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Lupin (Netflix) characters list

Key:

•    Main cast (credited)
•    Recurring role (appears in at least three episodes)
•    Guest role (appears in one to two episodes)
• Several characters are played by different actors in the present day and the 1990s flashbacks. Where applicable, the actor who plays the present-day version of the character is listed on top, with their flashback counterpart below.

Character	Actor(s)	Seasons
		Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Part 4
Main cast
Assane Diop	Omar Sy Mamadou Haïdara	Main
Claire Laurent	Ludivine Sagnier Ludmilla Makowski	Main
Benjamin Férel	Antoine Gouy Adrian Valli de Villebonne	Main
Youssef Guédira	Soufiane Guerrab	Main
Sofia Belkacem	Shirine Boutella	Main
Juliette Pellegrini	Clotilde Hesme Léa Bonneau	Main		Guest	TBA
Anne Pellegrini	Nicole Garcia	Main			TBA
Hubert Pellegrini	Hervé Pierre	Main		Guest	TBA
Romain Laugier	Vincent Londez	Main			TBA
Raoul Diop	Etan Simon	Recurring		Main	TBA
Supporting cast
Babakar Diop	Fargass Assandé	Recurring	Guest		TBA
Gabriel Dumont	Vincent Garanger Johann Dionnet	Recurring		Guest	TBA
Léonard Koné	Adama Niane	Recurring
Fabienne Bériot	Anne Benoît	Guest
Philippe Courbet	Stefan Crepon		Recurring	Guest	TBA
Fleur Bélanger	Martha Canga Antonio			Recurring	TBA
Bruno	Pierre Lottin Noé Wodecki			Recurring	TBA
Jean-Luc Keller	Steve Tientcheu Salif Cissé			Recurring	TBA
Manon	Sandra Parfait Sandya Touré Maite			Recurring	TBA
Mariama Diop	Naky Sy Savané Seyna Kane			Recurring	TBA
Cisco	Vincent Overath			Guest	TBA

Main characters

Assane Diop

Omar Sy stars as Assane Diop

• played by Omar Sy as an adult, and by Mamadou Haïdara as a teenager

Assane Diop, born 13 May 1981, is the protagonist of Lupin. Assane grew up near Thiès, Senegal, before emigrating to Paris with his father, Babakar. His mother, Mariama, had initially intended to join them, but troubles with the law forced her to stay behind. When Assane was fourteen years old, Babakar was framed by his wealthy employer, Hubert Pellegrini, for the theft of a necklace that had originally belonged to Marie-Antoinette, and died in prison shortly thereafter. At around the same time, Assane discovered the Arsène Lupin books, and was immediately captivated by the adventures of the gentleman thief. Taking Lupin as his inspiration, Assane has grown up to become a wily, resourceful master criminal, who uses his charm, guile, and flair for spectacle to stage elaborate heists. Identifying with the label of "gentleman", he is an expert in winning his victims over before ultimately swindling them.

Costumes

Egocentric side, difficulties being there for his family

Relationship to the police & media attention

Over the course of the series, Assane has taken on many alternate identities and personas, including Luis Perenna (a janitor at the Louvre Museum), Paul Sernine (a multimillionaire American tech CEO), Salvator (an elderly whistleblower), and Alex (a youth basketball coach).

Critical praise for the character, Omar Sy accolades

Claire Laurent

Ludivine Sagnier plays Claire Laurent

• played by Ludivine Sagnier as an adult, and by Ludmilla Makowski as a teenager

Claire Laurent is Assane's estranged wife and the mother of their son Raoul, whom she is raising on her own while working at Paris' Lariboisière Hospital. Claire is a compassionate and forgiving woman who loves Assane and desires that he be more attentive to his relationship with Raoul, but is also concerned about the effects of his actions on Raoul's safety and well-being. Disagreements arise between Assane and Claire over the former's perilous criminal lifestyle; Claire often begs Assane to be honest with her, or to be careful, though her pleas tend to fall on deaf ears. Even so, she is generally willing to offer him chances to redeem himself, both as a father to Raoul and as a partner to her.

