Maxime de Toledo is an actor and singer who appeared as Tom in the acclaimed French TV show Un Village Français, and a number of popular TV series such as Meurtres, Alex Hugo or Crossing Lines. He was recently seen in French movie theaters in Le Temps d'Aimer, and finished shooting Cococolin, another French movie in theaters at the end of the year. Maxime was also just cast as the Bishop of Digne in the long anticipated revival of Les Miserables coming to Paris this fall. Prior to that, Maxime played in the famous French play The Visitor, by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, on tour around the world after its successful eight months run at the Rive Gauche Theater in Paris. A native of Paris with Franco-Spanish origins, Maxime is fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish, and also speaks German and basic Chinese. He currently lives between Paris and New York City.

 

Since making his American film debut in One Last Thing, starring Ethan Hawke and Cynthia Nixon, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival, he was seen in a number of independent films including Foulard (Cannes Film Festival), The Women, One Last Beat, The Dead, or Ten Easy Steps of Being Dead inside. He also appeared on TV in The Sopranos, Crossing Lines, All My Children and Guiding Light.

 

When Covid hit, Maxime was rehearsing for the French premiere of South Pacific, playing Emile de Becque, which was cut short 2 weeks before opening night. Prior to that, Maxime played Basil in The Picture of Dorian Gray for three years in five different theaters in Paris. He was Bob Baker in the French premiere of Wonderful Town at the Toulon Opera, and Oberon in a bilingual version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Théâtre 14 in Paris. Still in Paris, he performed in Sondheim’s Passion at the Châtelet Theatre, after having starred in the musical hit Forever Young at the Bobino Theatre. Favorite roles also include Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd (Reims and Toulon Operas) and the Baron in the French National tour of Offenbach’s Parisian Life.

 

On the New York stage, Maxime made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Priest Inquisitor in the production of Don Carlo (directed by Nicholas Hytner). Prior to that, Maxime was heard in Showboat (Carnegie Hall), Camelot (Live from Lincoln Center on PBS, with the New York Philarmonic) and Yank (Mitch, opposite Bobby Steggert). Other credits include the off-Broadway productions of Oh Lady Lady! (Willoughby), and Mademoiselle Modiste (René), and guest soloist in many gala concerts and cabaret venues such as the Triad or the Metropolitan Room. 

 

Regionally, Maxime portrayed Jean-Pierre in Theater Works Hartford’s production of This, and appeared in the acclaimed version of Camelot at the Schubert Theater in Boston, playing Lancelot with the North Shore Music Theatre, a role he later reprised with the Goodspeed Opera House. Other regional credits include The Sound of Music (Captain Von Trapp), Gigi (Gaston Lachaille), Hair (Tribe), Titanic (Charles Lightoller), and Spring is Here (Stacy Haydon).