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name: "Vincent Lindon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vincent-lindon"
fi1m_id: "vincent-lindon"
imdb_id: "nm0512071"
tmdb_id: 5443
wikidata_id: "Q557272"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 July 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T21:05:47.756242+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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# Vincent Lindon

## Identity

Vincent Lindon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vincent-lindon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vincent-lindon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0512071
- **TMDB ID:** 5443
- **Wikidata ID:** Q557272
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Lindon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557272, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512071/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5443

Actor. Born 15 July 1959 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 July 1959, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- **Active:** 1995–present
- **Also known as:** 뱅상 랭동, 文森林頓
- **Cannes Film Festival:** 2 Cannes prizes (2 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 90 (1), 2020s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Lindon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557272, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512071/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5443

## Coming up

- *Les Misérables* (2026-10-14), as Jean Valjean
- *A Good Little Soldier* (2026-11-25), as Arnaud Boronat

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Titane*](https://film.one/film/titane.md) (74)

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## Fi1m on Vincent Lindon

> Vincent Lindon does less on screen than almost any leading man in French cinema and gets more back. Cast for four decades as ordinary men under pressure, he never pleads for sympathy, and in *Titane* the same stillness held up inside a horror film.

There is a party at the fire station in Julia Ducournau's *Titane* (2021). The stranger Vincent has taken in as his missing son climbs onto the engine and dances the way she used to dance on car bonnets, and the men do not know where to look. Ducournau cuts to Lindon, and his face does the whole scene: a man deciding, in front of us, what he is prepared not to notice. That scene moved us more than we expected, and none of it was dialogue. This is what Lindon does. He stands still, he watches, and he lets us see a decision being taken.

He has been at it since the early 1980s, first in small parts (*Betty Blue* in 1986, a drunk in *La Haine* in 1995), then through the 1990s and 2000s with Claude Sautet, Bertrand Blier, Claude Lelouch and Pierre Jolivet, who used him five times. Coline Serreau cast him three times. The turn came with Stéphane Brizé, from *Mademoiselle Chambon* onward, and it is the Brizé films that most people now mean when they say his name: *The Measure of a Man* (2015), *At War* (2018), *Another World* (2021), five together in all. Brizé puts him among non-professional actors in stories about work and the lack of it, and lets the camera find out whether he can be told apart from them. Mostly he cannot, which is the point.

What critics keep noticing is restraint, and they are right, but restraint on its own is just a man not doing much. Lindon's trick is that the body keeps talking after the face has shut up. In *Titane* his fire captain injects steroids into his bruised backside every night to keep a body that is giving up on him, and Impens shoots the station in orange and near-dark so the men glow while Jim Williams's organ and low choir grind underneath. Lindon holds still in the middle of all that noise and is the most frightening thing in the frame. He has said that his one strength is "a lack of self-conscience", and that explaining his method would throw him off balance. We believe him.

The caveat is the obvious one. A style that depends on not being seen to act invites directors to ask for the same man again, and he has been cast, over and over, as the ordinary middle-aged fellow with the economy on his back. *Titane* and Quentin Dupieux's *The Second Act* (2024) suggest he knows this and has started saying yes to stranger offers; *The Quiet Son* (2024) puts him back in a father's shoes. Start with *Titane*, where the method is under a different kind of pressure, then go to Brizé, where it lives. He is in his sixties now and the men he plays are ageing with him, which suits the work. A man who does so little on screen has never needed youth to do it.

## Biography

Vincent Lindon is a French actor and filmmaker. He trained at the Cours Florent in Paris and made his screen debut in the early 1980s.

He is known for roles in *La Haine* (1995), *The Measure of a Man* (2015), *Titane* (2021) and *The Second Act* (2024). For his performance in *The Measure of a Man*, he received the Best Actor award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the César Award for Best Actor. In 2022 he served as president of the jury for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival for *The Quiet Son*.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Titane* (2021), Fi1m 74, as Vincent — [page](https://film.one/film/titane.md)
- *La Haine* (1995), Fi1m 90, as Really Drunk Man — [page](https://film.one/film/la-haine.md)

