Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#45318
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Olivier Gourmet works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Olivier Gourmet appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Olivier. Cyrano, My Love is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Xavier Gens, Olivier Dahan, Clovis Cornillac and others, Olivier Gourmet helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Cyrano, My Love (2018) as Constant Coquelin · Colours of Time (2025) as Claude Monet 1895 · Simone: Woman of the Century (2022) as Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006)
Career snapshot
Ranked #45318 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Cyrano, My Love
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Simone: Woman of the Century
Most frequent director
Xavier Gens
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Xavier Gens
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Conviction, The Breitner Commando, Cyrano, My Love — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Conviction, The Breitner Commando, Cyrano, My Love.
Most productive era
2020s
9 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.53 films | 6.78 films |
| Action | — | 6.71 film |
| Thriller | 7.11 film | 6.82 films |
| Comedy | 7.32 films | 7.41 film |
| Crime | — | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jean-Marc.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Cyrano, My Love
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Cape Farewell
The current state of the argument, as Franck.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
14 of 14 films
as Constant Coquelin
Directed by Alexis Michalik
as Fournier
Directed by Unknown
as Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006)
Directed by Olivier Dahan
as Claude Monet 1895
Directed by Unknown
as Maître Eric Dupond-Moretti
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Constant Coquelin
Cyrano, My Love (2018)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Constant Coquelin gives Olivier Gourmet a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Fournier
The Price to Pay (2026)
Performance score7.4
The Price to Pay asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fournier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006)
Simone: Woman of the Century (2022)
Performance score7.4
Simone: Woman of the Century asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Claude Monet 1895
Colours of Time (2025)
Performance score7.2
Colours of Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Claude Monet 1895 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Constant Coquelin
Start here. Cyrano, My Love is the clearest statement of what Olivier Gourmet does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Olivier at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Conviction (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Cyrano, My Love — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Simone: Woman of the Century (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Conviction but asks for a colder reading of it.
Colours of Time (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Simone: Woman of the Century but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Price to Pay (2026)
Same director as Colours of Time, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Franck Ekinci
Director
1 film together
Notably April and the Extraordinary World
Alexis Michalik
Director
1 film together
Notably Cyrano, My Love
Abdel Raouf Dafri
Director
1 film together
Notably The Breitner Commando
Gabriel Le Bomin
Director
1 film together
Notably De Gaulle
Farid Bentoumi
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Soil
Clovis Cornillac
Director
1 film together
Notably The Colors of Fire
Olivier Dahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Simone: Woman of the Century
Xavier Gens
Director
1 film together
Notably Mayhem!
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alexis Michalik
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cyrano, My LoveOlivier Dahan
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Simone: Woman of the CenturyFranck Ekinci
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
April and the Extraordinary WorldClovis Cornillac
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Colors of FireXavier Gens
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mayhem!Farid Bentoumi
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red SoilGabriel Le Bomin
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
De GaulleAbdel Raouf Dafri
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Breitner CommandoSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Colours of Time
as Claude Monet 1895
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Simone: Woman of the Century
as Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Cyrano, My Love
as Constant Coquelin
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Two Days, One Night
as Jean-Marc
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Cyrano, My Love
as Constant Coquelin
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Olivier Gourmet has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Cyrano, My Love
as Constant Coquelin
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mayhem!
as Narong
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Simone: Woman of the Century
as Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mayhem!
as Narong
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mayhem!
as Narong
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mayhem!
as Narong
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Simone: Woman of the Century
as Antoine Veil (1974 - 2006)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
April and the Extraordinary World
as Paul (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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