Christian Clavier

French actor and screenwriter

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Born: 1952-05-06
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Les visiteurs

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Acting · Paris, France

Christian Clavier is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier. After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) —he started his actor career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid, which had hits with…

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Serial Teachers 3 — Cutiro / Tirocu2027
Cocorico 2 — Frédéric Bouvier-Sauvage / Mehmet Suleymanoglu2026
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II) — Le Jurisconsulte2026
Avis de tempête — André Malraux2026
Asterix: The Kingdom of Nubia — Astérix (voice)2026
The Rookie Guide — Karol Kowalski2025
Million Dollar Madness — Hippolyte2025

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Christian Jean-Marie Clavier ( French pronunciation: [kʁistjɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ maʁi klavje]; born 6 May 1952) is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. A co-founder of Le Splendid in the 1970s, a Parisian café-théâtre company which soon garnered success, he became widely popular after starring in two hit comedy series: Patrice Leconte's Les Bronzés and Jean-Marie Poiré's Les Visiteurs.

Clavier later furthered his popularity by taking the role of Asterix in screen adaptations of the renowned comic books by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny. In 2023, President Emmanuel Macron saluted Clavier's work, stating: "You have been all the faces of the families of France, the infatuated son-in-law, the bewildered uncle, the pretentious cousin, the jealous husband, the cantankerous father. We have grown and aged with you and our children will grow and age with you".