Max Baissette de Malglaive (born June 19, 2000) is a French actor born in Paris, France. He became known mainly thanks to his role in the film Versailles by Pierre Schoeller, but also in that of L'Immortel by Richard Berry. He is the godson of Véronique de Villèle.
Biography[]
Max Baissette de Malglaive was born on June 19, 2000 in Paris, France. He survived leukemia as a child before falling in love with cinema at the age of 6. In 2008, his father brought him to the casting of the drama Versailles by Pierre Schoeller . Coming with the aim of being an extra, Max finally landed the leading role in the film alongside Guillaume Depardieu . He plays Enzo, a five-year-old street child who meets a homeless man living in a cabin near the famous French castle.
The young actor then shines in Mensch as the son of the safe breaker Nicolas Cazalé , then in L’Immortel , the gangster film by Richard Berry where he plays Anatole, whose father is the gangster Charly Matteï played by Jean Reno . After going through comedy via Case Départ with Fabrice Eboué and Thomas Ngijol , Max distinguished himself in Une place sur la terre . In this moving dramatic comedy, the boy plays opposite Benoît Poelvoorde in the role of a joyfully disillusioned photographer.
In 2014, Max Baissette de Malglaive played Vincent Lindon‘s son in the thriller Mea Culpa, then returned to comedy with the crazy teen movie Rattrapage led by young actors Anthony Sonigo, Tanguy Onakoy and YouTuber Jimmy Labeeu.
From 2012 to 2016, he studied at Lycée Montaigne.
In 2018, at the age of 17, the actor landed a difficult role in Monsieur Je-Sais-Tout, as the role of Léo, an autistic teenager suffering from Asperger’s syndrome whom the football coach, Arnaud Ducret, will take under his wing.
In 2023, he is a part of Vincent Macaigne's theater troupe which is creating at the Maison de la culture de Bobigny (MC93), a very free adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, "Before the Terror".
He is the voiceover role of Jacques Montague in Season 7 of Totally Spies!, both in French and in English roles respectively. He is also the second voiceover artist to voice an animated character in French and in English.