Guillaume Emmanuel Marie de Quengo de Tonqu\u00e9dec (born 18 October 1966) is a French stage, television and film actor. He first earned fame in his homeland for his role as Renaud Lepic in the TV series Fais pas ci, fais pas \u00e7a (2007\u20132017) on France 2, before winning the C\u00e9sar Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in What’s in a Name? in 2013. De Tonqu\u00e9dec was made a Knight in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2015 by Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin. A native of Paris, Guillaume de Tonqu\u00e9dec grew up in Louveciennes. He studied economics and English at Paris Nanterre University until he joined the Conservatoire national sup\u00e9rieur d’art dramatique in Paris in 1986 for a three-year programme. In 1989, he began his stage career with a national tour in John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World.<\/p>\n
He gained recognition in film in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique (1991), followed by his role as Claude Jade’s son Jules Martin in List of Merite (1992). In 1996, he starred in Ra\u00fal Ruiz’s Three Lives and Only One Death.<\/p>\n
In 2007, De Tonqu\u00e9dec started starring in the successful TV series Fais pas ci, fais pas \u00e7a, which propelled him to stardom in France alongside fellow actors Val\u00e9rie Bonneton, Isabelle G\u00e9linas and Bruno Salomone. In 2013, he won the C\u00e9sar Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Claude Gatignol in What’s in a Name?. Co-star Val\u00e9rie Benguigui won the C\u00e9sar Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as \u00c9lisabeth Garraud-Larchet. De Tonqu\u00e9dec had been nominated two years prior for the Moli\u00e8re Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role he held in the eponymous play in Paris’s Th\u00e9\u00e2tre \u00c9douard VII, upon which the film was based.<\/p>\n
He was subsequently nominated twice for the Moli\u00e8re Award for Best Actor, in 2017 and 2020.<\/p>\n
Guillaume de Tonqu\u00e9dec, whose ancestors owned the Ch\u00e2teau de Tonqu\u00e9dec in Brittany from 1626 to 1801 and again from 1828 until 1878, is married to interior designer Christ\u00e8le Marchal. They reside in L’\u00c9tang-la-Ville, Yvelines. They have three children: Amaury, Timoth\u00e9 and Victoire.<\/p>\n
Source: Article “Guillaume de Tonqu\u00e9dec” from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guillaume Emmanuel Marie de Quengo de Tonqu\u00e9dec (born 18 October 1966) is a French stage, television and film actor. He first earned fame in his homeland for his role as Renaud Lepic in the TV series Fais pas ci, fais pas \u00e7a (2007\u20132017) on France 2, before winning the C\u00e9sar Award for Best Supporting Actor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-7906","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n