Wes Anderson’s latest work, The French Dispatch, has a star-studded cast – here’s every actor you’ll see in this new story as well as the characters they will play. Writer and director Wes Anderson continues bringing his unique vision, narrative style, and aesthetic to the big screen, and six years after his last live-action movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, comes The French Dispatch.
With a story by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is a comedy drama described as a “love letter to journalists set at an outpost American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city”. The movie follows three storylines from different journalists, forming a collection of tales published in The French Dispatch newspaper. Anderson has shared that the story was inspired by his love of The New Yorker, and that some of the characters and events are based on real-life equivalents from that particular magazine.
As expected from a Wes Anderson movie, The French Dispatch has many of his frequent collaborators as well as some new additions – and, of course, the cast list is long. Here’s every actor in The French Dispatch and the characters they play.
It can’t be a Wes Anderson movie without Bill Murray. In The French Dispatch, Murray plays Arthur Howitzer Jr, the editor of the title newspaper. Howitzer is based on Harold Ross, co-founder of The New Yorker. Murray has appeared in every movie by Wes Anderson except his directorial debut, Bottle Rocket, in 1996. The French Dispatch is not Bill Murray’s only movie in 2020, as he will also appear in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, reprising his role as Dr. Venkman.
Moonrise Kingdom was the beginning of yet another collaboration for Wes Anderson, this time with Tilda Swinton. In The French Dispatch, she plays J.K.L. Berensen, a writer and staff-member of the newspaper and author of one of the storylines told in the movie (“The Concrete Masterpiece”, to be precise). Tilda Swinton also appeared in The Grand Budapest Hotel and voiced Oracle in Isle of Dogs.
Frances McDormand plays Lucinda Krementz, a journalist profiling the student revolutionaries and author of the story “Revisions to a Manifesto”. McDormand has previously collaborated with Wes Anderson in Moonrise Kingdom and Isle of Dogs, where she voiced Interpreter Nelson.
Jeffrey Wright plays Roebuck Wright, a food journalist for The French Dispatch and author of the story “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner”. This character is an amalgamation of James Baldwin and A.J. Liebling. The French Dispatch is the first collaboration between Wright and Anderson, but as it usually happens, this might not be the last.
Another favorite of Anderson (who has also served as writer in many of his movies), Owen Wilson plays Herbsaint Salzerac, writer and staff-member of the magazine. Salzerac is based on Joseph Mitchell, a writer for The New Yorker. Wilson has appeared in every Wes Anderson movie except Moonrise Kingdom and Isle of Dogs.
Adrien Brody plays Julien Cadazio, an art dealer based on Lord Duveen, a British art dealer featured in a six-part New Yorker story. Cadazio is part of the story “The Concrete Masterpiece”, where he will come across with a very special artist who is spending time in jail. This is Brody’s fourth collaboration with Anderson, following The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Benicio del Toro plays the aforementioned incarcerated artist, Moses Rosenthaler. His story and paintings are the center of “The Concrete Masterpiece”. This is the first time he appears in a Wes Anderson movie.
Timothée Chalamet’s character is Zeffirelli, a student revolutionary who appears in Krementz’s story “Revisions to a Manifesto” – and he will have a very close encounter with Krementz. The French Dispatch is Chalament’s first collaboration with Anderson and one of the two movies he will appear in in 2020, the other one being Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.
Another recent addition to Anderson’s long list of collaborators. Léa Seydoux plays Simone, a prison guard and muse to del Toro’s Rosenthaler’s. Seydoux has previously appeared in The Grand Budapest Hotel, where she played Clotilde, a maid working for Swinton’s Madame D. 2020 is a busy year for Seydoux, as she will also appear in No Time To Die, The Story of My Wife, and On a Half Clear Morning.
The French Dispatch, like most Anderson movies, has a long list of supporting actors. Of course, the list is packed with even more frequent collaborators, though not much is known about their roles in the movie.
Christoph Waltz as Boris Schommers: Waltz is best known for his work in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. He will appear alongside Léa Seydoux in No Time to Die, reprising his role as Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Jason Schwartzman as Hermes Jones: Schwartzman has appeared in almost every movie by Anderson (except Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou). He’s also known for his roles in Marie Antoinette and Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
Lyna Khoudri as Juliette: Juliette is a student revolutionary and girlfriend of Chalamet’s character, and will appear in “Revisions to a Manifesto”. Lyna has mostly appeared in TV series, shorts, and independent movies.
Mohamed Belhadjine as Mitch Mitch: This is Belhadjine’s first movie role. Mitch Mitch is a student revolutionary, so expect to see him in “Revisions to a Manifesto”.
Lois Smith as Upshur Clampette: Lois Smith’s career spans seven decades, and she might be best remembered for her roles in Fatal Attraction, Marjorie Prime, and Lady Bird, as well as True Blood, where she played Adele Stackhouse. Upshur Clampette is an art collector, so she will most likely appear in “The Concrete Masterpiece”.
Elisabeth Moss as a French Dispatch staff member: Moss has appeared in a number of movies and TV shows, most notably The West Wing, Girl, Interrupted, Us, Mad Men, The Handmaid’s Tale, and most recently the reboot of The Invisible Man.
Fisher Stevens as a French Dispatch staff member: Steven has appeared in The Grand Budapest Hotel and Isle of Dogs, as well as The Experiment, LOL, Awake, and Hail, Caesar!. He had a minor role in Friends as one of Phoebe’s dates and appeared in just one episode.
Griffin Dunne as a French Dispatch staff member: Dunne is best known for his lead roles in An American Werewolf in London and Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, as well as minor roles in My Girl and Dallas Buyers Club.
Wally Wolodarsky as a French Dispatch staff member: Wolodarsky was one of the writers for The Simpsons during the series’ first four seasons and has appeared in various Wes Anderson movies.
Henry Winkler as one of Cadazio’s “business-partner uncles”: Winkler’s breakout role was Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli in Happy Days, and has since appeared in various TV shows such as Arrested Development, Parks & Recreation, and Barry.
Bob Balaban as one of Cadazio’s “business-partner uncles”: Balaban appeared in The Grand Budapest Hotel and Isle of Dogs, and outside Anderson’s world, he was part of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Capote, the Netflix series The Politician, and played Phoebe’s father in Friends.
There’s also a long list of actors in undisclosed roles, of which some can be briefly seen in The French Dispatch trailer.
- Saoirse Ronan
- Liev Schreiber
- Edward Norton
- Willem Dafoe
- Cécile de France
- Guillaume Gallienne
- Tony Revolori
- Rupert Friend
- Hippolyte Girardot
- Anjelica Huston
- Denis Ménochet
- Benjamin Lavernhe
- Vincent Macaigne
- Félix Moati
- Kate Winslet
- Alex Lawther
- Mathieu Amalric
- Steve Park
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