# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leos-carax
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:28:32.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leos-carax"
name: "Leos Carax"
slug: "leos-carax"
description: "Alex Christophe Dupont, best known as Leos Carax, is a French film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl (1984), and his notable works include Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Pola X (1999), Holy Motors (2012) and Annette (2021). For the latter, he won the Best Director prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival."
tagline: "French director and writer (born 1960)"
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country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1960-11-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump