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Young delinquent and wanderer in the past, Gérard Depardieu started his acting career at the small traveling theatre "Cafe de la Gare", along with Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou. After minor roles in cinema, at last, he got his chance in Bertrand Blier's Going Places. That film established a new type of hero in the French cinema and the actor's popularity grew enormously... See full bio »

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2014 F2014 (pre-production)
Jules Rimet (rumored)
 
2014 Welcome to New York (post-production)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
 
2013 La marque des anges (post-production)
Lionel Kasdan
 
2013 Cadences obstinées (post-production)
Père Villedieu
 
2013 Les boulistes (completed)
Jacky
 
2013 A Farewell to Fools
Ipu
 
2013 Turf
M. Paul
 
2012 My Sinful Angel
 
2012 Life of Pi
Cook
 
2012 Gabin le mime (short)
Tocqueboeuf
 
2012 Franck-Étienne vers la béatitude (short)
Frank-Étienne
 
2012 Le grand soir
Juvénal, l'homme qui lit l'avenir dans le verre de saké
 
2011 Raspoutine (TV movie)
Raspoutine
 
2011 A Butterfly Kiss
Le médecin de Manon
 
2011 Grenouille d'hiver (short)
Benjamin
 
2010 Je n'ai rien oublié
Konrad Lang
 
2010 Pozdnyaya lyubov
Gueorgui
 
2010 My Afternoons with Margueritte
Germain Chazes
 
2010 Glenn, the Flying Robot
TV reporter
 
2010 Le grand restaurant (TV movie)
Gérard - un client du restaurant
 
2010 Mammuth
Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
 
2009 Groland magzine (TV series)
Le gros monsieur
Episode #2.1 (2009) … Le gros monsieur
 
2009 In the Beginning
Abel
 
2009 Inspector Bellamy
Paul Bellamy
 
2009 Coco
Le cardiologue
 
2009 Diamond 13
Mat
 
2008 Les enfants de Timpelbach
Le général Igor
 
2008/I Hello, Goodbye
Alain Gaash
 
2008 Bouquet final
Hugo
 
2008 L'abolition (TV movie)
Henry Torrès
 
2008 Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Guido
 
2008 Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Guido
 
2008 The Easy Way
Le parrain des truands marseillais
 
2008 Disco
Jean-François
 
2007 Michou d'Auber
Georges
 
2006 Paris, je t'aime
Le patron (segment "Quartier Latin")
 
2005 Olé!
François Veber
 
2005 A Cursed Monarchy (TV mini-series)
Jacques de Molay
 
2005 How Much Do You Love Me?
Charly
 
2005 Boudu
Boudu
 
2004 Changing Times
Antoine Lavau
 
2004 Battle of the Brave
Father Thomas Blondeau
 
2004 RRRrrrr!!!
Le chef des Cheveux Sales
 
2003 Volpone (TV movie)
Volpone
 
2003 The Car Keys
Le fromager
 
2002 Ruy Blas (TV movie)
Don Salluste
 
2002 City of Ghosts
Emile (as Gerard Depardieu)
 
2002 Between Strangers
Max
 
2002 A Loving Father
Leo Shepherd
 
2002 I Am Dina
Jacob
 
2002 Les Misérables (TV mini-series)
Jean Valjean
Episode #1.4 (2002) … Jean Valjean
Episode #1.3 (2002) … Jean Valjean
Episode #1.2 (2002) … Jean Valjean
Episode #1.1 (2002) … Jean Valjean
 
2002 Napoléon (TV mini-series)
Joseph Fouché
1795-1800 (2002) … Joseph Fouché
1800-1807 (2002) … Joseph Fouché
1807-1812 (2002) … Joseph Fouché
1812-1821 (2002) … Joseph Fouché
 
2001 Witches to the North
Depardieu
 
2001 Vidocq
Vidocq
 
2001 CQ
Andrezej
 
2001 Unfair Competition
Professor Angelo
 
2000 102 Dalmatians
Jean-Pierre Le Pelt (as Gerard Depardieu)
 