Claire first met Assane shortly after his father's death, when the two were teenagers. She was charmed by his interest in Arsène Lupin, easily perceiving his uniqueness and intelligence, and often acted as a moral compass for him. During this time Claire demonstrated pacifistic leanings, attempting to discourage Assane from getting into fights with other boys and expressing concerns about the violence encouraged by Jean-Luc Keller in his boxing gym. Despite her principled nature, Claire is shown to have a cunning and rather mischievous side to her personality: on multiple occasions she has managed to trick others into revealing information to her, and has also been able to manipulate Assane's foes into leaving her and Raoul alone.

Benjamin Férel

• played by Antoine Gouy as an adult, and by Adrian Valli de Villebonne as a teenager

Benjamin Férel, usually known by his diminutive "Ben," has been Assane's best friend since their school days. A methodical, affable and extremely loyal if somewhat highly-strung man, Benjamin is the owner of an antique shop, in which he has been known to sell various items that Assane has stolen. His technological expertise, encyclopedic knowledge on jewelry, and ability to quickly generate copies of priceless works of art have helped Assane on many occasions. Benjamin is usually the only person who is fully informed of everything that is going on in Assane's life, and although he often questions the logistical aspects of Assane's plans, he invariably winds up lending a hand. Benjamin is also good friends with Claire and sometimes voices his concerns about the toll that Assane's criminal activity is taking on her and Raoul.

In his youth Benjamin was a student at the College d'Andrésy. It was there that he first met Assane, whose education at the expensive school had been paid for in secret by Anne Pellegrini. The two quickly became inseparable, sometimes skipping classes in order to explore various sites in Paris, including its Catacombs.

Youssef Guédira

Soufiane Guerrab plays Youssef Guédira

• played by Soufiane Guerrab

Youssef Guédira is a detective who works at the Paris police precinct. Regarded as geeky and even eccentric by his co-workers, Guédira is nevertheless an astute officer whose primary skill set lies in the more cerebral aspects of police work. Like Assane, Guédira is a huge fan of Arsène Lupin, and is thus instantly able to spot Assane's criminal inspiration. Although his theories are dismissed by his co-workers, Guédira stubbornly continues to investigate them on his own, and eventually manages to catch up to Assane in the town of Étretat. Guédira and Assane form a bond based on their shared love of the Lupin stories, despite operating on opposite sides of the law, with Assane often teasing Guédira by leaving clues for him as to his whereabouts. On several occasions, Guédira and Assane have agreed to a temporary truce while teaming up in pursuit of a common goal. In these situations Assane refers to Guédira as "Ganimard", the name of Arsène Lupin's arch-nemesis police officer, who is Guédira's favorite character in the stories.

In part 3 it is revealed that Guédira has a crush on his colleague Sofia Belkacem. He also attracts romantic interest from Fleur Bélanger, a journalist with whom he shares his theories about Assane's various exploits and their connections to the Arsène Lupin books.

Sofia Belkacem

• played by Shirine Boutella

Sofia Belkacem is a police lieutenant who, like Guédira, works for the Parisian police force. As of part 3, she has been promoted to the rank of captain, thus becoming Guédira's immediate superior. Belkacem is a headstrong and ambitious policewoman who believes in upholding the rule of the law, and as such greatly desires to bring Assane to justice. However, her tendency to dismiss Guédira's ideas as unrealistic has resulted in her consistently struggling to track Assane down, much to her frustration. Belkacem displays a rather choleric, pugnacious temperament and as such is highly prone to bursting into fits of rage whenever Assane outsmarts her. Nevertheless, she occasionally displays a softer side to her personality in her interactions with Guédira, though she is exasperated by his many idiosyncrasies and his unusual relationship with Assane.

