 The following year, he appeared in another Laurent Cantet film "Ressources humaines", which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2001.His career took off and he appeared in several films, playing a wide range of characters, such as a sensual gardener in "Sade", a body builder addict in "Vivre me tue", a boxer in "Virgil", an avant-garde artist in Alain Resnais's "Pas sur la bouche", a journalist in Robert Guédiguian's "Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars", etc.He is currently appearing in a series on French television called "Pigalle, la nuit".