This Saturday, December 25, viewers will find Samir Boitard on the TV movie poster The cursed woods, broadcast on France 3. The opportunity to learn a little more about the 42-year-old actor.
France 3 made a nice gift to its viewers for Christmas! On this Saturday, December 25, they will be able to discover the new TV movie The cursed woods. To embody this detective fiction, the director Jean-Marc Rudnicki – to whom it owes in particular Bound for life and A plane without her – bet on faces well known to viewers. Like Stephan Wojtowicz (Criminal tropics), François Morel or Coline D’Inca, who has long lent his features to Sybille in the series More beautiful life. Without counting on the two actors chosen to embody the duo of investigators of the telefilm.
On the one hand, there is Blandine Bellavoir, former star of Small murders of Agatha Christie and seen more recently in the skin of Christine Villemin in A French affair on TF1, and on the other Samir Boitard. Although seen less often than his partner on the screen, the latter has also been seen several times on television, especially in They were ten and I like it to lie on M6.
Samir Boitard, from the small screen to the cinema
Born in Marseille in 1979, Samir Boitard has always dreamed of being an actor. Spotted by an agent at the age of 24, he took his first steps in the cinema in 2006. He then had the immense privilege of giving the reply to Albert Dupontel in the film President, released in 2006 and directed by Lionel Delplanque. Two years later, this time it was with Jean Dujardin that he shared the poster, in the movie Ca $ h by Eric Besnard. The consecration came when he landed one of the leading roles in Mohammed Lahkdar-Hamina’s film, Twilight of shadows, selected for the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2014. But if it is best known to the French public, it is thanks to the Canal + series Gears, which he integrated in the second season. He plays the character of Samy Bouchara, an undercover police officer in the heart of a gang of drug dealers.
On the private side, Samir Boitard has shared the life of the famous actress Louise Monot since 2014. His name may not ring a bell, but his face is certainly not unknown to you! In 2009, she gave the reply to Jean Dujardin in OSS 117: Rio no longer responds, where she played the redhead Dolores Kulechov. In 2011, she also played the role of Léa, the companion of Gilles Lellouche’s character in Small handkerchiefs. Together they had two daughters, Lila, born in October 2016, and Selma, born in September 2020.