Patrick Bruel
Biography
Patrick Maurice Benguigui (born 14 May 1959), better known by his stage name Patrick Bruel, is a French singer-songwriter, actor and professional poker player.
Patrick is the son of Pierre Benguigui and Augusta Kammoun, daughter of Elie and Céline ben Sidoun. He lived in the staff accommodation of the girls' school in Argenteuil where his mother was a teacher. In his youth, Bruel aspired to be a football player, but decided instead to pursue singing after seeing Michel Sardou in 1975.
His first success came as an actor, in 1979's Le Coup de sirocco. He continued acting in films, on television, and in the theater while pursuing his singing career. His first single, "Vide" ("Empty"), released in 1982, was not a success, but the follow-up, "Marre de cette nana-là" ("Fed up with that chick"), was a hit.
In 2003, just before his partner, the writer and playwright Amanda Sthers, gave birth to his first child, Oscar, on 19 August, he changed his name to Bruel-Benguigui, combining his stage name with his birth name. On 21 September 2004, he wed the then 26-year-old Sthers; it was his first marriage. His second child, Léon, was born on 28 September 2005. The couple separated in 2007.
As of 2004, Bruel has acted in more than forty television and film productions, and has made five studio albums and several live albums. In 2002, Bruel released Entre Deux, a double CD of classic chanson that features duets with Charles Aznavour, Jean-Louis Aubert, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Alain Souchon and Renaud, among others. It sold two million copies and made Bruel France's best paid singer of the year. At the beginning of 2005, in response to the South Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, Bruel wrote the song "Et puis la terre" with Marie-Florence Gros, with whom he had begun a long-term collaboration in 1998, to benefit the Red Cross. His latest album, "Des souvenirs devant", was his fourth chart-topper in France.
Bruel is a world-class professional poker player. He won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 1998 for the $5,000 Limit Hold'em event. As of 2009. he has earned more than $900,000 in tournament play, of which his ten cash winnings at the WSOP account for $411,659. He also comments on the World Poker Tour in France.
In the 2010s, Bruel bought a house in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. In January 2025, the house was destroyed by the Palisades Fire.
Bruel has been a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 1993.
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Acting (121 movies)
Les Enfoirés 2023 - Enfoirés un jour, toujours
2023
Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime
2021
Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés
2008
Pretty Things
2001
M6 awards 2000
2000
Comedy of Power
2006
L'Étrange Noël de Jeff Panacloc
2018
A Secret
2007
Grégory Lemarchal - Cinq ans
2012
Johnny Hallyday : Olympia 2000 - Les Duos
2019
Vianney en concert à l’AccorHotels Arena
2018
Wolf
2004
Change of Plans
2009
The Graduates of the Last Row
1982
The Murdered House
1988
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
Comme les 5 doigts de la main
2010
Brothers in Arms
1989
O Jerusalem
2006
The Brats
2013
Les Enfoirés 2022 - Un air d'Enfoirés
2022
Jaguar
1996
K
1997
Les Enfoirés 2011 - Dans l'oeil des Enfoirés
2011
P.R.O.F.S.
1985
Low Profile
1993
The Milk of Human Kindness
2001
I've Been Waiting So Long
2004
Paris-Manhattan
2012
What's in a Name
2012
The Kick of Sirocco
1979
Joyeux anniversaire Renaud
2022
Renaud, souvenirs, souvenirs
2023
Bandits
1987
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989
Il était une fois... Patrick Bruel
2014
Foul Play
1998
Avec Florent Pagny, tout le monde ELA
2023
Sweetheart
1992
Tous avec le Maroc
2023
Florent Pagny : Le Phénix
2023
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
2014
Céline Dion, le grand show
2012
Led by the Nose
1984
Sabrina
1995
Sex, Love & Therapy
2014
Singles
1982
Marche à l'ombre
1984
Les 20 chansons de Jean-Jacques Goldman préférées des Français
2021
Paparazzi
1998
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
2004
Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !
2024
Elsa sous la neige
1989
Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés
2015
Bruel Live Des souvenirs ... Ensemble
2007
The Misadventures of Margaret
1998
The Bastard
1983
Michel Polnareff, la soirée événement
2022
Le Prénom : la pièce de théâtre
2012
Florent Pagny : un homme libre
2023
Love at First Child
2015
Johnny Hallyday - Stade de France 98
2018
Leurs voix pour l'espoir - 4ème édition
2015
Les copains d'abord font du ski
2014
Johnny Hallyday Allume le feu au Stade de France
1999
Bitter Champagne
1986
A Bag of Marbles
2017
L'Énigme Jean-Jacques Goldman
2021
Paris 2024, le concert-événement
2023
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996
Patrick Bruel - Entre deux, à l'Olympia
2002
Poker Coach and Patrick Bruel
2007
Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
2017
A Family
2017
Johnny Hallyday - Parc des Princes 2003
2003
BRUEL 2014 Live
2014
Holy Lands
2019
The Best Is Yet to Come
2019
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
1998
Les Enfoirés 2019 - Le Monde des Enfoirés
2019
Ce soir, on sort
2019
Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu
2019
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés
2020
Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
1995
Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
1996
Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau
2002
Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
1993
Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex
1994
Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
2016
Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés
2014
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
1997
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
1999
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
2001
Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000
2000
Patrick Bruel, le concert événement
2019
Le Grand Carnaval
1983
Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !
2018
M.Pokora : 10 Ans de carrière (Symphonic Show)
2015
Si ce soir... 1990
1990
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