Biographie
Jean-Michel Richaud was raised in Paris and has lived and worked in Spain, Holland, and Australia before making Los Angeles his home.
He earned his master’s degree from Sorbonne University and completed his studies at Paris’s National Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. During his time at the Conservatory, he received a scholarship to study at Columbia University in New York under the guidance of director Andrei Serban.
His on-screen career features numerous recurring television roles, including acting alongside Sharon Stone in Agent X. He co-starred in Bottle Shock with Alan Rickman and What Just Happened with Robert DeNiro, among many other projects.
In 2015, he played the lead in the period gothic thriller The Housemaid, filmed in Vietnam, which went on to become the highest-grossing horror film ever released there.
As a voice-over artist, Richaud has dubbed over 400 films and TV shows, lending his voice to Colin Firth in The King’s Speech, Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook, and Al Pacino in the 25th anniversary re-release of Scarface. His vocal work can also be heard in The Revenant, Frozen, The Bourne Identity, as well as numerous films, video games, and commercials.
He is a founding member of the award-winning theater company The Next Arena, known for producing a series of critically acclaimed plays.
Since 2010, Richaud has been starring in a sold-out international tour of the one-man show Vincent by Leonard Nimoy, based on over 800 letters exchanged between the Van Gogh brothers, Vincent and Theo. Richaud performs both characters, earning a Best Actor nomination at the 2016 Petits Molières, the French Tony Awards for small theaters. Leonard Nimoy also received a nomination for Best Contemporary Author for this work.
Vincent has toured dozens of cities worldwide, including New York (Symphony Space), Los Angeles (Center for the Art of Performance, UCLA), and Paris (Theatre Cine XIII).
