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Lambert WILSON |
Since graduating from the Drama Centre, London, in 1977, Frenchactor Lambert WILSON has worked in films with directors like Fred Zinnemann - whogave Wilson his first starring role in Five Days One Summer, opposite Sean Connery (1981) , Claude Chabrol (Le Sang desAutres, 1983), André Téchiné (Rendez-Vous, 1984), Andrzej Wajda (LesPossédés), Peter Greenaway (The Belly of an Architect, 1987), Carlos Saura (El Dorado,1987), James Ivory (Jefferson In Paris, 1994), Vera Belmont (Rouge Baiser, 1984 andMarquise, 1996), John Duigan (The Leading Man, 1996) Alain Resnais (Same Old Song,1997),Jacques Doillon (Trop(peu)d'amour ,1997), Deborah Warner (The Last September, 1998 ),and Raùl Ruiz ( Combat d'Amour en Songe, 2000) , among others .
On stage, WILSON has worked, among others, with
Jean-Louis Barrault (L'Amour de l'Amour by
Barrault,1984), Simon Callow (La Machine Infernale by Cocteau with Maggie
Smith, London 1986),Antoine Vitez (La Celestine by de Rojas with Jeanne
Moreau, 1989), Georges Wilson(Eurydice by Anouilh co-starring Sophie Marceau,
1991, Ruy Blas, by Hugo, 1992)), Sean Matthias (A little night music by
Sondheim with Judi Dench for the Royal NationalTheatre, London 1996) and
Harold Pinter (Ashes to Ashes, by Pinter, 1998). WILSON hasalso directed
himself in Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne, which opened in Peter Brooks'Théâtre
des Bouffes du Nord, Paris in 1994, and subsequently toured throughoutFrance.
As a singer, WILSON recorded in 1989 an album of songs from the great Americanmusicals (“Musicals”) The album, released by EMI and produced by John McGlinn,formed the basis of his concert series “Lambert Wilson chante” at the Casino de Paris and on tour in 1990/91.
In 1996 he recorded a collection of classic songs from the golden age of Frenchcinema - Demons et Merveilles (Virgin Classics) - and opened the new Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris in April 1997 with concert performances based on theserecordings. The show also titled “Demons et Merveilles” toured France and waspresented in Canada, Japan and Hong Kong during autumn/winter 1997.
As a narrator, WILSON has also worked under the direction of some of the world'sgreatest conductors including Rostropovitch, Prêtre, Mazur, Dutoit and Ozawa, inworks such as Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, Berlioz's Lélio, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, Schuman's Manfred - and other recording workincludes narrator on Honegger's Le Roi David (Corbos, Cascavelle), Stravinsky'sOedipus Rex (Welser-Most EMI) and Lelio (Dutoit, Decca).