Biography
Guillaume de Tonquédec is a French stage, television and film actor. Born on 18 October 1966 in Paris, he studied economics and English at Paris Nanterre University before training at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique from 1986 to 1989. He began his stage career in 1989 with a national tour of John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World.
He gained early film recognition playing Serge in Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Double Life of Véronique (1991). De Tonquédec became widely known in France for his role as Renaud Lepic in the television series Fais pas ci, fais pas ça (2007–2017). In 2013 he won the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Claude in What's in a Name? (2012). He was appointed a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2015.
