One of the great contemporary French actors. Breakthrough with Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine (1995), one of the great milestones of recent French cinema. International breakthrough with Ocean's Twelve (2004) and its sequel, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (2007), Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010) and Jason Bourne (2016). Voiced the villain in Beauty and the Beast (2014). French actor with an international career spanning European auteur cinema and major Hollywood productions, recognized for his magnetism and range of intense characters in productions by notable directors.
Vincent Cassel
59 years (Nov 23, 1966)Paris, France
79 Movies7 Series
One of the great contemporary French actors. Breakthrough with Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine (1995), one of the great milestones of recent French cinema. International breakthrough with Ocean's Twelve (2004) and its sequel, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (2007), Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010) and Jason Bourne (2016). Voiced the villain in Beauty and the Beast (2014). French actor with an international career spanning European auteur cinema and major Hollywood productions, recognized for his magnetism and range of intense characters in productions by notable directors.
Vincent Cassel (born November 23, 1966) is a French actor. He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine, for which he received two César Award nominations. He garnered wide recognition with English-speaking audiences for his performances in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007), as well as Eastern Promises (2007), Black Swan (2010), and Jason Bourne (2016). Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One (both in 2008). In 2020, he portrayed Engerraund Serac in the HBO television series Westworld.