Benoît Poelvoorde

Q: Has Benoît Poelvoorde won any awards?

Yes, Benoît Poelvoorde has received several awards, including the Magritte Award for Best Actor for his performance in 'C'est arrivé près de chez vous'.

Q: What was Benoît Poelvoorde's first film?

Benoît Poelvoorde's first film was 'C'est arrivé près de chez vous' released in 1992, which marked the beginning of his successful acting career.

Q: What is Benoît Poelvoorde's estimated net worth?

Benoît Poelvoorde's estimated net worth is around $5 million, reflecting his successful career in film and television.

Q: What is Benoît Poelvoorde's acting style?

Benoît Poelvoorde is known for his comedic timing and improvisational skills, often blending humor with deeper emotional themes in his performances.

Q: What genres does Benoît Poelvoorde typically work in?

Benoît Poelvoorde primarily works in comedy and drama, showcasing his versatility across various genres throughout his career.

Q: Who are Benoît Poelvoorde's parents?

Benoît Poelvoorde's parents are André Poelvoorde and Marie-Thérèse Poelvoorde, who supported his artistic aspirations from a young age.

Q: How many children does Benoît Poelvoorde have?

Benoît Poelvoorde has two children, although their names are not publicly known, as he maintains a degree of privacy regarding his family.

Known for

The Magician’s Elephant (2023)

IMDb 6.5 / 10

2023 / Action, Adventure / 99mins

Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His one one question is:...

The Crime Is Mine (2023)

2023 / Comedy, Mystery / 102mins

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend Pauline,...

24 Hours with Gaspar (2023)

2023 / Action, Crime / 98mins

With only 24 hours left to live, a private investigator follows a trail of confounding clues to uncover the disappearance of his childhood friend.

They Shot the Piano Player (2023)

2023 / Animation, Drama / 104mins

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who...

La Dégustation (2022)

2022 / Comedy, Drama / 92mins

Hortense has a big heart and no one to share it with except her cat, her embittered mom, and a group of homeless people...

