Personal Info
Birth date
1958-04-30 (67 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Also known as
-Charles Berling
Biography
Charles Berling (born 30 April 1958) is a French actor, director and screenwriter. Charles Berling, son of a navy doctor, is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco); she died in 2004. When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then Toulon, then, at seven, Tahiti. He studied acting at the Belgian school INSAS, in Brussels. He is the father of the actor Émile Berling. Source: Article "Charles Berling" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
It Boy
6.45
Overview:
38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he holds the key to her promotion.Capitaine Marleau
6.029
Overview:
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.On n'est pas couché
5.833
Overview:
On n'est pas couché was a French talk show broadcast on France 2 on Saturdays at 11 p.m., hosted by Laurent Ruquier assisted by various columnists.Elle
6.657
Overview:
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.Three Days and a Life
6.383
Overview:
Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.The Frozen Dead
6.4
Overview:
A horrific discovery in a small town nestled high in the French Pyrenees begins to unravel a dark mystery that has been hidden for years. On an unforgiving winter morning, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. Commandant Martin Servaz starts investigating and soon discovers a dark story of madness and revenge.March of the Penguins
7.1
Overview:
Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!How I Killed My Father
5.941
Overview:
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?What's in a Name
7.323
Overview:
Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable ...Black Tide
5.766
Overview:
When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.Secret Agents
5.357
Overview:
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...Demonlover
5.7
Overview:
A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.L'ennui
5.449
Overview:
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.We Were Young
5.677
Overview:
Five long-term pals confront ageing and mortality as they enjoy their last weeks together before taking different paths.Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
6.154
Overview:
A group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey, secrets and desires unfold, with relationships shifting, past loves resurfacing, and personal connections revealed. At the funeral and afterward, tensions rise among the group, leading to further emotional complexities at the artist’s family home.White as Snow
5.149
Overview:
Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”Who You Think I Am
6.545
Overview:
Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.Marie Curie
5.1
Overview:
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.Crime Scenes
5.821
Overview:
The disappearance of a young woman puts two forensic police officers on the trail of a serial killer. Their fears are confirmed by the discovery of several corpses, what follows is a long hunt across Paris.Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
6.9
Overview:
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.A Matter of Taste
6.353
Overview:
Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.Summer Hours
6.5
Overview:
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.Masquerade
6.8
Overview:
Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations.Reinventing Marvin
6.688
Overview:
Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.Children's Play
4.783
Overview:
Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs Worms, who claim to have lived in the apartment when they were children and who ask if they can just take a look around their former home. Marianne agrees, but no sooner have the mysterious Worms left than things take an inexplicable turn for the worse...Ridicule
6.955
Overview:
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.The Art of Breaking Up
5.136
Overview:
Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. He is a spoiled but penniless child who wants it all while she is a celebrated figure of la vie parisienne who knows what she wants and what she is worth. Edouard is marrying a young, pretty and rich heiress. He comes to confess this to Lucette and to make their parting official, but he doesn’t want to leave her. He struggles with all his might to hide his betrayal but her opportunities to learn of it are countless and unpredictable.Acting
