Biography
Romain Duris (born 28 May 1974) is a French actor. Romain Duris is most famous for his role as the French exchange student Xavier Rousseau in The Spanish Apartment and The Russian Dolls. He has a reputation for versatility, having played a thug in The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
2026
as James Figueras
The 2026 adaptation of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra is directed by Alexandre Castagnetti and stars Deva Cassel, Julien De Saint-Jean, and Romain Duris. The f...
Furcy, né libre
2026
as Boucher
Dog 51
2025
Paris, 2045. The capital's population is monitored by an artificial intelligence named Alma, and divided into three zones. Each zone groups together t...

Rembrandt
2025

A Missing Part
2024
as Jay
Every day, Jay travels the length and breadth of Tokyo in his taxi, looking for his daughter Lily. In the 9 years since he has separated from his wife...

Night Call
2024
as Yannick
Mady, a student, works as a locksmith by night. He helps Claire get into her apartment and soon realizes that she lied to him about her identity and r...

Sur les traces du règne animal
2024
as Self
After 5 César Awards and over a million viewers in theaters, Thomas Cailley revisits the genesis of his film The Animal Kingdom. He takes us to meet h...

Daaaaaalí!
2024
as Jérôme
A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.

The Three Musketeers: Milady
2023
as Aramis
D'Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Pr...

The Animal Kingdom
2023
as François
In a world hit by a wave of mutations transforming humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife. As some of the creatures dis...

The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
2023
as Aramis
D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to ...

Final Cut
2022
as Rémi / Higurashi
Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

Charlotte
2022
as French Alfred Wolfsohn
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative...

Waiting for Bojangles
2021
as Georges
A boy and his eccentric parents leave their home in Paris for a country house in Spain. As the mother descends deeper into her own mind, it's up to th...

Eiffel
2021
as Gustave Eiffel
The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but he simply wants to design the subway...

Aznavour by Charles
2019
as Charles Aznavour (voice)
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filme...

The Great Darkened Days
2019
as Lester
While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonat...

Our Struggles
2018
as Olivier Vallet
While Olivier, a 39 year-old foreman gives his job everything he’s got, Laura, his wife and the mother of their two children, abandons the family home...

Black Tide
2018
as Yan
When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with...

Just a Breath Away
2018
as Mathieu
When a deadly mist engulfs Paris, people find refuge in the upper floors of the buildings. With no information, no electricity and hardly any supplies...

Mrs. Hyde
2018
as Le proviseur (The Director)
Mrs. Géquil is an eccentric teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes ...

All the Money in the World
2017
as Cinquanta
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather...

Ceasefire
2017
as Georges Laffont
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the va...

The Confession
2017
as Père Léon Morin
Under the German occupation, in a small French town, the arrival of a new priest arouses the interest of all women... Barny, a young communist and ath...

In the Shadow of Iris
2016
as Max Lopez
The sudden disappearance of a wealthy banker's wife cracks open a dizzying world of secret fetishes, desperate acts and elaborate deceptions.

Odd Job
2016
as Jacques
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.

Démons
2015
as Frank
A married couple lives hateful for each other together, they think about divorce until they ask their neighbors, young couple out for a drink . At thi...

The New Girlfriend
2014
as David / Virginia
A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.

Chinese Puzzle
2013
as Xavier Rousseau
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them gro...

Mood Indigo
2013
as Colin
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

Populaire
2012
as Louis Échard
An insurance agent and his new secretary become locked in the grip of romance and competition as they train together for a speed-typing contest.

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
as Self (archive footage)

The Big Picture
2010
as Paul Exben
Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of...

Heartbreaker
2010
as Alex Lippi
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only ...

Persecution
2009
as Daniel
A solitary man and his partner share a tense love/hate relationship. Their lives are disrupted when a stranger enters, gradually insinuating himself i...

Afterwards
2008
as Nathan Del Amico
Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can sense when select people are about to die. Though h...

Paris
2008
as Pierre
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has...

The Age of Man
2007
as Samuel
Samuel is 30. Formerly a confirmed bachelor, he has been living with Tina – a photographer – for the past year but he gets scared when it’s time to co...

Moliere
2007
as Moliere
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical ...

In Paris
2006
as Paul
After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves ...

Russian Dolls
2005
as Xavier Rousseau
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

The Beat That My Heart Skipped
2005
as Thomas Seyr
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career thre...

Arsène Lupin
2004
as Arsène Lupin
As the daring thief Arsène Lupin ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out...

Exiles
2004
as Zano
One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know the...

Osmosis
2004
as Rémi
Abel awash in his conquests phone numbers, Remi raises metaphysical questions about his look, Lucia movie fan obscure authors while its Fab him is he ...

Le Divorce
2003
as Yves
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

Shimkent Hôtel
2003
as Romain
Shimkent hôtel tells the story of a young man who's experienced the failure of a business venture in the Afghan mountains, and who suffers from shock ...

No Big Deal
2003
as Léo
Three sons are sent on a journey to trace their father's checkered past.

Adolphe
2002
as D'Erfeuil
Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels her y...

The Spanish Apartment
2002
as Xavier
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the ...

Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard
2002
as Mathieu
A portrait of a woman, composed of 17 moments from her life.

Being Light
2001
as Maxime Lecocq
Maxime, a young man of 25, arrives in Paris, but wishes to join Justine, the woman he loves, in India. At the bar of the Raphael Hotel, he meets Jack ...

Tom Thumb
2001
as un garde 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 ...

CQ
2001
as Hippie Filmmaker
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationshi...

Children of the Stork
1999
as Otto
Three French pals take to the road in a stolen car and discover a talking, wounded stork — who claims to have deserted the Algerian army — and help it...

Peut-être
1999
as Arthur
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ce...

Les Kidnappeurs
1998
as Zero
Ulysse, a gun-toting hood, gets together a team of four people, including himself, to carry out what he thinks will be a fail-safe heist...

Already Dead
1998
as Romain
A young pizza-deliverer, Andréa, introduces Laure, a 20 year old girl he barely knows, to his friend David, a wealthy layabout who is looking for mode...

The Crazy Stranger
1998
as Stéphane
A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.

Dobermann
1997
as Manu
The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robb...

When the Cat's Away
1996
as le joueur de batterie
When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, inc...

Mémoires d'un jeune con
1996
as Luc
Frédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with various sorts of people among which he looks for a role...

Brothers: Red Roulette
1995
as Marco

Good Old Daze
1995
as Tomasi
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited ba...
Turgot
N/A
Chaos
N/A
Announced remake of the Japanese film Chaos (2000).
Nobody's Son
N/A
The script centres on Mathilda and Thomas, married for over 15 years. They’ve always dreamed of having children, but their efforts were only met with ...