Name

Benoît Poelvoorde

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

22 April 1964, Namur, Belgium

Spouses

Géraldine Danon (2004–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

André Poelvoorde, Marie-Thérèse Poelvoorde

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Fausse note	Alexandre Miller	Not rated
2025	Movie Lucky Star In 1940, in France, Jean Chevalin lives with his family in great poverty after deserting the army. Convinced that some...	Jean Chevalin /Jacob	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2025	TV Super Plan	Self - Guest	Not rated
2025	Movie I Love Peru In the relentless pursuit of success, a quirky actor leaves behind his closest allies. Alone facing himself, he is struck...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2025	Movie How to Make a Killing Michel and Cathy, wed for longer than they can remember, lead a quiet but monotonous life in the mountains. When...	Major Roland Bodin	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2024	Movie The Art of Nothing Jean-Yves Machond, a globally unknown and generally unhappy painter, decides one day to change his life. He seeks inspiration in...	Yves Machond	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2024	Movie Beating Hearts Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After...	La Brosse	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2024	Movie Savages In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works....	Father (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2023	Movie A Wonderful Girl Mimi is 29 years old and still dreaming about a job she could get. She meets Paul, a sidelined lawyer,...	Paul	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2023	Movie Normal 14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis....	William	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2023	Movie Ce soir, c'est Palmashow The legendary Palmashow series is back! Have a wonderful and hilarious summer thanks to the unmissable sketches from the duo...	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2023	TV Beau geste	Self	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2023	TV Represent An idealistic educator is inadvertently thrust into the French presidential race.	Éric Andréï	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2022	Movie Smoking Causes Coughing After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" —...	Lézardin	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2022	Movie The Colors of Fire February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm...	Gustave Joubert	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2022	TV Quelle époque ! Talk show hosted by Léa Salamé, featuring incisive, funny, and surprising personalities debating current events in culture, society, politics, and...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2022	Movie The Green Shutters The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality,...	Félix	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2022	Movie Mad in Belgium A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have...	Unknown character	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2022	Movie Adieu Paris An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of...	Benoît	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2021	Movie Inexorable Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion...	Marcel Bellmer	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2021	Movie My Father's Stories Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a...	André Choulans	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2021	Movie A Town Called Panic: The Summer Holidays School is out, and Indian and Cowboy are bored. Watching an old pirate film gets them out of their funk...	Steven (voice)	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2021	Movie Do You Do You Saint-Tropez Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in...	Claude Tranchant	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2020	Movie How I Became a Superhero Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers...	Monté Carlo	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2020	Movie Delete History In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie,...	Le livreur Alimazone	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2020	Movie Adoration Paul lives with his mother in the private clinic of doctor Loisel, deeply hidden in the woods. Paul likes to...	Hinkel	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2019	Movie Panique au village : La Foire agricole Indian and Cowboy finally pass their exams. Horse buys them tickets for the County Fair. But at the last moment,...	Steven (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2019	Movie Venice Calling Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair...	Bernard Chamodot	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2019	Movie White as Snow Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil...	Charles	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2019	Movie Raoul Taburin If anyone knows anything about bikes, it’s Raoul Taburin, official bicycle dealer of Saint Céron, a lovely village in the...	Raoul Taburin	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2019	Movie Ce soir, c'est Palmashow	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2019	Movie Father & Sons Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is...	Joseph	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2018	Movie Sink or Swim 40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head...	Marcus	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	TV Bonsoir !	Self - Guest	Not rated
2018	Movie Keep an Eye Out Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain...	Commissioner Buron	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	Movie An Indian Tale The life of two men changed unexpectedly when Ajith, an Indian sailor who was robbed and lost everything, appears out...	Pierre	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2017	Movie Panique tous courts Cowboy and Indian are leaving on a luxury cruise, but they've got caught up. They have totally forgotten that today...	Steven (voice)	Not rated
2016	Movie A Town Called Panic: Double Fun Cowboy and Indian, with Horse's help, plan Christmas Panic and Back to School Panic, stealing a neighbor's yule log and...	Steven (voice) (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2016	TV Quotidien Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2016	Movie The Jews Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the...	Boris	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2016	Movie Saint Amour Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without...	Bruno	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2016	Movie A Town Called Panic: Back to School Panic! Indian and Cowboy are about to set off on a magnificent cruise on a luxury liner, but they have made...	Steven (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	Movie Les Shadoks et la maladie mystérieuse For the Shadoks, panic strikes. A mysterious disease infects these curious creatures. Everyone talks about it, giving their various opinions,...	(voice)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	Movie The Brand New Testament God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter,...	God	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2015	Movie Family for Rent Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that...	Paul-André	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2015	Movie The Price of Fame A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.	Eddy	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2014	Movie 3 Hearts A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.	Marc Beaulieu	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2014	Movie Zebra Stripes José is a football agent who goes to Ivory Coast to spot young talents in football. He is a braggart...	José	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2013	Movie A Town Called Panic: Christmas Panic! A Native American and a cowboy are extremely eager to get their Christmas presents. Overwhelmed by excitation, they accidentally destroy...	Steven (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	Movie A Place on Earth Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of...	Antoine Dumas	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2013	Movie The Big Bad Wolf Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri,...	Philippe	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2013	Movie Tied A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.	Le banquier	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2012	Movie Twice Upon a Time Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called -...	Jean Esnart	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie The Big Night An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit...	Benoît Bonzini, alias NOT	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2011	Movie My Worst Nightmare Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way...	Patrick Demeuleu	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2010	Movie Romantics Anonymous What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what...	Jean-René Van Den Hugde	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2010	Movie Nothing to Declare During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with...	