About Me
Son of a nurse and a bank employee, Benoît Magimel was born in Paris and grew up there. At age 12, he played Momo in Vie est un long fleuve tranquille, La (1988) by Étienne Chatiliez. He stopped his studies at age 16 to become an actor.But he had a dual personality: on one hand the man of low budget films like Fille seule, La (1995), Une minute de silence (1998), Roi danse, Le (2000), Déjà mort (1998), Voleurs, Les (1996), Selon Matthieu (2000) alongside Nathalie Baye, Fleur du mal, La (2003), Errance (2003), Enfants du siècle, Les (1999) with Juliette Binoche, Demoiselle d'honneur, La (2004) with Laura Smet, Pianiste, La (2001) alongside Isabelle Huppert, and on the other hand also wide audience releases like Nid de guêpes (2002), Rivières pourpres II - Les anges de l'apocalypse, Les (2004), Trouble (2005/I), Effroyables jardins (2003) and Chevaliers du ciel, Les (2005).
Juliette Binoche and he have a daughter, Hannah, born in 2000.
