Grégory Fitoussi

Grégory Fitoussi
Grégory Fitoussi at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2013
Born	(1976-08-13) 13 August 1976 Paris, France
Occupation	Actor

Grégory Fitoussi (born 13 August 1976) is a French actor best known for appearing in television series such as Spiral, Spin and Mr Selfridge.

Personal life

He was born in Paris to Sephardic Jewish parents from Algeria. His Pied-Noir parents opened a clothing store in Paris managed by his mother while his father designed the displays.^[1] He appears alongside his brother, Mikaël Fitoussi in the short film, Alliés Nés roughly based on his own family.^[2] He was in a relationship for several years with the actress Anne Caillon.

Career

He appeared in the TF1 television soap Sous le soleil in which he played Benjamin, the husband of the character Laure Olivier.

He also appeared in L'État de Grace, a television series broadcast on France 2, in which he played the gynecologist of Grace, the president of France. Later, he played Maître Vidal, the lawyer of Marie Besnard (played by Muriel Robin), in the French docudrama The Poisoner (Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse).

Fitoussi had one of the lead roles in the French police procedural drama Engrenages, known in English as Spiral, where he played prosecutor/advocate Pierre Clément alongside Caroline Proust as Chief Inspector Laure Berthaud. It has had five series, with a sixth ordered in 2015.

In 2012 and 2014, Fitoussi played spin doctor Ludovic Desmeuze in all 12 episodes of France 2's politics thriller Les Hommes de l'ombre (Spin in English-speaking countries). The series has won acclaim in the United Kingdom where it began to air in 2016 as part of the Walter Presents service on Channel 4's All 4 platform.^[3]

Between 2013 and 2015, he appeared as Henri Leclair in 24 episodes of ITV's Mr Selfridge.^[4]

In 2015, he appeared as Luc Girard in the NBC drama series American Odyssey.

Filmography

References

• Grégory Fitoussi at the Internet Movie Database