Yves Lambrecht is a graduate of the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris. As an actor, he worked for the cinema (for directors Claude Chabrol, Alain Corneau, Pat O'Connor, Andrei Pratchenko, Maya Simon, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Francis Girod among others), on TV (for Nadine Trintignant, Régis Wargnier, Claude Santelli, Jacques Deray, Jean-Louis Comolli, Philippe Bérenger, Jean-Dakiel Verhaegue, Pierre Mondy..), and in theater (performing Racine, Harold Pinter, William Shakespeare, Jean Racine, Frank McGuinness, Reginald Rose, Tony Kushner and more), opposite Marie Trintignant, Natasha Richardson, Marthe Keller, Marisa Berenson, Jacqueline Bisset, Carole Bouquet and Anne Brochet, Françoise Fabian, Claude Brasseur, Michel Bouquet among others. He has co-written several screenplays with the director Maya Simon and co-translated Walt Whitman with Hélène Cardona.