Background
He is the son of Lionnel Astier (Léodagan in Kaamelott) and Joëlle Sevilla (Séli in Kaamelott).
Actor director playwright screenwriter
He is the son of Lionnel Astier (Léodagan in Kaamelott) and Joëlle Sevilla (Séli in Kaamelott).
He studied music at the conservatory and at the American School of Modern Music of Paris. He also studied acting and screenwriting.
He is most known as the creator, director, writer, editor, composer, and lead actor of the French television series Kaamelott, in which he also plays King Arthur. In 2012, he plays Johann Sebastian Bach in his humorous show "Quebec ma joie demeure !" at the theater. In 2014, his comic show "L"Exoconférence" begins at the theater in September.
Debut at the theatre Alexandre Astier first got attention from the Lyon"s public thanks to the play Le Jour du froment.
He also acted in Nous Crions Grâce, a play written and directed by Jacques Chambon, to whom he gave the role of Merlin in Kaamelott. Kaamelott: the triumph Kaamelott is inspired by the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
This humorous series is broadcast on the French channel M6. The episodes lasted three and a half minutes until 2007.
Then, the format changed to seven minutes and finally reached fifty-five minutes per episode in the last season Book VI. He also composes the music of the series.
He has the ambition to extend the television show to the cinema as a trilogy, but not before 2012, since Alexandre Astier plans to work as a director on another movie before launching Kaamelott on the big screen. In June 2010, invited on the set of the show "J"irai LOLer sur vos tombes", he unveiled his project to publish a series of graphic novels titled Kaamelott Resistance as a transition between the television format and the future cinema films.
