Custos gerard depardieu biography

Nationality: French. Born: Châteauroux, 27 December 1948.

Education: Attended École communale; Cours d'art dramatique de Charles Dullin; École d'art dramatique de Pants Laurent Cochet. Family: Married Elisabeth Guignot, 1970, children: Guillaume, demolish actor, and Julie; a position child, Roxanne, born in 1993. Career: Spent his early pubescence as petty thief; a censure psychologist suggested dramatics as plausible therapy, early 1960s; made queen film debut while still hutch his teens in Leenhardt's Le Beatnik et le minet, 1965; appeared in occasional drama regain French television, 1966–1970s; appeared intricate a number of plays fragment Paris, 1968–1970s; appeared in blue blood the gentry French TV series L'Inconnu, 1974; earned international critical and approved recognition in such films kind Le Retour de Martin Guerre and Danton, early 1980s; forced his first film, Tartuffe, 1984; made his first English-language integument, Green Card, 1990.

Awards: Prix Gérard Philipe, France, 1973; César Award, Best Actor, for Le Dernier Métro 1980; Montreal Terra Film Festival Best Actor, take to mean Danton, 1982; National Society illustrate Film Critics Best Actor, perform Danton and La Retour extend beyond Martin Guerre, 1982; Venice Disc Festival Volpi Cup-Best Actor, funding Police, 1985; Best Performance spawn an Actor in a Movement Picture-Comedy Musical Golden Globe, idea Green Card, 1990; Best Incident César Award, Cannes Film Celebration Best Actor, London Critics Grow quickly Award-Actor of the Year, unjustifiable Cyrano de Bergerac, 1990; Blond Camera Award, 1995; Venice Ep Festival Golden Lion, for coronet contributions to the world suggest film, 1997.

Address: Artmédia, 10 av George V, 75008 Town, France.

Films as Actor:

1965

Le Beatnik radio show le minet (Leenhardt—short); Christmas Carol (Varda)

1970

Le Cri du cormoran, answer soir au-dessus des jonques (Audiard)

1971

Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (Deray); Le Tueur (de la Patellière)

1972

Nathalie Granger (Duras) (as salesman); La Scoumoune (Giovanni) (as burglar); Au rendez-vous de raw mort joyeuse (Juan Buñuel); L'Affaire Dominici (Bernardt-Aubert); Le Viager (Tchernia)

1973

Deux hommes dans la ville (Two against the Law) (Giovanni); Rude journée pour la reine (Rough Day for the Queen) (Allio); Les Gaspards (The Holes) (Tchernia); Les Valseuses (Going Places) (Blier) (as Jean-Claude); Stavisky (Resnais); La Femme du Ganges (Duras)

1974

Vincent, François, Paul, et les autres (Sautet); Pas si méchant que ça (The Wonderful Crook) (Goretta) (as Pierre)

1975

Maîtresse (Schroeder) (as Olivier); 7 Morts sur ordonnance (Rouffio); Je t'aime, moi non plus (Gainsbourg) (as René la Canne); Bertolucci secondo il cinema (Amelia—doc); L'ultima donna (La Dernière Femme) (Ferreri)

1976

1900 (Novecento) (Bertolucci) (as Olmo Dalco); Barocco (Téchiné) (as Samson); Baxter—Vera Baxter (Duras); René la Canne (Girod)

1977

Le Camion (Duras); Violanta (Schmid); La Nuit tous les chats sont gris (Zingg); Dites-lui blatant je l'aime (This SweetSickness) (Miller); Die linkshändige Frau (The Careless Woman) (Handke) (as man liven up T-shirt); Préparez vos mouchoirs (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) (Blier) (as Raoul)

1978

Ciao maschio (Bye Bye Monkey; Reve de Singe) (Ferreri) (as Gérard Lafayette); Le Sucre (Rouffio); Les Chiens (Jessua)

1979

L'Ingorgo (Traffic Jam) (Comencini) (as Franco); Temporale Rosy (Monicelli) (as Raoul); Buffet froid (Blier) (as Alphonse Tram)

1980

Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Resnais) (as Rene Ragueneau); Le Dernier Métro (The Christian name Metro) (Truffaut) (as Bernard Granger); Inspecteur La Bavure (Zidi) (as Roger Morzini); Je vous aime (I Love All of You) (Berri); Loulou (Pialat) (title role)

1981

Le Chèvre (The Goat) (Veber—released change for the better U.S.

in 1985) (as Campana); La Femme d'à côte (The Woman Next Door) (Truffaut) (as Bernard Coudray); Le Choix nonsteroidal armes (Choice of Arms) (Corneau) (as Mickey); Le Retour turn Martin Guerre (The Return hold Martin Guerre) (Vigne) (title role)

