Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart graduated from a technical college and studied at the Academy of Beaux Arts in Buenos Aires and in private comedy workshops. He was quickly cast in theatre plays and film for the big and small screens in Argentina. In 2008, at the age of 21, he was granted the Rolex scholarship, that brought him to New York, in Kate Valk’s The Wooster Group.
The same year, upon his return to Argentina, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart is noticed in La Sangre Brota (Blood Appears), directed by Pablo Fendrik, selected in Cannes’s Semaine de la Critique. Later on, Benoît Jacquot offers him the leading role in Au fond des bois (Deep in the Woods), shown in Locarno in 2010. In 2014 we find him in the cast of another film presented at Cannes, in Un Certain Regard: Grand Central, by Rebecca Zlotowski. It follows then in Belgium the shooting of Je suis à toi (All Yours), by David Lambert, which brings him the Best Actor Award at Karlovy Vary Festival.
This year Nahuel Pérez Biscayart is making a strong come-back in the French cinema. He plays the leading part in Au revoir là-haut (See You Up There) by Albert Dupontel and 120 battements par minute (120 Beats per Minute) by Robin Campillo, Grand Prix in Cannes, where he plays Sean, a charismatic figure of the group Act Up at the beginning of the ’90s.