Patrick Bauchau's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Pretender Sydney Carnivale Professor L… Kindred: The Embraced Archon Raine Kane & Abel Ludwik

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Extraordinary Measures 2009 - 2012 2009 - The Perfect Sleep 2007 - Ladrones 2007 - The Gray Man 2007 - The Memory Thief 2006 - Karla 2002 - Panic Room 2002 - Secretary 2000 - The Cell 1998 - Holy Man 1994 - Clear and Present Danger 1994 - The New Age 1994 - Lisbon Story 1991 - The Rapture 1985 - Phenomena 1985 - A View to a Kill 1984 - Choose Me 1983 - Enigma 1983 - Les îles 1967 - La Collectionneuse

BIOGRAPHY:

Patrick Bauchau was born in Brussels, Belgium and raised in Belgium, Switzerland and England, UK. He attended Oxford University on an academic scholarship and studied Modern Languages (he speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and a bit of Russian and Flemish). Bauchau began his career in the French New Wave cinema. His work spans the 1960s through the present, though he took a break from acting during the 1970s. Bauchau is best known these days for his role as Sydney in the series "The Pretender" (1996). He also appeared in "Kindred: The Embraced" (1996), and a spate of other films and television appearances both in the United States and Europe. Bauchau's interests include gardening, carpentry, collecting oriental art, and yoga.


TRIVIA:

• Took a break from acting during which time he built furniture and created large stuffed-animal pillows for Salvadore Dali.
• Speaks French, English, German, Spanish and Italian, and also knows a bit of Flemish and Russian.
• Brother-in-law of 'Brigitte Bardot' (qv).
• Daughter named Camille.
• Member of jury at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 2005
• His father is acclaimed Paris-based Belgian author and psychoanalyst Henry Bauchau. His mother was Russian who ran a publishing house and a Swiss finishing school.
• His last name is pronounced "beau-show".
• One of three brothers, he was born in Brussels and raised in Belgium, England and Switzerland.