Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2403
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Franck Dubosc is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Franck Dubosc appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Franck. How to Make a Killing is the clearest case: a film rated 6.4 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 action, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Franck Dubosc, Alexandre Astier, Julien Bloch and others, Franck Dubosc 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.
How to Make a Killing (2025) as Michel · Rumba Therapy (2022) as Tony · Camping : Histoire d'un succès (2021) as Self - Actor
Career snapshot
Ranked #2403 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2012–2027
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.4
How to Make a Killing
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.5
How to Make a Killing
Most frequent director
Franck Dubosc
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Franck Dubosc
Most common genre
Comedy
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 16m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.2
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
2020s
5.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. 5H48, Place des Martyrs, Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II), Molière, Cyrano and the Young King — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.3
Across 19 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
4.6
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. The Visitors: Bastille Day, The Dream Team.
Most productive era
2020s
19 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 | 5.51 film | 3.02 films |
| Action | — | 3.02 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.92 films |
| Comedy | 5.22 films | 5.218 films |
| Crime | — | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 5.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012The Dream Team
Where our catalogue meets this career, as David Léandri.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
6.4 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
The current state of the argument, as Gilles.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Michel
Directed by Franck Dubosc
as Jack
Directed by Unknown
as Alain
Directed by Jean-Patrick Benes
as Antoine Mercier
Directed by Ludovic Bernard
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
Michel
How to Make a Killing (2025)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Michel gives Franck Dubosc a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tony
Rumba Therapy (2022)
Performance score6.9
Rumba Therapy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tony is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jack
Cat and Dog (2024)
Performance score6.8
Cat and Dog asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jack is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alain
Family Swap (2021)
Performance score6.8
Family Swap asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alain 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 Michel
Start here. How to Make a Killing is the clearest statement of what Franck Dubosc does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 6.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Franck 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.
10 Days with Dad (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of How to Make a Killing but asks for a colder reading of it.
Family Swap (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of 10 Days with Dad but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rumba Therapy (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Family Swap but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cat and Dog (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Rumba Therapy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Franck Dubosc
Director
3 films together
Notably How to Make a Killing
Olivier Dahan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dream Team
Jean-Marie Poiré
Director
1 film together
Notably The Visitors: Bastille Day
Ludovic Bernard
Director
1 film together
Notably 10 Days with Dad
Jean-Patrick Benes
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Swap
Élie Semoun
Director
1 film together
Notably Ducobu 4 President
François Uzan
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Pack
Julien Bloch
Director
1 film together
Notably Panique au grand magasin
Alexandre Astier
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Franck Dubosc
Director
3 films together · 4.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
How to Make a KillingJulien Bloch
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Panique au grand magasinJean-Patrick Benes
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family SwapLudovic Bernard
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
10 Days with DadFrançois Uzan
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family PackOlivier Dahan
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dream TeamÉlie Semoun
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ducobu 4 PresidentJean-Marie Poiré
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Visitors: Bastille DayAlexandre Astier
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)Six 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
How to Make a Killing
as Michel
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Dream Team
as David Léandri
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
How to Make a Killing
as Michel
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Haters
as Famielle Martin
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
How to Make a Killing
as Michel
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. Franck Dubosc 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
20 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Family Swap
as Alain
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
How to Make a Killing
as Michel
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Dream Team
as David Léandri
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
How to Make a Killing
as Michel
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Family Pack
as Jérôme Vassier
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Family Pack
as Jérôme Vassier
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Molière, Cyrano and the Young King
as D’Artagnan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
1h30 Max
as Franck Dubosc
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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