Appealing actor Romain Duris is the exact example of those who arrived in the movie industry by chance, and to stardom without really desiring it. Discovered by a casting director while he was waiting in front of a high school in Paris, he was offered a role. Between popular successes such as Le péril jeune (1994), Dobermann (1997), Le petit poucet (2001), L'auberge espagnole (2002) or Arsène Lupin (2004), and independent films like 17 fois Cécile Cassard (2002), Exils (2004), Gadjo dilo (1997), Being Light (2001), Déjà mort (1998) or Chacun cherche son chat (1996), Duris proves to be versatile enough to be credible as a bandit, as a homosexual, or simply as a French student in the streets of Barcelona. The consecration has been De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005); now Duris is seen as an excellent and touching actor by the critics and by the audience.