Christophe Delesques

Known for Acting

Biography

Born near Avignon, Christophe Delesques has lived and worked in Paris, Lausanne, Geneva and London. He began studying theatre at the age of twelve. In 2010 he created his own company (Point Barre) with which he followed a five-year theatre training course with Georges Guerreiro (Meisner, Stanislavsky), Valérie Poirier and José Lillo. He completed his training with movement theatre and masks with Fabian Gysling (Lecoq/Lassaad), contemporary dance (Laban), singing and voice control with Tiphène Pichonnaz as well as camera acting and improvisation at the City Academy in London. In recent years, he has played a wide range of classical and contemporary characters on European stages under the direction of Gaspard Legendre, Sami Kali, Khaled Khouri, Georges Guerreiro, Nicolas Vivier and Claudia Nuara. Among his most recent theatre performances, we should mention a one-man show: The Diary of a Madman by Nicolas Gogol, created in Geneva, and the lead role in Le Malade Imaginaire by Molière, which will go on an international tour in 2022/23 produced by the American Drama Group. In the cinema, he has appeared in films by young directors such as Antoine Russbach, Victoria Malinjod, Joël Baud, Sami Kali and Guillaume Main. In 2020, he played the main role in the English feature film Exit, directed by Michael Fausti, for which he was nominated Best Actor at the GenreBlast Festival (USA). In parallel to his acting activities, Christophe Delesques is also active in the design of sets and costumes as well as in the direction and production of films and shows. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)