| Bruno Wolkowitch | |
| Native Name Lang: | fr |
| Birth Name: | Bruno Jacques Wolkowitch |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Actor |
Bruno Wolkowitch is a French actor.
Bruno Wolkowitch (orig. Wołkowicz) is of Polish descent. His father was a tailor turned bookkeeper, and his mother a beautician who became a dermatology assistant.[1] He spent his childhood in Champigny-sur-Marne and then his adolescence in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne).
He trained as an actor from 1981 to 1984 at Studio 34 with Claude Mathieu. In 1984, he was awarded a Diploma of Drama at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris. From 1984 to 1987, he studied with Viviane Theophilides, Michel Bouquet, and Jean-Pierre Vincent. At the same time, he entered the Comédie-Française.
Wolkowitch then appeared in numerous television films and gained notice with the television series Madame le maire in 1997 and PJ (Police judiciaire). In the latter series, Wolkowitch played Captain/Commander Vincent Fournier. He appeared in the first 100 episodes, from 1997 to March 2006 on France 2. Wolkowitch appeared in flashbacks for several seasons more. In addition to his role as a field policeman, a pillar of the police station at PJ Saint-Martin, he continues to play other characters, notably that of Lagardère in a two-part television film of that name, aired in 2003.
He has also performed on stage. In 2006, he starred in Miss Julie, by August Strindberg, with Christine Citti – who played in the first two seasons of PJ – and Émilie Dequenne.
Wolkowitch is also passionate about photography.
In October 2015, on France Inter radio station, the actor acknowledged having spent a very short stay in prison in Israel at the age of seventeen, to protect a friend on a narcotics-related charge. Since then, he has been barred from entering Israel.[2]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | For Those I Loved | Jurek | Credited in the credits under the name of "Bruno Volko" | ||
| 1984 | Hell Train | ||||
| 1987 | Keep Your Right Up | ||||
| 1988 | L'enfance de l'art | ||||
| 1989 | Vent de Galerne | Bernard Favre | |||
| 1993 | Mauvais garçon | Jacques Bral | |||
| 1994 | Joan the Maiden | ||||
| L'Affaire | |||||
| 1995 | L'Uomo proiettile (L'Homme canon) | Silvano Agosti | |||
| 1997 | La Chica | Bruno Gantillon | |||
| 1998 | Terminale | Terrien | Francis Girod | ||
| 2004 | Le Grand Rôle | Voice off | |||
| 2010 | The Tourist | French police commissioner | |||
| 2012 | Love Is Not Perfect | Francesca Muci | |||
| 2013 | Chez nous c'est trois! | Claude Duty | |||
| A Five Star Life | |||||
| 2016 | La folle histoire de Max et Léon | Jonathan Barré, Palmashow | |||
| 2018 | Treat Me Like Fire | Ivo | Marie Monge |
| Years | Title | Role | Creator | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Madame le maire | Jean-François Claire | |||
| 1987 | Mort aux ténors | Ivan | In the series Série noire | ||
| Mont royal | |||||
| 1989 | Les Cinq Dernières Minutes | "The Cherubim are Not Angels"; directed by Jean-Pierre Desagnat | |||
| Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret | "The Auberge aux noyés"; directed by Jean-Paul Sassy | ||||
| Quand le diable ricane | Armand Wahnoun | ||||
| Les Jupons de la Révolution: Madame Tallien | Didier Grousset | ||||
| 1990 | Le Vagabond des mers | José Varela | |||
| Force de frappe: Voie sans issue | |||||
| 1992 | Maigret | "Maigret and the Judge's House"; directed by Bertrand Van Effenterre | |||
| 1994 | Deux Millions de dollars dans un fauteuil | Yves Amoureux | |||
| Meurtres par procuration | Claude-Michel Rome | ||||
| Mayday | Jean-Louis Daniel | ||||
| 1995 | Passion mortelle | Claude-Michel Rome | |||
| 1996 | Dans un grand vent de fleurs | Guillaume Garlande | Gérard Vergez | ||
| 1997 | Pour mon fils | Michaëla Watteaux | |||
| 1997 - 2005 | PJ | Vincent Fournier | |||
| 1997 | Jamais sans toi | Daniel Janneau | |||
| Vérité oblige | Prison director | "My Daughter... This Unknown"; directed by Claude-Michel Rome | |||
| 1998 | Famille de cœur | Gérard Vergez | |||
| Doppio Segreto | Marcello Cesena | ||||
| 1999 | Marie et Tom | Dominique Baron | |||
