Grégory Fitoussi (born 13 August 1976) is a French actor best known for appearing in television series such as Spiral, Spin and Mr Selfridge.
He was born in Paris to Pied-Noir Sephardi Jewish parents. His parents opened a clothing store in Paris managed by his mother, while his father designed the displays.[1] He appears alongside his brother, Mikaël Fitoussi, in the short film Alliés Nés, roughly based on his own family.[2] He was in a relationship for several years with the actress Anne Caillon.[citation needed] He lives in Saint-Mandé, a high-end commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris.[3]
Fitoussi appeared in the TF1 television soap Sous le soleil in which he played Benjamin, the husband of the character Laure Olivier. He also appeared in L'État de Grace, a television series broadcast on France 2, in which he played the gynaecologist of Grace, the president of France. Later, he played Maître Vidal, the lawyer of Marie Besnard (played by Muriel Robin), in the French docudrama The Poisoner (Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse).
Fitoussi had one of the lead roles in seasons 1-5 of French police procedural drama Engrenages, known in English as Spiral, where he played prosecutor/advocate Pierre Clément alongside Caroline Proust as Chief Inspector Laure Berthaud.
In 2012 and 2014, Fitoussi played spin doctor Ludovic Desmeuze in France 2's politics thriller Les Hommes de l'ombre (Spin in English-speaking countries). The series has won acclaim in the United Kingdom where it began to air in 2016 as part of the Walter Presents service on Channel 4's All 4 platform. Its third and final season aired in 2016 in France and in 2017 in the UK.[4] It was also broadcast internationally on the TV5Monde channels.
Between 2013 and 2015, Fitoussi appeared as Henri Leclair in 24 episodes of ITV's Mr Selfridge.[5]
In 2015, he appeared as Luc Girard in the NBC drama series American Odyssey.
In 2018, it was announced that he would join the cast of season 2 Sky Atlantic's Riviera