Ruben Vandevoorde	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2010	Movie Kill Me Please Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic...	M. Demanet	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2010	Movie Mammuth Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the...	Le récupérateur de métal	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2010	Movie En chantier, monsieur Tanner ! Paul Tanner has just inherited a mansion on a vast property. Going there, he noticed that the building was in...	Jean-César Astor	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2010	Movie The Other Dumas Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years...	Auguste Maquet	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2009	TV C à vous Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second...	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2009	Movie Park Benches As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in...	Customer at the hook	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2009	Movie A Town Called Panic Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their...	Steven (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	Movie Coco Before Chanel Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in...	Étienne Balsan	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2009	Movie Beauties at War A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.	Franck Chevrel	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2008	Movie Louise-Michel In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money…...	Guy l'ingénieur	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2008	Movie Hikers in Saint-Tropez Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to...	Éric Jacquemart	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2008	Movie Asterix at the Olympic Games Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus...	Brutus	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2007	Movie Cowboy Daniel Piron has the blues. His relationship is monotonous, his ideals have vanished, and even his job as a journalist...	Daniel Piron	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2007	Movie Two Worlds A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.	Rémy Bassano	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2006	Movie Charlie Says The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course...	Joss	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2006	Movie Jean-Philippe A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an...	Bernard Frédéric, double of Claude François	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2006	Movie One Fine Day François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected...	François Berthier	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2005	Movie In His Hands In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing...	Laurent Kessler	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2005	Movie Akoibon A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes...	Jean-Mi	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2004	Movie Narco Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his...	Lenny Barr	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2004	Movie The Return of James Battle James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it...	Allan Chiasse	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2004	Movie Aaltra In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error...	Motocross Fan	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2004	Movie Podium Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and has a son. He used to have another profession: being...	Bernard Frédéric	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2003	Movie Mr. Manatane's notebooks Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of...	Mr. Manatane	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2003	Movie Laughter and Punishment French director Isabelle Doval directs her husband, popular comedic actor José Garcia, in the comedy Rire et Chatiment (Laughter and...	Le prof de secourisme	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2003	Movie Le Pied This is the terrifying story of a desperate foot. A reluctant accomplice of a man who has fallen into horror,...	Le pied (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2002	TV A Town Called Panic Follows the everyday events of Cowboy, Indian and Horse in a small rural town as they go about their lives.	Steven (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2002	Movie A Day in the Life of French Cinema Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	Movie The Political Life of the Belgians We follow the build-up and training of two opposite Belgian political parties. We see their leaders during meetings, during voting...	self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	Movie Dead Weight After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.	Francis Reggio	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2001	Movie Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is...	Ghislain Lambert	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2001	Movie Doors of Glory A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to...	Regis Demanet	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1999	Movie The Carriers Are Waiting Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is...	Roger	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1998	TV Vivement dimanche	Self	TMDB 3.6 / 10
1997	Movie Le Signaleur Two boys arrive at the hospice in a small village looking for someone who could act as a signalman for...	L'organisateur	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1997	Movie Hikers A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos...	Éric Jacquemart	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1997	TV Mr. Manatane's Notebooks Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of...	Monsieur Manatane	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1997	Movie Just for Laughs Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still...	L'innocent	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1996	TV Jamais au grand jamais !	Monsieur Manatane	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	Movie L'Année des Guignols - Les Voleurs de patates	(voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1996	Movie L'Année des Guignols - Du cul, du cul, du cul !	Multiples voix	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie Modèle déposé	René Altrus	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1992	Movie Man Bites Dog The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his...	Ben	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1989	Movie Beware of the Ravens Michel has an appointment at the administrative city.	The director	Not rated
1987	Movie Mama's Lover A man discovers his new love interest has a child. When they fist meet it's unclear who is embarrased more,...	Unknown character	Not rated
1987	Movie No C4 for Daniel Daniel A mock trailer for a spy film about a secret agent called Daniel Daniel.	Daniel Daniel	TMDB 5.1 / 10
TBA	Movie Le Serpent majuscule	Henri	Not rated
TBA	Movie Pourquoi pas nous ?	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Le Palmier	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie 5H48, Place des Martyrs	Rudy Simonaud	Not rated
TBA	Movie Démodé	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2003	Movie Mr. Manatane's notebooks Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of...	Idea Writing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2001	Movie Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1997	TV Mr. Manatane's Notebooks Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of...	Creator Creator	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1996	TV Jamais au grand jamais !	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV Jamais au grand jamais !	Creator Creator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie Modèle déposé	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1995	Movie Modèle déposé	Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1992	Movie Man Bites Dog The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1992	Movie Man Bites Dog The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1992	Movie Man Bites Dog The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1987	Movie No C4 for Daniel Daniel A mock trailer for a spy film about a secret agent called Daniel Daniel.	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1987	Movie No C4 for Daniel Daniel A mock trailer for a spy film about a secret agent called Daniel Daniel.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.1 / 10

Lucky Star

2025 / TMDB 5.7

I Love Peru

2025 / TMDB 5.6

How to Make a Killing

2025 / TMDB 6.4

The Art of Nothing

2024 / TMDB 5.0

Beating Hearts

2024 / TMDB 7.2

Savages

2024 / TMDB 6.9

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Benoît Poelvoorde

Known for

The Magician’s Elephant (2023)

The Crime Is Mine (2023)

24 Hours with Gaspar (2023)

They Shot the Piano Player (2023)

La Dégustation (2022)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release

Lucky Star

I Love Peru

How to Make a Killing

The Art of Nothing

Beating Hearts

Savages

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