Vincent Cassel
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
Shrek
as Monsieur Hood (voice) 2001
Black Swan
as Thomas Leroy / The Gentleman 2010
Ocean's Twelve
as François Toulour 2004
Ocean's Thirteen
as François Toulour 2007
Jason Bourne
as Asset 2016
La Haine
as Vinz 1995
Eastern Promises
as Kirill 2007
Underwater
as Captain Lucien 2020
Irreversible
as Marcus 2002
Trance
as Franck 2013
A Dangerous Method
as Otto Gross 2011
Beauty and the Beast
as The Beast 2014
Child 44
as Major Kuzmin 2015
Tale of Tales
as King of Strongcliff 2015
Brotherhood of the Wolf
as Jean-François de Morangias 2001
The Crimson Rivers
as Max Kerkerian 2000
It's Only the End of the World
as Antoine 2016