Francis Huster (born 8 December 1947) is a French stage, film and television actor, film director and scriptwriter. Francis Huster was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He studied acting at the Conservatoire of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, at the Cours Florent and at the Conservatoire national (1968), where he had RenΓ© Simon and later Antoine Vitez as teachers. He joined the ComΓ©die-FranΓ§aise in 1971, became sociΓ©taire in 1977, and left this institution in 1982. He later founded the theater group Compagnie Francis Huster, of which the following actors have been members: Clotilde Courau, ValΓ©rie Crunchant, Christiana RΓ©ali, Estelle Skornik, Valentine Varela, Olivier Martinez, Mathieu Carriere. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis Huster, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.