Lionel Abelanski

Student at the Cours Florent, Lionel Abelanski made his first screen appearance in 1988 in Romuald et Juliette by Coline Serreau alongside Daniel Auteuil. However, the actor subsequently devoted himself mainly to the theater. In the mid-90s, Abelanski became a familiar silhouette in wacky comedies such as Delphine 1 - Yvan 0 and Didier, directed by ex-Dummies Farrugia and Chabat in 1996.

The following year, Lionel Abelanski embodies the importunate that titillates Yvan Attal about his actress wife in I got a woman, the very noticed short film which will serve as a starting point for My wife is an actress. Then the actor lends his features to Shlomo, the village madman who at the idea of ​​organizing a fake deportation train in Radu Mihaileanu's Train of Life. This extraordinary character earned him a César nomination for Best Promising Actor in 1998.

If he continues to use his bewildered air in school comedies (But who killed Pamela Rose?), Lionel Abelanski, more and more solicited, is not confined to this register. Delighting in playing the annoying, from the cumbersome cousin (A little game without consequence, 2004) to the fleeing fiancé (I am not there to be loved, id.), He goes from the harsh universe of Itineraries (2005) to that, delusional, of Poltergay (2006).

Very prolific, the actor shot many films in the 2000s, especially in the register of offbeat comedy (La Beuze, Double zero, Narco, Casablanca Driver ...). After having plunged back into the turmoil of World War II (Free Zone, and even a small role in Reviens-moi with James McAvoy), Lionel Abelanski slips into the skin of Bernard Frank, nonchalant writer and friend of Sagan-Sylvie Testud (2008).

His debonair physique and his talent as a comic actor allow him to multiply the roles in a register which corresponds to him. The actor notably found Radu Mihaileanu in 2009 for Le Concert. In this dramatic comedy, Lionel plays Jean-Paul Carrère, employee of the Théâtre du Châtelet. Abelanski also makes appearances in many French comedies in this new decade, with Protect and Serve by Eric Lavaine (2010), Beur sur la ville by Djamel Bensalah (2011) and Les Infidèles (2012).

This year 2012 is also very fruitful for the French. Indeed, we find him again in popular comedies like Mais qui a re-killed Pamela Rose? by Kad Merad and Olivier Baroux, On the other side of the periphery by David Charhon, or Boule et Bill by Franck Magnier and Alexandre Charlot, adaptation of the eponymous comic book.