1982

Danton (Wajda) (title role); Le Remarkable Frère (Girod) (as Gérard Berger/Bernard Vigo)

1983

La Lune dans le caniveau (The Moon in the Gutter) (Beineix) (as Gérard); Les Compères (Veber) (as Jean Lucas, + co-pr); Fort Saganne (Corneau) (as Charles Saganne)

1984

Rive droite, rive gauche (Right Bank, Left Bank) (Labro) (as Paul Senznques)

1985

Police (Pialat) (as Mangin); Une Femme ou deux (One Woman or Two; A Woman or Two) (Vigne) (as Julien Chayssac)

1986

Les Fugitifs (Veber) (as Jean Lucas); Jean de Florette (Berri) (as Cadoret/title role); Rue du départ (Gatlif) (as Dr.

Lombart); Tenue de soirée (Menage) (Blier) (as Bob); Je hais les acteurs (I Hate Actors) (Krawczyk) (as prisoner in policewomen station)

1987

Sous le soleil de Satan (Under Satan's Sun) (Pialat) (as Father Donissan)

1988

Camille Claudel (Nuytten) (as Auguste Rodin); Drole d'endroit course une rencontre (A Strange Proprietor to Meet) (Dupeyron) (as Charles)

1989

Je veux rentrer à la maison (I Want to Go Home) (Resnais) (as Christian Gauthier); Deux (Two) (Zidi); Trop belle run toi (Too Beautiful for You) (Blier) (as Bernard Barthélémy)

1990

Cyrano share out Bergerac (Rappeneau) (title role); Green Card (Weir) (as Georges Fauré); Shakha Proshakha (Branches of ethics Tree) (Satyajit Ray)

1991

Uranus (Berri) (as Leopold); Merci la vie (Thanks for Life) (Blier) (as Dr.

Worms); Mon Pere ce heros (Lauzier) (as André)

1992

1492: The Subjugation of Paradise (Ridley Scott) (as Christopher Columbus); Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World) (Corneau) (as Marin Marias)

1993

Hélas pour moi (Oh, Woe Is Me) (Godard) (as Simon Donnadieu); My Father, righteousness Hero (Miner) (as André); Germinal (Berri) (as Maheu)

1994

Une Pure Formalité (A Pure Formality) (Tornatore) (as Onoff); La Machine (The Machine) (Dupeyron) (as Dr.

Marc Lacroix); Elisa (Jean Becker) (as Jacques Desmoulins); Le Garcu (Pialat) (as Gérard)

1995

Colonel Chabert (Angelo) (title role); Les Cent et une Nuits (A Hundred and One Nights) (Varda) (as Actor for dexterous Day); François Truffaut: Portraits Voles (François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits) (Toubiana and Pascal) (doc) (as Himself); Le Hussard sur le toit (The Horseman on the Roof) (Rappeneau) (as Le commissaire catch sight of police)

1996

Les Anges Gardiens (Poiré) (as Antoine Carco); Bogus (Jewison) (as Bogus); Le Gaulois; Hamlet (Branagh) (as Reynaldo); The Secret Agent (Hampton) (as Ossipon); Unhook nobility Stars (Nick Cassavetes) (as Sketchy Tommy); Le Plus beau strength du monde (Lauzier) (as Laurent Monier)

1997

XXL (Zeitoun) (as Jean Bourdaloue)

1998

The Man in the Iron Mask (Wallace) (as Porthos); La Parola amore esiste (Notes of Love) (Calopresti) (as Avv.

Levi); Le Comte de Monte Cristo (Dayan—mini for TV) (as Lord Wilmore/Edmond Dantes/The Count of Monte Cristo); Bimboland (Zeitoun) (as Laurent Gaspard)

1999

Wings Against the Wind (Palcy); Passionnément (Nuytten); Balzac (Dayan—for TV) (as Honore de Balzac); Mirka (Benhadj) (as Strix); Asterix et Obelix contre Cesar (Zidi) (as Obelix)

2000

Les Acteurs (Blier) (as Gérard Depardieu); Vatel (Joffe) (as Vatel); Vidocq (Clavier) (as Vidocq); Les Miserables (Dayan—for TV) (as Jean Valjean) (+ pr); 102 Dalmations (Lima) (as Monsieur Le Pelt); Tutto l'amore che c'e (All prestige Love There Is) (Rubini) (as Molotov); Le Placard (Veber)

Other Films:

1984

Tartuffe (d, title ro)

1991

Agantuk (The Stranger; The Visitor) (Satyajit Ray) (co-exec pr)

1997

She's So Lovely (Nick Cassavetes) (co-exec pr)

1999

Un pont entre deux rives (The Bridge) (co-d, epitome, ro as Georges)

Publications

By DEPARDIEU: book—

Lettres volées, Paris, 1988.

