Since 2015, Grégoire Bonnet has been a popular face with the French. For some, he played Doctor Samuel Proust in the Nina series, broadcast until 2021 on France 2. For others, he is Philippe, the pharmacist and companion of Camille (Amélie Etasse) in Scenes of households on M6. Or Advocate General Jacques Kowalski in The Code on the second channel on public service.
However, there was nothing to suggest that the actor – who turns 57 this Wednesday, April 12 – was going to make a career on screen. Before gaining popularity on television, Grégoire Bonnet began his career on stage in the theatre. It was by frequenting the benches of a famous institution that he found his way.
“I did an internship in August at Cours Florent. It was Francis Huster who led it. Then in September, I entered Cours Florent. Then I worked a lot and ended up earn my living”, he told in the newspaper Sud Ouest, quoted by our colleagues from Télé-Loisirs. In the 1990s, Grégoire Bonnet chained classic and comic plays where he was notably directed by Jean-Paul Rouve, Thomas Le Douarec and Jean-Luc Moreau.
On the cinema side, Grégoire Bonnet has distinguished himself through secondary roles in films and comedies. Like the biopic on Coluche, La Première étoile or even Hollywood, Les Profs, Le sens de la fête or even Divorce Club. “Doing the splits has always been my dream. I love playing a simpleton, a very intelligent man, a bastard,” he confided to Télé-Loisirs. “In Michaël Youn’s Divorce Club, I laughed in the skin of a crazy DJ”.
At the same time, the actor also evolves on the small screen in various roles before becoming a flagship face of the PAF. A notoriety that also led him to expose himself to the public… In both the figurative and the literal sense.
Since his debut in comedy, Grégoire Bonnet has played several roles and found himself naked on stage and on screen. “You can’t know how many plays I’ve been naked in. It’s crazy! Yet I don’t have an athletic body but I’m naked in everything,” he said. surprised by Télé-Loisirs in 2020.
As in Le Mensonge, the thriller inspired by a news item in which Daniel Auteuil played (rebroadcast last March on TV), where he lent himself to an acupuncture session. “On the set, there was a laying in his field. I had never done that and I must admit that I had a little pain”, he declared to our colleagues. However, the fifties evokes without embarrassment his relationship to nudity.
“I don’t have a complex with my body. Maybe I should, but I don’t care. I don’t wonder what people will think. They don’t care, they want to laugh, in particular for Scenes of households”, confides the one who plays the spouse of Amélie Etasse on M6.
Flagship duo since 2015 in Scenes of households, Grégoire Bonnet and Amélie Etasse are not in a relationship on a daily basis. The first is specially entrusted in 2020 with Gala on his private life. Several years ago, the actor met Aurélie, a lawyer specializing in condominium law, thanks to “friends in common” at a party.
After a romantic trip to Venice, the couple welcomes their daughter Églantine shortly after moving in together. While the actor’s career is on the rise, his love life is suffering some repercussions. And, his choice of professional career, mixing theater and television, will be right for their couple. “This is one of the causes of our breakup. A separation without clashes or broken glasses”, according to comments quoted by Purepeople.
In case the ex-lovers remake their life, they impose their funny life on their respective partners. “We immediately announce the color to them”, indicates Grégoire Bonnet. “Keeping intact the relationship we have with Aurélie, seeing each other often, having dinner together, is our sine qua non!”.
For the sake of their daughter, now a teenager, Grégoire Bonnet maintains good relations with his ex-girlfriend. “We get along so well that the three of us even go on vacation. And not just to please Eglantine,” Aurélie admitted to Gala magazine. It is not their daughter who will say the opposite. “It’s very good like that. Dad and mom can’t stop spoofing each other, but at least they never argue”. For better and for laughs!
