Alexandre Astier

Alexandre Astier born 16 June 1974 is a French writer director editor scriptwriter humorist actor and composer Astier is most known as the creator director writer editor composer and lead actor of the French television series Kaamelott in which he also plays King Arthur Alexandre Astier was born in Lyon on June 16 1974 to Joëlle Sevilla and Lionnel Astier both actors and producers mostly in Lyons theatre scene Alexandre Astier studied music at the conservatory and at the American School of Modern Music of Paris He also studied acting and screenwriting Four of Astiers seven children have featured in Kaamelott and both his parents are main characters in the series His daughters Ariane and Jeanne Astier play respectively Mehben and Mehgan the daughters of Karadoc and Maevanwi in the episodes Pupi and Exiles His son Neil who also appears as Karadoc and Mevanwis son in Pupi plays young Arthur in the season Book V and in the final scene of Book VI His son Ethan plays Arthurs dream heir in Book V Moreover the mother of his first five children AnneGaëlle Daval is head of the costume designs on Kaamelott and the short film Dies Irae In 2012 he plays Johann Sebastian Bach in his humorous show Que ma joie demeure at the theater In 2014 his comic show LExoconférence begins at the theater in September Alexandre Astier first got attention from the Lyons public thanks to the play Le Jour du froment He also acted in Nous crions grâce a play written and directed by Jacques Chambon to whom he gave the role of Merlin in Kaamelott In 2001 he was the coscreenwriter and the songwriter of the short movies Soyons sport and Un soupçon fondé sur quelque chose de gras In 2002 he was the director of Dies Irae a 14minute short movie that is also the first draft of the Kaamelott TV show In 2006 he featured in Hey Good Looking a French movie by Lisa Azuelos The same year he appeared in Asterix at the Olympic Games by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann and in Home Sweet Home by Didier Le Pêcheur In 2009 he played the role of the exhusband of Sophie Marceau in the comedy LOL Laughing Out Loud In 2014 he was the codirector and the screenwriter of Asterix The Mansions of the Gods In 2015 he appeared in the film All Three of Us directed by Kheiron In 2018 he wrote an original screenplay for a new Asterix movie Asterix The Secret of the Magic Potion Like Asterix The Mansions of the Gods he codirected it with Louis Clichy Alexandre Astier became famous as the writer director and actor in the TV show he produced Kaamelott is inspired by the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table This humorous series is broadcast on the French channel M6 The episodes lasted three and a half minutes until 2007 Then the format changed to seven minutes and finally reached fiftyfive minutes per episode in the last season Book VI He also composes the music of the series He has the ambition to extend the TV show to the cinema as a trilogy but not before 2012 since Alexandre Astier plans to work as a director on another movie before launching Kaamelott on the big screen Source Article Alexandre Astier from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30