---
name: "Hugo Gélin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hugo-gelin"
fi1m_id: "hugo-gelin"
imdb_id: "nm0312315"
tmdb_id: 1119418
wikidata_id: "Q139735"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "4 May 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T19:20:55.971160+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."
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# Hugo Gélin

## Identity

Hugo Gélin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hugo-gelin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hugo-gelin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0312315
- **TMDB ID:** 1119418
- **Wikidata ID:** Q139735
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_G%C3%A9lin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139735, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312315/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1119418

Director. Born 4 May 1980 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 4 May 1980, Paris, France
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_G%C3%A9lin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139735, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312315/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1119418

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Lupin*](https://film.one/tv/lupin.md) (73)

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## Biography

Hugo Gélin is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Born on 4 May 1980 in Paris, he comes from a family with longstanding ties to the French film and entertainment industry; he is the son of actor and producer Xavier Gélin and grandson of actors Daniel Gélin and Danièle Delorme.

Gélin directed his first short films in the early 2000s and made his feature debut with *Just Like Brothers* (2012), which he also wrote and produced. He is known for the romantic comedies *Two Is a Family* (2016) and *Love at Second Sight* (2019), both of which he directed and co-wrote, as well as for directing three episodes of the Netflix series *Lupin* (2021). He founded the production company Zazi Films in 2009.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Lupin* (2021), Fi1m 73, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/lupin.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Privileges* (2026), series, Producer
- *French Lover* (2025), Producer, Screenplay
- *My Beloved Stranger* (2025), Original Film Writer
- *An Ordinary Case* (2024), Producer
- *En attendant que mes larmes viennent* (2023), Co-Producer
- *Lupin* (2021), series, Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/lupin.md)
- *Miss* (2020), Producer
- *Love at Second Sight* (2019), Director, Idea, Producer, Screenplay
- *Two Is a Family* (2016), Director, Screenplay
- *Les Baumettes* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Casting(s)* (2013), series, Producer
- *The Gilded Cage* (2013), Screenplay, Producer
- *Just Like Brothers* (2012), Producer, Writer, Director
- *À l'abri des regards indiscrets* (2002), Screenstory, Director, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2013: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (won), for *The Gilded Cage*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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