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Vincent Cassel (born 23 November 1966) is a Cesar Award-winning French actor best known to English-speaking audiences through his film performances in Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, as well as Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan.
Cassel was born Vincent Crochon in Paris, France, to Sabine Litique, and French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel (born Jean-Pierre Crochon). He is married to Italian actress Monica Bellucci, with whom he has two daughters, Deva (born 12 September 2004) and Léonie (born 21 May 2010). His brother Mathias is a rapper with the group Assassin under the name "Rockin' Squat". His half-sister, Cécile Cassel, is an actress. He has a passion for Capoeira and displayed his talent in the movie Ocean's Twelve. Besides his native French, Cassel speaks English, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and basic conversational Russian which he learned for his role in Eastern Promises.
Cassel's breakthrough role was in Mathieu Kassovitz's critically acclaimed film La Haine where he played a troubled youth from the deprived outskirts of Paris. He has gone on to act in a variety of films such as the moody L'Appartement (with Monica Bellucci before they married), the violent Dobermann, the genre-bending Le Pacte des Loups (in English, Brotherhood of the Wolf), and the highly controversial Irréversible, where he appears fully nude (with Monica Bellucci after they married).
Vincent Cassel : "Je pense que la télé rend con"
Conversation Secrète Vincent Cassel (Michel Denisot Reportage Canal+)
Interview de Vincent Cassel pour un moment d'égarement
Portrait de Vincent Cassel: M6, 66 minutes
Vincent Cassel - On n'est pas couché 15 novembre 2008 #ONPC
Lynn Hirschberg's Screen Tests: Vincent Cassel
Monica Bellucci "Interview Vincent Cassel" - Archive INA
Vincent Cassel est-il un macho poule ? - Archive INA
O carnaval de Vincent Cassel
DP/30: Black Swan, actor Vincent Cassel
Written by Kirby Tepper, Andrew Adamson, and Conrad Vernon
Ta, da, da, da, da, da, whoo
I steal from the rich and give to the needy
He takes a wee percentage, but I'm not greedy
I rescue pretty damsels, man, I'm good
What a guy, ha-ha, Monsieur Hood
Break it down
I like an honest fight and a saucy little maid
What he's basically saying is he likes to get...paid
So, when an ogre in the bush grabs a lady by the tush
That's bad, that's bad, that's bad, that's bad
When a beauty's with a beast it makes me awfully mad
He's mad, he's really mad
Now I'll take my blade and ram it through your heart
Keep your eyes on me, boys, 'Cause I'm about to staaar