Guillaume Depardieu

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Guillaume Jean Maxime Antoine Depardieu (born April 7, 1971 in Paris , † October 13, 2008 in Garches , Île-de-France ) was a French actor. He worked in over 40 film and television productions.

Life

Depardieu was the son of the actor Gérard Depardieu and his then wife Élisabeth Guignot . His sister Julie , who is two years younger than him, is also an actress. As a child, Guillaume Depardieu accompanied his father on filming. He played his first extra role at the age of three in Claude Goretta's drama It's Not That Bad (1974). The next feature film only followed in 1991 with Alain Corneau's award-winning historical film The Seventh String , in which he was seen as a young viol player and composer Marin Marais , while his father played the aging Marais. For this role he was nominated a year later for the César as best young actor . Depardieu was to be nominated two more times for the French national film award: as a student of an experienced professional killer (played by Jean Rochefort ) who falls in love with his victim ( Marie Trintignant ), in The Killer and the Girl (1993), and at the side by François Cluzet as a daydreamer who keeps his head above water with odd jobs and small thefts, in The Beginners (1995), both directed by Pierre Salvadori . For the latter he received the César and the Jean Gabin Prize in 1996 . After Leos Carax 's Pola X (1999), he was unable to build on earlier successes, although he regularly appeared in French cinema and on television.

In October 1995 he suffered a motorcycle accident, as a result of which he had to undergo an operation on his knee. In the hospital infected he incurable with the bacteria MRSA . Depardieu then had to take strong painkillers for years and decided in June 2003, after 17 more operations, to have the leg amputated.

Depardieu married actress Élise Ventre in 2000. In the same year a daughter was born, but he later separated from his wife. In 2004, together with Marc-Olivier Fogiel, he published his autobiography Tout donner (German: Everything to give ), which appeared in Germany under the title Im Schatten meine Vater , and in which he looked, among other things, at his chaotic life, in which he several times came into conflict with the law through alcohol, drugs and prostitution. Depardieu had been sentenced to suspended sentences several times, including a two-month prison term in June 2008 for repeated drunk driving. In the meantime, he fell out with his father, who in 2003 saw his son as difficult and incorrigible in an interview with Paris Match , whereupon Guillaume Depardieu insulted him in the French media as a liar and cheat .

On October 13, 2008, Guillaume Depardieu died in a hospital in Garches near Paris of complications from pneumonia caused by MRSA .

Posthumously , in 2009 he received a nomination for César for Best Actor for the role of the spirited and seriously ill homeless Damien in Pierre Schoeller's drama Versailles .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

César

  • 1992: Nominated as Best Young Actor for The Seventh String
  • 1994: Nominated for Best Young Actor for The Killer and the Girl
  • 1996: Best Young Actor for The Beginners
  • 2009: Nominated for Best Actor for Versailles

Further

literature

  • Guillaume Depardieu, Marc-Olivier Fogiel: In the shadow of my father . Heyne, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-453-64004-7

documentary

  • Guillaume Depardieu - "It's Hell!" TV documentary, Germany, 2009, 44 min., Director: Valentin Thurn, production: ZDF , first broadcast: April 20, 2010, summary by arte

Web links

Commons : Guillaume Depardieu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AFP : Guillaume Depardieu est mort at liberation.fr, October 13, 2008
  2. ↑ cf. Bougival: Guillaume Depardieu se marie . In: Le Figaro , December 31, 1999
  3. ↑ cf. Isabelle Regnier: Guillaume Depardieu: Comme un fauve . In: Le Monde , May 24, 2008, p. 16
  4. ↑ cf. Gérard Depardieu's son again drunk at the wheel . Agence France-Presse , August 8, 2008, Nanterre
  5. ↑ cf. Guillaume Depardieu describes father Gerard as a Luegner: dispute in the French press continued . Associated Press Worldstream - German, September 21, 2003, Paris
  6. ↑ cf. France mourns the loss of Guillaume Depardieu , Spiegel Online , October 14, 2008
  7. ↑ On the death of Guillaume Depardieu. One lousy prank at the end. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010. Online
personal data
SURNAME Depardieu, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Depardieu, Guillaume Jean Maxime Antoine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7th 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2008
Place of death Garches , France