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Vincent Cassel

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Biography

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.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Black Swan

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Shrek

As Monsieur Hood (voice)

Tale of Tales

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Ocean's Twelve

As François Toulour

Jason Bourne

As Asset

Ocean's Thirteen

As François Toulour

Liaison

As Gabriel Delage

Underwater

As Captain Lucien

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Reckless Edge - Talent as a Double-Edged Sword

Forty years after Top Gun roared into cinemas, Maverick's need for speed still feels as exhilarating as ever. But Pete Mitchell is part of a much bigger movie t...

7 films

Fractured Fables

From Grimm to the modern screen, a journey through films that twist the familiar into the unsettling, the erotic, and the profoundly human.

8 films

The Rivalry Within: How Feuds Shape the Soul

From duelling magicians to warring chefs, explore how rivalry reveals our deepest fears and desires. A cinematic journey through competition, obsession, and the...

8 films

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