Biography
Frédéric Diefenthal (born 26 July 1968 in Saint-Mandé) is a French actor and director. Diefenthal grew up in Saint-Puy in southwestern France. He is Jewish. Prior to acting, Diefenthal pursued apprenticeships in the hotel industry, hairdressing and was also an apprentice pastry chef. He began studies in architecture before switching to drama classes. Diefenthal began acting in the early 1990s; he held a main role in the French television series Le juge est une femme (The Judge is a Woman), wher...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Le Jour de Ma Mort
2024
as Stanislas Coesens
When a fortuneteller predicted Lisa's death on August 15 in midst of fear and violence, she shrugged. Yet, this morning, as the sun rises over a deser...

Neige
2022
as Thomas Delhaye
Several notables from the Chamonix region are found murdered in their homes. To move forward with investigation, police captain Thomas Delhaye decides...

En attendant un miracle
2021
as Maxime Gardette
On the morning the corpse of a man has been found in a bathing tank of the sanctuary of Lourdes.The police captain Fiona Langlois will be in charge of...

Van Gogh in Love
2021
as Léo
Van Gogh in Love tells the story of Van Gogh’s longing for love and a family. It explores the lesser-known area of his (not so!) romantic love life. M...

The Grand Restaurant III
2021
as Clémence's husband
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” ...

CDD: Corpus Crisis
2020
as Father
Two students are hired by the mafia to clean up crime scenes. On the last day of work, a problem: a body is not 100% dead.

Shadows of the Past
2018
as Yann Leblanc
Vincent witnesses a deadly accident which rekindles a terrible event from his past.

Murder in Le Havre
2018
as Gaspard Lesage
A mummified corpse has been found by workers who were knocking down a wall. Ariane Sallès and Gaspard Lesage are in charge of the investigation.

Murder In Auvergne
2017
as Bruno Romagnat
A woman's body is found near a lake. The murderer seems to have copied an ancient local legend about the punishment of sinners who provoked the wrath ...

Le chapeau de Mitterrand
2016
as Daniel Mercier
One day in 1986, François Mitterrand forgets his black felt (his initials) in a Lyons restaurant. Daniel Mercier, a young executive who has just been ...

Je préfère qu'on reste amis
2015
as Valentin
Claudine, a florist in her fifties, has an appointment with Valentin, her best friend and confidant. She wants to tell him about the love she has felt...

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014

Dors mon lapin
2014
as Lionel
It's the story of a young married man name Lionel who is swamped by colossal debts and whose wife is soon to give birth. At his wits' end, he decides ...

Une bonne leçon
2013
as Diego
Sidonie returns from Morocco with a broken heart because of a man called Diego.Then her sister,Marion, a lawyer of Paris,decides to travel to Morocco ...

Kramer contre Kramer
2013
as Ted Kramer

Le Renard jaune
2013
as Poulin
Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars of the bar-restaurant "Le Renard jaune" who regular...

Poor Richard!
2013
as Richard
It is in a small popular district that the pot of the Eurogagnant, 124 million euros, is won - But who is the lucky winner?

Jeux dangereux
2012
as Antonin Brecht

Furious Girl
2011
as Fred
Back in her hometown after spending a year learning singing lessons in New York, the young Marseillaise Faïza dreams of becoming a singer. But she hel...
L'homme sans nom
2010
as David / Guillaume Derville

Le Gendre idéal 2
2010
as Arnaud

Chateaubriand
2010
as François-René de Chateaubriand

Cartouche, le Brigand Magnifique
2009
as Cartouche
The people of Paris loved him, because he took care of the poor, and had no sympathy for the rich

Facteur chance
2009
as Tib
A small provincial town near Paris, on New Year's Eve. Three childhood friends, including a postman, improvise an amateur burglary of their postal sor...

Le Gendre idéal
2008
as Arnaud

Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés
2008

Taxi 4
2007
as Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec
Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours...

Pas de panique
2006
as Ludovic Chambercy
It is time for thirty-something Ludovic Chambercy to succeed his father Jacques at the head of the family business: the Chambercy Galleries. But faced...

Voisins, voisines
2005
as Paco Garcia
The Mozart Residence is home to several "new owners" of all origins: a new concierge, Paco, of Spanish origin, who has just been released from prison,...

Free Wheeling
2005
as Max
Max, a highly talented robotics enthusiast, is in serious financial trouble and risks having the few possessions he has seized by bailiffs. He therefo...

Renart the Fox
2005
as Renart (voice)
Renart is a sly fox who can always chit-chat his way out of sticky situations. In his quest for an elusive treasure, Renart has ample opportunity to d...

Before You Leave
2005
as Phyl
A group of friends in their thirties meet for a weekend in a mountain chalet for what will be a sort of review of an era in their lives and their rela...

Le souffleur
2005
as Philippe
A man who works as a theater prompter and can't always tell the difference between fantasy and reality, asks a girl on a date and then writes a succes...

Nos amis les flics
2004
as Frédo
Une bande de jeunes voyous inoffensifs vivote de petits coups. Après un braquage loupé, ils se trouvent dans l'impossibilité de régler leurs dettes au...

L'incruste
2004
as Alexandre
A small crook manages to crash at a musician's apartment and turns his life upside down.

Totally Nuts
2004
as Arthur
Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.

Labyrinth
2003
as Matthias
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 ...

Taxi 3
2003
as Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec
A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a ...

Un homme par hasard
2003
as Yann Le Guenn
In order to make a good impression on her new boss at a work party, Léa Faber, a young single woman devoted to her job, leads everyone to believe that...

A Private Affair
2002
as Femme bar de nuit
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing ...

Savage Souls
2001
as Firmin
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when sh...

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
2001
as Martin
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser sca...

Fool's Game
2001
as Skip
Mikael, Skip and P'tit Louis are planning a big job. In his car, Michael pulls out his hair by making P'tit Louis repeat the insults that he will have...

Six-Pack
2000
as Philippe Saule
A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american...

Taxi 2
2000
as Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec
A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

I Want It All
1999
as Philippe
The collision between family life and career lies at the heart of this comedy hailing from France. A mother of two small children, Eva's life goes fro...

Taxi
1998
as Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec
In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police ...
Petite menteuse
1998
as David
Take a handsome, friendly 40-year-old family man looking for a job. Put him in a room with a young executive woman, who's single, resolute and yearnin...

Captain Conan
1996
as Sergent gare Bucarest
The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-han...

Une histoire d'amour à la con
1996
The love story of Pascal and Hélène who meet at Françoise's birthday party and the love story of Gérard, Pascal's confidant, and Françoise who invited...

Douce France
1995
as Jean-Luc
In this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable ...

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
1993
as Jean
Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she c...

The Jackpot!
1991
as Le deuxième loubard
To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent...

Les Ritals
1991
This 2-part TV film, adapted from an autobiography, tells the childhood of writer François Cavanna, son of an Italien emigrant and a French mother.