## Complete filmography (98)

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

- *A Good Little Soldier* (2026), as Arnaud Boronat
- *Les Misérables* (2026), as Jean Valjean
- *Che Guevara: The Last Companions* (2026), as Narrator (voice over)
- *Tchernobyl, une tragédie sans fin* (2026), series, as Narrator (voice over)
- *Couture* (2026), as Dr. Laurent Hansen
- *Hiroshima: The Race Toward the Apocalypse* (2025), as narrator
- *The Veláquez Mystery* (2025), as Narrator (voice)
- *The Quiet Son* (2025), as Pierre
- *Cross Away* (2024), as Joseph Cross
- *1914, et soudain la guerre !* (2024), as Narrator (voice over)
- *The Second Act* (2024), as Guillaume Tardieu
- *Dans le Rétro* (2024), series, Actor
- *Like a Son* (2024), as Jacques Romand
- *Of Money and Blood* (2023), series, as Simon Weynachter
- *La Rafle du Vel d'Hiv, la honte et les larmes* (2022), as Narrator & Voice over
- *Both Sides of the Blade* (2022), as Jean
- *Another World* (2022), as Philippe Lemesle · Co-Producer
- *Undercover* (2022), as Jacques Billard
- *Pearl Harbor, The World on Fire* (2021), series, as Narrator
- *Pearl Harbor: The world on fire* (2021), as Narrator
- *Titane* (2021), as Vincent — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/titane.md)
- *My Cousin* (2020), as Pierre · Associate Producer, Writer
- *Casanova, Last Love* (2019), as Giacomo Casanova
- *At War* (2018), as Laurent Amédéo
- *The Apparition* (2018), as Jacques Mayano
- *Rodin* (2017), as Auguste Rodin
- *Smile* (2016), Actor
- *The White Knights* (2015), as Jacques Arnault
- *The Measure of a Man* (2015), as Thierry Taugourdeau · Associate Producer
- *1945: The Fall of the Reich* (2015), as Narrator (voice over)
- *Diary of a Chambermaid* (2015), as Joseph
- *Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century* (2014), as Narrator (voice)
- *Mea Culpa* (2014), as Simon
- *Bastards* (2013), as Marco Silvestri
- *Augustine* (2012), as Charcot
- *A Few Hours of Spring* (2012), as Alain
- *All Our Desires* (2011), as Stéphane
- *Complices* (2011), Actor
- *Pater* (2011), as Vincent Lindon · Director of Photography, Writer
- *The Moon Child* (2011), as David
- *Mademoiselle Chambon* (2009), as Jean
- *Welcome* (2009), as Simon
- *Anything for Her* (2008), as Julien Auclert
- *Mes amis, mes amours* (2008), as Mathias
- *Dragon Hunters* (2008), as Lian-Chu (voice)
- *Those Who Remain* (2007), as Bertrand Liévain
- *Could This Be Love?* (2007), as Lucas
- *Charlie Says* (2006), as Serge
- *The Airplane* (2005), as Pierre
- *The Moustache* (2005), as Marc Thiriez
- *Confidence Reigns* (2004), as Christophe
- *The Car Keys* (2003), as Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
- *The Cost of Living* (2003), as Coway
- *Only Girls* (2003), as Bruno
- *Friday Night* (2002), as Jean
- *A Private Affair* (2002), Thanks
- *The Warrior's Brother* (2002), as Thomas
- *Chaos* (2001), as Paul
- *Day Off* (2001), as Martin Socoa
- *Don't Make Trouble!* (2001), Writer, Director
- *Cyrano* (2001), Director
- *Keep It Quiet* (1999), as Louis Jeancourt
- *My Little Business* (1999), as Ivan Lansi
- *Belle Maman* (1999), as Antoine
- *The School of Flesh* (1998), as Chris
- *Paparazzi* (1998), as Michel Verdier, paparazzi
- *Seventh Heaven* (1997), as Nico
- *Fred* (1997), as Fred
- *La Belle Verte* (1996), as Max
- *Les Victimes* (1996), as Pierre Duval
- *Strangled Lives* (1996), as Francesco
- *La Haine* (1995), as Really Drunk Man — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/la-haine.md)
- *L'irrésolu* (1994), as François Roussel
- *All That... for This?!* (1993), as Lino
- *The Crisis* (1992), as Victor Barelle
- *The Beautiful Story* (1992), as Simon Choulel
- *Netchayev is Back* (1991), as Netchaïev
- *Gaspard and Robinson* (1990), as Robinson
- *There Were Days... and Moons* (1990), as Sylvain, le gérant de l'auberge
- *C'est La Vie* (1990), as Jean-Claude
- *The Student* (1988), as Ned
- *A Few Days with Me* (1988), as Fernand
- *A Man in Love* (1987), as Bruno Schlosser
- *Last Summer in Tangiers* (1987), as Roland Barres
- *Yiddish Connection* (1986), as Zvi
- *Half Moon Street* (1986), as Sonny
- *Prunelle Blues* (1986), as Fernand
