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French actor

Lambert Nicolas Wilson (lɑ̃bɛʁ wilsɔn; born Willson, 3 August 1958) is a French actor. He is best known internationally for his portrayal of The Merovingian in The Matrix film series, beginning with The Matrix Reloaded.

Wilson is the son of Georges Wilson, who was an actor, theatrical manager and director of the Théâtre National Populaire. As a teenager, he had little interest in the French theatre and aimed to become an "American actor" and appear in Hollywood pictures. He studied acting at the Drama Centre London to learn English. He played his first movie role in the 1977 American film Julia, directed by Fred Zinnemann. Five years later, he played his first starring role in another film by Zinneman, Five Days One Summer, opposite Sean Connery. But the film was not a commercial success, and neither was Sahara in which Wilson co starred with Brooke Shields. Wilson ultimately found success in his home country: during the 1980s, he became popular with French audiences by appearing in successful films such as La Boum 2, The Public Woman and Rendez vous. At the time, he was often cast either as tormented characters or in romantic parts, although he found himself more convincing in the former kind of roles. Wilson screen tested for The Living Daylights (1987) for the role of James Bond, appearing in test footage opposite Maryam d'Abo (the Bond girl in The Living Daylights) as Tatiana Romanova, re enacting scenes from From Russia with Love (1963). In 1991, Wilson was featured in a series of Calvin Klein ads for its Eternity perfume brand, featuring Christy Turlington, reuniting for a poster ad in 1998.

In musical theatre Wilson has appeared as Count Carl Magnus Malcolm in the 1995 National Theatre London production of A Little Night Music, where "every word and note was fiercely projected", and of which a recording was later issued. In 2007 he was Voltaire/Pangloss (bilingually) in Robert Carsen's production of Candide at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. He appeared as Eric Thomson in Resnais's 2003 film version of the 1925 comédie musicale Pas sur la bouche by Yvain. Wilson released Musicals on the EMI label in 1989 (re issued in 2004), with John McGlinn conducting Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. It features him singing songs of the American Musical Theatre catalogue, those well known ("Maria" from West Side Story, "There But For You Go I" from Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon, "The Cafe Song" from Les Misérables, "Johanna" from Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd), rare ("Love Song" from Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's Love Life, "It Must Be So" from Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and "Silly People", which was cut from Sondheim's A Little Night Music), and those in between ("Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park with George, "You Do Something to Me" from Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen, "Never Will I Marry" from Frank Loesser's Greenwillow). He has directed stage presentations of Alfred de Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne starring Laure Marsac at Paris' Bouffes du Nord as well as Jean Racine's Bérénice starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Didier Sandre at Avignon and then Chaillot. In 1989, his performance as Abbé Pierre in the film Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre, for which he received the Jean Gabin prize, won him critical accolades. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, his screen career suffered from a series of box office failures, such as The Possessed and El Dorado. He later said that the French producers had come, at the time, to regard him as "box office poison". He eventually won back the favour of French audiences by appearing in the successful comedies Same Old Song (1997) and Jet Set (2000). Wilson was cast in the role of The Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded (2002) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), perhaps his best known role in the American cinema. Being completely fluent in English, his strong French accent in the film is fabricated for the role.

In November 2012, he was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2012 International Film Festival of Marrakech. In April 2013, Wilson was invited by MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) to visit Haiti in the capacity of helping with various UN backed environment and cultural programmes. He was the master of ceremonies for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2014 and 2015 Cannes Film Festival. In February 2016, he released a tribute album called Wilson chante Montand to the singer Yves Montand to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the artist. Among the 17 tracks on the album there is Mais qu’est ce que j’ai ? which was composed by Henri Betti with the lyrics by Édith Piaf in 1947. The musical arrangements of the 17 songs were made by Bruno Fontaine. Also in 2016, he portrayed Jacques Cousteau in the biopic The Odyssey. Wilson's commitment to safeguarding the environment is manifest in his support of Greenpeace and Agir pour l'Environnement amongst others. He works on behalf of the Fondation Abbé Pierre and the Mouvement Emmaüs in France to eradicate hunger and poverty. Wilson is an ambassador for Les Toiles Enchantées (an association that brings contemporary cinema to hospitals and hospices for children), and parrain (patron) for a proposed new cinema at the Institut Français in London. Wilson is Chevalier and Officier des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier and Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite. He was raised to Commandeur de l’Ordre du Mérite by President Emmanuel Macron in 2017. In January 2018 he engaged to assist the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in communications regarding work to eradicate world hunger and poverty ("Working for Zero Hunger"). The same year he starred in Volontaire by Hélène Fillières. In 2021, Wilson reprised his role of The Merovingian from The Matrix franchise in The Matrix Resurrections.

