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PIERRE NINEY

Pierre Niney (born 13 March 1989) is a French actor. He made his acting debut in the two-part television miniseries La dame d'Izieu in 2007, followed by films such as LOL (Laughing Out Loud), The Army of Crime, Romantics Anonymous and Comme des frères. In October 2010, at age 21, he became the youngest member of the Comédie-Française. In 2014, Niney starred as fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic of the same name, for which he won a César Award for Best Actor.

Biography

Childhood and training

Pierre Niney is François Niney’s son, teacher of documentary cinema in Normale Sup, the Fémis and Sciences Po schools, and his mother write craftwork manuals. He grew up with his two sisters, one of whom is five years older than him, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. His father is of Egyptian Jewish origin and his mother is Catholic.

He began the theater at the age of 11 years old. He studied at the Claude Monet high school and, after a literary Baccalaureate with a theater option, attended a training with the Pandora Company during which time he worked on stagings with Brigitte Jacques-Wajeman and Frçois Regnault. He realized a first year of study before being admitted to the auditions of the Cours Florent free class where he studied during two years, and then at the dramatic art Superior National Conservatory in Paris.

Career

He entered the Comédie-Française troupe on the 16th of October, 2010, when he was only twenty-one years old, making him the youngest resident in the company.

He started his career as a comedian at the theater : he played under the direction of Julie Brochen at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes, Vladimir Pankov at the Meyerhold Theater in Moscow, and Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota. After several apparitions in some televisions movies and short movies at the television (Nicolas Klotz, etc.), he obtained several roles at the cinema : we can see him in the movie LOL (Laughing Out Loud) by Lisa Azuelos, in the movie The Army of Crime (L’Armée du Crime) made by Robert Guédiguian, nominated at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and in Romantics Anonymous (Les Emotifs anonymes) with Benoit Poelvoorde and Isabelle Carré.

He obtained the principal role in the movie 18 Years Old and Rising (J’aime regarder les filles) where his performance earned him a place at the 37th César Awards (in 2012) as the best hope for the future. He was nominated one more time at the 38th César Awards (in 2013) for his role in the movie Just Like Brothers (Comme des frères) made by Hugo Gélin. Always in 2013, he shared the spotlight with Virginie Efira from the romantic comedy It Boy (20 ans d’écart).

He was chosen to play Yves Saint Laurent in the eponymous movie made by Jalil Lespert, where he replied to Guillaume Gallienne and Charlotte Le Bon. With this role, he earned the "prix Patrick Dewaere", and then the César Award for Best Actor; he became at this occasion the youngest actor to have won this award. After this prize, he anounced having as a project an adaptation of Promise at Dawn from the work of Romain Gary with Charlotte Gainsbourg. He left the Comédie-Française on the 15th of January, 2015. During the same year, he is the star of the thriller A Perfect Man (Un homme idéal).

On the 30th March, 2016 came out the movie Five made by Igor Gotesman, of which it is one of the main actors. During the tour and promotion of the movie, Pierre Niney explained that his desire to play in this movie made by a friend and with a casting of friends was also a desire to return to the comedy, after two movies, the preparation of which was heavy and loaded (Yves Saint Laurent and A perfect man (Un homme idéal)). In 2016, he also had the first male role in Frantz by François Ozon, and interpreted Philippe Cousteau in The Odyssey (L’Odyssée), a biography of the Cousteau commander.

In October 2019, Pierre Niney joined Jean Dujardin in the third opus of OSS 117, entitled OSS 117 : Alerte rouge en Afrique noire made by Nicolas Bedos. The release is scheduled for February 2021.

Private life

Pierre Niney is in relationship with the australian actress and photographer Natasha Andrews since 2008. They have two daughters named Lola (born in December 2017) and Billie (born in July 2019).