Juliette Pellegrini

Clotilde Hesme plays Juliette Pellegrini

• played by Clotilde Hesme as an adult, and by Léa Bonneau as a teenager

Juliette Pellegrini is the daughter of the wealthy entrepreneur Hubert Pellegrini. She and Assane first met while Babakar was working for Hubert, and the two carried out an on-again, off-again affair until 2006, when Claire became pregnant with Raoul. Juliette is shown to be generally well-intentioned but also rather naive and spoiled, while her status as the "other woman" in Assane's life has been a source of jealousy and insecurity for her. At the start of the series, Juliette is collaborating with her father on various business ventures, most notably a foundation intended to provide opportunities for disadvantaged children. She and Hubert have always been very close, with Juliette being largely unaware of her father's long list of misdeeds until Assane urges her to extract the truth from her mother, Anne.

Anne Pellegrini

• played by Nicole Garcia

Anne Pellegrini is the wife of Hubert Pellegrini and the mother of Juliette Pellegrini. A polite but rather passive woman, Anne knew about Hubert's crimes in the 1990s but kept quiet about them, largely out of concern for how any criminal proceedings against Hubert would affect Juliette. However, Anne felt terrible about what happened to Babakar, and secretly paid for Assane to be educated at the elite Andrésy school following his father's death. In the present day, she and Hubert live separately, though they still appear to be married. Anne is ultimately convinced by Juliette to give evidence about Hubert to the police.

Hubert Pellegrini

Hervé Pierre plays Hubert Pellegrini

• played by Hervé Pierre

Hubert Pellegrini is an unscrupulous businessman who serves as the main antagonist for the first two parts of the series. Hubert is one of the richest and most powerful men in France, and frequently uses his money and connections with the government and law enforcement to get his way. Although he presents himself as a patriotic philanthropist, his true motivations lie in protecting his own personal wealth, and he appears to care for nobody other than himself and his daughter Juliette. Hubert has shown few qualms when it comes to manipulating, framing, and even plotting the murders of those whom he perceives as impeding his goals, thought he invariably has hired hitmen carry out the actual killings.

In 1995, having fallen into financial trouble, Hubert came up with a scheme to claim the insurance payout for the theft of the Queen's Necklace, hiring Babakar Diop as his chauffeur with the intention of setting him up to take the fall for stealing it. In doing so, Hubert made a permanent enemy of Assane, then a teenager. Twenty-five years later, Assane is able to get his revenge by exposing the entrepreneur for his many crimes. Hubert is arrested at the end of part 2; in the final episode of part 3 he is briefly seen occupying a prison cell.

Romain Laugier

• played by Vincent Londez

Romain Laugier is a police captain who leads the squad that includes Belkacem and Guédira. He is a demanding, hierarchically-oriented and somewhat close-minded officer who, like Belkacem, initially displays a great deal of disdain for the Lupin-related ideas that Guédira has been coming up with. However, after Guédira is continuously proved correct when it comes to Assane's exploits, Laugier becomes more open to hearing his perspective. Laugier is not present in part 3; in his absence Belkacem is promoted to his role as captain.

Raoul Diop

• played by Etan Simon

Raoul Diop is the son of Assane and Claire. He was born on 11 December 2006, sharing his birthday with Arsène Lupin author Maurice Leblanc. Although he was the result of an unplanned pregnancy, both Claire and Assane adore him. Raoul is fifteen years old as of the end of part 3, and is depicted as an archetypal phlegmatic, socially withdrawn Generation Z teenager who spends much of his free time reading and playing video games. When Assane introduced him to the Lupin books, he took to them in much the same way as his father did. Raoul is also shown to have an interest in sports, joining a local youth basketball team to some success. Assane's chaotic and frequently dangerous lifestyle has ensured that Claire retains full custody of Raoul, who nevertheless idolizes his father, and wishes that his parents would get back together.

