Vincent Lindon | |
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Vincent Lindon at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Born |
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
15 July 1959
Occupation | Actor, director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1983–present |
Spouse(s) | Sandrine Kiberlain (1998-2008) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Pierre Bénichou (stepfather) |
Vincent Lindon (born 15 July 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker who has been active for more than 30 years. At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in the film The Measure of a Man.
Lindon was in a relationship with Princess Caroline of Monaco from 1990 to 1995. He has a son from a previous relationship, Marcel, born in 1996. He married actress Sandrine Kiberlain in 1998, with whom he has a daughter, Suzanne. They divorced in 2008. He had a romance with Chiara Mastroianni.
He is the great-grandnephew of French industrialist André Citroën, the nephew of Jérôme Lindon who directed Les Éditions de Minuit, the first cousin of writer Mathieu Lindon and the great-grand-grand son of French Prime minister Jules Dufaure (from his mother's side).