Biography of Gerard Depardieu
Gerard Xavier Marcel Depardieu was born on 27 December 1948 in Chateauroux, son of René and Lilette. Raised in a working-class family in less than optimal economic conditions, left school at the age of thirteen. He spends an adolescence rather boisterous: Middle and almost illiterate stutterer, smuggling alcohol and cigarettes. At fourteen, he worked as an apprentice in a printing house; later plays football. Exempted from military service by a psychiatrist who diagnoses an excitation pathological, he moved to Paris to follow a course of acting: he meets Elisabeth Guignot, who marries the 11 April 1970.
The wife presents him with Jacques Demy and Agnes Varda, who works as a babysitter. To correct his elocution difficulties and improve memory, follows Dr. Tomatis therapy; Meanwhile, his lack of culture drives him to devour with passion and greed numerous classical texts of literature. At the beginning of the seventies, Michel Audiard won him a small role in the film "Le Cri du cormoran le soir au-dessus des jonques"; shortly after Gerard Depardieu also featured in the film "Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide", by Jacques Deray. Starting to tread the stages of several Parisian theatres, also featured in "Nathalie Granger" and "La Femme du Gange", while Pierre Tchemia offers him a small role as a gangster in "Le Viager", starring Michel Serrault. In 1974, however, that Gerard is revealed to the general public in "Les Waltzers" from Bertrand Blier, alongside Miou-Miou and Patrick Dewaere: success is amplified by the scandal caused by the crude and explicit sexuality dialogues of the characters. Winner of the Prix Gerard-Philipe awarded by the city of Paris in 1975 recites for Sept Morts sur ordonnance Jacques Rouffio in "", and approaches to major Italian Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci directs in "twentieth century", while Marco Ferreri calls him "the last woman" and "Hello".
Depardieu is appreciated more and more for his ability to change log and for its versatility, as evidenced in "The Truck", by Marguerite Duras, "Baroque", directed by André Téchiné, and in "La Femme gauchéere", by Peter Handke. After taking part in 1980, "Bur", by Claude Zidi, Gérard Depardieu knows a heyday in the eighties: recite for Alain Corneau in "Le choix des armes" (in Italy known as "code of honor"), and Francois Truffaut in "La femme d ' à Côté (the woman next door"). Then, he took part in "the goat", by Francis Veber, and "big brother", by Francis Girod.
After finding Veber in "Les compères", try the adventure from Director in 1984 with "Le Tartuffe"; then back to acting for Philippe Labro in Rive droite, rive gauche "(" the desire and corruption ") and especially to Maurice Pialat in" Police ", allowing him to get the prize for best actor at the Venice Film Festival of 1985. For the interpreter of Chateauroux this is a golden age, as evidenced by the participation in "Tenue de soirée" ("he was wearing a high heels") by Bertrand Blier and at "Les fugitive" ("two fugitives and a half") by Francis Veber; but as evidenced by the Palme d'Or won at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 with "Sous le soleil de Satan (under the Sun of Satan"), by Maurice Pialat. In 1988 interprets Rodin in costume drama of Bruno Nuytten "Camille Claudel", while two years later gives a interpret and intriguing with "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, where plays the role of the hero: the film based on the play by Edmond Rostand enables him to win a César and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, but also to get an Oscar nomination for best actor. In 1991 Gerard Depardieu reads again to Alain Corneau in "Tous les matins du monde", while "Jean de Sainte-Colombe" is located alongside Jean-Pierre Marielle and her son Guillemme Depardieu.
After having starred in "1492-conquest of paradise" Ridley Scott dedicated to Christopher Columbus in the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America, is the protagonist of "where's my baby?", Steve Miner. Is the 1994, when it also plays for Giuseppe Tornatore in "a formality" and in "Le colonel Chabert by Yves Angelo" ("Colonel Chabert"). In the mid-1990s the French actor is in demand: cinema participates, inter alia, to "Le hussard sur le toit (the Horseman on the roof") by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and "a very special woman," by Nick Cassavetes. Alternating between dramatic roles in interpretations, also plays for Norman Jewinson in "Bogus-the imaginary friend". In 1998 he took part in the first film in the saga of Asterix and Obelix, Asterix & Obelix vs Caesar ", he also Roberto Benigni. Back to tie his career with Italian cinema two years later when recited for Sergio Rubini in "all the love that is there."
During the same period he worked again with Bertrand Blier in "Actors", before taking part in the United States, "102 Dalmatians". Directed by Ettore Scola in "unfair competition", films with Sergio Castellitto fascist Italy, also set in Giovanni Veronesi in "Streghe verso nord", before returning to assume the role of Obelix in "Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra". For Matt Dillon works in "City of Ghosts", while with Anne Fontaine is at the movies in "Nathalie ...". In 2005 concludes the relationship of love-begun eight years earlier--with actress Carole Bouquet, and falls in love with Clementine Igou, writer of American descent; three years later, suffers a tremendous mourning with the death of his son Guillaume. After finding Francois Ozon behind the camera for "Potiche", Gerard appears in the acclaimed "life of Pi" by Ang Lee, and in "Asterix & Obelix: on her Majesty's service".
In December 2012 announces that it has transferred his residence from France to Belgium, moving Néchin, village situated a few kilometers from the border between the two countries: its selection, due to the tax on top earners decided by Hollande, is harshly criticized in his homeland. Gerard Depardieu, in response, claims to return the French passport to become a Belgian citizen. Shortly thereafter, the plaintiff receives the Russian passport and Russian citizenship by Vladimir Putin. In 2013, the French interpreter is among the actors in the cast of the film by Luigi Cecinelli "nothing can stop us", comedy with Massimo Ghini, Paolo Calabresi and Serena Autieri.
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