Biography
Nicolas Depetris is a French actor based in France and working regularly in Japan, across European and international film, television, commercial, and interactive productions.
His career reflects an uncommon path through architecture, fine art, and performance. After qualifying as an architect, Nicolas pursued his acting training across Europe and Japan, studying classical theatre in Paris, the Meisner technique in Berlin, and Japanese performing arts, including Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki, in Fukuoka.
This multidisciplinary background has shaped an understated yet physically precise approach to screen acting, combining emotional authenticity with a strong visual awareness.
Having lived and trained in Nice, Paris, Berlin, and Fukuoka, and continuing to spend extended periods each year in Japan, Nicolas has developed a genuine understanding of both European and Japanese creative cultures. A native French speaker who works professionally in English, he also performs scripted roles in Japanese.
His screen work includes French and international productions, a national commercial campaign for NTT Docomo in Japan, and the TF1 period drama *L’Été 36*, later released internationally on Netflix.
Alongside his acting career, Nicolas is an internationally exhibited oil painter whose work has been shown across Europe and Japan, including solo exhibitions in Tokyo. His experience as both a painter and an architect informs a cinematic sensibility rooted in composition, atmosphere, silence, and the emotional power of visual storytelling.
Drawn to psychologically layered characters, Nicolas has a particular affinity for complex professionals, outsiders, intellectuals, antagonists, and figures whose apparent control conceals deeper emotional tension. He is especially interested in thrillers, historical dramas, crime stories, and international co-productions that bring together different languages, cultures, and perspectives.
