Pierre-Loup Rajot
Date of birth: 1958-02-09
Place of birth: Ambert, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Pierre-Loup Rajot (born 9 February 1958) is a French stage, television and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is a 1985 César Award recipient for Most Promising Actor for his performance in the 1984 comedy film Souvenirs, Souvenirs. Born in Ambert, Pierre-Loup Rajot later studied environmental science and technology at university. Following his graduation from university, he was a pupil of Francis Huster at the Cours Florent and attended Patrice Chéreau's theater courses at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in Nanterre where Chéreau directed him in roles of four Shakespeare's plays (Love's Labours Lost; As You Like It; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night). He made his screen debut in the 1982 Maurice Pialat directed film À Nos Amours. In 1985 Rajot won the César Award for Most Promising Actor at the 10th César Awards for his performance in the 1984 comedy film Souvenirs, Souvenirs, directed by Ariel Zeitoun. He has appeared in films opposite Yves Montand in Garçon! (1983), Jeanne Moreau in La nuit de l'océan (1987), Michel Aumont in Le petit Marguery (1995) and Audrey Tautou in Voyous voyelles (2000). Rajot has also appeared in a number of French television films and serials. He is possibly best known for his leading role as Hugo Chalonges on the TF1 crime-drama series R.I.S, police scientifique from 2005 to 2010. He also appeared as the character Fiaux in the television mini-series The Blue Bicycle alongside Laetitia Casta (2000) and again with Casta, playing her father in the 2008 comedy-drama film Nés en 68. In addition to acting, Rajot has worked as a director, producer and screenwriter. Pierre-Loup Rajot is married to actress Céline Rajot (née Guignard) and is the father of three children: Mathis, Alma and Orfeo. Source: Article "Pierre-Loup Rajot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movie Credits
Adventures of Félix
2000-04-19
A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak no
A Nos Amours
1983-11-16
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promisc
Replay
2001-08-22
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes ho
Souvenirs souvenirs
1984-09-19
A former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a c
The New Eve
1999-01-27
Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, pre
Pretty Devils
2000-02-09
Three very different adolescent girls team up to take revenge on men until one day it is no longer a
La Galette du roi
1986-01-29
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman
Open Bodies
1998-06-23
Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi wor
Jour après jour
1989-02-15
Two would be producers launch a singer's career.
Valentino! I love you
1991-05-11
Sale temps pour un voyou
1992-09-16
The story of three characters, a little marginal, whose existence will tip over into the dramatic, d
Cheb
1991-06-05
After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of o
Boulevard des hirondelles
1993-03-17
Inspired by a story, that of a woman who, in the 1940s, organized a commando operation on Boulevard
Les frères Gravet
1996-04-01
Gravet brothers meet in Beaune during their mother's funeral.
Exes
2006-10-04
Virginie, a very famous writer, is caught up in her past. A serial killer with inhuman cruelty, Exes
Les guérisseurs
1988-01-02
Unable to resist the allure of the quick fix, a young West African executive falls for the mirage of
Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa
2011-02-23
A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Afr
The Bengali Night
1988-10-26
Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, N
Cent francs l'amour
1986-08-20
Jeremy, a young art photographer, needs money to finance an exhibition of his work. He turns to Mau
Moi et mon blanc
2003-05-19
An African student stranded in Paris after losing his government grant discovers a bag of drugs and
All Girls Cry
2010-03-29
Romantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move forw
Leclerc, a dream of Indochina
2004-11-19
In Hanoi, a French couple who had come to adopt a baby met Maï, an old woman who had a love affair w
Le Puits
2002-06-14
When the Big war started, the 2nd of August 1914, Louis is one of those first mobilized. He has to l
Le bus
1995-01-01
A short feature forming part of the COURS-Y-VITE programme.
When I'm a Star
2005-01-19
Glamorous theater actress, Diane de Montalte, finds it difficult to accept that her 23-year- old gay
Lucy's Revenge
1998-06-17
After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a
Waiter!
1983-11-09
After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seasi
La nuit de l'océan
1992-06-03
After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an am
La croisade des enfants
1988-04-07
TV movie about the children crusade of the Middle Ages.
Au petit Marguery
1995-11-08
Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and w
Next Summer
1985-01-09
Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had
Family Tree
2010-02-16
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Ch
Bras de fer
1985-09-18
Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relati
Born in 68
2008-05-21
1968. Catherine, Yves and Hervé are twenty years old. They're students in Paris and they love each o
Signs of Life
2001-03-09
There were four friends. Now there are only three – one of them has just died in Sicily in a stupid
Scarlet Fever
1983-08-08
In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by wom
Jean Moulin
2002-07-15
The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements
Our Happy Lives
1999-05-19
Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and pain
Coupe franche
1989-02-15
Francois (Pierre-Loup Rajot) has just moved into a small community in the French Pyrenees mountains.