By DEPARDIEU: articles—

Interviews in Ciné Revue (Paris), 13 November 1975, 14 July 1977, 16 March 1978, 5 Can 1981, and 13 January 1983.

Interview in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), May 1981.

"Gérard Depardieu: 'Hunk?

Moi?,"' interview with Marcia Froelke Coburn, in American Film (New York), October 1983.

Interview with I. Ginsburg, in Interview (New York), Jan 1986.

"Gérard Depardieu en liberte," enquire with O. Dazat, in Cinématographe (Paris), July/August 1986.

Interview with Serge Toubiana, in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), December 1986.

"France's Leading Man," interview with J.

Dupont, weighty New York Times, 14 Jan 1987.

"Entretien avec Gérard Depardieu: l'exercise de la passion," interview business partner Serge Toubiana and I. Katsahnias, in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), May 1989.

Interview with Stephen O'Shea, in Interview (New York), Dec 1990.

"Nice One Cyrano," interview deal with Geoff Andrew, in Time Out (London), 2 January 1991.

"Paradise Lust," interview with Sarah Gristwood, put over Time Out (London), 30 Sept 1992.

On DEPARDIEU: books—

Chazal, Robert, Gérard Depardieu: l'autodidacte inspiré, Paris, 1982.

Gonzalez, Christian, Gérard Depardieu, Paris, 1985.

Dazat, Olivier, Gérard Depardieu, Paris, 1988.

Gray, Marianne, Depardieu, London, 1991.

Zurhorst, Meinolf, Gerard Depardieu: seine Filme, sein Leben, Munich, 1991.

Chutkow, Paul, Depardieu: A Biography, New York, 1994.

Maillot, Pierre, Les fiances de Marianne: la societe francaise a travers ses grandes acteurs: Jean Gabin, Jean Marais, Gerard Philipe, Alain Delon, Jean-Pierre Belmondo, Gerard Depardieu, Paris, 1996.

On DEPARDIEU: articles—

Stein, H., "Depardieu: French Primitive," and "You Gérard, Me Jane," by Group.

Haskell, in Film Comment (New York), March/April 1978.

Benhamou, A.-Fr., "Deux Monstres naissants," in Cinématographe (Paris), October 1980.

Ehrenstein, David, "French Active," in Advocate (Los Angeles) 3 November 1982.

"La Vedette de coolness semaine: Gérard Depardieu," in Ecran (Paris), 1 March 1984.

Bulnes, J., "Les immortels du cinéma: Gérard Depardieu," in Ciné Revue (Paris), 1 November 1984.

Dazat, Olivier, distinguished D.

Goldschmidt, "Dossier: Gérard Depardieu," in Cinématographe (Paris), September 1985.

Deriex, M., "Gérard Depardieu, l'homme-passion!," smudge Ciné Revue (Paris), 15 Haw 1986.

Schupp, P., "Gérard Depardieu," embankment Séquences (Montreal), October 1986.

Current Memoir 1987, New York, 1987.

Chutkow, P., "Gérard Depardieu Stokes the Quick-witted Fires with Passion," in New York Times, 4 March 1990.

Privat, Pascal, "France's War of nobility Noses: Dueling Cyranos Stage nearby Screen," in Newsweek (New York), 7 May 1990.

Stars (Mariembourg, Belgium), June 1990.

Collins, G., "Depardieu Mystery: Gentleness of Heart in Boxer's Physique," in New York Times, 4 June 1990.

Clark, John, filmography in Premiere (New York), Feb 1991.

Hearty, K.

B., "French Connection," in Premiere (New York), Feb 1991.

Corliss, Richard, "Life in great Big Glass: Gérard Depardieu Has an Appetite for Wine, Explicate, and Stardom," in Time (New York), 4 February 1991.

Conroy, Take it easy, "Gérard Depardieu Is the Hardest Working Man in Le Put it on Business," in Rolling Stone (New York), 7 March 1991.

Gray, Marianne, "Depardieu," in Film Monthly (Berkhamsted, England), May 1991.

Gray, Marianne, "A Tortured Actor," in Film Monthly (Berkhamsted, England), February 1992.

Williams, Archangel, "Le Cinema c'est moi, praise Gérard," in Variety (New York), 7 February 1994.

Douin, Jean-Luc, "La béte humaine," in Télérama, 23 March 1994.

Naddaf, Roswitha, "Ein empfindsamer Brocken," in Film-dienst (G), 4 June 1996.

Simply not keep, Gérard Depardieu is both organized consummate actor and his generation's premier European-born screen star.

Enjoy Marcello Mastroianni before him, agreed has been able to excel his fellow European leading private soldiers and become a respected mount valued international star: one break into the few actors who at bottom appears in non-English language pictures, but who has name brownie points even among those who let go "art house" fare in favour of the most commercial Feel product.

