Benjamin Lavernhe
Birthday: Born in 1984-08-14 in Poitiers, Vienne, France
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Un entretien
Character: Le DRH
A director of human resources conducts job interviews. As the episodes unfold, the candidates introduce themselves. Annoying, too sure of themselves or frankly confusing, they trigger internal thoughts that distract him and disrupt his exchanges with the candidates....
Casting(s)
Character: Benjamin
Casting(s) was a French television shortcom created by Pierre Niney and Ali Marhyar, written by Ali Marhyar, Igor Gotesman and Pierre Niney, produced by Hugo Gélin for Zazi Films and broadcast on Canal+ from 2013 to 2015. The episodes revolved around actors rehearsing for different film projects for a casting director. The show also had famous guests such as Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and rappers Orelsan and Nekfeu....
Beau geste
Character: Self
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France KBEK
Character: Louie
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Mouche
Character: Buck Teeth
A window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-stricken woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she throws herself into modern living, Mouche struggles to find her place in contemporary Paris, with all its frenetic energy, late nights and expectations....
Burger Quiz
Character: Self
A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host....
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Character: Self - Guest
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En société
Character: Self - Guest
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Têtàtête(s)
Character: Self - Guest
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Des vivants
Character: Arnaud
Marie, Caroline, Sébastien, Arnaud, Grégory, Stéphane and David were all hostages during the November 13, 2015 terrorist attack in the Bataclan in Paris. From their miraculous survival was born a unique and unbreakable bond....
En aparté
Character: Self - Guest
The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice....
Quotidien
Character: Self - Guest
Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities....
Le Procès de Klaus Barbie
Character: Narrateur
On May 11, 1987, the trial of Klaus Barbie, former head of the Gestapo and the first Nazi officer to be tried in France for crimes against humanity, began in Lyon. Tracked down and identified by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, he was extradited from Bolivia through intergovernmental agreements. The charges centered on three major crimes: the roundups on Rue Sainte-Catherine, the roundup of the children of Izieu, and the final deportation convoy of August 11, 1944. During 37 hearings, filmed in their ...
Le Procès de Paul Touvier
Character: Narrateur
Paul Touvier, a former member of the Vichy Militia, was sentenced to death in 1947 for war crimes but evaded justice thanks to the support of the Church and the statute of limitations, which expired in 1967. In 1973, he received a presidential pardon from Pompidou, but an investigation led to the reopening of proceedings for crimes against humanity, for which there is no statute of limitations. Hunted down, he was arrested in 1989 at the Saint-Joseph Priory in Nice. His trial began in March 1994...
Le Procès de Maurice Papon
Character: Narrateur
Maurice Papon, a high-ranking official under the Vichy regime, oversaw the deportation of hundreds of Jews from the Gironde prefecture in 1942. After the war, he enjoyed a prestigious career as a prefect, member of parliament, and minister without ever facing any repercussions. In 1981, the newspaper “Le Canard enchaîné” revealed his role during the Occupation, backed by documents, leading to a complaint for crimes against humanity. After 16 years of legal proceedings, his trial began in 1997. ...
Les Rencontres du Papotin
Character: Self - Guest
In each episode, one of the Nation’s most popular celebrities (actor/actress, singer, TV host, athlete) faces a group of 30 atypical journalists, all with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). All have very different personalities, but one thing in common: a disarming naturalness that is full of truth! Through surprising, unpredictable, sometimes funny or poignant questions, viewers discover celebrities as they have never seen them before! In these questions: no calculations, no traps, but also no ta...
C à vous
Character: Self - Guest
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion....
Cérémonie des César
Character: Self - Host
The César Awards are cinematographic awards created in 1976 and presented annually in Paris to professionals of the 7th art in various categories to recognize the best French productions. They are often cited as the French equivalent of the Oscars in the United States....
Movie Credits
The Marching Band
Character: Thibaut Desormeaux
A world-famous orchestra conductor discovers the brother he never knew he had — a school cafeteria worker who plays trombone in a local marching band. Detecting his brother's exceptional musical talent, he takes it upon himself to rectify the injustice of fate. An equally hilarious and affecting crowdpleaser that premiered at Cannes and became a French box office sensation starring Benjamin Lavernhe (My Donkey, My Lover & I) and Pierre Lottin (The Stranger)....
Radiostars
Character: Smiters
Ben, who dreamed of himself as a comic in New York, is back in Paris, his professional and emotional life in complete disarray. He encounters Alex, the star host of the Breakfast Club, a popular morning radio show. With Cyril, a forty-something who'd prefer not to be, and Arnold, the charismatic leader of the gang, they call the shots on Blast FM. In next to no time Ben is hired to write for them. He's barely joined the team when a tidal wave hits the station: Breakfast Club listenership is in f...
Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion
Character: Henri Grouès dit l'Abbé Pierre
The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless....
The Sixth Child
Character: Julien
Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement....
In a Better World
Character: David
On the road of Briançon, David's car hits a young immigrant chased by the police. Instinctively, David hides him into the boot, and brings him to his home with his wife Gabrielle and his two children. Upset by this teenager's fate, David will help him by all costs....
Grand Expectations
Character: Antoine Mandeville
Summer 2019. Just graduated from Sciences Po, Madeleine leaves to prepare the orals of the ENA in Corsica with Antoine, her lover with whom she shares very left-wing political convictions. On a small deserted road, an unexpected encounter will seal their fate....
Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness
Character: Monsieur Petit
Through the streets of World War I Paris, Italian bohemian artist Modigliani attempts to outmaneuver bombs, policemen, girlfriends, and critics in a increasingly desperate search of a home for his art....
Going Away
Character: Thomas Cambière
Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama....
Jeanne du Barry
Character: La Borde
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress....
Brecht & Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023
Character: Brown
Theater director Thomas Ostermeier stages Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's timelessly magnificent "Threepenny Opera" with the ensemble of the Comédie Française in Aix-en-Provence, based on a new translation of the original text by Alexandre Pateau. In London's underworld district of Soho, the beggar king Jonathan Peachum and the criminal Macheath, known as Mackie Messer, are at war. The latter also seduces the daughter of the shady "businessman". When he finds out that the two have secretly celeb...
Électre / Oreste
Character: Laboureur mycénien
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Nice and Easy
Character: Alexandre
Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to Anna and not quite decided Bruno, Sebastien will have to - A little....
La véritable histoire de D'Artagnan
Character: Narrator
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The Sweet Escape
Character: Bernard
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak....
The Sense of Wonder
Character: Pierre
Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought....
The Odyssey
Character: Jean-Michel Cousteau
The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life....
Love Is Dead
Character: Mathias
Mathias Lonisse, founder of the company Love is Dead, is a breakup specialist. He is hired to break up relationships on behalf of those who, for one reason or another, prefer to avoid this often painful and delicate task. Mathias takes his job very seriously and carries out each assignment with a high degree of professionalism, until the day his mother decides to leave his father......
C'est la vie!
Character: Pierre
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional du...
Curiosa
Character: Henri de Régnier
A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier....
Un entretien
Character: The man
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Love at Second Sight
Character: Félix / Gumpar
A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him....
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Character: Toothpowder Spokesman
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef....
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Character: Mathieu
In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role of head of the family after the death of his father; Juliette, pregnant with her first child at 40 and who still dreams of becoming a writer; Margaux, the family’s radical artist, and Mathieu, 30, anxious to seduce pretty Sarah. Later, one day, one of them will make a life-changing...
My Donkey, My Lover & I
Character: Vladimir Loubier
Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey....
The Speech
Character: Adrien
Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb brother-in-law asks him to prepare a speech for his wedding. Could it get even worse?...
Number One Fan
Character: Guiillaume
Muriel Bayen, a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She is a huge fan of this singer Vincent Lacroix, in fact she is a dedicated fan. One day Vincent knock on her door and ask for her help....
The Accusation
Character: Maître Célerier
The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mother’s new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machin...
Le Show de Noël Must Go On
Character: Self
Hosted by French comedian Manu Payet, here to cheer you up for Christmas in such hard times....
Les Fourberies de Scapin
Character: Scapin
The action is set in Naples, opening a door onto an imagined maritime world stretching towards the Orient. Faced with two authoritarian fathers, two sons, both of whom are thwarted lovers, turn to the crafty Scapin, who is driven by a mad desire for revenge. The character is a double of Scaramouche, the Italian actor of the adventurous life whom Molière admired: “to tell you the truth, there are few things that are impossible for me, when I put my mind to them” declares the buffoonish servant wh...
Delicious
Character: The Duke of Chamfort
France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very first restaurant in France....
The Marchers
Character: Thomas
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face....
SK1
Character: Frédéric Brunet
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers....
La Comédie-Française chante Gainsbourg
Character: Self
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La Comédie-Française chante à l'Interlope
Character:
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Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Character: Self
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Canal+ Replay
Character: Bref
Mr. Replay hosts a TV special where more than 30 French comedians "replay" iconic Canal+ original programmings....
Ictus érotique
Character: Alain
Although Alain and Alice are a couple, they live at different homes separately: he wants to engage in a family life, she wants to build through her professional life. On the occasion of a classic romantic ski trip, an incident will disrupt all their plans and serve as revealing as to the nature of their relationship....
Les Fourberies de Scapin
Character: Scapin
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40
Character: Self
Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+....
Not All Men, But...
Character: Paul
Simone, a cop with conservative ideas, infiltrates a feminist collective. However, her cover is thin. To divert attention and get out of this bad situation, Simone finds nothing better than to randomly accuse a man of having raped her....
Les Misérables
Character: M. Thénardier
After enduring 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean emerges a hardened man. He seeks redemption by reinventing himself as a respected dignitary under a new identity. He promises Fantine, a dying factory worker, to rescue and protect her daughter Cosette, who is being exploited and mistreated by the deceitful Thénardier family. As Valjean raises Cosette as his own, he is relentlessly pursued by Inspector Javert. Admist the social unrest shaking France, the fates of Valjea...
Comédie-Française
Character: Molière
At the Comédie-Française, there is one golden rule: the play is never canceled. Unfortunately for Nina, everything else is—just three hours before the premiere of her first staging. An actor is stuck on a train, tensions explode, equipment breaks down, egos clash, and panic sets in. With no way out and time slipping away, Nina must hold the show together at all costs. Will she make it until the curtain rises?...
The Original+
Character: Self - Guest
Canal+ Group hosted a live splashy American-style upfront presentation the Olympia in Paris, unveiling their prestige 2026 slate....
Le Cid
Character: Don Rodrigue
A stage performance of the tragicomedy broadcasted live in theaters....