Nicolas Giraud
Acting
Biography
Nicolas Giraud (born 12 November 1978) is a French actor and filmmaker. Giraud is known for playing the role of Peter in the 2008 action film Taken. He is the writer, director and lead actor of the short film Faiblesses (2009). Giraud played the lead role in L'Astronaute (2022), a French film that he wrote and directed. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicolas Giraud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: November 12, 1978
Place of Birth: Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France
Known For
What the Day Owes the Night
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
Taken
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.
The Astronaut
An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.
Elsewhere
Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doesn't happen overnight. To start with, Patrick decides to buy a suitcase. A nice red one with wheels that he immediately puts at the foot of his bed. All that's left to do is to fill it up and choose a destination.
Far from Men
A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
The First Man
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
Two brothers in impoverished Cantal steal money from the banks with the assistance of the locals to distribute it amongst the poor. The police are befuddled until Commissaire Viennot takes over.
Mozart's Sister
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Pas si simple
Nadia, an 18-year-old French girl from Moroccan origin, is now of age to get married. Despite her reluctance to marriage during the family summer vacation in Morocco, she finally chooses Samir.
Filmography
as Jim Desforges
as Rémi Rufo
as Yann
as Constant Sandrail
as Le psychopathe
as Anton Tchékhov
as Lieutenant Le Tallec
as Nathan
as Fabrice
as Pablo
as Charles
as Franck Delmas
as Uncle Étienne (1924)
as Samuel
as Nicolas
as Cédric, le subordonné de Fabienne
as Nouaille
as Patrick's brother
as Maître de musique Versailles
as Jean-Marc
as Andrej Zborowski
as Guillaume
as Fred
as Lui
as Bob
as Peter
as Marco
as Michel
as Thomas Delauney