Trivia

- He became so engrossed in his role of Cyrano De Bergerac in 1990, that he refused to shave off his Cyrano beard for a long while after the film was completed.

- In 2005, Depardieu shocked TV viewers when he drunkenly turned on a fellow guest on a French talk show and insulted her after she had made some disparaging comments about the cookbook he wrote.

- The actor is an accomplished winemaker.

- He is a grandfather – his son’s wife, Elise, gave birth to a baby girl in January 2001.

- His ex-wife, Elisabeth Guignot, was arrested in 1993 for selling heroin in Paris allegedly to pay off a loan.

 
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