Biography
Laurent Lafitte is a French actor. He trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique and has been active since 1992.
He is a former pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française (2012–2024). Lafitte is known for roles including Patrick in Elle (2016), in See You Up There (2017), as Gérard de Villefort in The Count of Monte Cristo (2024), and as Bernard Tapie in the Netflix series Class Act (2023).
He hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and 2025. Lafitte has received César Award nominations for supporting actor and won the César for Best Actor for The Richest Woman in the World (2025).
