RIP Jean-Francois Wolff

 

Luxembourg actor Jean-François Wolff has died

Black Notebook

August 23, 2022

 

LUXEMBOURG – Figure of the Luxembourg scene and cinema, the actor Jean-François Wolff died at the age of 59, we learned on Tuesday.

The world of Luxembourg cinema and theater is in shock on Tuesday. We learned of the death of actor Jean-François Wolff, at only 59 years old. Figure of the grand-ducal scene, Jean-François Wolff, a Luxembourg-French born in Brussels in 1963, had first studied engineering in Belgium before switching to the arts.

He goes through the Luxembourg Conservatory, where he is a pupil of Marja-Leena Junker, before getting on the boards in "Deaths without Sepulture", by Jean-Paul Sartre. He began to appear on the big screen in 2001, in the films "D'Artagnan", with Catherine Deneuve, and "CQ", where he played opposite Gérard Depardieu.

Andy Bausch, another sacred monster of Luxembourg cinema, spotted him, and made him a member of his legendary “Club des chômeurs” (2003). Jean-François' career then continued between cinema and theatre, the two arts giving an echo to his banter and his extraordinary verve. We see it in particular in "JCVD", with Jean-Claude Van Damme, "Les Gars", by Adolf El Assal or even "Boule et Bill", with Franck Dubosc and Marina Foïs.

Tributes have poured in on the Facebook page of Jean-François Wolff, since the announcement of his death. The musician and singer Serge Tonnar writes in particular “Thank you for having given us everything from you. In the hope that we were able to give you a little of us in return”.

To his loved ones, to his family, L'essentiel presents its most sincere saddened condolences.

WOLFF, Jean-Francois

Born: 5/3/1963, Brussels, Belgium

Died: 8/21/2022, Luxembourg

 

Jean-Francois Wolff’s western – actor:

Never Grow Old – 2019 (prospector)