Supporting characters

Babakar Diop

• played by Fargass Assandé (flashback sequences only)

Babakar Diop was Assane's late father. An upstanding, industrious man, Babakar moved from Senegal to France with Assane when the latter was a boy, with the two settling in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil. Babakar quickly gained employment with Hubert Pellegrini as a chauffeur and sometime housekeeper; unbeknownst to him, Hubert intended to frame him for stealing an expensive necklace once owned by Marie-Antoinette, in order to collect the insurance money. Shortly after being imprisoned for the crime, Babakar was found hanging from a noose in his prison cell. Although his death was initially ruled a suicide, it is revealed that he was was actually murdered by Hubert's associate Léonard Koné.

Gabriel Dumont

• played by Vincent Garanger in the present day, and by Johann Dionnet as a younger man

Gabriel Dumont is the commissioner of the police department in parts 1 and 2 of the series. In 1995, Dumont was the detective placed in charge of overseeing the Babakar Diop case, which drew him into the orbit of Hubert Pellegrini. Ultimately Dumont allowed himself to be bribed by the businessman, and his tenure as commissioner has been marred by corruption and deceit, which is eventually uncovered by Laugier, Belkacem and Guédira. He is taken into custody in the final episode of part 2.

Léonard Koné

• played by Adama Niane

Léonard Koné was a hitman and a close associate of Hubert Pellegrini whose specialty was murders staged to appear like suicides by hanging. At Hubert's instruction, Léonard killed both Babakar Diop and Fabienne Bériot, and was also responsible for the kidnapping and attempted murder of Raoul. Léonard had a tendency to behave in an impulsive and erratic manner, which Hubert grew wary of; ultimately, at his orders, Léonard was strangled to death by Pascal Oblet in Assane's apartment.

Fabienne Bériot

• played by Anne Benoît

Fabienne Bériot was an investigative journalist who spent her entire career at the newspaper The Objector. In 1996, Fabienne published a book entitled Dirty Money – The Pellegrini System, in which she exposed Hubert Pellegrini's corrupt and unethical business practices. However, Hubert and his team of lawyers were able to successfully sue her for defamation, getting her blacklisted in the process. With her reputation ruined, Fabienne passed the next two decades living as a recluse. In 2020 she teamed up with Assane in an attempt to bring Hubert Pellegrini to justice, but their plan failed, and Fabienne was murdered by Léonard after refusing to give up Assane's location. Assane subsequently adopted her dog J'accuse.

Philippe Courbet

• played by Stefan Crepon

Philippe Courbet is a young man who was first encountered by Assane and Benjamin at a library, where he was attempting to steal Arsène Lupin books. At the time they discovered him, Courbet dressed in the manner of a goth; however, Assane re-styled him and cast him in the role of a clean-cut young stockbroker who would infiltrate Hubert Pellegrini's inner circle. The name "Courbet" is a pseudonym (an homage to Gustave Courbet); his true surname remains unknown. Courbet makes a guest appearance in part 3, this time assuming the name "Vernes" and posing as a doctor who works at the Lariboisière hospital, where Assane is brought after he fakes his death.

Fleur Bélanger

• played by Martha Canga Antonio

Fleur Bélanger is an ambitious young journalist who works at The Objector. Fleur is highly interested in Assane's exploits, and has made a name for herself capturing the hearts and minds of the French public by writing articles about him. She is one of the spectators at Assane's burglary of the Maison Everlin, and following his "death" she strikes up a partnership with Guédira, who provides her with evidence regarding Assane's interest in Lupin. Fleur also becomes attracted to Guédira, though it is unclear to what extent he reciprocates her feelings.

Bruno

• played by Pierre Lottin as an adult, and by Noé Wodecki as a teenager

Bruno is an orphaned childhood friend of Assane's who lives with his younger sister in the same Montreuil apartment building that Assane inhabited with his father prior to the latter's arrest and sentencing. Bruno is a soccer fan and an avid supporter of the French national soccer team. In the summer of 1998 Bruno reconnected with Assane, and brought him to Jean-Luc Keller's boxing club. Bruno initially viewed Keller as a surrogate father figure, but turned against him after Keller forced him to shoot and kill a police officer during a robbery of a jewelry store. In 2021, Bruno aids Assane in his theft of the black pearl from the Maison Everlin. Assane ultimately gives Bruno the black pearl, which he sells, and uses the profits to re-open Keller's gym, with a new Arsène Lupin-inspired theme.

