History Creator / GerardDepardieu

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He's played quite a bunch of them, including [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolutionMajorFigures Georges Jacques Danton]], Creator/AugusteRodin, Cyrano de Bergerac (the [[Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac Edmond Rostand version]], but still with bits of the real article), BaroqueMusic composer Marin Marais, 17th century party/kitchen manager François Vatel, Napoleonic minister Joseph Fouché, UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus, writers Creator/AlexandreDumas and Creator/HonoreDeBalzac, [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Jacques de Molay]], UsefulNotes/CardinalMazarin, UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin, association football administrator Jules Rimet, Ottoman Empire statesman Hussein Dey, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, French lawyer and Senator Henry Torrès and UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}}.

** He appeared alongside Creator/ChristianClavier in ''Film/GuardianAngels'', ''Les Misérables'' (miniseries), ''[[Series/Napoleon2002 Napoléon]]'' and in the first two ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' films. Director Bertrand Blier reunited them in ''Convoi Exceptionnel'' in 2019.

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 lewd behavior and several rape allegations.

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.

* ''Literature/LesMiserables'' (2000) as Jean Valjean

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He's played quite a bunch of them, including [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolutionMajorFigures Georges Jacques Danton]], Creator/AugusteRodin, Cyrano de Bergerac (the [[Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac Edmond Rostand version]], but still with bits of the real article), composer Marin Marais, 17th century party/kitchen manager François Vatel, Napoleonic minister Joseph Fouché, UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus, writers Creator/AlexandreDumas and Creator/HonoreDeBalzac, [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Jacques de Molay]], UsefulNotes/CardinalMazarin, UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin, association football administrator Jules Rimet, Ottoman Empire statesman Hussein Dey, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, French lawyer and Senator Henry Torrès and UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}}.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He's played quite a bunch of them, including [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolutionMajorFigures Georges Jacques Danton]], Creator/AugusteRodin, Cyrano de Bergerac (the Edmond Rostand version, but still with bits of the real article), composer Marin Marais, 17th century party/kitchen manager François Vatel, Napoleonic minister Joseph Fouché, UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus, writers Creator/AlexandreDumas and Creator/HonoreDeBalzac, [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Jacques de Molay]], UsefulNotes/CardinalMazarin, UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin, association football administrator Jules Rimet, Ottoman Empire statesman Hussein Dey, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, French lawyer and Senator Henry Torrès and UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}}.

* {{Blackface}}: Downplayed in ''Film/Dumas2010'', where he plays Creator/AlexandreDumas. The real Dumas was a biracial man (his father was half black, born from a French aristocrat and an enslaved woman of African descent, and so he himself was 1/4th black), his African ancestry is obvious from photographs of the era (though no color images exist), and he was a victim of racism during his life. Depardieu's appearance includes a curly wig and darker make-up, but [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/71/44/0a71444e0113211784a7d3f308d5245d.jpg it arguably just makes him look more like a suntanned white man with messy hair]]. [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8523212.stm The choice of casting the fully white Depardieu as a part-black historical figure actually resulted in a backlash at the time]].

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.

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Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948 in Châteauroux) is one of the most prominent and prolific French actors since TheSeventies.

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/{{Napoleon}}'' (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.

* ''Series/{{Napoleon}}'' (2002) as Joseph Fouché

** He appeared alongside Creator/ChristianClavier in ''Film/GuardianAngels'', ''Les Misérables'' (miniseries), ''Series/{{Napoleon}}'' and in the first two ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' films. Director Bertrand Blier reunited them in ''Convoi Exceptionnel'' in 2019.

* {{Blackface}}: Downplayed in ''Film/Dumas2010'', where he plays Creator/AlexandreDumas. The real Dumas was a biracial man (his father born from a French aristocrat and an enslaved woman of African descent), his African ancestry is obvious from photographs of the era, and he was victim of racism during his life. Depardieu appearance's includes a curly wig and darker make-up, but [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/71/44/0a71444e0113211784a7d3f308d5245d.jpg it makes him look like a suntanned Caucasian man with messy hair rather than a half-black person]]. [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8523212.stm The choice of casting the Caucasian Depardieu as a black historical figure actually resulted in a backlash at the time]].

** He appeared alongside Creator/ChristianClavier in ''Les Anges Gardiens'', ''Les Misérables'' (miniseries), ''Series/{{Napoleon}}'' and in the first two ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' films. Director Bertrand Blier reunited them in ''Convoi Exceptionnel'' in 2019.

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948 in Châteauroux) is one of the most prominent and prolific modern French actors since TheSeventies.

* ''Guardian Angels'' (1995) as Antoine Carco and Carco's GuardianAngel

* MiniSeries: He was THE leading actor of the trend of French {{historical|Fiction}} miniseries at the turn of the millennium, starting with ''Series/{{The Count of Monte Cristo|1998}}'' in 1998 and ending circa 2005 with a TV adaptation of ''Literature/TheAccursedKings''.

!!Live Action Television:

** ''Asterix at the Olympic Games'' (2008)

* MrFanservice: Before being known as a boisterous fat guy, he was more like this in his youth, showing his young naked male body in movies like ''Les Valseuses'', ''The Last Woman'' or ''Bye Bye Monkey''.

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/{{Napoleon}}'' (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 an [[UsefulNotes/TheGloriousFederalSubjects oblast in that country]] at one point (he politely declined). Since 2022 he also holds citizenship from the UsefulNotes/UnitedArabEmirates.

* ''[=RRRrrrr!!!=]'' (2004) as the Chief of the Dirty Hair tribe

* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Played [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Danton#/media/File:Georges_Danton.jpg the eponymous character]] in the biopic ''Danton''. Danton was famously ugly.

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/{{Napoleon}}'' (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 an [[UsefulNotes/TheGloriousFederalSubjects oblast in that country]] at one point (he politely declined).

* {{Blackface}}: Downplayed in ''Dumas'', where he plays Creator/AlexandreDumas. The real Dumas was a biracial man (his father born from a French aristocrat and an enslaved woman of African descent), his African ancestry is obvious from photographs of the era, and he was victim of racism during his life. Depardieu appearance's includes a curly wig and darker make-up, but [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/71/44/0a71444e0113211784a7d3f308d5245d.jpg it makes him look like a suntanned Caucasian man with messy hair rather than a half-black person]]. [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8523212.stm The choice of casting the Caucasian Depardieu as a black historical figure actually resulted in a backlash at the time]].