Vincent Cassel Movies and Career Information

Vincent Cassel (born 23 November 1966) is a French actor. Well known in his native France as a leading man, Cassel is usually cast as a villain in American films. Cassel was born Vincent Crochon in Paris, France, to Sabine Litique, a journalist, 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 on 12 September 2004) and Léonie (born on 21 May 2010). His brother Mathias is a rapper with the group Assassin under the name "Rockin' Squat". His half-sister, Cécile is an actress. He has a passion for Capoeira and displayed his talent in the movie Ocean's Twelve. His breakthrough role was in Mathieu Kassovitz's critically acclaimed film La Haine where he played a troubled youth from the deprived outskirts of Paris. Cassel 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, genre-bending Le Pacte des Loups (in English, Brotherhood of the Wolf) and in the highly controversial Irréversible, where he appears fully nude. Cassel has also done a number of English language films, such as Ocean's Twelve