Gérard Depardieu CQ
Gérard Depardieu, 2008
Born	Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu 27 December 1948 (1948-12-27) (age 60) Châteauroux, Indre, France
Spouse(s)	Élisabeth Guignot (1971-1996) Carole Bouquet (1997–2005)
Domestic partner(s)	Clémentine Igou (2005–present)

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948, pronunciation (help·info)) is a French actor. He has won a number of honors including a nomination for an Academy Award for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac and the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in Green Card.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards 3 Filmography 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Biography

Gérard Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre, France. He is one of six children of Anne Jeanne Josèphe "la Liette" (née Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel "le Dédé" Depardieu, a metal worker and volunteer fireman.^[1][2] Depardieu spent more time in the street than in the classroom and left school at 13. At the age of 16, Depardieu left Châteauroux for Paris. There, he studied dancing under Jean-Laurent Cochet, and went on to become one of France's most renowned actors. In 1986, his fame grew as a result of his performance as a doomed, hunchbacked farmer in the film Jean de Florette. Five years later he won a César for his starring role in Cyrano de Bergerac. More recently, he has played Obélix in the three Astérix movies.^[3]

In 1970 Depardieu married Élisabeth Guignot with whom he had two children, actor Guillaume (1971–2008) and actress Julie (1973). In 1992, while separated from Élisabeth, he had a daughter, Roxane, with the model Karine Sylla. In 1996 he divorced Élisabeth and began a relationship with actress Carole Bouquet, with whom he was married from 1997 to 2005^[4]. On 14 July 2006, he had a son, Jean, with French-Cambodian Hélène Bizot, according to the issue 3089 (31 July 2008) of Paris Match. Since 2005, Depardieu has lived with a Harvard-educated novelist, Clémentine Igou.

On 13 October 2008, his son Guillaume died at the age of 37 from complications linked to a sudden case of pneumonia.

[edit] Awards

Depardieu has been nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role César 15 times during his career and won it twice, in 1981 and 1991. He was also nominated for an Oscar in 1990 for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac.

• 1981: César Award for Best Actor for his role in The Last Metro (Le dernier métro)
• 1985: Venice Film Festival Award for best actor for his role in Police
• 1985: Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite
• 1990: Cannes Film Festival: Best actor award for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1991: César Award for Best Actor for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1991: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in Green Card
• 1996: Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur.^[5]
• 2006: Moscow International Film Festival: Stanislavsky Award for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting.

[edit] Filmography

Maîtresse (1973) Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse (1973) Les valseuses (Going Places) (1974) Sept morts sur ordonnance (1975) Je t'aime... moi non plus (1976) 1900 (1976) La Dernière femme (1976) The Lorry (1977) Dites-lui que je l'aime (1977) Préparez vos mouchoirs (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) (1978) Rêve de singe (Bye Bye Monkey) (1978) Le Sucre (1978) The Left-Handed Woman (1978) Buffet froid (1979) Traffic Jam (1979) Mon oncle d'Amérique (My American Uncle) (1980) Loulou (1980) Le Dernier métro (The Last Metro) (1980) La Femme d'à côté (The Woman Next Door) (1981) La Chèvre (1981) Le Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre) (1982) Danton (1983) Les Compères (1983) Fort Saganne (1984) Tartuffe (1984) Police (1985) Une femme ou deux (1985) Tenue de soirée (1986) Les Fugitives (1986) Jean de Florette (1986) Manon des Sources (1986) Sous le soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan) (1987) Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre (1988) Camille Claudel (1988) Le choix des armes (1989) Trop belle pour toi (1989) by Alain Corneau Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Uranus (1990) Green Card (1990) Mon père, ce héros (1991) Tous les matins du monde (1991) Merci la vie (1991) 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) by Ridley Scott Le Visionarium (1992) Germinal (1993)

Le Colonel Chabert (1994) My Father the Hero (1994) A Pure Formality (1994) Élisa (1995) Les Anges gardiens (Guardian Angels) (1995) Unhook the Stars (1996) Hamlet (1996) Bogus (1996) The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (TV) Asterix & Obelix vs Caesar (1999) Vatel (2000) Tutto l'amore che c'è (2000) Zavist' bogov (Gods Envy) (2000) (Russian movie directed by V. Menshov) Les Misérables (2000) (TV) (co-produced by Depardieu) 102 Dalmatians (2000) Le Placard (The Closet) (2001) CQ (2001) Vidocq (2001) Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) Napoléon (2002) (TV) I Am Dina (2002) City of Ghosts (2002) A Loving Father (2002) Le Pacte Du Silence (2003) Crime Spree (2003) Bon voyage (2003) Nathalie... (2003) Tais-toi! (2003) 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) RRRrrrr!!! (2004) Les temps qui changent (2004) Olé! (2005) with Gad Elmaleh Last Holiday (2006) Quand j'étais chanteur (2006) Paris, je t'aime (2007) La Vie en Rose (La Môme) (2007) Michou d'Auber (2007) L'abbuffata (2007) Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008) Disco (2008) Babylon A.D. (2008) Public Enemy Number One (2008) In the Beginning (2009) Bellamy (2009)

[edit] See also

• Cinema of France

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Gérard Depardieu at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e César Award for Best Actor 1976 : Philippe Noiret • 1977 : Michel Galabru • 1978 : Jean Rochefort • 1979 : Michel Serrault • 1980 : Claude Brasseur • 1981 : Gérard Depardieu • 1982 : Michel Serrault • 1983 : Philippe Léotard • 1984 : Coluche • 1985 : Alain Delon • 1986 : Christophe Lambert • 1987 : Daniel Auteuil • 1988 : Richard Bohringer • 1989 : Jean-Paul Belmondo • 1990 : Philippe Noiret • 1991 : Gérard Depardieu • 1992 : Jacques Dutronc • 1993 : Claude Rich • 1994 : Pierre Arditi • 1995 : Gérard Lanvin • 1996 : Michel Serrault • 1997 : Philippe Torreton • 1998 : André Dussollier • 1999 : Jacques Villeret • 2000 : Daniel Auteuil • 2001 : Sergi López • 2002 : Michel Bouquet • 2003 : Adrien Brody • 2004 : Omar Sharif • 2005 : Mathieu Amalric • 2006 : Michel Bouquet • 2007 : François Cluzet • 2008 : Mathieu Amalric • 2009 : Vincent Cassel

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Persondata
NAME	Depardieu, Gérard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Depardieu, Gérard Xavier Marcel
SHORT DESCRIPTION	French actor
DATE OF BIRTH	27 December 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Châteauroux, Indre, France
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH