--- name: "Alexis Manenti" canonical: "https://film.one/person/alexis-manenti" fi1m_id: "alexis-manenti" imdb_id: "nm6281424" tmdb_id: 1710851 wikidata_id: "Q85518588" roles: ["Actor"] born: "12 February 1982" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-03T01:21:30.851967+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Alexis Manenti ## Identity Alexis Manenti - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alexis-manenti - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** alexis-manenti - **IMDb ID:** nm6281424 - **TMDB ID:** 1710851 - **Wikidata ID:** Q85518588 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Manenti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85518588, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6281424/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1710851 Actor. Born 12 February 1982 in Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 12 February 1982, Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France - **Also known as:** Dimitriu Bulatovic - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Manenti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85518588, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6281424/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1710851 ## Coming up - *Too Many Beasts* (2026-10-07), as Fulda - *Enjoy Your Stay* (2026-11-18), as Thibault - *Flesh & Fuel* (2026-12-02), as Étienne - *Le Faux Soir* (2026-12-02) - *Milo* (2027-01-20) - *Dumas: Black Devil* (2027-10-13) ## Fi1m on Alexis Manenti > Alexis Manenti is persuasive at playing men who take their authority for granted. We rate his ability to make that confidence unpleasant, and welcome the quieter roles that let him do something other than intimidate. Chris is comfortable exercising authority in *Les Misérables* (2019), and Alexis Manenti makes that comfort unpleasant. We found Chris unsettling because Manenti makes his use of power seem routine. Damien Bonnard’s watchful Stéphane, still taking the measure of what he sees, gives Manenti’s certainty a useful contrast. With Djebril Zonga keeping Gwada harder to read, there is room for each actor to suggest a different attitude within the same unit without reducing the officers to types. He co-wrote and played Chris in the short *Les Misérables* (2017), then shared the feature’s writing credit with director Ladj Ly and Giordano Gederlini. The ordinary exchanges are where that writing convinces us most, and where the performance has the strongest material. The lion-cub business feels arranged, while the later dramatic turns press too hard on dangers the actors have already made clear. Staying so close to the officers also leaves some residents less fully known than they deserve. The result is a film we recommend with reservations, and a stronger case for Manenti the actor than Manenti the writer. Before Chris, there were shorts and music videos with the Kourtrajmé collective, followed by supporting film roles from *Mea Culpa* (2014). After *Les Misérables*, repeated offers of tough parts risked making his casting predictable. He has continued working with that circle: Romain Gavras directed him in *Athena* (2022), while Ly cast him as mayor Pierre Forges in *Bâtiment 5* (2023). The occupation changes, but authority remains a recurring part of what he is asked to play. The more encouraging move is towards parts such as educator Jayden Dorkel in Emmanuelle Nicot’s *Dalva* (2022), where his manner is quieter and more compassionate. Playing bus driver Milos in *Le Ravissement* (2023) also gave him more intimate material. He has said he would like more romantic parts. We would sooner see him given those than another uniform. ## Biography Alexis Manenti is a French actor and screenwriter. Born on 12 February 1982 in Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, he began his career with the Kourtrajmé collective, appearing in early short films by Kim Chapiron and Romain Gavras. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2019 film *Les Misérables* with Ladj Ly and Giordano Gederlini, and played the role of Chris. For his performance he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor and the Lumière Award for Best Male Revelation; the screenplay won the Lumière Award for Best Screenplay. He has appeared in films including *Mea Culpa* (2014), *Athena* (2022) and *The Mohican* (2024). *Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Les Misérables* (2019), Fi1m 77, as Chris — [page](https://film.one/film/les-miserables-2019.md) ## Complete filmography (61) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Dumas: Black Devil* (2027), Actor - *Milo* (2027), Actor - *Flesh & Fuel* (2026), as