... (more)
Anna, a young Russian student, finds herself in France, forced into prostitution by a mafia network. She manages to escape, but in an illegal situation and without money, she finds herself on the street. She meets two undocumented migrants, a Senegalese and a ... (more)