1985
Rendez-vous
Wilson appeared in André Téchiné’s drama.
FLM.REDLAMBERT
WILSON
ลอมแบร์ วิลสัน
A French actor across cinema and stage
From Rendez-vous to the Merovingian.
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Between French cinema and the Matrix
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1958, Lambert Wilson trained at Drama Centre London. His career spans French and international film as well as work on stage.
In the 1980s he worked with directors including André Téchiné on Rendez-vous and Peter Greenaway on The Belly of an Architect. These films sit within a career that has moved across countries and genres.
International audiences met Wilson as the Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, both released in 2003. He returned to the character in The Matrix Resurrections in 2021, a title listed on FLM.RED.
His French-language work includes Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men. He has also played figures from history, including Charles de Gaulle in De Gaulle and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in The Odyssey.
Roles in different worlds
2003–2021
The Matrix
He played the Merovingian across three films.
2010
Of Gods and Men
A French drama directed by Xavier Beauvois.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
- Normandie Images — actor biography
- Rotten Tomatoes — biography and credits
- Cinema.be — biography and filmography
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.