David Beaulieu — A Life in Many Acts

The Light of a Storyteller

“Paris is my city.”

He says it simply, without ceremony. And walking alongside David Beaulieu through the streets of Paris, you understand exactly what he means.

David is a French actor based in Paris. Trained at the Cours Florent, one of France’s well-known drama schools, he first took to the stage at 16 and acted until 28. Life then led him through music, songwriting, journalism, and business — but the pull of expression never left him. At 60, he returned to acting. His credits include AKA (2023) and Esprit d’hiver (2022).

He moves through Paris with a quiet ease. On the banks of the Seine, at the Galerie Vivienne, in the galleries of the Marais — he belongs. Not as a visitor, but as someone for whom the city is simply home.

Art, for David, is not decoration. It is conversation. He steps into exhibitions the way others step into a familiar café — naturally, without hesitation.

When asked what light he cherishes most in his life, he answers without hesitation:
“Love, of course. I mean love — and being loved.”

And what has changed him most:
“Maybe the loss of my first baby, at one month old.”

Some lights are born from darkness. Behind the ease and the warmth is a man shaped by real life — its joys and its losses alike.

As for acting — whether he feels most alive on stage or on screen:
“Both. It is always acting, with a few differences for sure.”

On a sun-filled afternoon along the Seine, Notre-Dame rising in the distance, the city holds still for just a moment.
This is Paris as David knows it. And in it, he is very much alive.

website: https://davidbeaulieu.fr/

Photography by Mariko / Studio Tales