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Lambert Wilson
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Lambert Wilson (born August 3, 1958 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French actor.
He is the son of actor Georges Wilson. He is half Irish, half French.
He screen tested for
The Living Daylights (
1986) for the role of
James Bond, appearing in test footage opposite
Maryam D'Abo (the
Bond girl in
The Living Daylights) as Tatiana Romanova, re-enacting scenes from
From Russia with Love (
1963).
He released the album Musicals on the EMI label in 2004, with John McGlinn conducting Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. It features him singing songs of the American Musical Theatre catalogue, those well-known ("Maria" from West Side Story, "There But For You Go I" from Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon, "The Cafe Song" from Les Miserables, "Johanna" from Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd), rare ("Love Song" from Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's Love Life, "It Must Be So" from Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and "Silly People," which was cut from Sondheim's A Little Night Music), and those in-between ("Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park with George, "You Do Something to Me" from Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen, "Never Will I Marry" from Frank Loesser's Greenwillow).
Lambert was also featured in a series of artsy Calvin Klein ads featuring Christy Turlington for Eternity in 1991, as well as a poster ad for Eternity in 1998.
He has directed stage presentations of
Alfred de Musset's
Les Caprices de Marianne starring Laure Marsac at Paris'
Bouffes du Nord as well as
Racine's
Bérénice starring
Kristin Scott Thomas and
Didier Sandre at
Avignon then
Chaillot.
Filmography