Background
Son of a navy doctor, he is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco). She died in 2004.
Son of a navy doctor, he is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco). She died in 2004.
He studied acting at the Belgian university INSAS, in Brussels.
When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then Toulon, then, at seven, Tahiti. He is the father of the actor Émile Berling. March of the Penguins.