Yves Lambrecht is a graduate of the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris). As an actor, he worked for the cinema (for directors Claude Chabrol, Alain Corneau, Pat O'Connor, Andrei Pratchenko among others), on TV (for Régis Wargnier, Claude Santelli, Jacques Deray, Philippe Bérenger...), and in theater (performing Racine, Harold Pinter, Frank McGuinness, Reginald Rose, Tony Kushner and more), opposite Marie Trintignant, Natasha Richardson, Marthe Keller, Jacqueline Bisset and Anne Brochet, among others. He has co-written several screenplays with the director Maya Simon and co-translated Walt Whitman with Hélène Cardona.