Year Title Role Language Director Notes 1977 Julia Walter Franz English Fred Zinnemann 1979 The Gendarme and the Extra Terrestrials An alien French Jean Girault New Generation Jean Charles French Jean Pierre Lowf Legoff Lady Oscar Cocky soldier English Jacques Demy From Hell to Victory Patrice English Umberto Lenzi 1981 Chanel Solitaire English George Kaczender 1982 Five Days One Summer Johann Biari English Fred Zinnemann La Boum 2 Félix Maréchal French Claude Pinoteau 1983 Sahara Sheikh Ahmed Al Jaffar English Andrew V. McLaglen 1984 The Blood of Others Paul English Claude Chabrol The Public Woman Milan Mliska French Andrzej Żuławski Nominated: César Award for Best Supporting Actor 1985 Rendez vous Quentin French André Téchiné Nominated: César Award for Best Actor Villain French Pierre Granier Deferre Red Kiss Stéphane French Véra Belmont 1986 Ned French Yves Boisset Corps et biens Michel Sauvage French Benoît Jacquot 1987 The Belly of an Architect Caspasian Speckler English Peter Greenaway 1988 The Possessed Nikolaj Stavrogin French Andrzej Wajda Chouans! Tarquin Larmor French Philippe de Broca El Dorado Pedro de Ursúa Spanish Carlos Saura 1989 La Vouivre Arsène Muselier French Georges Wilson Suivez cet avion Rémi Cerneaux French Patrice Ambard Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre Abbé Pierre French Denis Amar Nominated: César Award for Best ActorWon – Prix Jean Gabin 1991 Un homme et deux femmes Doctor Paul Baudoin French Valérie Stroh Shuttlecock John Prentis English Andrew Piddington 1992 Warsaw – Year 5703 Alek French Janusz Kijowski 1993 L'Instinct de l'ange Henry French Richard Dembo 1995 Jefferson in Paris Marquis de Lafayette English James Ivory 1996 Les Caprices d'un fleuve Monsieur de la Malène French Bernard Giraudeau The Leading Man Felix Webb English John Duigan 1997 Marquise Jean Racine French Véra Belmont Same Old Song Marc Duveyrier French Alain Resnais Nominated: César Award for Best Supporting Actor 1998 Too Much (Little) Love Paul French Jacques Doillon 1999 The Last September Hugo Montmorency English Deborah Warner 2000 Jet Set Arthus de Poulignac French Fabien Onteniente Nominated: César Award for Best Supporting Actor Love Torn in a Dream Sebatol French Raúl Ruiz 2001 HS – hors service Francis French Jean Paul Lilienfeld Far from China Jean Pierre French C. S. Leigh 2002 Les tombales Joseph French Christophe Barratier Short film 2003 It's Easier for a Camel Aurelio French Valeria Bruni Tedeschi The Matrix Reloaded The Merovingian English The Wachowskis Dédales Brennac French René Manzor The Matrix Revolutions The Merovingian English The Wachowskis Timeline Lord Arnaut English Richard Donner Not on the Lips Eric Thomson French Alain Resnais 2004 People Brother Arthus French Fabien Onteniente Catwoman George Hedare English Pitof Nominated: Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor 2005 Sahara Yves Massarde English Breck Eisner Good Girl Philippe French Sophie Fillières L'Anniversaire Raphaël French Diane Kurys Palais royal! Prince Arnaud French Valérie Lemercier 2006 Private Fears in Public Places Dan French Alain Resnais Nominated: Lumières Award for Best Actor 2007 Flawless Finch English Michael Radford Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure Lucky Luke (voice) French Olivier Jean Marie 2008 Dante 01 Saint Georges French Marc Caro The Great Alibi Pierre Collier French Pascal Bonitzer Comme les autres Emmanuel François Xavier Bernier French Vincent Garenq Babylon A. D. Dr. Arthur Darquandier English Mathieu Kassovitz The Lazarus Project Avery English John Glenn 2009 Victor Jérôme Courcelle French Thomas Gilou 2010 Imogène McCarthery Samuel Tyler French Alexandre CharlotFranck Magnier The Princess of Montpensier François de Chabannes French Bertrand Tavernier Of Gods and Men Christian French Xavier Beauvois Nominated: César Award for Best Actor 2012 Blind Man Narvik French Xavier Palud HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami General Pochero French Alain Chabat You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet Lambert Wilson French Alain Resnais Ernest & Celestine Ernest (voice) French Stéphane AubierVincent PatarBenjamin Renner 2013 Bicycling with Molière Gauthier Valence French Philippe Le Guay ReWined The Professor Italian Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani 2014 Barbecue Antoine Chevalier French Éric Lavaine 5 to 7 Valéry Pierpont English Victor Levin The Nostalgist The Man English Giacomo Cimini Short film Posthumous Daniel S. Volpe English Lulu Wang 2015 Suite Française Viscount de Montmort English Saul Dibb Sins of a Father English Andrew Piddington Rabid Dogs The Father French Éric Hannezo 2016 The OdysseyJacques Yves Cousteau French Jérôme Salle Nominated: Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor One Man and His Cow Philippe French Mohamed Hamidi The Jungle Book Baloo (voice) Jon Favreau French dub Tout de suite maintenant Barsac French Pascal Bonitzer The Confessions Roché's lover Roberto Andò 2017 Baby Bumps Marc French Noémie Saglio Corporate Stéphane Froncart French Nicolas Silhol The Royal Exchange Philippe V French Marc Dugain L'Empereur Narrator French Luc Jacquet Nature documentary film2018 Au bout des doigts (In Your Hands) Pierre Geithner French Ludovic Bernard Volontaire Rivière French Hélène Fillières2019The Translators Éric Angstrom French Régis Roinsard 2020 De Gaulle Charles de Gaulle French Gabriel Le Bomin Nominated: César Award for Best Actor2021Benedetta The Nuncio French Paul Verhoeven The Matrix Resurrections The Merovingian English Lana Wachowski 2022 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Marquis de Chassagne English Anthony Fabian

