Gerard Depardieu

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The French actor is a hit with the ladies although he thinks he's ugly. Brilliant performances in films like Jean De Florette and Cyrano De Bergerac have made him a screen god.

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Gerard Depardieu
born: 27-12-1948
birth place: Chateauroux, France

Making the move into English-language acting, Depardieu starred alongside Andie MacDowell in the 1990 romantic comedy ‘Green Card’, playing a French musician who agrees to a marriage of convenience. The following year he shared the role of 17th-century composer Marin Marais with his son Guillaume in the biopic ‘Tous les matins du monde’/‘All The Mornings of the World’. Throughout the rest of the Nineties, Depardieu remained in high demand. Despite the limited success of an English remake of the 1991 hit ‘Mon Père, ce heros’, as ‘My Father, The Hero’, and being miscast as Christopher Columbus in ‘1492: Conquest of Paradise’, performances in the epic ‘Germinal’, in Claude Berri’s ‘Colonel Chabert’, in ‘Les Misérables’, ‘Balzac’ and a TV adaptation of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’, to name but a few, kept his legion of fans happy.

Another directing credit came in 1999, with the semi-autobiographical ‘Un Pont entre deux rives’/‘The Bridge’, and in the same year Depardieu took on the role of Obelix in the live-action remake of the comic books ‘Asterix et Obelix contre Cesar’. This was followed, a year later, with a light-hearted portrayal of a flamboyant designer in the family film ‘102 Dalmatians’.

Having survived two near-fatal accidents (a plane collision in 1996 and a motorbike accident in 1998) and major heart surgery in July 2000, Depardieu went from strength to strength in the first few years of the new millennium, appearing in, among others, ‘Love, Prozac and Other Curiosities’, Roman Coppola’s ‘CQ’, ‘Between Strangers’, in which he acted opposite Sophia Loren, the Matt Dillon-directed ‘City of God’, ‘Bon Voyage’, and ‘Tais-Toi’/‘Shut Up’.

Depardieu is divorced from Elisabeth Guignot, who he appeared alongside in ‘Jean de Florette’ and who is the mother of his two grown-up children, Julie and Guillaume. He also has a daughter, Roxanne, reportedly born to model Karine Sylla. The actor has a famously rocky relationship with his son, officially cutting off contact with him in 2003 after Guillame threatened him with a gun, which led to a suspended jail sentence. Depardieu has had a long-standing relationship with the actress Carole Bouqet, with whom he opened the Parisian restaurant La Fontaine Gaillon in 2003.

As well as two restaurants, the actor maintains an eclectic mix of business interests, including a vineyard in the Loire, Romanian textiles businesses and Cuban oil wells. He has also written a cookbook and ventured into international politics. In 2005, at the age of 56, Depardieu announced his intention to retire from screen acting following his starring role in ‘Michou d’Auber’, claiming that he had nothing left to prove. He has since gone back on this decision, maintaining his prolific output with roles in several feature films, some of them still currently in production.

Julie Alpine-Crabtree

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