Jean-Luc Keller

• played by Steve Tientcheu in the present day, and by Salif Cissé as a younger man

Jean-Luc Keller is the primary antagonist in part 3 of the series. In the late 1990s, Keller ran a boxing club, targeting as his clientele orphaned or otherwise disadvantaged youth—among them Bruno and Assane—and sometimes posing as their guardian in order to trick the child services department. A controlling, violent, and abusive man, Keller was known to force the minors under his supervision to pay large sums in order to retain membership to his club, and to take part in various crimes at his behest. After an attempted robbery of a jewelry store, for which he was assisted by Assane and Bruno, went awry, Keller was caught by the police and jailed. He blamed Assane for his lengthy sentence and has carried a vendetta against him ever since. In the present timeline, Keller kidnaps Assane's mother Mariama, holding her hostage and coercing Assane into committing increasingly drastic acts in exchange for her life being spared. However, Assane ultimately gains the upper hand over Keller, and is able to get him re-arrested at the end of part 3.

Manon

• played by Sandra Parfait as an adult, and by Sandya Touré Maite as a teenager

Manon is a secondary antagonist in part 3. She is depicted as an athletic woman who values loyalty and is not easily intimidated. Like Bruno, Manon fell in with Keller at a young age, joining his boxing gym and ultimately becoming his girlfriend. Because Keller was able to convince Manon that Assane was solely responsible for his arrest, she remained an active member of his crew and viewed Assane as a traitor. As a result, she was more than willing to assist Keller in kidnapping Assane's mother and holding her for ransom. However, after Assane corners her on her own and explains what Keller did to him and Bruno, she turns on him.

Mariama Diop

• played by Naky Sy Savané in the present day, and by Seyna Kane as a younger woman

Mariama Diop

Cisco

• played by Vincent Overath

Cisco, real name Nicolas, is a gangster from Nanterre whose inner circle Assane infiltrates in order to steal the Edouard Manet painting Chez Tortoni, which is in their possession. Cisco possesses an odd method of dealing with those he believes to have betrayed him, ordering them to draw a card from a deck and only sparing their lives if it ends up being an ace. Despite his ruthless nature, Cisco cares deeply for his frail, sickly mother. He is last seen being arrested after a robbery he and his gang have planned is derailed by Assane's machinations.

Minor characters

Introduced in part 1

• Philippe Bouchard (parts 1–2, flashback sequences only), played by Éric Paul, a social worker charged with ensuring that teenaged Assane was looked after following his father's death.
• The loan sharks (part 1), a group consisting of Vincent Morville (Grégoire Colin) and his acolytes Kevin (Kamel Guenford) and Rudy (Arthur Choisnet), whose assistance Assane enlists for the Louvre heist. The trio decide to betray Assane, but end up being arrested when their getaway goes wrong.
• Thibault de Quenoy (part 1), played by Xavier Lemaître, the auctioneer in charge of selling the Queen's Necklace at the Louvre.
• Étienne Comet (part 1), played by François Creton, an inmate in failing health who had been incarcerated at the same time as Babakar. After Assane breaks into prison, Comet directs him to a copy of an Arsène Lupin book which contains a coded message from his father.
• Thomas Gendre (parts 1–2), played by Azzeddine Ahmed-Chaouch, the presenter of the TV programme The Other Edition.

Introduced in part 2

• Pascal Oblet (part 2), played by Nicolas Wanczycki, one of Hubert's hired hitmen. He is responsible for Léonard's murder, and successfully frames Assane for it.
• Marc (part 2), played by Salim Kechiouche, a doctor who is briefly in a relationship with Claire.
• Lucas Lacroix (part 2), played by Franck Mercadal, Hubert Pellegrini's cautious stockbroker, whom he dismisses in favor of Philippe Courbet and his more radical investment proposals.