2000 The Envy of Gods
Bernard
 
2000 Bérénice (TV movie)
Titus
 
2000 Actors
Gérard Depardieu
 
2000 Tutto l'amore che c'è
Molotov
 
2000 Mirka
Strix
 
1999 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV mini-series)
Abbé Busoni / Edmond Dantes / Lord Wilmore / …
Episode #1.4 (1999) … Edmond Dantes (as Gerard Depardieu) / The Count of Monte Cristo (as Gerard Depardieu) / Abbé Busoni (as Gerard Depardieu) / …
Episode #1.3 (1999) … Edmond Dantes (as Gerard Depardieu) / The Count of Monte Cristo (as Gerard Depardieu) / Abbé Busoni (as Gerard Depardieu) / …
Episode #1.2 (1999) … Edmond Dantes (as Gerard Depardieu) / The Count of Monte Cristo (as Gerard Depardieu) / Abbé Busoni (as Gerard Depardieu) / …
Episode #1.1 (1999) … Edmond Dantes (as Gerard Depardieu) / The Count of Monte Cristo (as Gerard Depardieu) / Abbé Busoni (as Gerard Depardieu) / …
 
1999 The Bridge
Georges
 
1998 Bimboland
Laurent Gaspard
 
1998 Notes of Love
Avv. Levi
 
1997 XXL
Jean Bourdalou
 
1996 Hamlet
Reynaldo
 
1996 The Best Job in the World
Laurent Monier
 
1996 Bogus
Bogus (as Gerard Depardieu)
 
1996 Unhook the Stars
Big Tommy Bellaveau (as Gerard Depardieu)
 
1995 Le garçu
Gerard
 
1995 Guardian Angels
Antoine Carco / Son ange gardien
 
1995 The Horseman on the Roof
Commissaire de Police à Manosque (uncredited)
 
1995 Élisa
Jacques 'Lébovitch' Desmoulin
 
1995 One Hundred and One Nights
Gérard Depardieu, en visite
 
1994 La machine
Dr. Marc Lacroix
 
1993 Oh, Woe Is Me
Simon Donnadieu
 
1992 From Time to Time (short)
Paris Airport Employee
 
1991 'Merci la vie'
Doctor Marc Antoine Worms
 
1990 Uranus
Léopold Lajeunesse
 
1989 I Want to Go Home
Christian Gauthier
 
1989 Too Beautiful for You
Bernard Barthélémy (as Gerard Depardieu)
 
1989 Deux
Marc Lambert
 
1987 Under the Sun of Satan
Donissan
 
1986 The Way Out
Clara's father
 
1986 I Hate Actors
Un détenu au commissariat (uncredited)
 
1986 Jean de Florette
Jean de Florette (as Gerard Depardieu)
 
1986 Ménage
Bob
 
1985 One Woman or Two
Julien Chayssac
 
1985 Police
Louis Vincent Mangin
 
1984 Rive droite, rive gauche
Paul Senanques - un avocat d'affaires au sens moral élastique
 
1984 Fort Saganne
Charles Saganne
 
1983 The Moon in the Gutter
Gérard Delmas - un docker hanté par le suicide de sa soeur
 
1983 Danton
Danton
 
1982 Le grand frère
Gérard Berger/Bernard Vigo
 
1981 The Goat
Campana
 
1981 Choice of Arms
Mickey
 
1980 Je vous aime
Patrick
 
1980 Inspector Blunder
Roger Morzini - l'ennemi public N°1 (as Depardieu)
 
1980 Loulou
Loulou
 
1980 Mon oncle d'Amérique
René Ragueneau
 
1980 Temporale Rosy
Raoul Lamarre
 
1979 The Dogs
Morel
 
1979 Traffic Jam
Franco
 
1978 Le sucre
Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
 
1978 Die linkshändige Frau
Mann mit dem T-Shirt
 
1978 Violanta
Fortunat
 
1978 Bye Bye Monkey
Gerard Lafayette
 
1977 At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Philippe Larcher
 
1977 This Sweet Sickness
David Martinaud
 
1977 Baxter, Vera Baxter
Michel Cayre
 
1977 Le camion
Lui
 
1977 Rene the Cane
René Bornier
 
1976 Barocco
Samson/Samson's Killer
 
1976 1900
Olmo Dalcò (as Gerard Depardieu)
 
