Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Damien Bonnard

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Damien Bonnard was born in Alès, Gard, Occitanie, France on July 22, 1978. He emerged onto the scene in 2016 when Alain Guiraudie's Rester vertical “Staying Vertical”, in which he played a wayward screenwriter, was screened at the Festival de Cannes, Damien Bonnard is now a familiar face in the French film industry. After working with Christopher Nolan “Dunkirk”, (2017), he dazzled in Pierre Salvadori's comedy “En liberté” (The Trouble with You). In 2019, he starred in “Ladj Ly's Les Misérables”, which won the Festival de Cannes' Jury Prize and four Césars, as well as in “J’Accuse” (An Officer and a Spy) by Roman Polanski, which won the Venice Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize.

Bonnard has appeared in one Euro-western short as Pat Garrett in 2013’s “The Ballad of Billy the Kid” starring Rodolphe Pauly

BONNARD, Damien [7/22/1978, Alès, Gard, Occitanie, France -     ] – director, writer, film, TV actor.

The Ballad of Billy the Kid – 2013 (Pat Garrett)