Profile | プロフィール

Born / 生年月日
January 5, 1981 | Brussels, Belgium

Age / 年齢
44 years old (as of 2025)

Occupation / 職業
Actor

俳優

Nationality / 国籍
Belgian (ベルギー)

Net Worth / 推定資産
Not publicly disclosed (非公開)

Biography | 経歴

[English] Jérémie Renier is a Belgian actor whose career across more than two and a half decades has established him as the most formally accomplished and humanistically serious screen performer to emerge from the Wallonia region of Belgium. Born on January 5, 1981, in Brussels, his professional journey was defined by a foundational casting decision: at age fifteen, the Dardenne brothers cast him as Igor in La Promesse (1996). His performance—rendering a teenager torn between loyalty to his criminal father and a moral obligation to an immigrant widow—established the “behavioral naturalism” that remains the hallmark of his performing intelligence.

His career is defined by a profound, decade-long creative partnership with the Dardennes, including the formal summit of his career in the Palme d’Or-winning The Child (L’Enfant, 2005) and the psychologically complex role in The Silence of Lorna (Le Silence de Lorna, 2008). Beyond the Dardenne aesthetic, Renier has demonstrated extraordinary range in François Ozon’s psychological dramas (In the House, Frantz) and most recently as the father in Lukas Dhont’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Close (2022). Renier possesses a singular capacity for the total inhabitation of morally compromised characters, capturing the full ethical complexity of the human experience under extreme social pressure.

[日本語] ジェレミー・レニエ（1981年1月5日、ブリュッセル生まれ）は、25年以上のキャリアを通じて、現代ヨーロッパ映画界で最も形式的に達成され、かつ人道主義的な真剣さを持つベルギー・ワロニア地方出身の俳優です。

彼の職業的キャリアにおける決定的な転機は15歳の時、ダルデンヌ兄弟の『イゴールの約束』（La Promesse、1996年）で主役のイゴールに抜擢されたことにあります。不法移民を搾取する父への忠誠と、父の過失で命を落とした男の遺族に対する道徳的義務の間で引き裂かれる少年を演じ、極限の道徳的状況下での「行動的自然主義」を確立しました。

ダルデンヌ兄弟との協力関係は、キャリアの形式的頂点であるパルム・ドール受賞作『ある子供』（2005年）での未熟な父親役、そして『ロルナの祈り』（2008年）へと続き、ベルギー映画史上最も重要な監督と俳優の創造的関係を築きました。さらに、フランソワ・オゾン監督の『危険なプロット』や『フランツ』、リュカス・ドン監督の『CLOSE／クロース』（2022年）での父親役など、社会的な圧力を受ける個人の倫理的葛藤を、装飾を排した内面的な深みをもって描き出す、唯一無二の演技的知性を備えた表現者です。

Filmography | 主要出演作品

Feature Films — Selected (主要出演映画)

Television — Selected (テレビ — 主要出演)

Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴

Cannes Film Festival (カンヌ国際映画祭)

Films in which Renier has appeared — Cannes prizes:

• The Child (L’Enfant) — Palme d’Or 🏆 (2005; as lead performer)
• The Silence of Lorna — Best Screenplay 🏆 (2008; as supporting performer)
• Girl — Un Certain Regard Best Film 🏆 (2018; as supporting performer)
• Close — Grand Prix 🏆 (2022; as supporting performer)

The sustained pattern of Cannes recognition across films in which Renier has appeared — from La Promesse (1996, in Competition) through Close (2022, Grand Prix) — constitutes one of the most consistent records of Cannes-recognized filmographic participation by any Belgian actor in the history of the festival.

Belgian Film Awards (Magritte Awards)

Nominated: Multiple 🌟

• Multiple Magritte Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor across his Belgian film career

César Awards (セザール賞)

Nominated:

• Best Supporting Actor – Frantz (2017) 🌟
• Multiple additional César nominations across his French-language career

Lumières Awards

Nominated:

• Multiple Lumières Awards nominations for French-language productions

Critics’ Recognition

• La Promesse — recognized as the most formally accomplished single teenage performing debut in the history of Belgian cinema
• The Child — Renier’s Bruno recognized across two decades as the most formally accomplished expression of the morally compromised young man in the history of the Dardenne brothers’ filmography, and as one of the most formally serious expressions of the moral catastrophe rendered without conventional instruments of judgment or sympathy in the history of the Palme d’Or–winning film
• Close — recognized for the quietly devastating ensemble supporting contribution

Box Office Achievements | 興行成績

Note: Renier’s career has been organized entirely around the formal and humanistic values of the European art cinema rather than the commercial mainstream; his significance is measured not by box office performance but by the sustained critical recognition and the pattern of Cannes-recognized films across nearly three decades of his filmographic career.

External Links | 外部リンク

• IMDb
• Wikipedia (English)
• Wikipedia (フランス語)