Guillaume Depardieu
Élisabeth Depardieu
1995 Les apprentis
Guillaume Jean Maxime Antoine Depardieu (7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008) was a French actor, winner of a César Award, and the second oldest child of Gérard Depardieu.
Early life
Depardieu was the son of actor Gérard Depardieu and his first wife, actress Élisabeth Depardieu (née Guignot). He was the brother of actress Julie Depardieu, and half-brother of Roxane and Jean Depardieu.
Career
Guillaume shared the screen with his father several times throughout his career, beginning with his first film role, aged three, playing Gérard's son in Claude Goretta's That Wonderful Crook (Pas Si Méchant Que Ça) in 1974. His next appearance beside his father was in Tous les matins du monde in 1991, followed by Count of Monte Cristo in 1998, and Aime Ton Père (A Loving Father) in 2002. In 1996 he won a César Award (France's national film award) as the most promising newcomer in Les Apprentis. In 2007, he began rebuilding his career with the films Don't Touch the Axe (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache) and La France, and starred in the 2008 film De la guerre.[1]
Personal life
Depardieu had a relationship with actress Clotilde Courau from 1997 to 1999, then married actress Elise Ventre on 30 December 1999. They had a daughter, and separated in 2001. Depardieu was known to have had a strained relationship with his famous father, which he detailed in his 2004 autobiography Tout Donner (Giving Everything). Depardieu was said to have reconciled with his father shortly before his death.[1]
Guillaume was often called an enfant terrible by the French magazine Paris Match and was called eccentric and bohemian by others. By 1993, he had already served two jail sentences for drug offences, which included dealing heroin and theft. In 2003, he was fined and given a nine-month suspended prison sentence for threatening a man with a gun. In 2008, he was arrested for driving his scooter while intoxicated.[2][3][4]
In 1995, Depardieu crashed on his motorcycle when he ran over a suitcase that had fallen off a car and onto the roadway. He underwent surgery to repair damage to his knee. The wound developed a Staphylococcus aureus infection. Doctors performed seventeen subsequent operations in an attempt to clear the infection and save the leg; however, these efforts were unsuccessful, and Depardieu's leg was amputated above the knee in June 2003.[4]
Death
Depardieu's health was compromised by drug addiction and by his 1995 motorcycle accident and subsequent surgeries.[1] He contracted a severe viral pneumonia, caused by MRSA, while filming The Childhood of Icarus (L'Enfance d'Icare).[5] He was unable to overcome the infection, and on 13 October 2008, died at the hospital in Garches, aged 37.[4][6][7]
Filmography
Cinema
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1974 | Pas si méchant que ça | ||
1992 | Tous les matins du monde | Nominated – César Award for Most Promising Actor | |
1993 | Cible émouvante [fr] | ||
1995 | Les apprentis | César Award for Most Promising Actor | |
1997 | Marthe | ||
Alliance cherche doigt | |||
1998 | Comme elle respire | ||
1998 | The Count of Monte Cristo | ||
1999 | Pola X | ||
2000 | Elle et lui au 14e étage | ||
Les marchands de sable | |||
2001 | Amour, prozac et autres curiosités | ||
2002 | Peau d'Ange | ||
A Loving Father | |||
Le pharmacien de garde | |||
2004 | Process | ||
2006 | Celibataires | ||
2007 | The Duchess of Langeais | ||
La France | |||
2008 | De la guerre | ||
Versailles | |||
Stella | |||
Les inséparables | |||
2009 | A Real Life | ||
The Childhood of Icarus |
TV
- Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1999)
- Les Misérables (2000)
- Napoleon (2002)
- Les Rois maudits (2005) as Louis, King of Navarre
- Château en Suède (2008)
Discography
- Post Mortem (2013)
References
- ^ a b c Lichfield, John (14 October 2008). "Gérard Depardieu's son dies of pneumonia at 37". The Independent. London. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ Smith, David James. "Guillaume Depardieu: total eclipse of the son". The Times. London. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ Leprince, Benoît (16 October 2008). "GUILLAUME DEPARDIEU Le jeune homme et la mort" [GUILLAUME DEPARDIEU: The Young Man and Death]. Paris Match (in French). Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ a b c Bergan, Ronald (14 October 2008). "Guillaume Depardieu". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
- ^ "The Childhood of Icarus, actor Guillaume Depardieu's final film, reaches Romanian cinemas". Business Review. 11 April 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ "Guillaume Depardieu n'est plus". Archived 17 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Peoplestar.tv. Retrieved on 13 October 2008. (in French)[dead link]
- ^ C.J.; Aziz Zemouri (13 October 2008). "L'acteur Guillaume Depardieu est mort". Le Figaro (in French). Paris. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
External links
- Guillaume Depardieu at IMDb
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- 1983 Christophe Malavoy
- 1984 Richard Anconina
- 1985 Pierre-Loup Rajot
- 1986 Wadeck Stanczak
- 1987 Isaach de Bankolé
- 1988 Thierry Frémont
- 1989 Stéphane Freiss
- 1990 Yvan Attal
- 1991 Gérald Thomassin
- 1992 Manuel Blanc
- 1993 Emmanuel Salinger
- 1994 Olivier Martinez
- 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz
- 1996 Guillaume Depardieu
- 1997 Mathieu Amalric
- 1998 Stanislas Merhar
- 1999 Bruno Putzulu
- 2000 Éric Caravaca
- 2001 Jalil Lespert
- 2002 Robinson Stévenin
- 2003 Jean-Paul Rouve
- 2004 Grégori Derangère
- 2005 Gaspard Ulliel
- 2006 Louis Garrel
- 2007 Malik Zidi
- 2008 Laurent Stocker
- 2009 Marc-André Grondin
- 2010 Tahar Rahim
- 2011 Édgar Ramírez
- 2012 Grégory Gadebois
- 2013 Matthias Schoenaerts
- 2014 Pierre Deladonchamps
- 2015 Kévin Azaïs
- 2016 Rod Paradot
- 2017 Niels Schneider
- 2018 Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
- 2019 Dylan Robert
- 2020 Alexis Manenti
- 2021 Jean-Pascal Zadi
- 2022 Benjamin Voisin
- 2023 Bastien Bouillon
- 2024 Raphaël Quenard