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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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-05-14
Place of birth
Tlemcen, Oran, France [now Algeria]
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Cast
D'un film à l'autre
2011
7.83
Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime
2021
6.70
Pretty Things
2001
5.00
M6 awards 2000
2000
10.00
Comedy of Power
2006
6.24
L'Étrange Noël de Jeff Panacloc
2018
0.00
A Secret
2007
6.47
Grégory Lemarchal - Cinq ans
2012
0.00
Wolf
2004
6.50
Change of Plans
2009
5.41
The Graduates of the Last Row
1982
3.90
The Murdered House
1988
6.70
Comme les 5 doigts de la main
2010
6.20
Brothers in Arms
1989
6.81
O Jerusalem
2006
6.00
The Brats
2013
6.05
Jaguar
1996
5.70
K
1997
6.06
P.R.O.F.S.
1985
6.22
Low Profile
1993
5.30
The Milk of Human Kindness
2001
6.00
Une vie à t'attendre
2004
4.36
Paris-Manhattan
2012
5.48
What's in a Name
2012
7.32
The Kick of Sirocco
1979
6.00
Joyeux anniversaire Renaud
2022
8.00
Renaud, souvenirs, souvenirs
2023
8.00
Bandits
1987
5.79
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989
6.20
Foul Play
1998
7.00
Sweetheart
1992
6.30
Tous avec le Maroc
2023
0.00
Florent Pagny : Le Phénix
2023
6.00
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
2014
5.90
Céline Dion, le grand show
2012
9.20
Led by the Nose
1984
5.50
Sabrina
1995
6.21
Sex, Love & Therapy
2014
5.50
Singles
1982
5.10
Marche à l'ombre
1984
6.46
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
1994
0.00
Paparazzi
1998
5.00
Elsa sous la neige
1989
0.00
The Misadventures of Margaret
1998
5.20
The Bastard
1983
0.00
Le Prénom : la pièce de théâtre
2012
7.77
Florent Pagny : un homme libre
2023
8.00
Love at First Child
2015
5.66
Les copains d'abord font du ski
2014
8.00
Bitter Champagne
1986
0.00
A Bag of Marbles
2017
7.80
L'Énigme Jean-Jacques Goldman
2021
6.90
Paris 2024, le concert-événement
2023
9.00
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996
6.00
Poker Coach and Patrick Bruel
2007
0.00
A Family
2017
5.90
BRUEL 2014 Live
2014
0.00
Holy Lands
2019
6.20
The Best Is Yet to Come
2019
6.80
Ce soir, on sort
2019
0.00
Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu
2019
7.50
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
6.20
Le Grand Carnaval
1983
5.63
Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !
2018
7.10
Si ce soir... 1990
1990
10.00
Villa Caprice
2021
5.50
Follow My Gaze
1986
6.30
La Mort en sautoir
1980
0.00
Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
2005
8.00
Tears like knives
1983
0.00
Lost & Found
1999
5.00