Biography
Lambert Wilson (born August 3, 1958) is a French actor, singer, and activist. He is best known internationally for his portrayal of The Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Matrix Resurrections.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Chopin, A Sonata in Paris
2025
as King Louis Philippe
He is the talk of the town, the most romantic figure of decadent Parisian nights. When his lungs start bleeding, Chopin knows his days are numbered. C...

Klandestin WT
2025
Richard, an artist, now lives in Tangier. With his help, the young Moroccan Malik manages to reach Europe, the destination of his dreams. That's where...

Planète Terre, le prix de la survie
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Planète Terre, le triomphe de la vie
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)

5 Hectares
2023
as Franck Bernard
What causes a man who has everything to jeopardize his comfort, career and relationship? A passion, as burning as it is fresh, for five acres of land ...

Des mains en or
2023
as Philippe
Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all,...

A Great Friend
2023
as Vincent
Vincent is a famous successful entrepreneur. One day, a car breakdown on a mountain road temporarily interrupts his frantic lifestyle. Pierre, who liv...

Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
2022
as Ernest (voice)
Ernest and Celestine are travelling back to Ernest's country, Gibberitia, to fix his broken violin. This exotic land is home to the best musicians on ...

Happy 50
2022
as Antoine
To celebrate Yves’ 50th birthday, his friends plan to take him to the sunny paradise of Paros in Greece. But due to a cancelled flight, the holiday wi...

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
as Marquis de Chassagne
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.

The Matrix Resurrections
2021
as The Merovingian
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

Benedetta
2021
as Nuncio
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to sh...

Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
2020
as John Prentis
At the memorial for his father, WWII hero Major James Prentis (Alan Bates), John (Lambert Wilson) confesses a dark family secret to his own son Martin...

Selfish
2020
as Narrator
War, emergency, pandemics and hunger. Humanitarian workers are used to working in the most varied and extreme missions and contexts across the planet....

De Gaulle
2020
as Le Général de Gaulle
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, ...

The Translators
2019
as Éric Angstrom
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.

Une nuit, le Louvre avec Lambert Wilson
2019
as Lui-même

Coco Chanel's battles
2019
as Narrator (voice)
A TV documentary that recounts the many "battles" Coco Chanel overcame to become the great businesswoman and legend she is considered today.

In the Ears of Alain Resnais
2019
as Self
A documentary on the filmmaker with a focus on music and voices in his work, featuring collaborators and critics including the filmmaker himself, acto...

In Her Hands
2018
as Pierre Geithner
A young man from a modest family gets the chance of a lifetime to reveal his hidden talent for piano but can he find the strength and courage to live ...

Volontaire
2018
as Rivière
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a c...

The Royal Exchange
2017
as Philip V
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate...

Wilson chante Montand
2017

Corporate
2017
as Stéphane Froncart
Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Resources, working for a huge French agro-food company. But, one day, one of the employees commit...

Like Mother, Like Daughter
2017
as Marc
An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too...

March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
2017
as Narrator (french voice)
A young penguin, driven by his instinct, embarks on his first major trip to an unknown destination.

The Odyssey
2016
as Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves ...

Right Here Right Now
2016
as Arnaud Barsac, one of the two directors
Nora is a bright young professional whose new job at a financial firm turns out to be a trial by fire when she learns that her bosses share a tumultuo...

Paris Couture 1945-1968
2016
Documenting the advancement of Paris' Haute couture after the second world war

The Confessions
2016
as Kis
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that...

Hugo Pratt, trait pour trait
2016
as Narrator (voice)

One Man and his Cow
2016
as Philippe
An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture ...
Qui n'a pas sa part d'ombre
2016
as Voix off
The Finance Minister is cornered by journalists. The news is out, they've found proof of his hidden account in Switzerland. Scandal! Shame! He should ...

Assolo
2016
as Michele
A funny and intelligent comedy about a wonderfully flawed woman.

Rabid Dogs
2015
as The Father
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and v...

Suite Française
2015
as Viscount Montmort
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they...