1976 The Last Woman
Gerard
 
1976 I Love You, I Don't
Le paysan au cheval
 
1975 7 morts sur ordonnance
Doctor Jean-Pierre Berg
 
1975 Maîtresse
Olivier
 
1975 The Wonderful Crook
Pierre
 
1974 Stavisky...
Le jeune inventeur
 
1974 Woman of the Ganges
L'homme de la plage
 
1974 Going Places
Jean-Claude
 
1974 The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Le facteur/The postman
 
1973 L'inconnu (TV movie)
Gérard
 
1973 Two Men in Town
Un jeune truand
 
1973 Un monsieur bien rangé (TV mini-series)
Jean-Joseph Jenk
 
1973 Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (TV series)
De Greef
Mon ami Maigret (1973) … De Greef
 
1973 The Dominici Affair
Zézé Perrin
 
1973 The Year 01
Un voyageur qui ne prend pas le train
 
1973 Expulsion of the Devil
Beretti
 
1972 Scoumoune
Un homme de main/Burglar
 
1972 Nathalie Granger
Salesman
 
1972 Killer
Frédo Babasch, le 'mouton' de la Santé
 
1972 The Annuity
Victor, le complice de Jo
 
1971 A Few Hours of Sunlight
Pierre, le frère de Nathalie
 
1971 Cry of the Cormoran
Henri
 
1970 Les aventures de Zadig (TV movie)
Zadig
 
1970 Rendez-vous à Badenberg (TV series)
Eddy Belmont
 
1970 La pomme de son oeil (TV movie)
Hamid
 
1970 Le cyborg ou Le voyage vertical (TV movie)
Gabriel
 
1970 Tango (TV movie)
Edek
 
1970 Nausicaa (TV movie)
Le voleur de livres
 
1967 Le beatnik et le minet (short)
Le beatnik (as G. de Pardieu)
 
Show ShowProducer (11 titles)
2010 My Afternoons with Margueritte (executive producer - uncredited)
 
2010 Mammuth (co-producer - uncredited)
 
2002 Napoléon (TV mini-series) (producer)
 
2002 A Loving Father (producer)
 
2002 Les Misérables (TV mini-series) (producer - 4 episodes)
Episode #1.4 (2002) (producer - uncredited)
Episode #1.3 (2002) (producer - uncredited)
Episode #1.2 (2002) (producer - uncredited)
Episode #1.1 (2002) (producer - uncredited)
 
1999 The Bridge (producer)
 
1997 She's So Lovely (executive producer)
 
1991 The Stranger (executive producer, producer)
 
1990 Branches of the Tree (producer)
 
1989 Deux (producer)
 
1985 One Woman or Two (associate producer - uncredited)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (5 titles)
2010 My Afternoons with Margueritte (performer: "Le chanson de Germain")
 
2006 Quand j'étais chanteur (performer: "Pauvres Diables Vous Les Femmes", "Comme Un Garcon", "Faut Pas Pleurer Comme Ca", "L'Anamour", "Aimer La Vie", "Pour Un Flirt", "Save The Last Dance For Me", "Je N'Aurai Pas Le Temps", "Quand J'Etais Chanteur")
 
1994 A Pure Formality (performer: "Ricordare")
 
1991 Mon père, ce héros. (performer: "ça va")
 
1980 Je vous aime (performer: "La P'tite Agathe", "Papa nono")
 
Show ShowDirector (3 titles)
2006 Paris, je t'aime (segment "Quartier Latin")
 
1999 The Bridge
 
1984 Le tartuffe
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (3 titles)
1996 Unhook the Stars (presenter - as Gerard Depardieu)
 
1995 Élisa (press attache)
 
1983 The Wounded Man (voice dubbing: Jean Lerman)
 
Show ShowThanks (3 titles)
2008 The Easy Way (thanks)
 
2001 Francis Veber artisan du rire: La saga Pignon (video documentary) (thanks)
 
1995 The Horseman on the Roof (thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (73 titles)
2013 Voyage dans le Caucase (documentary)
Himself
 
2012 Cinéphiles de notre temps (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
2004-2012 Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 11 October 2012 (2012) … Himself
Episode dated 26 June 2012 (2012) … Himself
Episode dated 13 September 2010 (2010) … Himself
Episode dated 20 May 2010 (2010) … Himself
Episode dated 15 April 2010 (2010) … Himself
 
