Biography

Patrick Poivey was a French actor very active in dubbing, he was notably known for being the regular French voice of Bruce Willis, Kyle MacLachlan, Don Johnson, Gary Cole, and Peter Stormare. He was also the first recurring voice of Tom Cruise and Mickey Rourke in their acting debuts. As a young actor, he performed on stage, before discovering, thanks to Paul Meurisse, the exercise of dubbing in the early 1970s. With an immediately identifiable vocal timbre, he lent his voice to some young Hollywood firsts in cinema and television in the 1980s and 1990s: Don Johnson (Miami Vice, Nash Bridges), Emilio Estevez (Young Guns), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives), Mickey Rourke but also Kevin Costner and Kenneth Branagh. He dubbed Tom Cruise in some of his most popular films (The Color of Money, Top Gun, The Firm, Mission Impossible, Rain Man) but he was best known for being Bruce Willis' "official" voice since the actors' debuts on television in Moonlight

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