Grégory Fitoussi

Grégory Fitoussi (born 13 August 1976) is a French actor. Born and raised in Paris, he rose to prominence playing Benjamin Losey in the French soap opera Sous le soleil (1998-2001). After departing the show, he had a prominent role in the police procedural and legal drama series Spiral (2005-2014), playing Pierre Clément, a young prosecutor. His other prominent television roles have included Spin (2012-2016), Mr Selfridge (2012-2015) and Peaky Blinders (2022).

Early life

He was born in 1976 in Paris to Pied-Noir Sephardi Jewish parents. His parents opened a clothing store in Paris managed by his mother, while his father designed the displays. At the age of 20 he abandoned his university studies in cultural mediation to pursue acting and taking classes with Jack Waltzer of the Actors Studio.

He appears alongside his brother, Mikaël Fitoussi, in the short film Alliés Nés, roughly based on his own family.

Career

Fitoussi appeared in the TF1 television soap Sous le soleil in which he played Benjamin, the husband of the character Laure Olivier. He also appeared in L'État de Grace, a television series broadcast on France 2, in which he played the gynaecologist of Grace, the president of France. Later, he played Maître Vidal, the lawyer of Marie Besnard (played by Muriel Robin), in the French docudrama The Poisoner (Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse).