Biography
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (UK: , US: , French: [ʒeʁaʁ ɡzavje maʁsɛl dəpaʁdjø] (listen); born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, filmmaker, businessman and vineyard owner since 1989 who is one of the most prolific thespians in film history. He has completed over 250 films since 1967, almost exclusively as a lead. Depardieu has worked with over 150 film directors whose most notable collaborations include Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Ridley Scott and Bernardo Bertolucci. He is the second highest grossing actor in the history of French Cinema behind Louis de Funès. As of January 2022, his body of work also include countless television productions, 18 theatre plays, 16 records and 9 books. He is mostly known as a character actor and for having portrayed numerous leading historical and fictitious figures of the Western world including Georges Danton, Joseph Stalin, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean Valjean, Edmond Dantès, Christopher Columbus, Obélix, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite. He was granted citizenship of Russia in January 2013 (officially adopted name in Russian: Жерар Ксавие Депардьё, romanized: Zherar Ksavie Depardyo), and became a cultural ambassador of Montenegro during the same month.
He has received acclaim for his performances in The Last Metro (1980), for which he won the César Award for Best Actor, in Police (1985), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, Jean de Florette (1986), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), for which he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival and his second César Award for Best Actor as well as garnering a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He co-starred in Peter Weir's comedy Green Card (1991), winning a Golden Globe Award, and later acted in many big budget Hollywood films, including Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996), Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), and Ang Lee's Life of Pi (2012).
Filmography
All 296
Movies 262
Self 58
TV Shows 34
Producer 3
Director 2
Narrator 2

Umami (2023)

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (2022)

Le Late avec Alain Chabat (2022)

The King’s Favorite (2022)

The Green Shutters (2022)

Employee of the Month (2022)

Robust (2022)

Les pieds dans la mayonnaise: les irrévérencieux des années 70 (2022)

Maigret (2022)

Retirement Home (2022)

Adieu Paris (2022)

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)

Alain Jessua, le franc-tireur du cinéma français (2021)

Lost Illusions (2021)

Sous le soleil de Pialat (2021)

L'extravagante petite vie de J.C.D Dreyfus (2021)

Do You Do You Saint-Tropez (2021)

Un homme d'honneur (2021)

Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie (2021)

Creators: The Past (2020)

Home Front (2020)

Fahim (2019)

Thalasso (2019)

Crystal Frog (2019)

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema (2019)

Wide Load (2019)

To the Ends of the World (2018)

The Brand New Adventures of Aladin (2018)

Gérard de par le Monde (2018)

Saving My Pig (2018)

Private Eye (2018)

Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya (2018)

The Other Woman (2018)

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018)

Carbone (2017)

Michel Sardou – Dernier show (2017)

Let the Sunshine In (2017)

Nobody's Perfect! (2017)

You Only Live Once (2017)

Mata Hari (2017)

Wajda by Wajda (2016)

French Tour (2016)

Stalin's Couch (2016)

Quotidien (2016)

Marseille (2016)

A Mighty Team (2016)

Saint Amour (2016)

The End (2016)

Rhapsody (2016)

Le Rustre et le Juge (2015)

Le Magicien et les Siamois (2015)

Agafia (2015)

Bon appetit: Gérard Depardieu's Europe (2015)

Capitaine Marleau (2015)

Valley of Love (2015)

Gérard Depardieu, grandeur nature (2015)

Fifty Shades of Erotica (2015)

Bain de minuit (2015)

Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes (2014)

Viktor (2014)

Welcome to New York (2014)

The Term. Beginning of a Big Story (2014)

Duras and Cinema (2014)

United Passions (2014)

La voix des steppes (2014)

Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas (2014)

Obsessive Rythms (2014)

The Invincible Ones (2013)

Miserere (2013)

Nothing Can Stop Us Now (2013)

A Farewell to Fools (2013)

Turf (2013)

Isabelle Adjani, 2 or 3 Things We Don't Know about Her... (2013)

The Man Who Laughs (2012)

Life of Pi (2012)

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012)

Frank-Etienne Towards Beatitude (2012)

The Big Night (2012)

Rasputin (2011)

Fucking Kassovitz (2011)

Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell (2011)

A Butterfly Kiss (2011)

A Frog in Winter (2011)

Glenn, the Flying Robot (2010)

Small World (2010)

Trophy Wife (2010)

Late Love (2010)

My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)

Mammuth (2010)

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là (2010)

The Great Restaurant (2010)

The Other Dumas (2010)

Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres (2010)

In the Beginning (2009)

Coco (2009)

Gérard Depardieu, blessures secrètes (2009)

Diamond 13 (2009)

Bellamy (2009)

L'abolition (2009)

Trouble at Timpetill (2008)

The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

Hello Goodbye (2008)

Final Arrangements (2008)

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)

Babylon A.D. (2008)

The Easy Way (2008)

Disco (2008)

Kings Can Do Everything (2008)

Astérix at the Olympic Games (2008)

L'abbuffata (2007)

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future (2007)

Lebo, l'ombre et la lumière (2007)

Maurice Pialat, l'amour existe (2007)

Michou d'Auber (2007)

The Graham Norton Show (2007)

La Vie en Rose (2007)

The Singer (2006)

Parcours de Dissidents (2006)

Paris Je T'aime (2006)

Last Holiday (2006)

Olé ! (2005)

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre (2005)

The Accursed Kings (2005)

How Much Do You Love Me? (2005)

Boudu (2005)

Let's Be Friends (2005)

La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre (2005)

Volpone (2004)

36th Precinct (2004)

Battle of the Brave (2004)

San Antonio (2004)

La Femme Musketeer (2004)

The Lady Musketeer (2004)

