Benjamin Biolay

Benjamin Biolay (French pronunciation: [bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ bjɔlɛ]; born 20 January 1973) is a French singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is the brother of singer Coralie Clément—whose first three albums he wrote and produced—and the ex-husband of Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.

Benjamin Biolay
Biolay in 2022
Born	(1973-01-20) 20 January 1973 (age 52) Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
Occupations	Singer musician songwriter record producer actor
Labels	Virgin Naïve
Spouse	Chiara Mastroianni ​ ​ (m. 2002; div. 2005)​
Website	benjaminbiolay.com

His low-key vocal style is somewhat similar to French pop star Étienne Daho. With the singer Keren Ann, whose first two albums he co-wrote and produced, he contributed several songs to Chambre avec Vue, the successful comeback album of singer Henri Salvador, and has since worked as a writer, arranger or producer for other icons of French music, including Juliette Gréco, Julien Clerc, Françoise Hardy, Vanessa Paradis and Nolwenn Leroy.

He wrote or performed most of the songs on the 2004 soundtrack to Clara et Moi by Arnaud Viard, and released the album Home with his wife the same year. After two more rock oriented albums in 2005 and 2007 he was dropped by his record company and began working on his first independent release, La Superbe, released on Naïve records in 2009. This was followed by the soundtrack album Pourquoi tu pleures in 2011 and Vengeance in 2012.

Personal life

Benjamin was married to actress and singer Chiara Mastroianni from 2002 to 2005; they have a daughter, Anna, born 22 April 2003.

Discography

Albums

Solo studio albums

Year	Album	Peak positions
		FR [1]	BEL (Fl) [2]	BEL (Wa) [3]	GER [4]	SPA	SWI [5]
2001	Rose Kennedy	66	–	–	–	–	–
2003	Négatif	15	–	9	–	–	–
2005	À l'origine	17	–	27	–	–	–
2007	Trash Yéyé	11	–	23	–	–	72
2009	La Superbe	3	–	7	98	97	61
2011	Pourquoi tu pleures?	38	–	54	–	–	–
2012	Vengeance	2	95	6	–	42	22
2015	Trenet	19	174	12	–	–	–
2016	Palermo Hollywood	3	107	6	–	–	17
2017	Volver	3 [6]	129	1	–	–	12
2020	Grand Prix	1	110	1	–	–	3
2022	Saint-Clair	1 [7]	–	1	–	–	7
2023	À l'auditorium	–	–	19	–	–	90

Joint albums

Year	Album	Peak positions
		BEL (Wa) [3]	SWI [5]
2004	Home (with Chiara Mastroianni)	26	98

Compilation albums

Year	Album	Peak positions
		BEL (Wa) [3]
2011	Best Of	178

EPs

Year	EP title
2001	Benjamin Biolay Remix EP

Soundtracks

Year	Album	Peak positions
		FR [1]
2004	Clara et Moi	163

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions			Album
		FR [1]	BEL (Wa) [3]	BEL (Wa) Tip [3]
2008	"Qu'est ce que ça peut faire?"	–	–	14
2010	"La superbe"	–	38	–
	"Si tu suis mon regard"	–	–	32
2011	"Ton héritage"	–	–	28
	"Pas la forme"	–	–	25
2012	"Aime mon amour"	60	39	–
	"Profite" (feat. Vanessa Paradis)	93	–	24
	"Ne regrette rien" (feat. Orelsan)	157	–	–
2014	"Ton héritage" (rerelease)	80	–	–
	"Pas besoin de permis" (with Vanessa Paradis)	35	–	–
2016	"Palermo Hollywood"	161	–	–
2017	"Roma (Amor)" (with Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas)	136 [8]	–	–
2018	Paris Sur Mer (on Morcheeba's "Blaze Away" album)

Featured in

Year	Single	Peak positions	Album
		FR [1]
2003	"L'hymne à l'amour" (Aznavour, Boulay, Eicher, Biolay, Macias, Maurane, Foly, Fontaine, Mami, Leroy, Pagny & Badi)	50

Other charted songs

Year	Song	Peak positions	Album
		FR [1]
2017	"Retiens la nuit"	80 [9]	On a tous quelque chose de Johnny

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Stella	Stella's father	Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actor
2010	The Pack	The Spack's son
2013	Under the Rainbow	Maxime Wolf
2014	The Easy Way Out	Gérard
2015	The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun	Michel Caravaille
2016	Encore heureux	Antoine
	Faultless (Irréprochable)	Gilles
	Fleur de tonnerre	Mathieu Verron
2017	Number One	Marc Ronsin
2017	Memoir of War
2019	Capitaine Marleau	Philippe Louveau	TV series (1 episode)
2019	Chambre 212	Richard Warrimer at 40
2020	The Eddy	Franck Levy
2021	France	Fred de Meurs
2022	The Line	Julien
	Le Monde d'hier	Didier Jansen
	Stella est amoureuse	Serge Vlaminck
	Comme une actrice	Antoine
	Un hiver en été	Franck
2023	Rosalie	Barcelin