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Currently, Thierry Michel is 72 years, 1 months and 9 days old. Thierry Michel will celebrate 73rd birthday on a Monday 13th of October 2025. Below we countdown to Thierry Michel upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Thierry Michel |
| Occupation | Director |
| Age | 72 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Born | October 13, 1952 (Charleroi, Belgium) |
| Birthday | October 13 |
| Town/City | Charleroi, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgium |
Thierry Michel’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Thierry Michel was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Thierry Michel, the indefatigable globe trotter. Always anxious to find out about the wide world, the Belgian director has already explored, through documentary or fiction, Morocco and its people (Issue de secours 1987)), Brazilian favelas (Gosses de Rio (1990), the culture of Zaire (Grand format: Zaïre, le cycle du serpent (1995)), a Guinean hospital (Donka radioscopie d'un hôpital africain (1996)) or the contadictions of Iranian society (Iran sous le voile des apparences (1996)).
But Thierry Michel does not forget his native Belgium. Born in 1952 in Charleroi, in the heart of an industrial region nicknamed "the Black Country, the director made his first documentaries following the miners or the steelworkers among whom he had been raised.
His first feature film was also well-rooted since it was a re-creation of the great insurrectional strike of 1960 (Hiver 60 (1983)). Thierry Michel also explored the inside of a Belgian prison in "Hôtel particulier".
But whether in his native Belgium or in a far country, this humanist is always on the lookout for what brings people closer together. Which makes him more than just a standard documentarist or fiction director.
Don't miss his last movie Katanga Business (2009), a brilliant political thriller.
