Denis Ménochet

Acting · Born 1976-09-18 in Enghein-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France

Biography

Denis Menochet (born 1977 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise) is a French film and television actor. Menochet is perhaps best known to an international audience for his role as Perrier LaPadite, a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews, in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds. Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for the New York Daily News, praised Menochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds. Weitzman wrote in August 2009, "The terrific opening, for example, does feature a hailstorm of bullets. What you'll remember best, though, is the haunted silence of actor Denis Menochet, playing a French farmer accused of harboring Jews."

Filmography

• La Vie en Rose as Journalist in Orly
• The Round Up as Corot
• Inglourious Basterds as Perrier LaPadite
• The Beasts as Antoine
• In the House as Rapha père
• Custody as Antoine Besson
• By the Grace of God as François Debord
• The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Prison Guard
• The Mauritanian as Emmanuel
• White Dog as Romain Gary

TV

• Agatha Christie's Poirot as Pierre Michel
• Spotless as Martin Bastière
• Monsieur Spade as Chief of Police Patrice Michaud