Gérard Depardieu

  • Biography

    Discovered in Bertrand Blier’s Going Places in 1974, Depardieu is one of France’s most renowned actors and has been shooting ever since with the greatest directors of the XXth century: Resnais, Truffaut, Sautet, Bertolucci, Pialat... He embodied on screen many historical characters and heroes of the French literature like Jean de Florette, Rodin or Cyrano de Bergerac. His greatest roles are in Blier’s Tenue de Soirée, Truffaut’s The Last Metro or The Woman Next Door.

    Filmography

    1974 Les Valseuses by Bertrand Blier
    1987 Camille Claudel by Bruno Nuytten
    1993 Germinal by Claude Berri
    1995 Le Hussard sur le toit by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
    2004 36 Quai des Orfèvres by Olivier Marchal
    2010 La Tête en friche by Jean Becker
    2011 Le grand soir by Benoît Délépine et Gustave Kervern
    2013 Cadences obstinées by Fanny Ardant