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2 | ->''"I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people. One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people."'' |
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4 | Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948 in Châteauroux) is one of the most prominent and prolific UsefulNotes/{{Fr|ance}}ench actors since TheSeventies. |
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6 | He first performed at the UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}ian Café de la Gare, and got his [[StarMakingRole major break]] (along with Creator/PatrickDewaere and Miou-Miou, his comrade performers at the Café de la Gare) in 1974 with the film ''Film/LesValseuses''. He's had around 250 acting credits since his debut in 1967. |
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8 | Basically, he's been a go-to guy for leading roles in {{Period Piece}}s (either {{Historical Domain Character}}s or historical novel protagonists), as well as BigFun, BigEater and BoisterousBruiser roles in French cinema -- most often requiring to be a LargeHam, which he seems born to play. While most of his box office successes were comedies, the man's got range, as he garnered much critical acclaim for his dramatic roles in pictures such as ''Film/TheLastMetro'', ''Film/CyranoDeBergerac'' or ''Mammuth''. He's dabbled in English-language cinema, usually playing (of course) eccentric Frenchmen, starting with the romantic comedy ''Film/GreenCard''. |
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10 | 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]] by UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin 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. |
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12 | Two out of his four children became actors, namely Creator/{{Julie|Depardieu}} (born in 1973), and Guillaume (1971-2008). Guillaume died of pneumonia at age 37 while filming in Romania. |
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14 | [[folder:Selected Filmography]] |
15 | !!Films: |
16 | * ''Film/LaScoumoune'' (1972) as a mob thug |
17 | * ''Film/LesValseuses'' (1974) as Jean-Claude |
18 | * ''Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres'' (1974) as Jean |
19 | * ''The Last Woman'' (1976) as Gérard |
20 | * ''[[Film/{{Novecento}} 1900]]'' (1976) as Olmo |
21 | * ''Film/GetOutYourHandkerchiefs'' (1978) as Raoul |
22 | * ''Buffet froid'' (1979) as Alphonse Tram |
23 | * ''Film/TheLastMetro'' (1980) as Bernard Granger |
24 | * ''[[Film/MonOncleDAmerique Mon oncle d'Amérique]]'' (1980) as René |
25 | * ''Film/InspectorBlunder'' (1980) as Roger Morzini |
26 | * ''Film/LaChevre'' (1981) as Campana |
27 | * ''Film/TheWomanNextDoor'' (1981) |
28 | * ''Film/TheReturnOfMartinGuerre'' (1982) |
29 | * ''[[Film/LesComperes Les Compères]]'' (1983) as Lucas |
30 | * ''Film/{{Danton}}'' (1983) as [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolutionMajorFigures Georges Jacques Danton]] |
31 | * ''Film/{{Police}}'' (1985) as Mangin |
32 | * ''Film/LesFugitifs'' (1986) as Lucas |
33 | * ''[[Film/ManonDesSources Jean de Florette]]'' (1986) as Jean de Florette |
34 | * ''Film/UnderTheSunOfSatan'' (1987) as Donissan |
35 | * ''Film/CamilleClaudel'' (1988) as Creator/AugusteRodin |
36 | * ''Film/GreenCard'' (1990) as Georges Fauré |
37 | * ''Film/CyranoDeBergerac'' (1990) as Cyrano |
38 | * ''Film/{{Uranus|1990}}'' (1990) as Léopold Lajeunesse |
39 | * ''Mon père, ce héros'' (1991) as André Arnel |
40 | ** ''[[ForeignRemake My Father the Hero]]'' (1994) as André |
41 | * ''Film/FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise'' (1992) as UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus |
42 | * ''Literature/{{Germinal}}'' (1993) as Toussaint Maheu |
43 | * ''Colonel Chabert'' (1994) as Hyacinthe Chabert |
44 | * ''Film/APureFormality'' (1994) as Onoff |
45 | * ''Film/GuardianAngels'' (1995) as Antoine Carco and Carco's GuardianAngel |
46 | * ''Film/TheBestJobInTheWorld'' (1996) as Laurent Monier |
47 | * ''Bogus'' (1996) as Bogus |
48 | * ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'' (1998) as Porthos |
49 | * ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' live-action film series as [[ComicBook/{{Asterix}} Obélix]] |
50 | ** ''Film/AsterixAndObelixTakeOnCaesar'' (1999) |
51 | ** ''Film/AsterixAndObelixMissionCleopatra'' (2002) |
52 | ** ''Film/AsterixAtTheOlympicGames'' (2008) |
53 | ** ''Film/AsterixAndObelixGodSaveBritannia'' (2012) |
54 | * ''Film/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians'' (2000) as Jean-Pierre Le Pelt |
55 | * ''Film/{{Vidocq}}'' (2001) as Eugène-François Vidocq |
56 | * ''Film/TheCloset'' (2001) as Félix Santini |
57 | * ''Film/{{Blanche}}'' (2002) as [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers D'Artagnan]] |
58 | * ''Film/{{Nathalie}}'' (2003) as Bernard |
59 | * ''Tais-toi!'' (''Ruby & Quentin'', 2003) as Quentin |
60 | * ''Film/RRRrrr'' (2004) as the Chief of the Dirty Hair tribe |
61 | * ''Film/TrenteSixQuaiDesOrfevres'' (''Department 36'', 2004) as Denis Klein |
62 | * ''Last Holiday'' (2006) as Chef Didier |
63 | * ''Film/LaVieEnRose'' (2007) as Louis Leplée (Music/EdithPiaf's first manager) |
