full name occupation age & dob hometown residence

Pierre-Baptiste deschamps writer, director, former actor 33 & March 13th, 1982 paris, fr london, uk & paris, fr

Growing up watching movies starring Jean-Luc Godard, Serge Gainsbourg, Anna Karina and Brigitte Bardot, there were two things Pierre-Baptiste Deschamps was certain of. One, he had a love for women that started at an age when most boys still believed in cooties; and two, he wanted to be in the movies. From a young age, he would watch characters in movies woo women and he would take the lines he learned to practice on the girls in his class, which often led to the youngest of two sons in the Deschamps family to get in trouble. His father, a wine maker, found the young womanizing funny and often times encouraged his son to pursue girls, giving him more lines and material to use, while his mother frowned upon the behavior, trying to re-enforce the idea that women were delicate and should be treated as such. A lesson that did not stick in Pierre-Baptiste mind as he brought daisies to different girls in his class, having multiple secret girlfriends at the age of seven.

The habit of collecting girls like stamps worsened when young Baptiste talked his parents into letting him take acting lessons at a local theatre. Not only did it allow him to pursue the goal he had, but it also gave him more girls to try and win over. At one point in time, he had a girlfriend in his theatre lessons, two at his school that were secrets and a neighbor who attended a different school he was also "dating." The word dating meant nothing to the nine year old since the extent of activities was hand holding and kissing when no one was looking. Thanks to juggling four different girls, he took up the habit of referring to all girls from then on out as a pet name. "Mon petit chou." It made not calling girls by the wrong name much easier and soon he found out, made him look like a sweetheart for calling them something sweet.

As a teenager, Baptiste, realized the beauty of what a girlfriend could mean and took advantage of this to its fullest. It was around this time he decided to really devote himself to his craft on stage and started auditioning for bigger, more challenging and complex roles. At the same time, he enrolled in language lessons hoping to master English, as well as accents since the need for French Guy #1 in most international films was in short demand. It was a hard task to balance all of what was on his plate, but he tried his hardest to not fail at any of them, and succeeded at doing so.

At the age of sixteen, while playing Marius Pontmercy in a stage production of Les Misérables, Baptiste was approached by a talent scout and was asked to come to the auditions for a movie that was to be shooting the following year. Without hesitation, he went on the audition and somehow made it to the final picks of the role. At first, he was turned down but when the first choice backed down, Baptiste landed the role of Franz in Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (English: Water Drops on Burning Rocks). The role got him nominated for Most Promising Actor at the César Awards.

The role was the break he needed for the industry he had longed to be apart of because soon enough he was going on various auditions and slowly, but surely his resume was growing as he put more films under his belt. He eventually was able to put an English series on it when he landed the role of King Francis I on The Tudors which he used to his advantage when auditioning for Inglorious Basterds. Despite not being of German decent, he got the role of Fredrick Zoller, a german hero soldier, which required him to promptly take German lessons in order to give a believable performance.

After fininishing filming Anna KARENINA, Baptiste started to suffer from severe anxiety at the idea of being in front of the camera. The idea helped put him in the direction of where he was wanting to go, writing and directing. Deciding to retire from being an actor, he found funding for his first film, Tom à la ferme. the transition was exactly what he needed, it gave him the break he had much needed.