- *Follow My Gaze* (1986), as Un loubard violeur
- *Betty Blue* (1986), as Richard le jeune policier
- *Cop's Honor* (1985), as Dax
- *Marrant la vie, Marrant !* (1985), as Monteur
- *Our Story* (1984), as Brechet
- *L'Addition* (1984), as Magnum
- *The Ebony Tower* (1984), as (uncredited)
- *The Hawk* (1983), as Un inspecteur
- *Article 353*, as Jacques Dauda
- *The Entertainment System Is Down*, Actor
- *La cité impériale*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Actor Vincent Lindon at a rally for François Bayrou, centrist candidate in the 2007 French presidential election, heald on Apr. 18, 2007 at Paris Bercy.](https://film.one/media/person/347906/gallery-0d0cbcc881af.jpg) Actor Vincent Lindon at a rally for François Bayrou, centrist candidate in the 2007 French presidential election, heald on Apr. 18, 2007 at Paris Bercy. — Marie-Lan Nguyen (User:Jastrow), CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Bayrou_Bercy_2007-04-18_n19.jpg/1280px-Bayrou_Bercy_2007-04-18_n19.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vincent Lindon at the Berlinale Press Conference of Avec Amour et acharnement Berlin, 2022](https://film.one/media/person/347906/gallery-f216abd2d0c9.jpg) Vincent Lindon at the Berlinale Press Conference of Avec Amour et acharnement Berlin, 2022 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Vincent_Lindon_Berlin%2C_2022.jpg/1280px-Vincent_Lindon_Berlin%2C_2022.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vincent Lindon](https://film.one/media/person/347906/gallery-783e76d78c8d.jpg) Vincent Lindon — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Vincent_Lindon-64225.jpg/1280px-Vincent_Lindon-64225.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vincent Lindon lors de reims polar. (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/347906/gallery-2a77e7f6a1ab.jpg) Vincent Lindon lors de reims polar. (2022) — G.Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Vincent_lindon_1400119_reims_polar.jpg/1280px-Vincent_lindon_1400119_reims_polar.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vincent Lindon](https://film.one/media/person/347906/gallery-cc4ded44c84e.jpg) Vincent Lindon — Image via TMDB
- ![Vincent Lindon](https://film.one/media/person/347906/gallery-15b07097fb48.jpg) Vincent Lindon — Image via TMDB
- ![Vincent Lindon, le 1er juillet 2008 à Paris.](https://film.one/media/person/347906/gallery-be137915b9f6.jpg) Vincent Lindon, le 1er juillet 2008 à Paris. — Nicolas Richoffer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Vincent_Lindon_2008.jpg/1280px-Vincent_Lindon_2008.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vincent Lindon au festival de Cannes (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/347906/gallery-fe4d467a8f2c.jpg) Vincent Lindon au festival de Cannes (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Vincent_Lindon_Cannes_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Cannes Film Festival — 2 won

- 2017: Best Actor (won), for *The Measure of a Man*
- 2016: Best Actor (won), for *The Measure of a Man*

### Other awards — 8 won, 2 nominated

- Volpi Cup for Best Actor 2024: Volpi Cup for Best Actor (won), for *The Quiet Son*
- European Film Award for Best Actor 2021: European Film Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Titane*
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor 2021: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor (won)
- César Award for Best Actor 2016: César Award for Best Actor (won), for *The Measure of a Man*
- Honorary Magritte Award 2016: Honorary Magritte Award (won)
- Lumière Award for Best Actor 2016: Lumière Award for Best Actor (won)
- European Film Award for Best Actor 2015: European Film Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *The Measure of a Man*
- IFFI Best Actor Award 2015: IFFI Best Actor Award (won)
- Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor 2007: Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor (won)
- Prix Patrick-Dewaere 1989: Prix Patrick-Dewaere (won)

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

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