History Creator / GerardDepardieu

He has also headlined several prestige PeriodPiece {{miniseries}} on French television since the late 90s. His roles in these include [[BestServedCold Edmond Dantès]] in ''Series/{{The Count of Monte Cristo|1998}}'' (1998), Jean Valjean in ''Literature/LesMiserables'' (2000), Joseph Fouché in ''[[Series/Napoleon2002 Napoléon]]'' (2002), UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin in ''Rasputin'' (2011) and UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}} in ''Diane de Poitiers'' (2022). Speaking of Rasputin, he's [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff quite popular]] in UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}, he even officially became a Russian citizen in 2013, and was even offered to become Minister of Culture of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGloriousFederalSubjects Republic of Mordovia]] at one point (he politely declined). Since 2022 he also holds citizenship from the UsefulNotes/UnitedArabEmirates. Since the [=#MeToo=] movement days in the late 2010s, he's caused scandals with his documented lewd behavior and several rape allegations.

* ControversyProofImage: Zig-Zagged:
** He was accused of rape in 2018, although this initially had little impact on his career, as he continued filming projects such as ''Film/{{Maigret|2022}}'' during this time, and the initial charges were dropped in 2020, although they have since been reopened. By 2023, thirteen more women came forth with further allegations in addition to very lewd comments he made that were recorded unbeknownst to him, which has resulted in great backlash and public divisiveness against him, even resulting in his being stripped of the National Order of Quebec.
** Even before the sexual assault allegations, Depardieu was no stranger to controversy, owing to his support of, and friendship with UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin. After the large scale invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} started in February 2022, he retracted his Russian narrative-filled comments on Ukraine, considering the war as a "folly", and donated the profit of a theatre run he did to a Ukrainian charity for victims of war later that year. That hasn't prevented Ukrainian officials from putting him on a "threat to national security" list in 2023 alongside many Russian artists, sportspeople and performers.

** He was accused of rape in 2018, although this initially had little impact on his career, as he continued filming projects such as ''Film/{{Maigret|2022}}'' during this time, and the initial charges were dropped in 2020, although they have since been reopened. By 2023, thirteen more women have come forth with further allegations, which has resulted in great backlash and public divisiveness against him, even resulting in his being stripped of the National Order of Quebec.

* ''Diane De Poitiers'' (2022) as UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}}

* ''Rasputin'' (2011 MadeForTVMovie) as UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin

** Even before the sexual assault allegations, Depardieu was no stranger to controversy, owing to his support of, and friendship with UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin. After the large scale invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} started in February 2022, he retracted his Russian narrative-filled comments on Ukraine, considering the war as a "folly", and donated the profit of a theatre run he did to a Ukrainian charity later that year. That hasn't prevented Ukrainian officials from putting him on a "threat to national security" list alongside many Russian artists, sportspeople and performers.

** Even before the sexual assault allegations, Depardieu was no stranger to controversy, owing to his support of, and friendship with UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin.

** He was accused of rape in 2018, although this initially had little impact on his career, as he continued filming projects such as ''Film{{Maigret|2022}}'' during this time, and the initial charges were dropped in 2020, although they have since been reopened. By 2023, thirteen more women have come forth with further allegations, which has resulted in great backlash and public divisiveness against him, even resulting in his being stripped of the National Order of Quebec.

** He was accused of rape in 2018, although this initially had little impact on his career, as he continued filming projects such as ''[[Film/Maigret2022'' Maigret]]'' during this time, and the initial charges were dropped in 2020, although they have since been reopened. By 2023, thirteen more women have come forth with further allegations, which has resulted in great backlash and public divisiveness against him, even resulting in his being stripped of the National Order of Quebec.

* Controversy-Proof Image: Zig-Zagged:
** He was accused of rape in 2018, although this initially had little impact on his career, as he continued filming projects such as ''[[Film/Maigret2022'' Maigret]]'' during this time, and the initial charges were dropped in 2020, although they have since been reopened. By 2023, thirteen more women have come forth with further allegations, which has resulted in great backlash and public divisiveness against him, even resulting in his being stripped of the National Order of Quebec.

* ''Welcome to New York'' (2014) as Mr. Devereux (a thinly disguised {{Expy}} of Dominique Strauss-Kahn)