Hossein then gave him his first role as the young 'Edgar Linton' in his play 'Les Hauts de Hurlevent' (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë),[5] performed in the theater of Boulogne-Billancourt and Lyon in 1979.

The actor thought of his weekends in Luc-sur-Mer on the Côte de Nacre, where he spent a lot of his time, he then becomes Xavier Deluc.

[7] Then the following year, at the 11th ceremony of the César, where he is nominated as the best actor in a supporting role for He Died with His Eyes Open by Jacques Deray,[8] just after completing Robert Kramer's science-fiction film Diesel in 1985.

[13] In 1989, he starred with James Wilby and Serena Gordon in a two-part TV mini-series of A Tale of Two Cities for ITV Granada.

[17] From 1998 to 2005, he starred in the Marc Eliot television series and then in 2006, he landed his most important role in his television career, performing the Major, then Lieutenant, then Captain Martin Bernier, main character of the series 'Research Unit',[2][3][6] which in 2018 reached the twelfth season, with him being the only surviving cast member since the start.

[7] In 2007, he wrote and directed his first feature film 'Tombé d'un étoile' in which he co-starred alongside Thomas Sagols, Rona Hartner and Jean-Louis Tribes.