RRRrrrr!!! (2004)

Changing Times (2004)

The Car Keys (2003)

Ruby & Quentin (2003)

Nathalie... (2003)

Bon Voyage (2003)

Crime Spree (2003)

The Pact of Silence (2003)

A Loving Father (2002)

Ruy Blas (2002)

Napoleon (2002)

Blanche (2002)

City of Ghosts (2002)

Between Strangers (2002)

How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

Jamel... En vrai ! (2002)

Sucré Salé (2002)

I Am Dina (2002)

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

Streghe verso nord (2001)

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001)

Vidocq (2001)

CQ (2001)

Unfair Competition (2001)

The Closet (2001)

The Envy of Gods (2000)

102 Dalmatians (2000)

Bérénice (2000)

Les Misérables (2000)

Vatel (2000)

Actors (2000)

Tutto l'amore che c'è (2000)

Killing Power (2000)

Mirka (2000)

Balzac (1999)

Balzac: A Life Of Passion (1999)

The Bridge (1999)

Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar (1999)

Bimboland (1998)

Vivement dimanche (1998)

The Count of Monte Cristo (1998)

Notes of Love (1998)

The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)

XXL (1997)

Pitch (1997)

She's So Lovely (1997)

Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo (1997)

Hamlet (1996)

The Best Job in the World (1996)

The Secret Agent (1996)

Bogus (1996)

Unhook the Stars (1996)

The Harald Schmidt Show (1995)

The Son Of... (1995)

Guardian Angels (1995)

The Horseman on the Roof (1995)

Elisa (1995)

One Hundred and One Nights (1995)

Colonel Chabert (1994)

The Machine (1994)

A Pure Formality (1994)

My Father the Hero (1994)

Germinal (1993)

Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993)

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

All the Mornings of the World (1991)

My Father the Hero (1991)

The Stranger (1991)

Thank You, Life (1991)

Green Card (1990)

Uranus (1990)

The Branches of the Tree (1990)

Stars 90 (1990)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

Too Beautiful for You (1989)

I Want to Go Home (1989)

Deux (1989)

Camille Claudel (1988)

Strange Place for an Encounter (1988)

Under the Sun of Satan (1987)

Bernardo Bertolucci: The Italian Traveler (1987)

The Fugitives (1986)

Jean de Florette (1986)

Ménage (1986)

Police (1985)

Vivement Truffaut (1985)

One Woman or Two (1985)

17ème jour de tournage du film "Police" (1984)

Rive droite, rive gauche (1984)

Le Tartuffe (1984)

Fort Saganne (1984)

The ComDads (1983)

The Moon in the Gutter (1983)

Danton (1983)

The Big Brother (1982)

The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)

Champs-Elysées (1982)

Droit de Réponse (1981)

La Chèvre (1981)

The Woman Next Door (1981)

Choice of Arms (1981)

Wetten, dass..? (1981)

I Love All of You (1980)

Inspector Blunder (1980)

The Last Metro (1980)

Loulou (1980)

My American Uncle (1980)

Hurricane Rosie (1980)

Buffet Froid (1979)

The Dogs (1979)

Traffic Jam (1979)

Sugar (1978)

Bye Bye Monkey (1978)

Violanta (1978)

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

At Night All Cats Are Crazy (1977)

The Left-Handed Woman (1977)

This Sweet Sickness (1977)

Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977)

The Lorry (1977)

Rene the Cane (1977)

Barocco (1976)

1900 (1976)

The Last Woman (1976)

I Love You, I Don't (1976)

The Cinema According to Bertolucci (1976)

Maîtresse (1976)

Seven Deaths by Prescription (1975)

Abicinema (1975)

Numéro un (1975)

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)

Apostrophes (1975)

Midi Première (1975)

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others (1974)

Stavisky... (1974)

Woman of the Ganges (1974)

Going Places (1974)

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang (1974)

The Wonderful Crook (1974)

L'inconnu (1973)

Two Men in Town (1973)

Nathalie Granger (1973)

Un monsieur bien rangé (1973)

The Dominici Affair (1973)

The Year 01 (1973)

At the Meeting with Joyous Death (1973)

The Pariah (1972)

Killer (1972)

Le Viager (1972)

La vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur (1972)

Le grand échiquier (1972)

A Little Sun in Cold Water (1971)

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971)

Nausicaa (1971)

The Adventures of Zadig (1970)

Rendez-vous à Badenberg (1970)

La pomme de son oeil (1970)

Le cyborg ou Le voyage vertical (1970)

Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)

Christmas Carole (1966)

The Most Precious of Cargoes

Twins
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Information
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1948-12-27 (74 years old)
Birth nameGérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu
Place of birthChâteauroux, France
ReligionEastern Orthodoxy
Height1.8-meter
RelationshipsÉlisabeth Depardieu (1971-02-19 - 1996-11-02), Carole Bouquet (1997-01-01 - 2005-01-01)
ChildrenGuillaume Depardieu, Julie Depardieu, Roxanne Depardieu
FatherRené Depardieu
MotherAlice Depardieu
SiblingsAlain Depardieu
RelativesDelphine Depardieu
CitizenshipsUnited Arab Emirates, Russia, France
ResidencesCentre-Val de Loire · Centre region · France · Châteauroux, France
Also known asGerard Depardieu, Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, G. de Pardieu, Жерар Депардье, 제라르 드파르듀
AwardsGolden Lion, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Knight of the National Order of Quebec, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, César Award for Best Actor, Lumières Award for Best Actor, London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, Volpi Cup for Best Actor, 7 d'Or, 7 d'or, Lumière Award, Lyon Festival of cinema, Stanislavsky Award, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the National Order of Merit
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