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French actor
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30 April 1958(Saint-Mandé, Grand Paris, France)
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Biography
Introduction
Charles Berling (born 30 April 1958) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Son of a navy doctor, he is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco); she died in 2004.
When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then Toulon, then, at seven, Tahiti.
He studied acting at the Belgian university INSAS, in Brussels. He is the father of the actor Émile Berling.
Theater
| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | The Dybbuk | S. Ansky | Moshe Leiser | |
| Ça | Sabra Ben Arfa & Charles Berling | Marie-Pierre Meinzel | ||
| 1982 | Passage Hagard | Compagnie des Mirabelles | Compagnie des Mirabelles | |
| 1983 | Dernières Nouvelles de la peste | Bernard Chartreux | Jean-Pierre Vincent | |
| 1984 | The Homecoming | Harold Pinter | Stuart Seide | |
| Entre chiens et loups | Christoph Hein | Bernard Sobel | ||
| Les Orphelins | Jean-Luc Lagarce | Christiane Cohendy | ||
| 1985 | The School for Wives | Molière | Bernard Sobel (2) | |
| 1986 | What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet |
Jean Genet | Jean-Michel Rabeux | |
| Der Park | Botho Strauß | Claude Régy | ||
| Les Voisins | Michel Vinaver | Alain Françon | ||
| Succubations d’Incubes | A.P.A. | Charles Berling | ||
| 1988 | Le Public | Federico García Lorca | Jorge Lavelli | |
| The Green Cockatoo | Arthur Schnitzler | Michel Didym | ||
| 1988-89 | Dear Monster | Javier Tomeo | Jacques Nichet | |
| 1990 | The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | Jean-Louis Martinelli | |
| Conversations d'idiots | Dominique Ducos | Walter Le Moli | ||
| 1991 | Une sale histoire | Jean Eustache & Jean-Noël Picq | Jean-Louis Martinelli (2) | |
| 1992 | The Church | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Jean-Louis Martinelli (3) | |
| 1993 | With My Own Hands | Pascal Rambert | Pascal Rambert | |
| Le Chasseur de lions | Javier Tomeo | Jean-Jacques Préau | ||
| Le Bavard | Louis-René des Forêts | Michel Dumoulin | ||
| 1993-94 | Merchants of Glory | Marcel Pagnol & Paul Nivoix | Jean-Louis Martinelli (4) | |
| 1995 | In a Year of 13 Moons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Jean-Louis Martinelli (5) | |
| 1995-96 | Roberto Zucco | Bernard-Marie Koltès | Jean-Louis Martinelli (6) | |
| 1996 | La Cour des comédiens | Antoine Vitez | Georges Lavaudant | |
| Ordure (Dreck) | Robert Schneider | Charles Berling (2) | ||
| 1997 | L'Histoire du soldat | Igor Stravinsky | Emmanuel Plasson | |
| 1998 | Oedipus the King | Sophocles | Jean-Louis Martinelli (7) | |
| 2001 | Cravate club | Fabrice Roger-Lacan | Isabelle Nanty | |
| 2002 | Voyage en Afrique | Jacques Jouet | Jean-Louis Martinelli (8) | |
| 2004 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier (2) | |
| 2005 | Pour ceux qui restent | Pascal Elbé | Charles Berling (3) | |
| 2006-07 | Caligula | Albert Camus | Charles Berling (4) | |
| 2007 | L'Histoire du soldat | Igor Stravinsky | Michael Lonsdale | |
| 2008-09 | Endgame | Samuel Beckett | Charles Berling (5) | |
| 2009 | The Walk | Bernard-Marie Koltès | Michel Didym (2) | |
| 2010 | L'Infâme | Roger Planchon | Jacques Rosner | |
| Le Donneur de bain | Dorine Hollier | Dan Jemmett | ||
| 2011 | Ithaka | Botho Strauß | Jean-Louis Martinelli (9) | |
| 2012-13 | Gould et Menuhin | Christiane Cohendy | Charles Berling (6) | |
| 2013-14 | Address Unknown | Kressmann Taylor | Delphine de Malherbe | |
| 2014 | Dreck | Robert Schneider | Charles Berling (7) | |
| 2015 | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller | Ivo van Hove | Pending - Molière Award for Best Actor |
Narrator
- March of the Penguins