Biography
François Georges Henri Marie Ghislain Joseph Damiens (born 17 January 1973) is a Belgian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 2000. He started out doing hidden camera videos in the 90s and became widely popular in Belgium. He gained great popularity in Belgium and had to stop filming in 2004 because he could no longer play without being recognized; he then came to France to continue his activity. There, as in Switzerland, he acquired a certain celebrity thanks to the disseminat...
Known For
Complete Filmography
T’as pas changé
2025

Love Is Overrated
2025
as François
Diagnosed «crap with girls» by his friends, Anis’ love life has barely a pulse. Three years after the loss of Isma, his best friend and mentor, Anis t...

La Fille d'un grand amour
2025
as Yves
Ana and Yves loved each other passionately, then parted ways. Years later, their daughter Cécile made a documentary about their meeting. They meet aga...

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

The Art of Being Happy
2024
Jean-Yves Machond, a globally unknown and generally unhappy painter, decides one day to change his life. He seeks inspiration in a small Norman town, ...

Dog on Trial
2024
as Dariuch Michovski
April, an idealistic lawyer dedicated to lost causes, agrees to defend Cosmos, a dog that has bitten three people, leading to the first canine trial. ...

Headwind
2024
as Alain
Alain, a famous actor, agrees to play the impossible role of Jacques Brel. Realising that it might be the last role of his life, he decides to leave t...

La Graine
2023
Lucie and Ines love each other and want to have a child, but they are missing something. After five attempts at MAP, they leave for a final test in Be...

Killing Blues
2023
as Max
Max, a ruthless fifty-year-old hitman, discovers he has a problem: he now faints at the drop of blood. With his future in the profession in jeopardy, ...

The Lulus
2023
as Abbé Turpin
August 1914. While the German army is gaining ground in the North of France, four boys aged 10 to 15, LUcien, LUcas, LUigi and LUdwig are left behind ...

Jack Mimoun & the Secrets of Val Verde
2022
as Jean-Marc Bastos
Two years after surviving alone on the hostile island of Val Verde, Jack Mimoun has become an adventure star. The book recounting his experience is a ...

En même temps
2022
as Le patron du diner
On the eve of a vote to greenlight the construction of a leisure centre where a primal forest currently stands, an unashamedly right-wing mayor sets o...

Adieu Paris
2022
as Loucky
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, mast...

Stuck Together
2021
as Tony
Seven families live in the Parisian apartment building at 8, Rue de l’Humanite - and they didn’t escape to the countryside at the arrival of the coron...

Love Song for Tough Guys
2021
as Jeff
In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, lov...

My Cousin
2020
as Adrien
Pierre is the highly successful CEO of a large family-owned company. Before signing the deal of the century, he has to settle one last formality: obta...

A Friendly Tale...
2020
as Francis
Lea and her husband Marc have known Francis and his wife Karine for a very long time. Over the years, each one of them has been assigned a specific r...

The Lost Prince
2020
as Pritprout
Djibi lives alone with Sofia, his 8-year-old daughter. Every night, he invents a story to put him to sleep. When Sofia falls asleep, these extraordina...

Of Love and Lies
2019
as Laurent
Twelve-year old Theo plays for a local soccer club and has enough talent to eventually go pro. But his father has been on a self-destructive spiral ev...

The World Is Yours
2018
as René
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother...

Dany
2018
as Dany Versavel
Dany, the king of petty thefts, did not wait until the end of his prison sentence to reunite with his 13-year-old son Sullivan. The only thing he now ...

Dany
2018
Director, Writer
Dany, the king of petty thefts, did not wait until the end of his prison sentence to reunite with his 13-year-old son Sullivan. The only thing he now ...

Little Spirou
2017
as Monsieur Mégot
Petit Spirou, like all his family before him, has a career destiny all traced. When his mother announces that he will integrate the grooms school at t...

Just to Be Sure
2017
as Erwan Gourmelon
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the ...

Les grandes vacances de François Damiens
2016
as Self

The Dancer
2016
as Marchand
A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle E...

The Jews
2016
as Roger
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the...

News from Planet Mars
2016
as Philippe Mars
Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortu...

Les Cowboys
2015
as Alain Balland
Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.

The Brand New Testament
2015
as François
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand...

Les Caméras Planquées de François Damiens en Suisse
2015
as Self

The Bélier Family
2014
as Rodolphe Bélier
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it ...

Les Caméras Planquées de François Damiens en Corse, Vol. 1
2014
as Self
François Damiens once again tricks unsuspecting passersby. His new playground: Corsica.

Les Caméras Planquées de François Damiens en Corse, Vol. 1
2014
Production Design, Director
François Damiens once again tricks unsuspecting passersby. His new playground: Corsica.

Nicholas on Holiday
2014
as Blédurt
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards ...
Le Débarquement 2
2013
as Various Characters

Suzanne
2013
as Nicolas Merevsky
The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.

Playing Dead
2013
as Jean Renault
Jean, a forty-year-old struggling, out-of-work actor has hit rock bottom. Although open to any kind of work, he can't get a break. At the unemployment...

Tip Top
2013
as Robert Mendès
Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, ...

Gare du Nord
2013
as Sacha
Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael...

