Name	Laurent Cantet
Height
Naionality	French
Date of Birth	15-June-1961
Place of Birth	Melle, Deux-Sevres, France
Famous for	Acting

Laurent Cantet is a French actor and director. His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux. His film L'Emploi du temps was placed at 99 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s, number 9 of The Guardian's Best Films of the Noughties, and number 11 at The AV Club's top 50 films of the 00s. On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes 2008, for the movie Entre les murs.