Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel (born November 23, 1966) is a French actor. He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine, for which he received two César Award nominations. He garnered wide recognition with English-speaking audiences for his performances in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007), as well as Eastern Promises (2007), Black Swan (2010), and Jason Bourne (2016). Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One (both in 2008). In 2020, he portrayed Engerraund Serac in the HBO television series Westworld.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1966-11-23 · Paris, France
Known for
- Shrek (2001) — Monsieur Hood (voice)
- Black Swan (2010) — Thomas Leroy / The Gentleman
- Ocean's Twelve (2004) — François Toulour
- Ocean's Thirteen (2007) — François Toulour
- Westworld (2016) — Serac
- Jason Bourne (2016) — Asset
- La Haine (1995) — Vinz
- Eastern Promises (2007) — Kirill
- Underwater (2020) — Captain Lucien
- Irreversible (2002) — Marcus
- Trance (2013) — Franck
- A Dangerous Method (2011) — Otto Gross
- Beauty and the Beast (2014) — The Beast
- Child 44 (2015) — Major Kuzmin
- The Crimson Rivers (2000) — Max Kerkerian
- Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) — Jean-François de Morangias