Gerard Depardieu

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (UK: , US: , French: [ʒeʁaʁ ɡzavje maʁsɛl dəpaʁdjø] ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor. An icon of French cinema, considered a world star in the same way as Alain Delon or Brigitte Bardot, he has completed over 250 films since 1967, most of which as a lead actor. Depardieu has worked with over 150 film directors whose most notable collaborations include Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Ridley Scott, and Bernardo Bertolucci. He is the second highest-grossing actor in the history of French cinema behind Louis de Funès. As of January 2022, his body of work also includes countless television productions, 18 stage plays, 16 records and 9 books. He is known for having portrayed numerous leading historical and fictitious figures including Georges Danton, Joseph Stalin, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean Valjean, Edmond Dantès and Christopher Columbus, as well as Obelix in four of the live action Asterix films. Depardieu is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite. He was granted citizenship of Russia in January 2013 (officially adopted name in Russian: Жерар Ксавие Депардьё, romanized: Zherar Ksavie Depardyo), and became a cultural ambassador of Montenegro during the same month. Depardieu has received acclaim for his performances in The Last Metro (1980), for which he won the César Award for Best Actor, in Police (1985), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, Jean de Florette (1986), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), for which he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival and his second César Award for Best Actor as well as garnering a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He co-starred in Peter Weir's comedy Green Card (1990), winning a Golden Globe Award, and later acted in several big-budget Hollywood films, including Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), and Ang Lee's Life of Pi (2012). Depardieu was accused of sexual assault as early as the 1990s, though this did not develop into formal complaints until the late 2010s. In 2021, French authorities charged him with rape. Depardieu denied any wrongdoing, but was convicted of sexual assault in an unrelated case in May 2025. A number of controversies since 2020, not limited to the accusations of rape, have resulted in his being stripped in 2023 of the National Order of Quebec.

Psyché - 2022-02-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Confessions - 2019-11-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Depardieu Chante Barbara (Live) - 2017-11-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Depardieu Chante Barbara - 2017-02-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie (Live) - 2015-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

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