Yves Heck is a French actor who was born and grew up in Namur (Belgium) where he started drama school when he was 14. After a first professional theatre production, he moved to Paris at the age of 19 to attend
Niels Arestrup's drama school, « Théâtre-École du passage ». Yves speaks English fluently and started his international career, with a strong theatre and contemporary dance background, portraying
Cole Porter in
Woody Allen's
Midnight in Paris (2011).
Since then, most notably, Yves has worked on
Things to Come (2016), which starred
Isabelle Huppert, for which director
Mia Hansen-Løve won the Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director, in the winner of 44 international awards,
Robin Campillo movie,
120 BPM (2017), in
The White Crow (2018), directed by
Ralph Fiennes, and in
La Syndicaliste (2022), directed by
Jean-Paul Salomé, which also starred
Isabelle Huppert.
In 2024, Yves appears in 3 major Apple TV+ series,
Masters of the Air (2024), directed by
Cary Joji Fukunaga,
The New Look (2024), directed by
Jeremy Podeswa and
Franklin (2024) which starred
Michael Douglas, directed by
Timothy Van Patten.