Happy birthday Jean Benguigui! The actor celebrates his 81th anniversary this April 8. Couple, retirement, health, family life, links with Laurent Ruquier … Here is everything you need to know about him.
Happy birthday Jean Benguigui! This native of Algiers celebrates his 81st birthday on April 8! But do you know this figure in French cinema which has more than 55 years of career and around thirty plays to its credit? Here is what you may not have known about him …
Does Jean Benguigui have health concerns?
At 81, Jean Benguigui faces some health concerns. At the beginning of 2025, the actor had to give up his role in the play Visits to Mister Green Because of kidney problems. “”I had health problems, a stamp, a heart attack, .. Race result: I lost my kidneys, I have no kidney. I am in dialysis three times a week. Three days without being able to work. It’s difficult to repeat“He had told the Parisian.
However, the actor was able to win a role in an episode of the series Captain Marleauwhich should be broadcast soon. Josée Dayan, the director, helped her to develop her schedule. “”I tell her that I am at the hospital three times a week, she replied: ‘I don’t care’. I tell her about the insurance, she replied: ‘I piss them off’ … I filmed a few days between the dialyzes“He said.
With whom is Jean Benguigui in a relationship?
It has already been over twenty-five years since Jean Benguigui shared his life with the one he married in 1998, named Sylvie. Unknown to the general public, she is very discreet, unlike her husband theater man. Besides, he admits himself: she never shows herself, not even in her company. “She is very discreet. She does not like to be photographed. Besides, on my phone I have no photo of her”had entrusted the octogenarian to Jordan de Luxe in October 2023.
And it is up to him to continue: “For example, when you go to the cinema or to the theater to a first, it pulls itself, she does not want to be with me. It is a woman who is like that, very discreet. And it is one of her greatest qualities”.
Is Jean Benguigui father?
Jean Benguigui, himself from a family of three children (he has two sisters), has a only son, singer Antoine Léonpaul. Information that the main interested party has only confirmed very recently. Born in Annecy in the mid -1970s, from a previous union of the French actor (the identity of his mother has always been kept secret), the artist lies today in Berlin where he continues to write and compose songs. And although Jean Benguigui believes he was a father present for his son, he also, “missed a lot of birthdays“, according to his secrets on the set of At Jordan.
Jean Benguigui and money: a sometimes complex relationship
If Jean Benguigui has established himself as an essential figure in cinema, theater, and even television, that did not prevent him from having some financial difficulties. This is what he entrusted to Jordan de Luxe a few months ago. The one who considers himself as “Expenditure” has indeed experienced a somewhat complicated period.
“I remember an era when I had a big debt: like 40 million cents of francs so I had to take some arrangements”started the great friend of Pierre Benichou and Claude Sarraute. Who was able to count on another of his very good friends to save him the bet.
“It happened to me a few times, but I have always been rescued by people who saved the barracks for me”he detailed. And it is to specify: “I am thinking of my friend Jean-Claude Darmon, the advertiser. When I had this tax debt, he got guaranteed for me for a bank loan”. Before concluding: “It’s beautiful, that means that he really commits. It’s better than spinning a little money like that”.
Today, Jean Benguigui affects a comfortable retirement of 3,300 euros. “”Compared to smicards, it’s good“He said.
What are the political opinions of Jean Benguigui?
The one we recently seen in Alexandre Arcady’s film, The little blond of the Casbah, has never hidden his political opinions. Moreover, in 2012, he had publicly supported François Hollande. Questioned by Jordan de Luxe on current political life, he did not hesitate for a second: “I followed the Socialist Party a lot, I am a social democrat, always”. And it is up to him to give his opinion on the rise of the far right in France: “You have to see by whom it was founded the extreme right (…) It is racist, extremist roots”.
If Jean Benguigui has had a broad success in the cinema and the theater for himself, it is to Laurent Ruquier that he owes his entry into the world of the media. Indeed, he was part of the troop of We’re going to be caughtthat of We tried everything,, We only ask to laughthen, more recently, those of Big heads.
Experiments that go far beyond the professional. Besides, the 80 -year -old says it: his “Life has changed from that moment (when he met Laurent Ruquier, editor’s note)”. Questioned in the process by the host Jordan of luxury about their current relations, he hastened to answer: “I am an intimate friend with Laurent Ruquier”. Before covering it with praise and ending with: “He gives gifts, he takes you on vacation, he invites you, he is royal”.
