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Date of Birth

6 December 1938, Brussels, Belgium

Birth Name

Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau

Height

6' 3" (1.91 m)

Mini Biography

Patrick Bauchau was born in Brussels, Belgium and raised in Belgium, Switzerland and England, UK. He attended Oxford University on an academic scholarship and studied Modern Languages (he speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and a bit of Russian and Flemish). Bauchau began his career in the French New Wave cinema. His work spans the 1960s through the present, though he took a break from acting during the 1970s. Bauchau is best known these days for his role as Sydney in the series "The Pretender" (1996). He also appeared in "Kindred: The Embraced" (1996), and a spate of other films and television appearances both in the United States and Europe. Bauchau's interests include gardening, carpentry, collecting oriental art, and yoga.

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Spouse

Mijanou Bardot

(? - present)

Trivia

His father is acclaimed Paris-based Belgian author and psychoanalyst Henry Bauchau. His mother was Russian who ran a publishing house and a Swiss finishing school.

Received a degree in modern languages from Oxford University.

Daughter named Camille.

Brother-in-law of Brigitte Bardot.

Member of jury at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 2005

Took a break from acting during which time he built furniture and created large stuffed-animal pillows for Salvadore Dali.

Speaks French, English, German, Spanish and Italian, and also knows a bit of Flemish and Russian.

His father, noted writer Henry Bauchau (1913- ), served in the Belgian underground during the war, ran a publishing company and was the head of a finishing school in Switzerland. His mother, the late Mary Kozyrev, expatriated from Russia and at one time ran both the publishing company and the finishing school.

His last name is pronounced "beau-show".

One of three brothers, he was born in Brussels and raised in Belgium, England and Switzerland.

Where Are They Now

(March 2005) He visited Argentina for be part of the member of jury in Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2005.

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