Tango Libre
2012
as Jean-Christophe
A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works and he is d...

Les nouvelles caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 1
2012
as Self

Les nouvelles caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 2
2012
as Self

Les nouvelles caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 1
2012
Director, Writer

Les nouvelles caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 2
2012
Writer, Director

Porn in the Hood
2012
as Claude Fachoune
3 childhood friends who have never left their hometown in the suburb try to get into porn as a way of earning easy money.

Torpédo
2012
as Michel Ressac
Michel Ressac wins a dinner with cyclist legend Eddy Merckx in an advertising campaign to promote the sales of sofas and hopes that he can do his own ...

Delicacy
2011
as Markus Lundell
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.

Les Caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 2
2011
as Self
François Damiens has won over French audiences and established himself as the new talent of hidden cameras. In his sketches, he pushes his "victims" t...

Les Caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 2
2011
Director, Writer
François Damiens has won over French audiences and established himself as the new talent of hidden cameras. In his sketches, he pushes his "victims" t...

Holidays by the Sea
2011
as Monsieur Fraises
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.

Les caméras cachées de François Damiens - Le best of (Vol. 2)
2011
as Self

The Rabbi's Cat
2011
as Reporter (voice)
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's te...

Borderline
2011
as David Pelame
An attorney stumbles upon a suitcase filled with cocaine.

Nothing to Declare
2010
as Jacques Janus
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Trader Games
2010
as un trader
A hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?

Les caméras cachées de François Damiens - Le best of (Vol. 1)
2010
as Self

Heartbreaker
2010
as Marc
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 ...

Les Caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 1
2010
as Self
François Damiens has won over French audiences and established himself as the new talent of hidden cameras. In his sketches, he pushes his "victims" t...

Les Caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 1
2010
Writer, Director
François Damiens has won over French audiences and established himself as the new talent of hidden cameras. In his sketches, he pushes his "victims" t...

Protect and Serve
2010
as Roméro
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.

The Wolberg Family
2009
as Simon
He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get...

Little Nicholas
2009
as Mr. Blédur
Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. Ho...

Incognito
2009
as Chauffeur accident
Lucas is an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.

Trouble at Timpetill
2008
as Le livreur
The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.

2 Alone in Paris
2008
as Le joueur de curling
A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.

Me Two
2008
as Cogip's physician
80's pop icon Gilles Gabriel is about to make a comeback in the French music scene, until he accidentally hits Ranu, a slightly nutty accountant, when...

JCVD
2008
as Bruges
Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds ...

Daddy Cool
2008
as Jean-Maxence
The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.

Behind the Walls
2008
as The Chief Supervisor
A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through...

Just Anybody
2008
as L’agent immobilier
Camille, a 20-something dissatisfied with her life, craves the opportunity to give her love to the person who needs it the most. She finds this opport...
Des sables dessinés
2008
as Self

Cowboy
2007
as Franz
Daniel Piron has the blues. His relationship is monotonous, his ideals have vanished, and even his job as a journalist is a joke. The only idea that s...

Mariage Surprise
2007
as Marciano
Surprise!
2007
as Le fleuriste
Pierre has prepared a surprise for his wife Brigitte's birthday. But a series of harmless incidents (like a draft and a sun beam reflected off a windo...

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

François Damiens - Tour de France, Vol.2
2007
as Self

François Damiens - Tour de France, Vol.2
2007
Director

François Damiens - Tour de France, Vol.1
2007
as Self

François Damiens - Tour de France, Vol.1
2007
Director

Dikkenek
2006
as Claudy
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fa...

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006
as Raymond Pelletier
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow s...

Les pièges de François l'Embrouille
2004
as Self
François Damiens, known as "L'Embrouille," has been causing mischief on RTL-TVI for five years. At 30 years old, his hidden cameras test the patience ...

Les pièges de François l'Embrouille 2
2004
as Self
François Damiens, known as "L'Embrouille," has been causing mischief on RTL-TVI for five years. At 30 years old, his hidden cameras test the patience ...

Les pièges de François l'Embrouille 3
2004
as Self
François Damiens, known as "L'Embrouille," has been causing mischief on RTL-TVI for five years. At 30 years old, his hidden cameras test the patience ...

Les pièges de François l'Embrouille 2
2004
Director
François Damiens, known as "L'Embrouille," has been causing mischief on RTL-TVI for five years. At 30 years old, his hidden cameras test the patience ...

Les pièges de François l'Embrouille
2004
Director
François Damiens, known as "L'Embrouille," has been causing mischief on RTL-TVI for five years. At 30 years old, his hidden cameras test the patience ...

Les pièges de François l'Embrouille 3
2004
Director
François Damiens, known as "L'Embrouille," has been causing mischief on RTL-TVI for five years. At 30 years old, his hidden cameras test the patience ...

La Commune (Paris, 1871)
2003
as Un réparateur de fusils de la garde nationale (uncredited)
We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up...

Le grand jeu
2001
as Thomas
Late-night softcore film.

papa zéro défaut
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Paname Flash 80
N/A
It is a movie directed by Jean-Baptiste Saurel.
Le faux soir
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Les caméras cachées de François Damiens, le best of
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as Lui-même