Omar Sy as Rafael Padilla, aka Chocolat

James Thierrée as George Footit

Clotilde Hesme as Marie Hecquet

Olivier Gourmet as Joseph Oller

Frédéric Pierrot as Théodore Delvaux

Noémie Lvovsky as Yvonne Delvaux

Alice de Lencquesaing as Camille

Alex Descas as Victor

Olivier Rabourdin as Firmin Gemier

Thibault de Montalembert as Jules Moy

Héléna Soubeyrand as Régina Badet

Xavier Beauvois as Jacques Potin

Christophe Fluder as Marval, the lilliputian

Antonin Maurel as The clown Ortis

Mick Holsbeke as The clown Green

Wilfred Benaïche as Mr Constantine

John Arnold as The Corsica

Olympe as Suzanne (6 years old)

Timothé Vom Dorp as Eugène (8 years old)

Clovis Fouin as Frédo

Cédric Appietto as Leca

Hocine Choutri as Ray

Dan Herzberg as Fergus

Eric Kailey as Guardian Mace

Bô Gaultier de Kermoal as Lee

Matthieu Rozé as Beardless gendarme

Stefan Godin as Mustached gendarme

Denis Podalydès as Louis Lumière

Bruno Podalydès as Auguste Lumière

Fernando Echevarría as Mr Delmont

Phénix Brossard as Eugène (young man)

Luc Antoni as The father

Achille Potier as The child

Anne-Lise Kedvès as Client

Isabelle Mazin as Grocer

Jean-Gilles Barbier as Elderly player

Pierre Alloggia as Guide

Jean-Pol Brissart as Professor Lannelongue

Luis Francisco Cruz as Rafael's father

Linnett Hernandez Valdes as Rafael's mother

Andy Gillet as Transvestite

Marie-Pierre Bellefleur as Neighbor

Vincent Nemeth as Journalist

Jérémy Alberti as Journalist

Yvo Muller as Journalist

Claire Morin as Journalist

Serge Massot as Manetti

Félix Kysyl as Street vendor

Thierry Nenez as Hotelkeeper

Félix Bossuet as Gustave

Marina Pastor as Theater assistant

Raphaël Caduc as Eugène (14 years old)

Lilly Rose Debos as Child

Stéphane Varupenne as Lodovico

Cyprien Craipeau as Sick child

Anthony Ursin as Child at the exit of the artists

Michel Amsellem as Pianist

Michèle Clément as Spectator

Roman Kossowski as Player

Delphine Montaigne as Émilia

Agathe Anquez as (uncredited)

Rafaël de Ferran as (uncredited)

Geoffroy de La Taille as (uncredited)

Blandine Laignel as (uncredited)

Romain Ogerau as (uncredited)

David Benhamou as Spectator in the theatre (uncredited)

Mikael Buxton as Aristocrat (uncredited)

Alexia Giordano as Prostitude (uncredited)

Elise Lissague as Prostitude (uncredited)

Julia Effertz as Esmeralda (voice) (uncredited)