Biography
Jean-Paul Rouve, born January 26, 1967 in Dunkerque (France), is a French actor and director. Only son, Jean-Paul Rouve grew up in Dunkerque, and was introduced to the theater during his schooling. He took courses at the national drama center of Nord-Pas de Calais and founded an amateur theater troupe. After his baccalaureate, he left for Lille to study information and communication sciences. In 1989, thanks to one of his friends, Emmanuelle Lepoutre, he attended a course given by Isabelle Nant...
Known For
Complete Filmography

God Save the Tuche
2025
as Jeff Tuche
When Jeff and Cathy’s grandson Jiji is selected for a training camp with Arsenal, it’s a dream opportunity for the whole family to head over to Englan...

God Save the Tuche
2025
Writer, Director
When Jeff and Cathy’s grandson Jiji is selected for a training camp with Arsenal, it’s a dream opportunity for the whole family to head over to Englan...

Sailing Home
2024
as Jean-Paul Choveau
Passionate about sailing, Jean-Paul is going through a rough patch. Up to his ears in debts, he pulls away from his family. Determined to take his lif...

40
2024
as Self
Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+.

Consent
2023
as Gabriel Matzneff
In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a...

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow
2023
as Self - Guest

Top Dogs
2023
as Christian Dagostino
Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with...

Top Dogs
2023
Dialogue, Adaptation
Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with...

Je connais personne
2022
as Self
Since he was a child, Estèphe dreams to work in the movie industry, alongside those whom he watches films with passion. Cinema become quickly a leisur...

Joyeux anniversaire Renaud
2022
as Self

Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï
2022
as Fabrice
Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to A...

Christmas with the Tuches
2021
as Jeff Tuche
After having resigned from his post as President of the Republic, Jeff and his family are happy to be back in their village of Bouzolles. As the end o...

Little Nicholas' Treasure
2021
as Nicholas' father
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but ...

Fantasies
2021
as Jérémy Michel (sketch 'Antagonistophilie')
Faced with their fantasies, six couples try to explore the hidden sides of their intimate life. Six questions on access to pleasure. From role play to...

Maximus
2021
as Roussel

Little Vampire
2020
as Le Capitaine des morts
Little Vampire lives in a haunted house with a merry group of monsters, but he is bored stiff! One night, he secretly sneaks out of the manor along wi...

Small Country: An African Childhood
2020
as Michel
Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adve...

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
2020
as Jean-Pierre
In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for ...

Spread Your Wings
2019
as Christian
Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his fathe...

Lola and Her Brothers
2018
as Benoît Esnard
Lola has two brothers: Benoit, who is getting married for the third time, and Pierre, who shows up late for the wedding. Excuses, reproaches, argument...

Lola and Her Brothers
2018
Writer, Director
Lola has two brothers: Benoit, who is getting married for the third time, and Pierre, who shows up late for the wedding. Excuses, reproaches, argument...

Kiss & Tell
2018
as Julien
Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Eliza...

The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin
2018
as Vizier
After freeing Baghdad from its terrible ruler, Aladin delays his marriage to the princess until a new dictator arrives to take over the city.

Les Tuche : un phénomène qui tuche tout le monde
2018
as Self
The phenomenon took everyone by surprise. In the span of three years, despite the mixed reception from the press upon its release in 2011, the Tuche f...

The Magic Tuche
2018
as Jeff Tuche
After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the cou...

The Magic Tuche
2018
Story
After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the cou...

C'est la vie!
2017
as Guy
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for th...

The Exes
2017
as Antoine
If Paris is the city of lovers, it is also that ... ex! Antoine does not dare to commit, Didier regrets his ex-wife, Father Laurent must celebrate the...

Two Snails Set Off
2017
as (voice)
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate t...

Dalida
2017
as Lucien Morrise
Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, G...

The Tuche Family: The American Dream
2016
as Jeff Tuche
Les Tuche, a modest french family, change his life after winning a super lottery. Thanks to the money of his parents, the son, Donald (aka "coin-coin)...

The New Adventures of Aladdin
2015
as Vizier
A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch i...

Les Souvenirs
2014
as Philippe
Twenty-three years old Romain would like to be a writer, but, for the moment, he's night watchman in a hotel. His sixty-two years old father is retire...

Les Souvenirs
2014
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Twenty-three years old Romain would like to be a writer, but, for the moment, he's night watchman in a hotel. His sixty-two years old father is retire...

La queue
2014
In a crowded supermarket, a young man quietly awaits his checkout. To have missed a young woman with a single item, it incurred the wrath of the other...

My Son's Murderer Will Die Tonight
2014
as Philippe Tessier

Never on the First Night
2014
as Marc
Julie, a woman who is unlucky in love despite her bubbly demeanor. Her job at a bookstore takes an interesting twist when she discovers a book titled ...

Turning Tide
2013
as Denis Juhel
Yann Madec, long-time best mate of Frank Drevil, the star skipper of Global System Insurance, sees his dream come true when he replaces the injured Fr...

Denis
2013
as Denis
Twice Vincent thinks he has found the woman of his life. Twice his ideal woman left him for the same man: Denis. Now Vincent is pursuing a happy love ...

Denis
2013
Dialogue
Twice Vincent thinks he has found the woman of his life. Twice his ideal woman left him for the same man: Denis. Now Vincent is pursuing a happy love ...

Twice Upon a Time
2012
as Mathias
Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called - Mathias. He then tracks him to a town north of...

Twice Upon a Time
2012
Director, Writer
Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called - Mathias. He then tracks him to a town north of...

The Tuche Family
2011
as Jeff Tuche
Everyone in the village of Bouzolles knows the Tuche family, who live by the philosophy "Man is not made to work." Despite their lack of money, they s...

