Vincent Cassel

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Vincent Cassel
Born November 23 1966 (1966-11-23) (age 43)
Paris

Vincent Cassel (born November 23 1966) is a French actor.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Cassel was born Vincent Crochon in Paris, the son of Sabine Litique, a journalist, and French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel.[1] He is married to Italian actress Monica Bellucci, with whom he has a daughter, Deva Cassel, born September 12, 2004, in Rome, Italy. His brother Mathias is a member of the French rap group Assassin. He has a passion for Capoeira and displayed his talent in the movie Ocean's Twelve.

[edit] Career

His breakthrough role was in Mathieu Kassovitz's critically acclaimed film La Haine where he played a troubled youth from the decrepit outskirts of Paris. Cassel has gone on to act in a variety of films such as the moody L'Appartement, the violent Dobermann, genre-bending Le Pacte des Loups and in the highly controversial Irréversible, where he appeared frontally nude.

Cassel has also done a number of English language films, such as Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, Derailed, Birthday Girl, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Elizabeth, Eastern Promises, and Shrek (as the voice of Monsieur Hood). in 2006, he appeared in Sheitan, in which he played a shepherd who carries out satanic rituals.

[edit] Filmography

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Cassel has appeared in several movies together with his wife, Monica Bellucci

[edit] 2000s

[edit] 1990s

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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