Antoine de Caunes
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Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953 in Paris, France) is a television comedian, actor and writer. He is the son of two French personalities, television journalist George de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes.
He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including Cobra and X-Or.
He first appeared in front of the camera with the series Les Enfants du rock, again for A2, before making a breakthrough with the series Nulle part ailleurs for Canal+.
De Caunes first came to fame in the English-speaking world on the BBC Two television series Rapido before starting the long-running adult entertainment programme Eurotrash with Jean-Paul Gaultier for Channel 4. He also presented a short-lived chat show on Channel 4 called "Le Show". He has also appeared in an advertising campaign for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles lollipops, which he claimed to be "a French lollipop, on a very British stick."
He provided voices in Aardman Animation TV show Rex the Runt.
He has been a long-time AIDS awareness campaigner, fronting the organisation Soirées de l'humour - Solidarité sida.
Film actor
- Pentimento (1989)
- Les deux papas et la maman (1996)
- C'est pour la bonne cause! (1997)
- La divine poursuite (1997)
- L'homme est une femme comme les autres (1998)
- Au coeur du mensonge (1999)
- Chili con carne (1999)
- Là-bas... mon pays (2000)
- Le vélo de Ghislain Lambert (2001) (narrator)
- Blanche (2002)
- Les clefs de bagnole (2003)
Film director
- T'en as? (2000)
- Scénario sur la drogue (2000)
- Les Morsures de l'aube (2001)
- Monsieur N. (2003)
