Best French Actors of All-Time

The Top Ten
1 Gerard Depardieu Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ is a French actor. He has received acclaim for his performances in The Last Metro, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor, in Police, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor, in Police (1985), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, Jean ...read more.

Clearly the best. With films like Jean De Florette and Green Card you can't go wrong with this guy being the greatest French actor of all time.

2 Jean Reno Juan Moreno y Herrera–Jiménez, known as Jean Reno, is a Moroccan-born French actor. He has worked in American, French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Italian movie productions; Reno appeared in films such as Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, The Pink Panther, Ronin, ...read more.

Jean Reno redefines acting, each time I see him acting I feel like I am leaving the story, he makes 3D 1960 technology

3 Alain Delon Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor and businessman, with French-Swiss dual citizenship since 1999. Delon became one of Europe's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols in the 1960s.

It dosent matter that Alain is left acting beause of his age... hi and nly hi is still by far the best of the best actors I will ever know

4 Vincent Cassel
5 Daniel Auteuil
6 Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His best known credits include Breathless and That Man from Rio.

Jean-Paul Belmondo is an amazing actor.

7 Jean Gabin
8 Michel Piccoli

most versatile and electrifying actor of the 60's through 90's.

9 Benoit Magimel
10 Yves Montand
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11 Louis de Funes Louis de Funès, born Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza, was a popular French actor of Spanish origin and one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel.

The best of the best. He's also one of the funniest french actors.

12 Jean Dujardin
13 Philippe Noiret
14 Gérard Philipe
15 Jean-Louis Trintignant
16 François Cluzet
17 Julien Poulin
18 Fernandel
19 Patrick Dewaere
20 Guillaume Canet
21 Romain Duris
22 Vincent Perez
23 Lino Ventura
24 Mathieu Amalric
25 Christian Clavier
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