2003-2012 Vivement dimanche prochain (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 7 October 2012 (2012) … Himself
Episode dated 20 December 2009 (2009) … Himself
Episode dated 16 October 2005 (2005) … Himself
Episode dated 27 February 2005 (2005) … Himself
Episode dated 19 October 2003 (2003) … Himself
 
2007-2012 The Graham Norton Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.11 (2007) … Himself
 
2011 Fucking Kassovitz (video documentary)
Himself
 
2009-2011 Ce soir (ou jamais!) (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 25 May 2011 (2011) … Himself
Episode dated 15 April 2010 (2010) … Himself
Episode dated 9 February 2009 (2009) … Himself
 
2011 Ma plus belle histoire (TV short)
Himself
 
2010 Barbara, ma plus belle histoire d'amour c'est vous (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Cinémas (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 17 April 2010 (2010) … Himself
 
2010 Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Mourir? Plutôt crever! (documentary)
Himself
 
1981-2010 La nuit des Césars (TV series documentary)
Himself / Himself - César du meilleur acteur / Himself - Le président des Césars
35ème nuit des Césars (2010) … Himself
30ème nuit des Césars (2005) … Himself
29ème nuit des Césars (2004) … Himself
19ème nuit des Césars (1994) … Himself - Le président des Césars
16ème nuit des Césars (1991) … Himself - César du meilleur acteur
 
2003-2010 Vivement dimanche (TV series)
Himself / Himself - Main guest
Episode dated 24 January 2010 (2010) … Himself
Spécial Astérix (2008) … Himself
Episode dated 27 February 2005 (2005) … Himself
Episode dated 14 November 2004 (2004) … Himself
Episode dated 13 June 2004 (2004) … Himself
 
2009 Empreintes (TV series documentary)
Himself
Gérard Depardieu, une force qui va (2009) … Himself
 
2008 Mein Leben (TV series documentary)
Himself
Gérard Depardieu (2008) … Himself
 
2008 Quelli che... il calcio (TV series)
Himself - Various
Episode #15.23 (2008) … Himself - Various
 
1998-2008 Wetten, dass..? (TV series)
Himself
Wetten, dass..? aus Salzburg (2008) … Himself
Wetten, dass..? aus Hannover (2005) … Himself
Wetten, dass..? aus Leipzig (2002) … Himself
Wetten, dass..? aus Frankfurt (1998) … Himself
 
2007 L'abbuffata
Himself
 
2007 Marco Ferreri, il regista che venne dal futuro (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Maurice Pialat, Love Exists (documentary)
Récitant/Narrator (voice)
 
2007 On n'est pas couché (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 24 February 2007 (2007) … Himself
 
2006 Parcours de dissidents (TV documentary)
Récitant/Narrator (voice)
 
2005 Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre (video documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Tout le monde en parle (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 27 November 2005 (2005) … Himself
 
2005 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (TV series)
Himself
Episode #9.2 (2005) … Himself
 
2005 Qui veut la peau d'Olivier Marchal? (video documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Podium: 40 ans de variétés (TV documentary)
 
2005 Nous ne sommes pas des anges (TV series documentary)
Himself
Episode dated 15 April 2005 (2005) … Himself
 
2005 Cinema Goes to Dinner (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Campus, le magazine de l'écrit (TV series documentary)
Himself
France-Amérique! (2004) … Himself
 
2003 Dean Tavoularis, le magicien d'Hollywood (documentary)
Himself
 
2003 La rencontre (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre - Le Comankonafé (video documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Jamel... en vrai! (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Cinema 3 (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 26 January 2002 (2002) … Himself
 
2002 Días de cine (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 24 January 2002 (2002) … Himself
 
2001 So Graham Norton (TV series)
Himself
Episode #5.4 (2001) … Himself
 
2001 Francis Veber artisan du rire: La saga Pignon (video documentary)
Himself/Various roles (also archive footage)
 
2001 La saga Pignon (video documentary)
Himself/Various roles (also archive footage)
 
1996-2001 Gran premio internazionale della TV (TV series)
Himself
18th Edition (2001) … Himself
13th Edition (1996) … Himself
 
2000 Depardieu, vivre aux éclats (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1999 Astérix et Obélix contre César: L'envers du décor (video documentary short)
Himself/Obélix (uncredited)
 
