Pascal Légitimus
A French actor, comedian, and theatre director, Pascal Légitimus entered the world on March 13, 1959, in Paris’s 17th arrondissement. The grandson of comedian Darling Légitimus and nephew of television producer Gésip Légitimus, he has familial ties to a creative background. He also has connections to Étienne Légitimus and is a cousin of Laurent Voulzy. His mother, Madeleine Kambourian, was an Armenian theater costumer, while his father, Théo Légitimus, was an actor of Antillean descent with Ethiopian ancestry. This diverse lineage appears to have influenced his career path. Légitimus’s early involvement in theatre began at Claude-Bernard High School in Paris, where he gained recognition as an actor. In the mid-1970s, he co-founded a theater club with Éric Civanyan and Daniel Schick. He subsequently appeared on Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard in the early 1980s as part of a group initially called 'Les Cinq de Bouvard'. He achieved significant success starting in 1985 as a member of the comedy group Les Inconnus, which also includes Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan. The group is known for iconic sketches like ‘Rap-tout’ and ‘Télémagouilles,’ and they released the critically and commercially successful film Les Trois Frères in 1995, winning the César Award for Best First Film. He has been collaborating with Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan for forty years. Beyond his work with Les Inconnus, Légitimus has pursued various creative endeavors. He wrote, directed, and produced the film Antilles sur Seine . From 1998 to 2003, he starred in the police series Crimes en série , and from 2006 to 2009, he played the patriarch in Les Tricheurs . He has also directed plays such as Plus si affinités and currently stars in Non à l'argent! starting in 2017. In 2011, he performed a stand-up show called Alone Man Show . He is now appearing in Le Duplex , which premiered in February 2024 and will return on September 12, 2024, at the Théâtre de Paris, as well as Le Bémol and Vols au Musée de la Croûte . A book, La Bible des Inconnus , chronicling their forty years of work together, is scheduled for publication on October 2, 2025. He also participates in a webinar called 'Bas les Masques' with Roméo Cournal and has a passion for seashells.
