Jean Dujardin came to Atlantis: pro inside the studio, and even more after.
Bingo 2009
Behind him on the podium, Dany Boon won a lill’ 3 million euros, but was offered half a million more for a film than Mister Jean. The OSS 117 hero earned 4, 4 million euros and can now pretend to a 2 million fee per film.
Loulou, alias Jean Dujardin can be happy! In 2009, he was the best paid actor in France.
First woman on the podium, Sophie Marceau is just behind Dany Boon with 2, 9 million euros of fees.
Biography
Jean Dujardin begins his life as a shimmer and locksmith.
It’s during his military service that his talent is revealed: the army will be a great source of inspiration to him.
He came to Paris, and plays in some bars, meets in the Carré Blanc Theater those – Bruno Salomone, Eric Collado, Eric Massot and Emmanuel Joucla – who he will build the “Nous C Nous” with. They create a new shows, a song simply called “Nous C Nous” and enjoy the best period of Fiesta, by Patrick Sebastien on France 2.
Between 1997 and 1998, Jean Dujardin is a three times winner of the comic category in Graine de Stars.
Making him a place on the little screen, he becomes famous thanks to his character of Loulou, he personifies from October 11, 1999 to June 2003 in the miniseries Un Gars, Une Fille with Alexandra Lamy (who will become his companion).
After an apparition in the sketches movie “A l’Abris des Regards Indiscrets” (2002) and he embodies a Weston seller in the comedy” Ah! Si j’Etais Riche” (id.), he is offered a more important role, as the ideal man in “Toutes les Filles en sont Folles”.
His name becomes synonym of success as the box office tells with Mariages! (2003) and most of all Brice de Nice (2004), where he resuscitates his favorite character of a “surfer winner” created 10 years earlier onstage. Team mate with Pascal Elbé in the police comedy “L’Amour aux Trousses” (2005) Jean Dujardin enlarges his repertoire as an actor by playing a conveyor along with Albert Dupontel in the urban polar (2003) by Nicolas Boukhrief and by attempting an entrenchment in the history movie “Il ne faut jurer de rien!” (2005).
As he became bankable, Jean Dujardin embodied tha agent OSS 177 – which gave him a nomination at the Cesar for the Best Actor in 2007 – and offers him a completely different role, a cop wanting to find who killed his daughter, in the dark “Contre Enquete”, first directing for Franck Mancuso, co-writer of “36, Quai des Orfèvres”. In 2007, Dujardin is Octave, the crazy publicist of “99F” by Jan Kounen, from Frederic Beigbeder’s best seller.
After getting a large sum of money in “Ca$h”, Jean Dujardin appears against Jean-Paul Belmondo in “Un home et son chien” and then another “OSS 117”, the spy who blunders faster than his shadow, before putting the cow-boy hat of Lucky Luke, who shoots faster than his shadow…