Posthumous
2014
as Daniel S. Volpe
After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a rep...

Les ailes de Johnny May
2014
as Narrator

The Nostalgist
2014
as The Man
In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a fathe...

Barbecue
2014
as Antoine
On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was t...

5 to 7
2014
as Valery Pierpont
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours o...

Vinodentro
2013
as Professore
For John Cuttin it all started with the first sip of the wine of her life. A "Marzemino", a typical wine of the province of Trento, quoted by Lorenzo ...

Cycling with Molière
2013
as Gauthier Valence
Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atl...

Ernest & Celestine
2012
as Ernest (voice)
Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they o...

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012
as Orphée #2
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice....

State Conspiracy
2012
as Franck Barrot
French territory is threatened by a terrorist organization just before the presidential election. If the government doesn't answer its demands, progra...

HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami
2012
as Général Pochero
When reporter Dan Geraldo (Alain Chabat) arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery.....

Blind Man
2012
as Narvik
A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.

Africa, Blood & Beauty
2012
This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapshots of their traditional lifestyles before they are...

The Princess of Montpensier
2010
as François de Chabannes
Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful...

Of Gods and Men
2010
as Christian
A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a blood...

Imogène McCarthery
2010
as Samuel Tyler
Elle est rousse. Elle est écossaise. Elle aime le rugby et la cornemuse. Elle vit à Londres, mais se considère en exil. Elle a un fichu caractère et u...

Victor
2009
as Courcelle
When a family wins a contest to adopt Victor, an 85-year-old man, the magazine intern who hatched the idea must undo what has been done.

Baby Love
2008
as Docteur Emmanuel François Xavier Bernier dit / Manu
They were the perfect loving couple, well, almost. Emmanuel wanted a child but Philippe didn't. One day, however, Emmanuel decides to take the plunge,...

The Lazarus Project
2008
as Avery
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death senten...

Babylon A.D.
2008
as Dr. Arthur Darquandier
A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.
Tara : Voyage au cœur de la machine climatique
2008
as Voix en VF

The Great Alibi
2008
as Pierre Collier
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around...

Dante 01
2008
as Saint-Georges
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole sur...

Flawless
2007
as Finch
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007
as Lucky Luke (voice)
The Daltons have escaped to New York, where their accumulated loot is hidden in the carts of Monsieur Pierre's group of honest, naive European immigra...

Candide
2006
as Pangloss, Martin and Voltaire
Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire. In 2006, in honor of the 50th...

Private Fears in Public Places
2006
as Dan
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Gentille
2005
as Philipe
As Gentille opens, Fontaine Leglou is walking down a Paris street, and stops to confront a man whom she suspects is following her. She tells him he l...

Royal Palace
2005
as Prince Arnaud
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the...

L'Anniversaire
2005
as Raphaël
Raphael has become a dazzlingly successful TV producer. He reads a manuscript that tells his life story that pulls no punches, written by a member of ...

Sahara
2005
as Yves Massarde
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a c...

Catwoman
2004
as George Hedare
Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected an...

People - Jet set 2
2004
as Frère Arthus
John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He's responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and...

The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
as Self
The making of Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) is briefly touched on here in this documentary. Interviews with various cast and crew members inform us h...
Trouble in Paradise
2004
as Self - Narrator (voice)
A detailed overview of contemporary life in the tiny South Pacific country of Tuvalu, this film documents the earth's first sovereign nation faced wit...

Not on the Lips
2003
as Eric Thomson
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were mo...

Timeline
2003
as Lord Arnaut
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F...

The Matrix Revolutions
2003
as Merovingian
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing t...

Labyrinth
2003
as Brennac
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of ...

The Matrix Reloaded
2003
as The Merovingian
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from...

It's Easier for a Camel...
2003
as Aurelio
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton ...

The Tombs
2002
as Joseph
At a mundane evening, Joseph recalls the strange love affair he lived with a young widow, met during a visit to Père-Lachaise. But was it really a lov...

