Benoît Poelvoorde Filmography

Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor and comedian. His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still young. He studied at the Jesuit boarding school of Godinne and then left home at 17 to take classes at the Félicien Rops Technical Institute in Namur where he met Rémy Belvaux. He developed a passion for theater and became noted for his atypical interpretations. Not only he was destined to become a draughtsman, he also developed a second activity as a photographer. During his graphic design studies at the Ecole de la recherche graphique in... Brussels, he also became friend with André Bonzel and, together with Rémy Belvaux, realized in 1988 Pas de C4 pour Daniel Daniel, his first movie, a short student film . It was a stylized trailer for a mock-spy film.
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