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Lambert Wilson (born August 3, 1958 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French actor.

He is the son of actor Georges Wilson. He is half Irish, half French.

He screen tested for GoldenEye (1995) for the role of James Bond, appearing in test footage opposite Maryam D'Abo (a Bond girl in The Living Daylights) as Tatiana Romanova, re-enacting scenes from From Russia with Love (1963).

He released the album Musicals on the EMI label in 2004, with John McGlinn conducting Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. It features him singing songs of the American Musical Theatre catalogue, those well-known ("Maria" from West Side Story, "There But For You Go I" from Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon, "The Cafe Song" from Les Miserables, "Johanna" from Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd), rare ("Love Song" from Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's Love Life, "It Must Be So" from Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and "Silly People," which was cut from Sondheim's A Little Night Music), and those in-between ("Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park with George, "You Do Something to Me" from Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen, "Never Will I Marry" from Frank Loesser's Greenwillow).

Lambert was also featured in a series of artsy Calvin Klein ads featuring Christy Turlington for Eternity in 1991, as well as a poster ad for Eternity in 1998.

He has directed stage presentations of Alfred de Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne starring Laure Marsac at Paris' Bouffes du Nord as well as Racine's Bérénice starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Didier Sandre at Avignon then Chaillot.

Filmography

• Sahara (2005)... Yves Massarde
• Palais Royal ! (2005)
• Catwoman (2004)... Georges Hedare
• Timeline (2003)... Lord Arnaut
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)... The Merovingian
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)... The Merovingian
• Don Quixote (2000)... The Duke
• The Last September (1999)... Hugo Montmorency
• On connaît la chanson directed by Alain Resnais
• Marquise (1997)... Racine
• The Leading Man (1996)... Felix Webb
• Jefferson in Paris (1995)... Marquis de Lafayette
• Rendez-vous (1985) directed by André Téchiné
• The Blood of Others (1984) directed by Claude Chabrol
• Sahara (1983)... Jaffar
• Five Days One Summer (1982) directed by Fred Zinnemann
• La Boum 2 (1982)... Félix Maréchal
• Lady Oscar (1979) directed by Jacques Demy
• Julia (1977) directed by Fred Zinnemann

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