Pierre-Benoist Varoclier was born in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne (France) on 30th of April 1983 and was brought up in Paris. As a child, he has been travelling a lot worldwide with his father. He started acting at the age of 7 and made his first movie appearance in Volker Schlondorff's Der Unhold (1996) when he was 13.