Biography
Born in Lausanne from a father of Spanish origin and a mother of German origin, Vincent Pérez (Vicente Pérez) spent a good part of his childhood in Penthaz and then in Cheseaux, Canton of Vaud. After studying photography at the Center Doret in Vevey, he studied dramatic art in Geneva, then at the Conservatoire and the school of Amandiers de Nanterre. Vincent Pérez in 1991, at the 16th César ceremony. He is still a student when he begins the movie in 1985 in the Guardian of the Night. It is in 1...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hot Milk
2025
as Dr. Gomez
Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold ...

Colours of Time
2025
as Oncle Théophraste
Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. ...

Hunting with Tigers
2024
as Serge Lemy
Malik, a young Parisian hustler, discovers that his stepfather Serge, a famous bank robber, has been arrested along with his accomplices. During the t...

Boléro
2024
as Cipa
Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ra...

The Edge of the Blade
2023
as Louis Berchère
In 1887, at a time when duels are in vogue in Paris, Clément Lacaze and Marie-Rose Astié meet. He's a charismatic master of arms; she's a feminist, fa...

The Edge of the Blade
2023
Director, Screenplay
In 1887, at a time when duels are in vogue in Paris, Clément Lacaze and Marie-Rose Astié meet. He's a charismatic master of arms; she's a feminist, fa...

The Curse of Turandot
2021
as King Michel
The plot follows Princess Turandot who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that were given to her as birthday gift...

The Aeronauts
2019
as Pierre Rennes
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly h...

Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019
as Self

An Officer and a Spy
2019
as Maître Leblois
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

15 Minutes of War
2019
as Général Favrart
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a n...

Territory of Love
2018
as Professor Deglacière
Maria, 30, is impatient, restless and speaks 5 languages. In Taipei she meets Olivier. He is shy, slow and can speak 14 languages. They fall in love. ...

At Eternity's Gate
2018
as The Director
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

Ladies in Black
2018
as Stefan
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of ...

The Summer House
2018
as Jonathan Dickinson
A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with he...

Oedipus
2018
In today's Larzac, the life of Oedipus, king of Thebes, before, during and after the tragic episodes of his life. In the dressing rooms of a theater, ...

Based on a True Story
2017
as François
Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place,...

Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
as Jacques Cartier
Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.

Everyone's Life
2017
as Le comte
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secre...

Dalida
2017
as Eddie Barclay
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...

Alone in Berlin
2016
Director, Co-Writer
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with...

The Price of Desire
2015
as Le Corbusier
Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a leading light in the modern design movement. This graceful portrayal of her later...

The King of Madagascar
2015
The plot is based on the adventures of secret agents, members of an expedition sent by Peter the Great to the Madagascar pirates in order to attract t...

Kitchen in Paris
2014
as Nicolas
A restaurant in Moscow is forced to shut shop after they end up ruining a crucial political dinner involving the president. The entire team then decid...

Puppylove
2013
as Christian
Diane is a mysterious and lonely teenager. Sharing special bonds with her father Christian, she takes care of the education of her brother Marc. The a...

A Prince (almost) Charming
2013
as Jean-Marc
A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony...

Lines of Wellington
2012
as Lévêque
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Cesare Mori - Il prefetto di ferro
2012
as Cesare Mori
Two-part miniseries about the real-life "Iron Governor" who battled the Sicilian Mafia during the early decades of the 20th Century.

What the Day Owes the Night
2012
as Juan Rucillio
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, wi...

My First Time
2012
as Richard
Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fill...

Donoma
2011
as Dacio
A female teacher begins an ambiguous relationship with a student, an agnostic teenager is « called » by God, a photographer offers herself to a strang...

Father
2011
as Jean-Laurent
Monsieur Papa is a moving portrait of a modern family, centering around 12 year-old Marius Vallois. Born in a wealthy family, Marius is the son of Mar...

A Butterfly Kiss
2011
as Louis
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence ...

Bruc: The Manhunt
2010
as Maraval
Spain, 1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his dr...

Inhale
2010
as Dr. Martinez
A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.

Trahie !
2010
as Paul/Antonio

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
as Clemente Claudet

Tomorrow at Dawn
2009
as Mathieu
Mathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and ...

