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Arthur Dupont

French actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ2865083 ↗
Source-derived summary

Arthur Dupont (born 1985) is a French actor. He was born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France.

Career

In 2006, he starred in Chacun sa nuit (One to another) directed by Jean Marc Barr, alongside Lizzie Brocheré and Karl E. Landler.

In 2010, he received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actor for his work on Bus Palladium.

Since 2021, he plays a lead role in the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.

Personal life

He has a son, born in 2021.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Arthur Dupont” is french actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Arthur, Dupont and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2006, 2010, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-07-26. For this dossier, Arthur, Dupont and French is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “french actor” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2865083. VIAF identifies the subject as 6366149068544265730004. The Library of Congress control number is no2008135954. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2006, 2010 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arthur Dupont” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.