Olivier Gourmet

Olivier Gourmet

1963-07-22 Namur, Wallonia, Belgium 122 Credits

Biography

Olivier Gourmet (born 22 July 1963 in Namur) is a Belgian actor. He won the Best Actor award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for his role in Le Fils by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. He also appeared in La Promesse, Rosetta and L'Enfant. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivier Gourmet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Squealers

Squealers

2025

6.0
Acting

A group of young activists breaks into a slaughterhouse, aiming to expose the owners for processing meat unfit for consumption. Armed with cameras, th...

Colours of Time

Colours of Time

2025

as Claude Monet 1895

7.7
Acting

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

Fanon

Fanon

2024

as Darmain

6.4
Acting

Frantz Fanon, a French psychiatrist from Martinique, has just been appointed head of department at the psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. His met...

Turtles

Turtles

2024

as Henri Janssens

7.1
Acting

Henri and Thom live together in Brussels and have been in perfect love for 35 years, or so it seems. Since Henri retired as a policeman, nothing has g...

Retrotherapy

Retrotherapy

2024

as Alain

6.2
Acting

Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, re...

Mayhem!

Mayhem!

2023

as Narong

6.7
Acting

Sam is a professional boxer about to get released from prison. While on parole, his past catches up with him and he has no choice but to flee. Five ye...

The Asembly Line

The Asembly Line

2023

as Klatzman

6.8
Acting

A few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a line work...

The Colors of Fire

The Colors of Fire

2022

as Charles Péricourt

6.8
Acting

February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire o...

Simone: Woman of the Century

Simone: Woman of the Century

2022

as Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006)

7.9
Acting

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic po...

On the Edge

On the Edge

2022

as Police Commissioner

6.0
Acting

One night, Leo, a Spaniard working in Brussels as a subway driver, sees a young man on the edge of the platform, just before he falls onto the tracks.

Eugénie Grandet

Eugénie Grandet

2021

as Félix Grandet

6.0
Acting

Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious...

Beasts

Beasts

2021

as Bernard

6.3
Acting

Constance and her fiancé hope to one day take over, modernize and expand her father’s farm, on the verge of bankruptcy, to the large-scale farms that ...

Red Soil

Red Soil

2021

as Stéphane Perez

6.5
Acting

Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the sta...

The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light

The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light

2020

as Matisse (voice)

8.0
Acting

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pompidou which will be dedicated to him in 2020, this ...

De Gaulle

De Gaulle

2020

as Paul Reynaud

6.1
Acting

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 Breitner Commando

The Breitner Commando

2019

as Colonel Delignières

5.6
Acting

1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Al...

Conviction

Conviction

2019

as Maître Eric Dupond-Moretti

6.9
Acting

Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering h...

Cyrano, My Love

Cyrano, My Love

2018

as Constant Coquelin

7.5
Acting

Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two child...

Those Who Work

Those Who Work

2018

as Frank

6.2
Acting

Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night,...

One Nation, One King

One Nation, One King

2018

as Uncle

5.6
Acting

„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly...

The Royal Exchange

The Royal Exchange

2017

as Regent Philippe d'Orléans

6.3
Acting

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...

Above the Law

Above the Law

2017

as Frank Valken

5.8
Acting

Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and his gang find th...

Grand Froid

Grand Froid

2017

as Edmond Zweck

5.4
Acting

In a small town lost in the middle of nowhere, Edmond Zweck's funeral business is on the wing. The company now has only two employees: Georges, Zweck'...

Upstream

Upstream

2017

as Homer

6.2
Acting

Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the o...

The Midwife

The Midwife

2017

as Paul

6.1
Acting

Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she ...

The Young Karl Marx

The Young Karl Marx

2017

as Pierre Proudhon

6.9
Acting

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has...

A Wedding

A Wedding

2017

as André

6.7
Acting

Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her we...

