Biography
Jacques Nolot is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He was born on 31 August 1943 in Marciac, Gers.
Nolot began his screen career in the early 1980s with small roles in films by André Téchiné, including Hôtel des Amériques (1981). He appeared as Monsieur Morelli in Téchiné’s Wild Reeds (1994) and later took supporting parts in films such as Under the Sand (2001), House of Pleasures (2011) and Everything Went Fine (2021).
As a director, Nolot made his feature debut with the autobiographical L’Arrière pays (1998), which received the First Film Special Distinction Award at the Montreal World Film Festival and a FIPRESCI Special Mention at Venice, and was nominated for a César Award for Best First Work.
