Biography
Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953 in Paris, France) is a television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes.
He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including Cobra and X-Or.
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He first appeared in front of the camera with the series Les Enfants du rock, again for A2, before making a breakthrough with Nulle part ailleurs for Canal+.
De Caunes came to fame in the English-speaking world on the BBC2 television series Rapido before starting the long-running adult entertainment programme Eurotrash with Jean-Paul Gaultier for Channel 4. He also presented a short-lived chat show on Channel 4 called Le Show. He also appeared in an advertising campaign for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles ice lollies, which he claimed to be "a French lollipop, on a very British stick."
He provided voices in Aardman Animation TV show Rex the Runt.
He has been a long-time AIDS awareness campaigner, fronting the organisation Soirées de l'humour — Solidarité sida.
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