Daguerrotype

Daguerrotype

2016

as Stéphane

5.8
Acting

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

The Unknown Girl

The Unknown Girl

2016

as Lambert, the son

6.2
Acting

Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, af...

L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères

L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères

2016

as Cardinal Hugolin

5.6
Acting

The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.

Chocolat

Chocolat

2016

as Joseph Oller

6.8
Acting

Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Fo...

April and the Extraordinary World

April and the Extraordinary World

2015

as Paul (voice)

7.0
Acting

It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist...

Come What May

Come What May

2015

as Paul

6.2
Acting

In may 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of a small village of Pas-de-Calais decide on the rec...

The Scent of Mandarin

The Scent of Mandarin

2015

as Charles

6.1
Acting

During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionat...

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

2015

as Monsieur Rouault

5.7
Acting

The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt...

Il était une fois... « Rosetta »

Il était une fois... « Rosetta »

2015

as Self

Acting

Thirty-eighth documentary in the "Un film et son époque" series. It retraces the genesis, shooting and unexpected success of "Rosetta", a film by Belg...

The Night Watchmen

The Night Watchmen

2015

as Franck

6.0
Acting

Times have changed a lot for Franck who is a night watchman. About a decade ago he was a specialized worker. Today he feels bored but would jump at an...

SK1

SK1

2015

as Bougon

6.9
Acting

The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.

40-Love

40-Love

2014

as Jérôme

5.4
Acting

Jérôme, a senior executive, has just left his company. Determined to never work for nobody else ever again, he attempts to set up his own company, com...

The Gate

The Gate

2014

6.0
Acting

Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latt...

Two Days, One Night

Two Days, One Night

2014

as Jean-Marc

6.9
Acting

Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an ...

The Marchers

The Marchers

2013

as Dubois

6.4
Acting

In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for e...

Violette

Violette

2013

as Jacques Guérin

6.1
Acting

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relation...

Grand Central

Grand Central

2013

as Gilles

5.6
Acting

A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.

The Anonymous

The Anonymous

2013

as Le Bris

7.9
Acting

A counterterrorism task force investigates the 1998 Ajaccio assassination of Claude Érignac, the prefect of Corsica. Based on true events.

La tendresse

La tendresse

2013

as Frans

5.8
Acting

This is the first film by Hänsel based entirely on her own script and gives a wise and loving significance to the concept of personal and anecdotal. W...

The World Belongs to Us

The World Belongs to Us

2012

as Freddy

7.2
Acting

On a bridge, one night, a stabbing. There is Pouga. And there is Julien. The film shows the parallel destiny of these two young men who look alike wit...

The Lookout

The Lookout

2012

as Franck

5.6
Acting

When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices...

Hénaut Président

Hénaut Président

2012

as Thierry Giovanni

Acting
The Minister

The Minister

2011

as Bertrand Saint-Jean, Minister of transport

6.4
Acting

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no ...

The Kid with a Bike

The Kid with a Bike

2011

as The Bar Owner

7.1
Acting

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.

Robert Mitchum Est Mort

Robert Mitchum Est Mort

2011

as Arsène

7.0
Acting

Washed-up actor Franky Pastor and his kleptomaniac, ex-rocker manager Arsene steal a car and embark on a “last-chance” road trip to the Polaris Film F...

Final Balance

Final Balance

2011

as Moret

5.8
Acting

Benoît, leads a happy and uneventful life. One day, his private detective father mysteriously disappears. Benoît is going to discover he has the shado...

My Wife's Romance

My Wife's Romance

2011

as Chollet

5.8
Acting

When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawy...

Nothing to Declare

Nothing to Declare

2010

as Priest of Chimay

5.9
Acting

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.

Black Venus

Black Venus

2010

as Réaux

6.6
Acting

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of...

White Snow

White Snow

2010

as Grégoire

6.0
Acting

Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is p...

