Profile Maximilien Alonso, French actor

Maximilien Alonso is a French actor based in Paris. Playing age: 25 to 35. He works in French and in English, which he speaks at a bilingual level.

In 2026 he plays l’Homme de la Sûreté in Quasimodo, l’âme de Paris (international title: The Hunchback, Soul of Paris), Jean-François Richet’s feature film for Netflix, and a history teacher in the TF1 series Grandiose, directed by Elsa Bennett and Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux. In 2025 he played Joseph Bonaparte in season 2 of the France 2 docudrama Notre histoire de France, and took three lead roles in mid-length films: The Way of seeing life, Saudade and Spielberg. He has also appeared in the short films DRAM, by Noah Clouzeau-Taoui, and Un dernier pour Lola, by Louis Harat.

His commercial work includes Intermarché, BigMat, Groupama, SFR, Ajinomoto and Doctolib. On stage, he has performed in two plays directed by Nicolas Bret-Morel, Bonjour Madame and Il était une pièce, and in improv. Trained in dubbing at O’Bahamas, he also writes and directs, with two short films to date.

A note on vocabulary: in French, a comédien is an actor, not a stand-up comedian. Comedy is part of his stage work, through improv and sketch. Stand-up is not.