La Traversée du désir
2009
as Self
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

Somebody Told Me About Carla Bruni
2009
as Self
A documentary tracking the life and career of the model-musician turned first lady of France.

Die Jahrhundertlawine
2008
as Marc
In the Austrian Alps have found the body of a young woman who died in a skiing accident eight years earlier. Dr. Marc Pelletier decides to return to t...

Arn: The Knight Templar
2007
as Brother Guilbert
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden...

The Secret
2007
Director
Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horr...

The Apocalypse Code
2007
as Lui
Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The c...

Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
2006
as Louis XV
Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the ar...

Battle of the Brave
2004
as Intendant Le Bigot
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

Frankenstein
2004
as Deucalion
An investigation into a serial killer leads two detectives to discover that Dr. Frankenstein and his creature are still alive after two centuries of g...

Bienvenue en Suisse
2004
as Aloïs Couchepin
Thierry, an ethnologist specializing in the Sami people, travels to his native Switzerland with his partner, Sophie, to attend his grandmother's funer...

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...

I'm Staying
2003
as Bertrand Delpire
A self-centered engineer tries to win back his wife after she takes a new lover.

Fan-Fan the Tulip
2003
as Fanfan la tulipe
In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV b...

Happiness Costs Nothing
2003
as Francesco
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a youn...

The Pharmacist
2003
as Yan Lazarrec
An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.

Once Upon an Angel
2002
Director
A grief-stricken man who just lost his mother has a one night stand with a maid. What he doesn't know is that she's a virgin. He returns to his sad wo...
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

Queen of the Damned
2002
as Marius de Romanus
Lestat finds acceptance in a tattooed and pierced world, rekindling the desires of all-powerful Akasha.

Bride of the Wind
2001
as Oskar Kokoschka
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.

Love Bites
2001
as Young actor
Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly b...

I Dreamed of Africa
2000
as Paolo Gallmann
Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her co...

The Libertine
2000
as Denis Diderot
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
Scénarios sur la drogue
2000
Director

Marry Me
2000
as Hadrien Roche
Oriane and Hadrian's couple is going through a crisis. Determined to save their marriage, Oriane visits a Gypsy fortune teller who foresees a dark fut...

Time Regained
1999
as Morel
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have ...
Rien à dire
1999
Director
One morning Louise finds out that her best friend's mother is dead. She is going to spend the afternoon with her without mentioning anything about it.

Talk of Angels
1998
as Francisco Areavaga
This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activis...

Shot Through the Heart
1998
as Slavko
The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war ...

The Treat
1998
as Pierre
The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
1998
as Viviane
A group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey, secrets and desires unfold, with relationships sh...

Swept from the Sea
1998
as Yanko
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. Whe...

On Guard
1997
as Duke of Nevers
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a ...

The Crow: City of Angels
1996
as Ashe Corven / The Crow
A murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. With the help of a beautiful woman, he exacts revenge on his killers – only to realize h...

Линия жизни
1996
The godfather of the Russian mafia named "Papa" has prepared Philip for the role of a large French businessman who allegedly wants to invest large sum...

Line of Life
1996
as Philippe
Philippe meets the beautiful Oksana during a long layover in Moscow. Unfortunately, Oksana is the granddaughter of a murderous mafia don looking to tr...

Beyond the Clouds
1995
as Niccolo
Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995
as Self (uncredited)
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema as he directs Beyond the Clouds (1995), assisted by...

Queen Margot
1994
as La Môle
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble ...

Fanfan
1993
as Alexandre
After seeing the initial passion and romance fade into a series of routine and boring relationships, Alexandre (Vincent Perez) concludes that romance ...

Indochine
1992
as Jean-Baptiste Le Guen
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnam...

Snow and Fire
1991
as Jacques Sénéchal
While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a signi...

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
1990
as Baron de Sigognac
Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th centu...

Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
as Christian de Neuvillette
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines...

The House of Jade
1988
as Bernard Gretz
During a ceremony in an orthodox church in Paris, a 40-year-old writer and journalist is seduced by a young man, whom with she will live an extraordin...

Hôtel de France
1987
as Serge
A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human em...

Guardian of the Night
1986
as Armand
With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young man...

Trapped by Cops
1985
as Yvon
The robberies are becoming more and more brazen, the methods more and more brutal. Because the perpetrator wears bizarre masks, there is no analyzable...