Altiplano

Altiplano

2009

as Max

5.7
Acting

In the Andes, a Belgian doctor and his photojournalist wife become ensnared in a native tribe's struggle with a mining company.

Park Benches

Park Benches

2009

as Maurice Begeard

5.4
Acting

As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every...

Pour un fils

Pour un fils

2009

as Omer

6.7
Acting
Angel at Sea

Angel at Sea

2009

as Le père

5.3
Acting

Louis is a twelve year old boy who lives with his parents and older brother in southern Morocco. Louis is very happy until the day his father shares a...

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

2008

as Commissioner Broussard

7.3
Acting

After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media at...

Home

Home

2008

as Michel

6.9
Acting

Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a ...

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

2008

as Commissioner Broussard

7.3
Acting

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by ...

Coluche

Coluche

2008

as Jacques Betruger, impresario

5.8
Acting

French comedian Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, announces - for laughs - his candidacy for the 1981 French presidential elections.

Go Fast

Go Fast

2008

as Jean-Do Paoli

5.9
Acting

Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting t...

Lorna's Silence

Lorna's Silence

2008

as The Policeman

6.9
Acting

Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, C...

L'Affaire Ben Barka

L'Affaire Ben Barka

2008

as Antoine Lopez, « Savonnette », chef d'escale à Orly et agent du SDECE

1.0
Acting
Hidden Love

Hidden Love

2007

as Morris

4.5
Acting

A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.

Cowboy

Cowboy

2007

as Himself / En personne

5.6
Acting

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...

Madonnas

Madonnas

2007

as Jérome Vassé

6.5
Acting

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the...

Have Mercy on Us All

Have Mercy on Us All

2007

as Joss Le Guern

5.9
Acting

In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is fou...

Jacquou the Rebel

Jacquou the Rebel

2007

as Le curé Bonal

6.6
Acting

In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruel...

Poison d'avril

Poison d'avril

2007

as Charles

Acting

March 2002, during an election campaign, Simon Barrachet, offensive journalist, took over the newspaper and a television station seeks to impose its v...

The Colonel

The Colonel

2006

as Le colonel Raoul Duplan

7.0
Acting

A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is a...

Congorama

Congorama

2006

as Michel Roy

6.6
Acting

Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child w...

The Tiger Brigades

The Tiger Brigades

2006

as Inspector Marcel 'Le Colosse' Terrasson

5.7
Acting

The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.

My Son

My Son

2006

as Father / Le père

6.4
Acting

Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a ...

Burnt Out

Burnt Out

2006

as François Durrieux

5.8
Acting

François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to los...

Ordinary Man

Ordinary Man

2005

as Le curé

1.0
Acting

George is a furniture seller. He's a reliable husband and a good father, a loyal friend and a fine handyman. One day on the motorway, he cracks up and...

The Child

The Child

2005

as Policier

7.1
Acting

Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son. The carefr...

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

2005

as Robert Darzac

6.1
Acting

Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shoc...

Trouble

Trouble

2005

as Le père

5.4
Acting

The photographer and family man Matyas is married and has a happy life with his beloved wife Claire, who is pregnant and near the delivery, and his yo...

The Ax

The Ax

2005

as Machefer

6.9
Acting

A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

The Girl from the Chartreuse

The Girl from the Chartreuse

2005

as Etienne Vollard

7.2
Acting

Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When ...

The Bridge of Arts

The Bridge of Arts

2004

as Jean-Astolphe Méréville

6.3
Acting

The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980.

Bad Spelling

Bad Spelling

2004

as Pierre Massu, director of the college

5.9
Acting

At a French boarding school for troubled youth in the early 1970's, the Headmaster and his wife decide that their son Daniel, who is fifteen years old...

When the Sea Rises

When the Sea Rises

2004

as Koslowski

6.3
Acting

An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him...

Adieu

Adieu

2004

as François

7.3
Acting

Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him ...

