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French actor
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Male
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15 July 1952(Algiers)
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Biography
Introduction
Daniel Mesguich (born July 15, 1952) is a French-Algerian actor and director in theater and opera, and professor of stage acting school.
Biography
In 1970, he was admitted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique, after which he opened the Théâtre du Miroir ("Mirror Theater"), with whom he opened a course in drama. After ten years, he returned to the school to teach at the request of Jean-Pierre Miquel, becoming the youngest professor on campus. He is currently the director of the school.
He has acted in over a hundred plays, fifty operas in France and abroad, and some 40 movies and television pieces.
The actor William Mesguich is his son.
Actor
- 1978: Molière by Ariane Mnouchkine
- 1978: Le Dossier 51 by Michel Deville
- 1979: Love on the Run by François Truffaut
- 1981: Quartet by James Ivory
- 1983: La Belle captive by Alain Robbe-Grillet
- 1990: L'Autrichienne by Pierre Granier-Deferre (as Fouquier-Tinville)
- 1994: Jefferson in Paris by James Ivory
- 1996: Limited Edition by Bernard Rapp
- 2001: The Musketeer by Peter Hyams (as King Louis XIII)
- 2003: Le Divorce by James Ivory