French actor and filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz has been seriously injured in a motorbike accident on the Autodrome de Montlhéry circuit outside Paris according to THR.
French news channel CNews indicated Kassovitz has been taken to the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital in Paris. His condition is said to be “worrying”.
Kassovitz broke out with 1995’s iconic “La Haine” which saw him win Best Director in Cannes. That film follows three men in the 24 hours after a violent riot takes place on the outskirts of Paris.
As a director, he also helmed “Crimson Rivers,” “Gothika” and “Babylon A.D.”. As an actor, he has starred in films like “Amelie,” “Munich,” “The City of Lost Children,” “The Fifth Element,” “Haywire,” “Jakob the Liar,” “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” and TV series like “The Bureau” and “War and Peace”.
Most recently, he starred opposite Diane Kruger in “Visions” in which Kruger plays a married airline captain who falls for another woman and begins an affair.
Kassovitz has also been a motorbike enthusiast for more than two decade, developing the passion whilst living in Los Angeles.