1998 Junket Whore (documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Dennis Pennis R.I.P. (video)
Himself
 
1997 Jean Carmet, la liberté d'abord (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Pitch (documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Cannes... les 400 coups (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1996 ¿Qué apostamos? (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 27 September 1996 (1996) … Himself
 
1996 Die Harald Schmidt Show (TV series)
Himself
Show #82 (1996) … Himself
 
1995 The Annual 1995 ShoWest Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Presenter
 
1991-1994 Bouillon de culture (TV series documentary)
Himself
Gérard Depardieu (1991) … Himself
 
1994 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
Himself
Gerard Depardieu (1994) … Himself
 
1993 François Truffaut: Portraits volés (documentary)
Himself
 
1992 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
Himself
Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott (1992) … Himself
 
1991 Bertrand Blier: Des valseuses à Merci la vie (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1991 The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special)
Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
 
1982-1990 Champs-Elysées (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 24 March 1990 (1990) … Himself
Episode dated 13 December 1986 (1986) … Himself
Episode dated 4 February 1984 (1984) … Himself
Episode dated 8 May 1982 (1982) … Himself
 
1990 Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (TV series)
Himself
 
1988 Apostrophes (TV series)
Himself
Gérard Depardieu (1988) … Himself
 
1987 C'est encore mieux l'après-midi (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 15 May 1987 (1987) … Himself
 
1984 Cinéma cinémas (TV series documentary)
Himself
Pialat: 17e jour de tournage (1984) … Himself
 
1982 Mardi cinéma (TV series documentary)
Himself
Episode dated 11 May 1982 (1982) … Himself
Episode dated 12 January 1982 (1982) … Himself
 
1981 Les nouveaux rendez-vous (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 27 September 1981 (1981) … Himself
 
1980 Numéro 1 (TV series)
Himself
Gérard Depardieu (1980) … Himself
 
1976-1980 Les rendez-vous du dimanche (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 27 April 1980 (1980) … Himself
Episode dated 28 January 1979 (1979) … Himself
Episode dated 19 November 1978 (1978) … Himself
Episode dated 18 June 1978 (1978) … Himself
Episode dated 15 January 1978 (1978) … Himself
 
1980 Le grand échiquier (TV series)
Himself
François Périer (1980) … Himself
 
1979 Avec... le charme de Carole Laure (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1976 Bertolucci secondo il cinema (TV documentary)
 
1976 Monsieur Cinéma (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 15 February 1976 (1976) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (21 titles)
2013 La nuit des Césars (TV series documentary)
 
2012 Vivement dimanche (TV series)
 
2008-2012 The Graham Norton Show (TV series)
 
2012 Special Collector's Edition (TV series)
 
2011 Il était une fois... (TV series documentary)
 
2010 P.O.V. (TV series documentary)
 
2008 The Beaches of Agnès (documentary)
Le beatnik
 
2008 Jeanne Moreau: A Bombshell in Disguise (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Empreintes (TV series documentary)
 
2007 On n'est pas couché (TV series)
 
2005-2007 On a tout essayé (TV series)
 
2007 20 heures le journal (TV series)
 
2005 Cinema mil (TV series)
 
2004 Les 40 ans de la 2 (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Words in Progress (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Histoires de fiction (TV series documentary)
 
2002 Francis Veber artisan du rire: La mécanique dure rire (video documentary)
Various roles (uncredited)
 
2000 In the Shadow of Hollywood (documentary)
Himself (arrives in Strasbourg) (uncredited)
 
1991 The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Cyrano de Bergerac
 
1985 Vivement Truffaut (TV documentary)
Himself/Bernard
 

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TV Commercial for Pâtes Barilla (3 different commercials) (2001) See more »

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2 Print Biographies  | 6 Interviews  | 19 Articles  | 21 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Gerard Depardieu | Depardieu | G. de Pardieu

Height:

5' 10¾" (1.80 m)
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[on Juliette Binoche] Please can you explain to me what the secret of this actress is meant to be? I would really like to know why she has been so esteemed for so many years. She has nothing. Absolutely nothing! She is nothing. Compared with her, Isabelle Adjani is great even is she's totally nuts. Or Fanny Ardant - she is magnificent... See more »

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Is an accomplished winemaker. See more »

Trademark:

His bulbous nose See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn