Lambert Wilson (born August 3, 1958) is a French actor. He is recently known for his portrayal of The Merovingian in The Matrix movies.
Wilson was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the son of Georges Wilson, who is an actor, theatrical manager and director of the Theatre Nationale de Paris. Wilson is of half Irish and half French descent.
Wilson screen tested for The Living Daylights (1986) for the role of James Bond, appearing in test footage opposite Maryam D'Abo (the Bond girl in The Living Daylights) as Tatiana Romanova, re-enacting scenes from From Russia with Love (1963). Wilson was also featured in a series of artsy Calvin Klein ads featuring Christy Turlington for Eternity in 1991, as well as a poster ad for Eternity in 1998.
Wilson released the album Musicals on the EMI label in 2004, with John McGlinn conducting Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. It features him singing songs of the American Musical Theatre catalogue, those well-known ("Maria" from West Side Story, "There But For You Go I" from Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon, "The Cafe Song" from Les Miserables, "Johanna" from Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd), rare ("Love Song" from Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's Love Life, "It Must Be So" from Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and "Silly People," which was cut from Sondheim's A Little Night Music), and those in-between ("Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park with George, "You Do Something to Me" from Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen, "Never Will I Marry" from Frank Loesser's Greenwillow).
He has directed stage presentations of Alfred de Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne starring Laure Marsac at Paris' Bouffes du Nord as well as Racine's Bérénice starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Didier Sandre at Avignon then Chaillot.
Son of Georges Wilson
He is half Irish, half French.
Screen tested for GoldenEye (1995) for the role of James Bond 007, appearing in test footage opposite 'Maryam dAbo (Kara Milovy in Living Daylights, The (1987)) as Tania Romanova, re-enacting scenes from From Russia with Love (1963).
Was featured in a series of artsy Calvin Klein ads featuring Christy Turlington for Eternity in 1991, as well as a poster ad for Eternity in 1998.
French citizen.
Shares birthday with Mathieu Kassovitz, TV presenter Vincent Perrot and Martin Sheen.
Sings in a show called "La Nuit Americaine" in Paris.
As a singer, is a baritone.
When Lambert was a child, his father used to tell the journalists that he lived alone, while he was a married family father, to protect his family from the paparazzi, that's why Lambert and his brother grew up tranquilly.
As a singer, he recorded two albums: "Musicals" and "Demon e & Merveilles".
Graduate from London's drama center in 1977.
Mother is named Nicole and used to be a photo model.
As a narrator, Wilson has worked under the direction of some of the world's greatest conductors including Rostropovitch, Pretre Mazur, Dutoit and Ozawana.
Performs on stage in both French and English, and co-starred in "A Little Night Music" with Judi Dench for the Royal National Theater in London in 1996,.
Has starred in two different films whose title is 'Sahara'. First in Andrew V. McLaglen's movie (1983), starring Brookie Shields. And in Breck Eisner's movie (2005), starring Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz.