The Holy Child
2001
as Pere Marc Aubray
Marc (Lambert Wilson) is a man of the cloth who's gained a bit of celebrity for his public espousal of religious celibacy. In fact, he's even written ...

Far from China
2001
as Jean-Pierre
A young female writer whose father was a militant activist struggles to come to terms with this cumbersome legacy.

Hors Service
2001
as Francis
Ils sont cinq tueurs. Francis, le chef, Louis le parano, Victor, l'accro aux series tele, M'sieur, fan de tamagochi et Marchand, dont la femme est la ...

Love Torn in a Dream
2000
as Sebatol / un Pirate
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the ...

Jet Set
2000
as Arthus de Poulignac
In the working-class Paris suburb of Montreuil, Jimmy's restaurant, the Bombay Bar, is on the verge of being closed down by creditors. Jimmy is despon...

The Last September
2000
as Hugo Montmorency
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, a...

Don Quixote
2000
as Duke
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a ...

Too Much (Little) Love
1998
as Paul
Seventeen-year-old Emma is invited to filmmaker Paul’s house after sending him the outline of a film. Ostensibly there to work on the outline with him...

Same Old Song
1997
as Marc Duveyrier
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is...

Marquise
1997
as Racine
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ...

The Leading Man
1996
as Felix Webb
Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a mas...

Jefferson in Paris
1995
as Marquis de Lafayette
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult...

Frankenstein
1993
as Clerval
In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. ...

Shuttlecock
1993
as John Prentis
Major James Prentis VC is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and chil...

Angel's Wing
1993
as Henry
When a plane crashes in his back yard, a wealthy young man (Lambert Wilson) decides he would rather be a pilot than a musician.

Warsaw: Year 5703
1992
as Alek
In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with u...

Strangers
1992
as The Guy (Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows)
Three provocative short stories. An American in Paris seduces a young man only to have the tables turned; a tourist recovering from an accident is alo...

A Man and Two Women
1991
as Dr. Paul Baudoin
The film is a wonderfully accurate portrayal of the three stories: The stories are tied together with original dialogue and scenes by Martha / Anne / ...

Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
1989
as L'abbé Pierre
Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people were poor and homeless, ...

Suivez cet avion
1989
as Rémi Cerneaux
A perfectly innocent computer jockey becomes the prime suspect in a bank robbery. Among the tribulations he must suffer is that the real culprit is hi...

La Vouivre
1989
as Arsène Muselier
Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War. His only injury is a head wound, which sometimes provokes periods of de...

El Dorado
1988
as Ursúa
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.

Chouans!
1988
as Tarquin
Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouan...

The Possessed
1988
as Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin
Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of p...

The Belly of an Architect
1987
as Caspasian Speckler
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessl...
With All Hands
1986
as Michel Sauvage
The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.

Blue Hell
1986
as Ned
Ned, a petty criminal, falls into the trap laid by Frank, a sadistic cop who, after having beaten him, takes him home. But Frank's wife Lily helps Ned...

History
1986
as Carlo Vivaldi / Davide Segre
A widowed, baptized Catholic half-Jewish woman in Rome is raped by a young German soldier in early 1941. She becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy...

Red Kiss
1985
as Stéphane
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demo...

L'Homme aux yeux d'argent
1985
as Villain
After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty ...

Rendez-vous
1985
as Quentin
Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involv...

The Blood of Others
1984
as Paul
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann...

The Public Woman
1984
as Milan Mliska
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Par...

Sahara
1983
as Jaffar
After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

The Party 2
1982
as Félix Maréchal
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have al...

Five Days One Summer
1982
as Johann Biari
A 1930s Scottish doctor (Sean Connery) goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece (Betsy Brantley) he passes off as his wife.

Chanel Solitaire
1981
The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.

From Hell to Victory
1979
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.

Lady Oscar
1979
as Un soldat insolent
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at...

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979
as der junge Ausserirdische
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell t...

Julia
1977
as Walter Franz
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

The Bitter End
N/A
Telling the story of the final years of the woman who married King Edward VIII and broke up the monarchy.
Maudits Français
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