Face of French television, Guillaume Labbé is an actor born on January 26, 1983. Former rugby player in the France Espoirs team, he began his acting career in Philippe Lioret’s film All our desires, released in 2011.
As his participation in various productions such as the series Household Scenes or Plan Heart, the artist managed to get noticed in the world of television and by the public.
But it was in 2021, during the broadcast of the famous series I promise you, adapted from the American work This is Us, that Guillaume Labbé managed to make a greater impression on the minds of viewers. In this production, season 3 of which is currently broadcast every Monday evening on TF1, the actor plays Michaël, a footballer from Marseille.
Over the course of his career, the former rugby player has sometimes had to produce scenes of nudity, a subject on which he admits not necessarily being uncomfortable. “I did a lot of sports in a group, so I was always rather naked in the locker room and I was never bothered by that,” he explained to Télé-Loisirs, before adding : “So I don’t have too much of a problem with nudity on sets, or maybe only when there are love scenes and I don’t know the actress at first. But if I’m the only one the screen, where there for example with Sabrina Ouazani (Plan Cœur), it doesn’t bother me to be naked with someone. ‘ve never been bothered by that.”
If he now has a solid career as an actor, Guillaume Labbé was not necessarily destined to shine on the boards and film sets.
In the first season of The School of Life, Guillaume Labbé plays Vincent Picard, a particularly empathetic teacher who listens to his students. But, when he himself was a student, did he dream of becoming an actor?
“I dreamed of being a psychologist because my mother was a sports teacher and then a psychoanalyst. I wanted to follow that and I went to the theater,” he said in the columns of Télé Star. However, he is far from regretting the profession he has chosen. “I wanted to be an author, an actor, that came later. But yes, I accomplished a lot and every day I tell myself that it’s going to stop because it’s so incredible to have the chance to live the life I lead.”
By choosing a career as an actor, he also followed the path of his sister, Constance Labbé.
Famous with French viewers for her role in the hit series Balthazar, Constance Labbé is the sister of Guillaume Labbé. Today they are both actors, and it is a bond that unites them. “When I started my theater school in Paris, he was in writing school to become a screenwriter. When I started acting on stage, he went to the United States, and when he came back, I I myself went to the United States to go to school. We led our boats independently. Afterwards, we necessarily started to talk about it, to exchange. He is a major ally, because he advises me, “he said. – she entrusted to the RTBF.
“We had our castings rehearsed a lot, it was practical. It was done almost at the same time, but without us saying it. It’s very strange. My mother may have an analysis on this , since she is a psychiatrist”, added the actress.
