Mathieu Amalric (born October 25, 1965) is a French actor and film director, perhaps best known for his lead role in the 2007 film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. He will play the villain Dominic Greene in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.
Amalric was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France, the son of journalists Nicole Zand, a literary critic for Le Monde, and Jacques Amalric, who has worked as an editorialist for French newspapers Le Monde and Libération. Mathieu Amalric's father is French and his mother is a Polish Jew who is a native of the same Polish village as director Roman Polanski, (born in Paris but moved with parents to Poland at the age of four).
Professor at La Femis (Paris)
Son of two Le Monde journalists.