Introduced in part 3

• Ferdinand Maréchal (part 3), played by Nicolas Berno as an adult and Bartholomeus as a teenager, a member of Keller's inner circle. He ultimately turns on Keller after the latter pushes him off of a balcony in a fit of rage.
• Anna (part 3), played by Pauline Huruguen as an adult and Bonnie Bouriche as a child, Bruno's younger sister.
• Nicolas Imbert (part 3), played by Xavier Robic, the proprietor of the Maison Everlin, a luxury boutique in Paris' Place Vendôme, where he keeps the black pearl which is stolen by Assane.
• Arnold de Garmeaux (part 3), played by Julien Pestel, a journalist who works alongside Fleur Bélanger at The Objector. The pair maintain an active rivalry, competing over whose stories will make the front page of the newspaper.
• Daniel Martinez (part 3), played by Luc-Antoine Diquéro, a mortuary doctor at the Lariboisière hospital. Martinez is tricked by Benjamin and Philippe Courbet into confirming Assane's "death."
• Max Moller and Tara Xang (part 3), played by Antony Hickling and Xin Wang respectively, a wealthy couple who host a gala at the Château de Thoiry. They are the owners of the Red Sea, a sapphire bracelet which Assane and Benjamin make plans to steal.
• Frédéric Lassaire (part 3), played by Bruno Paviot, a black market art dealer. He is roped by Assane and Guédira into a scheme to illegally sell the Manet painting Chez Tortoni.
• Colonel François de Criqui (part 3), played by Patrick Rocca, an outspoken retired military man who accompanies Assane, disguised as a Chadian ex-colonel, to a gala being hosted by the French government in honor of the nation's veterans.
• Thierry Floron (part 3), played by Philippe Résimont, the highly corrupt minister for the interior.

British Latin

In most of what was to become England, the Anglo-Saxon settlement and the consequent introduction of Old English appear to have caused the extinction of Vulgar Latin as a vernacular. The Anglo-Saxons, a Germanic people, spread westward across Britain in the 5th century to the 7th century, leaving only Cornwall and Wales in the southern part of the country and the Hen Ogledd in the north under British rule.

The demise of Vulgar Latin in the face of Anglo-Saxon settlement is very different from the fate of the language in other areas of Western Europe that were subject to Germanic migration, like France, Italy and Spain, where Latin and the Romance languages continued. Recent genetic surveys have suggested that the present-day English population derives significant portions of its ancestry from both the Anglo-Saxons and the Romano-Britons; therefore, it is likely that a large number of Britons switched to speaking Old English. One theory for why this occurred is that in Britain there was a greater collapse in Roman institutions and infrastructure, leading to a much greater reduction in the status and prestige of the Romanised culture; and so the indigenous people were more likely to abandon their languages, in favour of the higher-status language of the Anglo-Saxons.

There are, however, isolated indications of Latin's survival in the Celtic population. Pockets of spoken Latin may have survived as isolates in regions otherwise dominated by Anglo-Saxon Germanic. As late as the 8th century, the Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of St Albans, near the Roman city of Verulamium, were aware of their ancient neighbour, which they knew alternatively as Verulamacæstir (or, under what H. R. Loyn terms "their own hybrid", Vaeclingscæstir, "the fortress of the followers of Wæcla") interpretable as a pocket of Romano-Britons that remained within the Anglo-Saxon countryside, probably speaking their own local neo-Latin idiom.

Rubbing of a 6th-century stone inscription in Latin found in West Wales in 1895: "Monument of Voteporigis the Protector". According to Thomas Charles-Edwards, the inscription provides "decisive evidence" of how long Vulgar Latin was spoken in this part of Britain.

other stuff

In 2019, Oosthuizen published The Emergence of the English, in which she argued that rather than being born out of conquest by Germanic-speaking tribes, the origins of England and the English people can be traced to political and demographic continuity with Roman Britain. Oosthuizen's ideas have been described as "anti-migrationist", and have received a critical response from several scholars of early Anglo-Saxon England.