| | Biography Biography | Gérard Depardieu is by far the most famous and busiest French actor. He has had important or lead roles in about 100 films. His wife, son and daughter are also actors. | | Filmography Filmography | 1980, The Last Metro
1981, The Woman Next Door
1982, The Return of Martin Guerre
1982, Danton
1982, La Chevre
1986, Jean de Florette
1989, Too Beautiful for You
1989, Camille Claudel
1990, Green Card
1990, Cyrano de Bergerac
1991, My Father the Hero
1991, All the Mornings in the World
1994, My Father the Hero (American Remake)
1994, Colonel Chabert
1995, The Horseman on the Roof
1998, The Man in the Iron Mask
1998, The Count of Monte Cristo
1999, Balzac
1999, Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
2000, Vatel
2000, 102 Dalmatians
2000, Les Misérables
2001, The Closet | Awards | Nominated for a Cesar (French equivalent of an Oscar) for Best Actor at least 12 times.
1981, Cesar for Best Actor (French Academy)
1987, Best Ac • Depardieu: A BiographyGerard Depardieu's own extraordinary candor underlies the unique resonance of this full-scale biography, the first to be written with the great French rulle star's total cooperation. In revealing and often astonishing detail, we see his rise from impossible beginnings: one of six children born in extreme poverty; the father a small-town illiterate, alcoholic, almost mute; the boy himself stuttering, barely speaking; the adolescent miraculously gregarious and independent, but exploding into mischief, petty brott, and, on occasion, violence; and, at the same time, escaping into - falling in love with - American movies. We see him at age sixteen, bursting out - to Paris, to freedom; discovering Marlon Brando and James Dean; wandering into an acting class - his talent immediately recognized, his horrendous speech defects addressed, his life as an actor beginning in earnest. From his first small parts on scen and in film and from his first major role (in Les V  • It just happened like that Publication : 2 October 2014
176 pages
Format : 135 x 215 mm
Price : 16.90 euros
ISBN : 9782845637320 A unique destiny, a powerful artist, a free-thinking man that these words unveil with accuracy, strength and modesty A superb and extravagant artist, Gerard Depardieu has been driven by his inner voice since childhood. It dictates his life, his choices, his way of being and his way of seeing the world. It is this voice, and its absolute sincerity, that this book was able to capture for the first time. From the very first page he opens his soul to us, we penetrate into his inner monologue and are thus able to see the world through his eyes. The eyes of a child who should not have been born, that the school system rejected, who had nothing to lose because he had nothing, and who has spent his life forcing fate. A hoodlum at 14 who became an actor by pure chance, Gérard Depardieu constructed his life as a free man, withou
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