Low Cost
2011
as Dagobert
Passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Beauvais have their patience tested to destruction when their departure is delayed for eight hours beca...

The Great Restaurant II
2011
as Director's brother
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.

Final Balance
2011
as Benoît
Benoît, leads a happy and uneventful life. One day, his private detective father mysteriously disappears. Benoît is going to discover he has the shado...

Nobody Else But You
2011
as David Rousseau
The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selli...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
2010
as Justin de Saint-Hubert
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and ...

En chantier, monsieur Tanner !
2010
as Paul Tanner
Paul Tanner has just inherited a mansion on a vast property. Going there, he noticed that the building was in poor condition and that work had already...

Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
2009
as Le père (voice)
Arthur answers a distress call from Princess Selenia, who is menaced by the nefarious Maltazard.

The Life Coach
2009
as Patrick Marmignon
Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gamblin...

The Very Very Big Company
2008
as Denis
Four friends decide to confront a multinational agrochemical company that is polluting their region. They have 30 days to gather evidence.

The Easy Way
2008
as Albert Spaggiari
Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist wh...

The Easy Way
2008
Director, Writer
Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist wh...

The Maiden and the Wolves
2008
as Émile Garcin
Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Pat...

Tonight I'll Sleep at Yours
2007
as Alex
Alex and Laetitia appear to make the perfect couple. But, as much as he loves his gorgeous fun-loving sweetheart, Alex isn’t yet ready for her to move...

Treasure Island
2007
as Docteur Livesey
A treasure buried on an island of the Antilles. A pirate without a straight leg, without a boat, treacherous and bloodthirsty and without the treasur...

La Vie en Rose
2007
as Louis Gassion
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a c...

Snow White: The Sequel
2007
as Le Prince Charmant (voice)
Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to life. However the jealous 'good' fairy decides that sh...
Les Robins des bois - sont des cons et toujours des cons - Florilèges de sketches 1 et 2
2006
as Various Characters

Les Robins Des Bois sont toujours des cons (Florilège Vol. 2)
2006
as Various Characters

Those Happy Days
2006
as Vincent
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, v...

Bunker Paradise
2006
as John Deveau
Friendly and broke, Mimmo dreams of being rich and famous, but for now he's a taxi driver. One evening, he meets John Deveau, a wealthy and perverse m...

A Year in My Life
2006
as Gustave
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
as Self

Boudu
2005
as Hubert
A modern remake of Renoir's classic film. Aix-en-Provence, a spring night. Christian Lespinglet, an over-indebted gallery owner, rescues a homeless ma...

Let's Be Friends
2005
as Claude Mendelbaum
The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a...

An Innocent Little Game
2004
as Serge Hatier
Claire et Bruno forment depuis douze ans un couple établi, une "institution". Au cours d'une journée à la campagne réunissant tous leurs proches, ils ...

A Very Long Engagement
2004
as The Factor
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...

Casablanca Driver
2004
as Guy, le coiffeur
This mockumentary follows the world's worst boxer and the events that led to his meteoric rise in the year 1969.

Podium
2004
as Couscous
Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and has a son. He used to have another profession: being French star Claude Francois. Now,...

RRRrrrr!!!
2004
as Pierre (le Blond)
In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The ch...

RRRrrrr!!!
2004
Writer
In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The ch...

The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ?
2003
as shérif Steve Marley
FBI Agents Bullit and Riper investigate the murder of a young dancer called Pamela Rose, found dead in her motel room in Bornsville, a small american ...

I, Cesar
2003
as Le prof de gym
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance...

Whatever You Say
2002
as Patrick
Bastien, an ambitious young production assistant, catches the attention of Jean-Louis, a producer of high regard, and is granted a shot at his own tel...

Accidental Saint
2002
as Joseph
Raph and Swan, two thugs, are hanging out looking for a bad thing to do. When they steal a bag from a defenceless girl, Swan does a good deed. A halo ...

Monsieur Batignole
2002
as Pierre-Jean Lamour
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his gro...

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
as Caius antivirus
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

Tanguy
2001
as Bruno Lemoine
Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan.

The Strategy of Failure
2001
as Luc
My various experiences in the field of failure have allowed me to highlight specific areas in which it is crucial to get disorganized and to recognize...

Tom Thumb
2001
as un cavalier de la reine
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try ...

Les robins des bois - L'instant norvégien
2001
as Various Characters
If you like offbeat, burlesque, absurd, sometimes scatological, but talented humor, the Robins des Bois are for you. With the Norwegian moment broadca...

It's Hard Killing Someone Even on a Monday
2001
as Jean, le tueur
Jean doesn't want to stagnate in the anonymity of an unattractive life anymore. He chose to start a new career very mediatic but quite dangerous.

Les Robins des Bois : un demi-siècle d'humour
2000
as Various Characters

Les robins des bois sont des cons (Florilège Vol. 1)
2000
as Various Characters
Florilège des sketch réalisé pour "La grosse émission" sur Comédie!.

Jamel Show
1999
as Self
Jamel is given carte blanche at CANAL+ for an hour, the comedian took this opportinity to gather friends and guests for a comedy special to celebrate ...

Influence Peddling
1999
as Jean-Frédéric, l'adjoint du chef de cabinet
Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer...

Karnaval
1999
as Pine
Karnaval is set against a backdrop of intolerance and hostility in the gloomy Northern French city of Dunkirk. The story is set during carnival time, ...

Serial Lover
1998
as Edouard "Douad" Pied
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house...

Robin des Bois d'à peu près Alexandre Dumas
1996
as Various Characters
La pièce de théatre qui à fait découvrir Les robins des bois avant leur apparition sur Comédie!.
Soumission
N/A
as François
Adaptation of Michel Houellebecq's novel. François, a university professor "in the midst of an existential crisis", witnesses an astonishing and total...