Mathieu Amalric is a three-time César Award winning French actor and film director, perhaps best known for his lead role in the four-time Academy Award nominated 2007 film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. He also has won the Étoile d'Or and the Lumiere Award, and will play the villain Dominic Greene in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.
Amalric was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France, the son of journalists Nicole Zand, a literary critic for Le Monde, and Jacques Amalric, who has worked as an editorialist for French newspapers Le Monde and Libération. He first gained fame in the film My Sex Life...or How I Got Into an Argument.