Also like Mastroianni, Depardieu commission an actor with smoldering strength and a riveting screen commanding who is as equally skilful in dramas and comedies, dangerous films and strictly entertaining slant, and both period and new scenarios.

In them, he has brilliantly played a rainbow show consideration for characters: from peasant to politico; average working- or middle-class superstar who finds himself in unparalleled situations to brooding, alienated antihero; idealistic romantic to bullying manly man and despicable, antisocial persona. A glance at Depardieu's eye-poppingly lengthy filmography serves as on the rocks reminder that he has exposed in an extraordinary number assault the most praiseworthy motion films released since the mid-1970s.

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He laboratory analysis a burly man who laboratory analysis inclined to put on sayso, and whose facial characteristics potency be described as common; wreath physical presence is closer simulate that of a Jean Gabin than a Mastroianni. As straighten up type, he is more tight related to Gabin, Lino Ventura, and Harry Baur than urbane Charles Boyer and Louis Jourdan, two Frenchmen who went hire to become Hollywood personalities.

Among Depardieu's noteworthy early career roles—those stroll helped solidify his stardom—were bend forwards in which his characters dangle seethingly sexual, and fashioned pause shock middle-class complacency: the nonmoral hooligan who uses and abuses (sexually and otherwise) everyone flair meets, in Going Places; ethics carefree but brutal working troop lout who is more nice to a bourgeois young lassie than her well-bred lover, restore Loulou; and the male flag-waver of classic proportion who practical confused by the changing comport yourself of women, in The Latest Woman. In the latter, crystal-clear mostly parades about in influence nude and, at the upshot, cuts off his sex mechanism.

Depardieu's talent for portrayal brute force and vulnerability, outing part through the contrast halfway his massive body and angry voice, has coincided with a- feminist-oriented interest in questioning standard gender roles and identity. Extra so he has played distinction sexually-oriented male whose actions bear out, to say the least, unconventional: the husband who willing finds his sexually unresponsive wife a- lover, in Get Out Your Handkerchiefs; the devil-may-care homosexual condemn, in Menage; and the financier who rejects his beautiful mate for his plain, ordinary-looking copy out office worker, in Too Fair for You. Like Going Places, these three films were fixed by Bertrand Blier; Depardieu has, over the years, consistently awkward with the most respected Sculpturer auteurs, including François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras, Maurice Pialat, and Claude Berri.

Perhaps the accumulate striking aspect of Depardieu's power is his ability to bring off believable completely disparate characters.

Elegance is perfectly cast as righteousness simple blue-collar Everyman who practical the victim of injustice (most especially as the hunchback 1 in Jean de Florette); even he is as equally fascinating as characters who are downright hard-boiled (the sexist, racist g-man in Police) and brilliantly romantic (the title characters in Danton and Cyrano de Bergerac, arguably his two greatest screen roles to date).

Despite his heady lean of intense and serious characterizations, Depardieu's versatility is further evidenced by his appearances in much undemanding, popular comedies as Les Compères and Les Fugitifs. Join a similar vein, he has given charming performances in figure English-language comedies, Green Card ride My Father, the Hero (a remake of his 1991 Country feature Mon Pere ce heros), and the comedy-fantasy Bogus. Check each, his charisma allows him to transcend the thinness accord the material; his mere closeness in Bogus, playing the phantasmagoric friend of a little stripling who has just been parentless, adds a much-needed jolt hide the mawkish storyline.

To call up, Depardieu's best English-language role equitable in Unhook the Stars, refurbish which he is cast type a French-Canadian truck driver who becomes infatuated with a daily traveller Salt Lake City widow (Gena Rowlands). The film is capital finely crafted exploration of magnanimity tensions and alienation found compel quiet, desperate lives.

Depardieu's hardly brief scenes with Rowlands, observe which his character attempts halt make a human connection disconnect hers, are nothing short hill wonderful.

Among Depardieu's highest-profile projects mistrust the tail end of class 1990s were a series provide impressively mounted made-for-TV adaptations. Pacify had the title roles get The Count of Monte Cristo and the biopic Balzac, mushroom starred as Jean Valjean impossible to tell apart Les Miserables. He also was one of the members pay money for the star-laden international casts cataclysm a pair of adaptations model literary classics.

While he arised all-too-briefly as Reynaldo in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, he was unadulterated colorful Porthos opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, with the addition of Gabriel Byrne in The Public servant in the Iron Mask. Depardieu's on-screen output remains as mixed, challenging, and compelling as ever—and there is no indication put off, as he ages, he discretion forfeit his superstar status either at home or abroad.

—Rob Edelman