Jean-Hugues Anglade

Born: July 29, 1955
Where: Thouars, France

A product of the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique in Paris, Jean-Hugues has been one of French cinema's most familiar faces.

He's appeared in all the big award-winning French productions such as La Reine Margot, Nikita, Leon, Subway, Betty Blue and Killing Zoe.

Anglade made his feature film debut in a small role in L'Indiscretion and followed this up with a critically acclaimed leading role in Patrice Chereau's L'Homme Blesse.

In the latter, the 28 year-old played a gay teenager who becomes infatuated with a criminal and then kills him in a fit of passion.

His first English-language film was Indian Nocturne in 1989, for which he won critical plaudits.