French actor Lucas Bravo plays Gabriel, a chef who lives in Emily’s building in Paris. The two meet and eventually develop feelings for each other, though Gabriel has a girlfriend, Camille, throughout much of the series.

Bravo wasn’t thrilled about his character development after season one, and shared his honest feelings about Gabriel in 2024. “As they made him kind of unaware of his surroundings, of the dynamic, always victimising and always being completely lost in translation and oblivious to anything that is happening around him and being manipulated by everyone, it kind of became not fun for me to shoot or to see a character I love so much and brought me so much, being slowly turned into guacamole. I really grew apart from him,” he told IndieWire, adding that he wasn’t sure he wanted to come back for season five. “I really want to see if Gabriel gets back to his fun, cheeky, playful, alive self. Because three seasons [of] playing melancholic, sad, depressed, and lost is not fun anymore. It’s a comedy, everybody is having fun around me, everybody is jumping around, and I’m just slowly sinking into god knows what.” Bravo is back for more, however, and we have a feeling he’ll be showing up in Paris.

Bravo grew up in Nice as the son of a footballer and musician. Emily in Paris was his first major role, though he has since appeared in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and Ticket to Paradise with Julia Roberts and George Clooney.

Lucien Laviscount as Alfie

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British actor Lucien Laviscount stars as Alfie, Emily’s ex-boyfriend who moved to Paris for work. In the season five trailer, we see Alfie and Mindy getting cosy, which could complicate things for each of them down the road. We shall see!