TBALe diplôme (6 Episodes) as Martial
TBALa Vie d'une Femme as Unknown
TBASur les traces de Gustave Eiffel as Gustave Eiffel (voice)
TBALes Talents d’Achille as Unknown
2024The Storyteller as Romain Gary
2024Félix et moi, sur les traces du chanteur de Viens Poupoule ! as Unknown
2023Sida, des années sombres aux premières victoires as Unknown
2023Flo as Jacques Arthaud
2023Les Siffleurs (2 Episodes) as Stéphane Maulin
2022Les parents terribles as Unknown
2022Masquerade as Jean-Charles
2022The Island of Thirty Coffins (6 Episodes) as Raphaël Vorski
2021Les Damnés de la Commune as Gustave Courbet (voice)
2021Claude Sautet: A Subtle Director as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019Three Days and a Life as Michel Desmedt
2019Poseur as Jean
2019White as Snow as Bernard
2019Orient-Express: A Legendary Journey as Narrator (voice)
2019Escape from Raqqa as Patrice
2019Who You Think I Am as Gilles
2019A Clever Crook as Commissioner Marc Beffrois
2018Passage des arts (1 Episode) as Self
2018Black Tide as Marc
2017Reinventing Marvin as Roland
2017The Frozen Dead (6 Episodes) as Capitaine Martin Servaz
2016Marie Curie as Pierre Curie
2016Heartstrings as Le père de Marie
2016The Exchange Student as Frank
2016Elle as Richard
2016Trepalium (6 Episodes) as Bartholomé
2015Capitaine Marleau (1 Episode) as Carlos Dos Santos
2015We Were Young as Bilou
2015Tu es mon fils as Paul
2015The Clearstream Affair as Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke
2013The French Trilogy as Self
2013It Boy as Luc Apfel
2012The Rest of the World as L'avocat
2012Bad Seeds as Pierre Verdier
2012More Than Honey as Narrator (french voice)
2012What's in a Name as Pierre
2012Second Chances as Philippe Cabrera
2011Beirut Hotel as Mathieu
2011Forbidden House as Benoît
2010Trader Games as Georges
2010Beyond Suspicion as Henri Schaeffer
2009L'Abolition as Robert Badinter
2008Fin de partie as Clov
2008Les murs porteurs as Simon
2008Par suite d'un arrêt de travail... as Vincent Disse
2008Summer Hours as Frédéric
2008Quiet Chaos as Boesson
2006Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire as Récitant (voice)
2006Made in Paris as Worms
2006The Man of My Life as Hugo
2006On n'est pas couché (2 Episodes) as Self - Guest
2005Les Inséparables (3 Episodes) as Antoine
2005I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed as Georges Figon
2005Permis d'aimer as Unknown
2005Nina's House as Maurice Gutman
2005Grabuge! as Maurice
2005Dalida as Lucien Morisse
2005The Art of Breaking Up as Édouard de Bois d'Enghien
2005March of the Penguins as Father Penguin (voice)
2004The Sun Assassinated as Jean Sénac
2004Secret Agents as Eugène
2003I'm Staying as Antoine
2003Making of 'Demonlover' as Self
2003Father and Sons as David
2003A Species Odyssey as Narrator (voice)
2003L'Odyssée de l'espèce (3 Episodes) as Narrator - French Version (voice)
2002Demonlover as Hervé Le Millinec
2002Hypnotized and Hysterical (Hairstylist Wanted) as Arnaud
2002Jean Moulin as Jean Moulin
2002Jean Moulin (2 Episodes) as Jean Moulin
2002Cravate club as Bernard
2002A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Self
2001How I Killed My Father as Jean-Luc
2001Children's Play as Jacques Fauvel
2001Savage Souls as Reveillard
2001August 15th as Vincent
2000Stardom as Philippe Gascon
2000Comedy of Innocence as Serge
2000Sentimental Destinies as Jean Barnery
2000A Matter of Taste as René Rousset
2000Crime Scenes as Georges Fabian
1999Fait d'hiver as Louis Riquier
1999The Bridge as Matthias
1998The Woman I'm Watching as Eddy
1998L'ennui as Martin
1998Vivement dimanche (3 Episodes) as Self
1998L'Inconnu de Strasbourg as Jean-Paul
1998Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train as Jean-Marie
1997Dry Cleaning as Jean-Marie Kunstler
1997Obsession as Pierre Moulin
1997Pierre and Marie as Pierre Curie
1996Love, etc. as Pierre
1996Ridicule as Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy
1996The Age of Potential as Man at phone
1995Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud as Jérôme
1995Pullman paradis as Lucien Génin
1994Un dimanche à Paris as Romaric
1994Mutual Consent as Laurent
1994Coming to Terms with the Dead as François
1992Salt on Our Skin as Roger
1982Meurtres A Domicile as Inspector Focard
Directing
2008Fin de partie ... Stage Director