Year Title Role Language Director Notes 1978 Gaston Phébus Yvain French Bernard Borderie 6 episodes 1980 Cinéma 16: Les filles d'Adam Gilbert French Éric Le Hung TV film Au feu le préfet Patrick Callaghan French Alain Boudet TV film L'Inconnue d'Arras The grandfather French Raymond Rouleau TV film 1981 Quatre femmes, quatre vies: La Maison bleue Jean Paul Taillandier French Robert Mazoyer TV film La dernière nuit The assistant executioner French Didier Decoin TV film Histoire contemporaine Henri de Brèce French Michel Boisrond Miniseries 1982 The Trojan War Will Not Take Place Paris French Raymond Rouleau TV film 1983 La Caravane Éric French Roger Gillioz TV film 1986 La Storia Carlo Vivaldi / Davide Segre Italian Luigi Comencini TV film 1992 Strangers The Guy English Joan Tewkesbury TV film Frankenstein Dr. Henry Clerval English David Wickes TV film 1994 Une qui promet Ferdinand French Marianne Lamour TV film Les Caprices de Marianne Octave French Jean Daniel Verhaeghe TV film Rage and Outrage: The Dreyfus Affair Raoul Sangla TV film 1995 Pour une vie ou deux Noël Gregorio French Marc Angelo TV film 1996 Le Secret d'Iris Pierrot French Élisabeth Rappeneau TV film 1997 Quand le chat sourit French Sabine Azéma TV film 2000 Don Quixote Duke English Peter Yates TV film 2001 Le divin enfant Father Marc Aubray French Stéphane Clavier TV film 2004 Colette, une femme libre Henry de Jouvenel French Nadine Trintignant Miniseries; 2 episodes 2009 The Philanthropist Yves Moehringer English Duane Clark Episode: "Paris" 2012 The Hollow Crown Charles, King of France English Thea Sharrock Episode: "Henry V" 2013 Manipulations Franck Barrot French Laurent Herbiet TV filmNominated: Monte Carlo Television Festival,Best Performance by an Actor2022TotemsCharles ContignetFrenchFrédéric Jardin Jérôme Salle Antoine BlossierAmazon TV Series2023Star Wars: VisionsJon (voice)EnglishJulien ChhengEpisode: "The Spy Dancer"