Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat – NBCUniversal’s 73rd Annual Golden Globes After Party – Arrivals – The Beverly Hilton – Beverly Hills, CA, USA, 2016 – Photo Credit: Shogo Okishio / HNW / PRPhotos.com

Birth Name: Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Date of Birth: 23 August, 1961

Ethnicity:
*French (father)
*Greek (mother)

Alexandre Desplat is a French film composer. He is an Academy Award, Grammy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and César Award winner.

He was born in Paris, to a Greek mother, Katie Ladopoulou, a poet, from Athens, and a French father, Jacques Desplat, from Sarlat-la-Canéda. His parents met in the U.S., while at college at Berkeley. With his wife, musician Dominique Lemonnier, he is the father of actresses Antonia Desplat and Ninon Desplat.