64 | * ''[[Film/{{Mesrine}} Mesrine: Killer Instinct]]'' (2008) as Guido |
65 | * ''Film/Dumas2010'' as Creator/AlexandreDumas |
66 | * ''Film/{{Potiche}}'' (2010) |
67 | * ''Film/LifeOfPi'' (2012) as the Cook |
68 | * ''Film/TheMarkOfTheAngelsMiserere'' (2013) as Lionel Kasdan |
69 | * ''Welcome to New York'' (2014) as Mr. Devereux [[note]][[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed thinly disguised]] {{Expy}} of Dominique Strauss-Kahn[[/note]] |
70 | * ''Film/UnitedPassions'' (2014) as Jules Rimet |
71 | * ''Film/SoloSeViveUnaVez'' (2017) as Duges |
72 | * ''Stalin's Couch'' (2017) as UsefulNotes/JosefStalin |
73 | * ''Film/{{Maigret|2022}}'' (2022) as [[Literature/{{Maigret}} Commissioner Jules Maigret]] |
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75 | !!TV Productions: |
76 | * ''Series/{{The Count of Monte Cristo|1998}}'' (1998) as Edmond Dantès/The Count of Monte Cristo |
77 | * ''Balzac'' (1999) as Creator/HonoreDeBalzac |
78 | * ''[[Series/LesMiserables2000 Les Misérables]]'' (2000) as Jean Valjean |
79 | * ''[[Series/Napoleon2002 Napoléon]]'' (2002) as Joseph Fouché |
80 | * ''Theatre/RuyBlas'' (2002) as Don Salluste |
81 | * ''La Femme Musketeer'' (2004) as UsefulNotes/CardinalMazarin |
82 | * ''Literature/TheAccursedKings'' (2005) as [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Jacques de Molay]] |
83 | * ''Rasputin'' (2011) as UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin |
84 | * ''Marseille'' (Creator/{{Netflix}} series, 2016-2018) as Mayor Robert Taro |
85 | * ''The King's Favorite'' (2022) as UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}} |
86 | |
87 | !!Voice Work: |
88 | * ''Film/BlowOut'' (1981) as Jack Terry (French dub) |
89 | * ''Film/{{Henry V|1989}}'' (1989) as Henry V (French dub) |
90 | * ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' (2000) as Rocky (French dub) |
91 | * ''WesternAnimation/SgtStubbyAnAmericanHero'' (2018) as Gaston Baptiste (voice in English and French dub) |
92 | [[/folder]] |
93 | |
94 | !!Tropes in his films: |
95 | |
96 | * BigEater: Some of his roles since the late 1990s are big eaters, such as Obelix. |
97 | * BigFun: While he's been acting in comedies since the late 1970s, he's been heavyset since the late 1990s only. |
98 | * BoisterousBruiser: When playing loud swashbuckling heroes like Film/{{Cyrano|De Bergerac}} or [[Film/TheManInTheIronMask Porthos]]. And there's [[Franchise/{{Asterix}} Obelix]], of course. |
99 | * TheDanza: Plays a man called "Gérard" in ''The Last Woman''. |
100 | * HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Played [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolutionMajorFigures the eponymous character]] in the biopic ''Danton''. Danton was famously ugly. |
101 | * 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, UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}}ic 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}}. |
102 | * {{Japandering}}: He appeared in commercials for Barilla pastas that were broadcast in both France and Italy in the 1990s, and more recently he appeared in commercials for the watch brand CVSTOS that were aimed at the Russian market. |
103 | * LargeHam: A poster-guy for this ever since ''Cyrano'' (though he had shades of this in the 1980s Creator/FrancisVeber films he appeared in and with ''Film/{{Danton}}''). He perfectly knows when to ham it up and when not to. |
104 | * {{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''. |
105 | * MrFanservice: Before being known as a boisterous fat guy, he was more like this in his youth, showing his young and fit naked male body in movies like ''Les Valseuses'', ''The Last Woman'' or ''Bye Bye Monkey''. |
106 | * {{Period Piece}}s: Half of his filmography, if not more, is made of period dramas. |
107 | * ProductionPosse: |
108 | ** Creator/FrancisVeber often casts him in his comedies. |
109 | ** Bertrand Blier directed him four times. |
110 | ** {{Period piece}} TV films/mini-series director Josée Dayan also often casts him in the leading role. |
111 | * ThoseTwoActors: |
112 | ** He appeared alongside his Café de la Gare comrades Creator/PatrickDewaere and Miou-Miou in ''Film/LesValseuses'' and ''Film/GetOutYourHandkerchiefs''. |
113 | ** He has appeared alongside Creator/CatherineDeneuve in 10 films since 1980. |
114 | ** Depardieu and Creator/PierreRichard have formed an OddCouple in three comedy films directed by Creator/FrancisVeber -- ''Film/LaChevre'', ''Film/LesComperes'' and ''Film/LesFugitifs''. |
115 | ** He appeared alongside Creator/ChristianClavier in ''Film/GuardianAngels'', ''[[Series/LesMiserables2000 Les Misérables]]'', ''[[Series/Napoleon2002 Napoléon]]'' and in the first two ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' films. Director Bertrand Blier reunited them in ''Convoi Exceptionnel'' in 2019. |
116 | ** He has played alongside Creator/DanielAuteuil in ''[[Film/ManonDesSources Jean de Florette]]'', ''Film/TheCloset'', ''Film/TrenteSixQuaiDesOrfevres'' and ''The Other Woman''. |
117 | ** He's also played alongside Creator/IsabelleHuppert three times, in ''Film/LesValseuses'', ''Loulou'' and ''Valley of Love''. |
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