Mathieu Kassovitz Biography
Mathieu Kassovitz is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has won three Cesar Awards: Most Promising Actor for See How They Fall, and Best Film and Best Editing for La Haine. He also received Best Director and Best Winning nominations.
How old is Mathieu Kassovitz? – Age
He is 56 years old as of August 2023. The actor was born on August 3, 1967, in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
Mathieu Kassovitz Height
The stars stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Mathieu Kassovitz Early Life
Mathieu is the son of Peter Kassovitz, a film producer, director and writer, and Chantal Remy, a film editor. His mother is a French Catholic, while his father is a Hungarian Jew who fled during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Unfortunately, details about where Kassovitz went to high school/college are not known to the public.
Is Mathieu Kassovitz married? – Wife
He was married to French actress Julie Mauduech, with whom he directed and co-stared in his 1993 film Metisse and who appeared briefly in La Haine. Mathieu and his wife are blessed with one child whose personal details are not revealed.
Mathieu Kassovitz Career
Film Maker
As a filmmaker, he has made several artistic and commercial successes. He wrote and directed La Haine, a film dealing with themes around class, race, violence, and police brutality. The film won the Cesar Award for Best Film and netted Kassovitz the Best Director prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. He later directed Les Rivieres Pourpres, a police detective thriller starring Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel, another massive commercial success in France and Gothika, fantasy thriller, with Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz.
In 2011, the actor starred in and directed Rebellion, a war film based on a true story of French commandos who clashed with tribes in New Caledonia, the Melanesian territory of France. His future project science fiction film MNP is named after Mir Space Station, whose writing in Cyrillic letters look like the letters MNP, and also the production company.
Actor
Mathieu Kassovitz is most famous outside France for his acting role as Nino Quincampoix in Jean-Pierre Juenet’s film Amelie. He also has a small roles in La Haine, Birthday Girl, and The Fifth Element. He palyed leading roles in A Self-Made Hero by Jacques Audiard and in Amen by Costa-Gavras. Mathieu is also recognizable for playing a conflicted Belgian explosives expert in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 film Munich, alongside Eric Bana and Geoffrey Rush. Since 2015, Mathieu has been starring in the acclaimed espionage thriller series The Bureau, broadcast in France on Canal+ and made available around the world on Amazon TV. So far five seasons have been screened.
Mathieu Kassovitz Net Worth
The French actor’s net worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million.
Mathieu Kassovitz Movie
1990 – Fierrot le pou
1991 – Cauchemar Blanc
1992 – Assassins
1994 – Avant mals apre’s
1995 – Les Fleurs de Maria Papadopylou
1996 – La Foret
1998 – Article Premier
Mathieu Kassovitz TV Shows
1978 – Medecins de nuit
1983 – La Vie de Berlioz
1992 – Touch and Die
1994 – 3000 scenarios contre un virus
2016 – War & Peace
2024 – Furies