Everybody Is a Killer

Everybody Is a Killer

2004

as Martial, le flic

4.2
Acting

A psychoanalyst gives a strange advice to a mechanic whose marriage is falling apart: to take the blame for a murder, any murder, to impress his beaut...

A Wonderful Spell

A Wonderful Spell

2004

as le médecin-chef

5.6
Acting

Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming fl...

Time of the Wolf

Time of the Wolf

2003

as Koslowski

6.1
Acting

When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learn...

Where Is Madame Catherine?

Where Is Madame Catherine?

2003

as Eric

4.0
Acting

The life in a Catalan (Southern France) village near the border may be quite boring. A young man who is escaping from his homeland is seeking for some...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

2003

as Robert Darzac

6.6
Acting

Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the titl...

Once Upon an Angel

Once Upon an Angel

2002

as Mr. Faivre

4.0
Acting

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 Piece of Sky

A Piece of Sky

2002

as Joanna's Lawyer

4.2
Acting

A woman struggles to acclimate to prison life while her friend organises a labour strike on the outside.

The Son

The Son

2002

as Olivier

7.5
Acting

A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and street...

A Moment of Happiness

A Moment of Happiness

2002

as Le père de Betty

4.9
Acting

Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in. He works seas...

Safe Conduct

Safe Conduct

2002

as Roger Richebé

6.6
Acting

During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the V...

Read My Lips

Read My Lips

2001

as Marchand

7.1
Acting

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

The Milk of Human Kindness

The Milk of Human Kindness

2001

as Dr. Gérard Cafarelli

5.9
Acting

A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place.

Day Off

Day Off

2001

as Denis Pelloutier

5.4
Acting

Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, tw...

De l'histoire ancienne

De l'histoire ancienne

2001

as Fabien

Acting

Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have ...

Petite soeur

2001

as Le père

Acting

Juliette is fourteen years old, she adores her father. He prefers Anna, his eldest daughter, whom he feels may be slipping away from him. Out of love,...

Nationale 7

Nationale 7

2000

as René

6.4
Acting

In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellio...

Princesses

Princesses

2000

as Guy in the bar in Brussels

1.5
Acting

Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds of a c...

Save Me

Save Me

2000

1.0
Acting

Agatha is a beautiful young woman from Romania who had a brief but passionate love affair with a French surgeon when he visited her country as part of...

Toreros

Toreros

2000

as Pedro

Acting

After having been in jail, Manuel becomes a bullfighter following dangerously his father's steps.

Peut-être

Peut-être

1999

as Jean-Claude

5.3
Acting

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...

Rosetta

Rosetta

1999

as Patron

7.2
Acting

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is de...

The Journey to Paris

The Journey to Paris

1999

as Tarzan

4.0
Acting

Shy and still living with his mother, a highway cashier one day decides to finally live his craziest dream: to visit Paris.

L'héritier

L'héritier

1999

Acting

A man, a woman, a child. It could have been different story. But there was civil war, scores to settle and fear. Choices had to be made. This is the s...

Melody for a Hustler

Melody for a Hustler

1998

as Le dépanneur

2.6
Acting

French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionair...

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train

1998

as Bernard

6.1
Acting

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...

Le signaleur

1997

6.5
Acting
La Promesse

La Promesse

1996

as Roger

7.2
Acting

Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling ...

The Eighth Day

The Eighth Day

1996

as Father in restaurant

7.4
Acting

Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful ...

Hostel Party

1990

as Luc

Acting

How to take revenge on the person who murdered you...

Juste avant la chute

N/A

Acting

Ses Bras sont des serpents

N/A

Acting

Anthony, a young gendarme with the IGGN, the gendarmerie's police force, infiltrates the platoon of Major Jansen, a corrupt officer who is none other ...

Cap Farewell

N/A

Acting

Toni, a young 24-year-old woman who is released from prison, finds herself having to return home to live with her mother Betty, with whom relations ar...

La guerre des prix

N/A

as Fournier

Acting