
Biography
Denis Menochet (born 1977 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise) is a French film and television actor. Menochet is perhaps best known to an international audience for his role as Perrier LaPadite, a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews, in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds. Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for the New York Daily News, praised Menochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds. Weitzman wrote in August 2009, "The terrific opening, for example, does feature a hailstorm of bullets. What you'll remember best, though, is the haunted silence of actor Denis Menochet, playing a French farmer accused of harboring Jews."
Awards & recognition
- Goya Award — Best Actor · 2023
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- César Award — Best Actor · 2023 · nominated
Filmography30 titles

Inglourious Basterds

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The Beasts

Custody

The Round Up

The Mauritanian

La Vie En Rose

In the House

By the Grace of God

The French Dispatch

The Adopted

Beau Is Afraid

Only the Animals

Norfolk

Special Forces

Old Boys

The Dancer

The Program

Robin Hood

Mary Magdalene

The Emperor of Paris

Hannibal Rising

Monsieur Spade

Just a Sigh

The Moustache

7 Days in Entebbe

Peter von Kant

Assassin's Creed

Rumours

You Will Be Mine