Étienne - *Le Faux Soir* (2026), Actor - *Enjoy Your Stay* (2026), as Thibault - *Too Many Beasts* (2026), as Fulda - *Tomb of Dreams* (2026), Actor - *Pieces of a Foreign Life* (2026), Actor - *Hommes de Bois* (2026), as Hadrien - *The Lifeline* (2025), as Pierre-Jean Auget - *Banger* (2025), as Molotov - *The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent* (2025), as Commander - *The Mohican* (2025), as Joseph - *Ad Vitam* (2025), as Nico - *The Confidante* (2024), series, as Nicolas - *Wild Diamond* (2024), as Nathan - *Maldoror* (2024), as Luis Catano - *In His Own Image* (2024), as Dragan - *Karmapolice* (2024), Actor - *Guardians of the Formula* (2024), as Doctor Mate - *Les Indésirables* (2023), as Pierre Forges - *The Rapture* (2023), as Milos - *Hood Witch* (2023), as Father Sebastian, the exorcist - *Love According to Dalva* (2023), as Jayden Dorkel - *Derive* (2023), as Florian - *Athena* (2022), as Sébastien - *Brick Head* (2022), Director, Writer - *Undercover* (2022), as Alexis Novinard - *Fake News* (2021), as Alex - *Third Grade* (2021), Actor - *Zanaar* (2021), Director, Writer - *6 x confiné.e.s* (2021), series, as Marrakech - *Mab an Tarz : fils de l’écume* (2021), as Thomas - *Sororité* (2020), Actor - *Fishlove* (2020), as Éric - *The Eddy* (2020), series, as Zivko - *Lady Dallas* (2020), Actor - *A Rising Star* (2019), as Cédric - *Les Misérables* (2019), as Chris · Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/les-miserables-2019.md) - *Nogochi* (2019), Actor - *The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady* (2019), as Jean-Jacques (voice) - *The Truk* (2018), as David - *The World Is Yours* (2018), as Uber Driver - *The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin* (2018), as Nicolas Chauvin - *Just a Breath Away* (2018), as Drunk Policeman - *9 Fingers* (2018), as Springer - *Waiting for Jupiter* (2018), as Le petit ami - *Marry Me, Dude* (2017), as Chris - *Orphan* (2017), Actor - *Les Misérables* (2017), as Chris · Scenario Writer - *Stalin's Couch* (2016), as Tchirikov - *The Stopover* (2016), as Jonathan - *Vicky* (2016), as Christophe régisseur théâtre - *Violence en réunion* (2015), as Policier 1 - *Ghettotube* (2015), Actor - *Mea Culpa* (2014), as Slobodan - *The Little Murders of Agatha Christie* (2009), series, as David Krepps - *Easy Pizza Riderz* (2002), Actor - *L'homme qui avait peur des femmes*, as Guilhem - *Si je tombe, tu tombes*, Actor - *Les Cigognes*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Alexis Manenti](https://film.one/media/person/4179872/gallery-8f868cdc4b91.jpg) Alexis Manenti — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Alexis_Manenti_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Actor Alexis Manenti at the 2024 Venice Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/4179872/gallery-d45957ce7b79.jpg) Actor Alexis Manenti at the 2024 Venice Film Festival — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Alexis_Manenti-63852.jpg/1280px-Alexis_Manenti-63852.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Le jury "sang neuf" de Reims Polar édition 2023 avec, de gauche à droite: Cédric Jimenez, Pierre Rochefort, Yannick Renier, Émilie Dequenne Patricia Mazuy, Alex](https://film.one/media/person/4179872/gallery-5ef2a96365a3.jpg) Le jury "sang neuf" de Reims Polar édition 2023 avec, de gauche à droite: Cédric Jimenez, Pierre Rochefort, Yannick Renier, Émilie Dequenne Patricia Mazuy, Alex — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Le_jury_%22comp%C3%A9tition%22_de_Reims_Polar_2023.jpg/1280px-Le_jury_%22comp%C3%A9tition%22_de_Reims_Polar_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Alexis Manenti](https://film.one/media/person/4179872/gallery-780efb4fe48a.jpg) Alexis Manenti — Image via TMDB - ![Alexis Manenti](https://film.one/media/person/4179872/gallery-160806ff9537.jpg) Alexis Manenti — Image via TMDB - ![Alexis Manenti](https://film.one/media/person/4179872/gallery-622abba57e27.jpg) Alexis Manenti — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won, 2 nominated - César Award for Best Male Revelation 2020: César Award for Best Male Revelation (won), for *Les Misérables* - European Film Award for Best Film 2019: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Les Misérables* - European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2019: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *Les Misérables* - European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year 2019: European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year (won), for *Les Misérables* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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