| Mieux vaut tard que jamais | Luca Manfredi | ||||
| 2000 | Les Cordier, juge et flic | Marc Singer | "Portrait with Scalpel" | ||
| Remise de peine | Alberto Simone | ||||
| 2001 | Méditerranée | ||||
| Le Gave | Christian Bonnet | ||||
| La Faux | |||||
| 2002 | Garonne | ||||
| La Parité | Gérard Vergez | ||||
| Trop plein d'amour | Steve Suissa | ||||
| 2003 | Qu'elle est belle la quarantaine! | ||||
| Lagardère | Henri de Lagardère / Le Bossu | Henry Helman | |||
| 2004 | Le Frangin d'Amérique | ||||
| 2005 | Je t'aime à te tuer | Alain Wermus | |||
| Retrouver Sara | Claude d'Anna | ||||
| 2007 | Rock'n Roll Circus | Alain Robillard | |||
| 2008 | Sagan | Philippe | |||
| Hold-up à l'italienne | Claude-Michel Rome | ||||
| Grands reporters | |||||
| 2009 | PJ | Vincent Fournier | |||
| 2009 - 10 | Les Toqués | Monsieur B | "The Gold Rush", "The Trojan Horse" | ||
| 2010 | Le Désamour | Daniel Janneau | |||
| 2011 | Coup de chaleur | Christophe Barraud | |||
| La République des enfants | Garcin | Jacques Fansten | |||
| 2012 - 16 | Spin | Simon Kapita | Frédéric Tellier, Jean-Marc Brondolo | ||
| 2012 | Ragazze sul web | ||||
| 2013 | Rouge Brésil | Sylvain Archambault | |||
| Pourquoi personne me croit? | Jacques Fansten | ||||
| Cherif | "False Pretenses"; directed by Vincent Giovanni | ||||
| À corde tendue | Pierre-Antoine Hiroz | ||||
| 2015 | Accusé | "The Story of Simon"; directed by Didier Bivel | |||
| Un père coupable | |||||
| Meurtres à Carcassonne | Julien Despaux | ||||
| Borderline | |||||
| 2016 | Mongeville | "Living Legend"; directed by René Manzor | |||
| Caïn | Season 4, "The Prisoners"; by Christophe Douchand | ||||
| 2017 | Cassandre | Episode 5 "Backfire"; by Hervé Renoh | |||
| La Loi de Valérie | Thierry Binisti | ||||
| 2020 | Baby | Christophe | Episode 3x01, 3x02 |
| Year | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Un coin de table | Josiane Maisse | |
| 1993 | Qui est-ce qui a éteint la lumière? | Xavier Auradon | |
| 1994 | Parlez après le signal sonore | Olivier Jahan | |
| 1997 | Amour néanmoins | Frédéric Darie |
| Year | Title | Director | Role | Actor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Romeo Is Bleeding | Jack Grimaldi | Gary Oldman | ||
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects | Michael McManus | Stephen Baldwin | ||
| The Crossing Guard | John Booth | David Morse | |||
| 1996 | Sleepers | Sean Nokes | Kevin Bacon |
| Year | Title | Creator | Director | Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autopsie | Pascal Cantelle | |||||
| L'Épreuve | Éric Tallien | |||||
| 1984 | Parking du ciel | Emmanuel Weisz | ||||
| 1985 | The Balcony | Georges Lavaudant | ||||
| 1986 | Macbeth | Jean-Pierre Vincent | ||||
| The Tempest | Festival d'Avignon Théâtre de la Commune | |||||
| 1987 | Polyeucte | Comédie-Française | ||||
| 1988 | The Changeling | Stuart Seide | ||||
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | Jacques Kraemer | Théâtre de Boulogne-Billancourt | |||
| Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien | Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jean-Paul Chambas | |||||
| 1989 | The Moods of Marianne | France Rousselle | Théâtre du Gymnase Marseille | |||
| 1993 | Le Mal court | Pierre Franck | Théâtre de l'Atelier | |||
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Théâtre Marigny | |||||
| 2005 | Derniers Remords avant l'oubli | Jean-Pierre Vincent | CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient, La Criée | As Pierre | ||
| 2006 | Miss Julie | Didier Long | Théâtre Marigny | As Jean, the valet | ||
| 2007 | It's Only the End of the World | Jean-Luc Lagarce | François Berreur | MC2, Nouveau théâtre de Besançon, Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Théâtre des Célestins, Théâtre de la Manufacture | Tour | |
| 2008 | TNBA | |||||
| Equus | Didier Long | Théâtre Marigny | ||||
| 2010 | Le Donneur de bain | Dorine Hollier | Dan Jemmett | |||
| 2011 | Pluie d’enfer | Keith Huff | Benoît Lavigne | Pépinière Théâtre | ||
| 2014 | Le Secret de Poussinette | Bruno Wolkowitch | Comédie Saint-Michel | |||
| 2015 | Danser à Lughnasa | Didier Long | Théâtre de l'Atelier |