JeanPaul Rouve born January 26 1967 in Dunkerque France is a French actor and director Only son JeanPaul Rouve grew up in Dunkerque and was introduced to the theater during his schooling He took courses at the national drama center of NordPas de Calais and founded an amateur theater troupe After his baccalaureate he left for Lille to study information and communication sciences In 1989 thanks to one of his friends Emmanuelle Lepoutre he attended a course given by Isabelle Nanty in a theater school the Cours Florent and decided to stay in Paris to study comedy He was revealed to the general public in the Robins des Bois comic troupe during the 1990s He established himself during the 2000s as a recurring second role in French cinema in different genres Thus he won the César for best male hope in 2003 for his performance in the historical drama Monsieur Batignole by Gérard Jugnot then was nominated for the César for best actor in a supporting role in 2005 for his incarnation of a lookalike of Michel Polnareff in the comedy Podium by Yann Moix In 2006 he played a director of a summer camp in the comedy Nos jours bonheurs by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache before playing Louis Gassion in the biographical film La Môme 2007 by Olivier Dahan During the 2010s he especially won the role of Jeff Tuche in the series of successful comedies Les Tuche directed by Olivier Baroux He is also pursuing a career as a director of films with a more dramatic sensitivity with When I will be little 2012 Les Souvenirs 2014 and Lola et ses frères 2018
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