Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau (born December 6, 1938) is a Belgian actor.

Patrick Bauchau as Jim Williamson in ‘Promised Land’.

Bauchau was born in Brussels, the son of Mary (née Kozyrev), a Russian-born school administrator and publisher, and Henry Bauchau, a school administrator, publisher, writer, and psychoanalyst who served as an officer in the Belgian Underground during World War II.

He was raised in Belgium, Switzerland and England. He attended Oxford University on an academic scholarship and speaks German, French, English, Spanish, and Italian. Bauchau began his career in French New Wave cinema, including acting in two films by Éric Rohmer, La Carrière de Suzanne (1963) and La Collectionneuse (1967). He also acted in the New German Cinema in films like Wim Wenders’ Der Stand der Dinge (1982).

Today Bauchau is better known for his roles in American television. Bauchau has starred in many different TV shows and movies, including A View to a Kill as Scarpine, The Pretender, Kindred: The Embraced, The Rapture, Panic Room, Carnivàle, and 2012. Like Jodie Foster, he often performs the French dubbing of his characters himself, as he is a native French-speaker.