Gérard Depardieu

Born: 1948-12-27 in Châteauroux, Indre, France

Known For: Acting

Biography

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, film-maker, businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed approximately 170 movies since 1967. He has twice won the César Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in Green Card. After he garnered huge critical acclaim for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, which landed him a nomination for an Academy Award, Depardieu acted in many big budget Hollywood movies. 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 and the same month became a cultural ambassador of Montenegro. In 2015 he left Russia declaring that he intends to give up the citizenship and to live in Belgium. Depardieu has been repeatedly accused of sexual assault. The French authorities have charged him with rape and, since 2021, have had him under formal investigation. Depardieu has denied any wrongdoing and has not been convicted in connection with any of the accusations against him. He was stripped of the National Order of Quebec in 2023.

Filmography

2025

Ne crains pas le bruit de mes ailes as Angel (voice)

2023

Umami as Gabriel
L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)

2022

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
Le Late avec Alain Chabat
The King’s Favorite as Nostradamus
Maigret as Jules Maigret
Retirement Home as Lino Vartan
Employee of the Month as Gérard Depardieu
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président as Self (archive footage)
Chez Jordan De Luxe as Self - Guest
Adieu Paris as Michael
The Green Shutters as Jules Maugin
Robust as George
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero as Self (archive footage) - actor
Feet in the Mayonnaise: The Irreverent Ones of the 70s as Self - actor (archive footage)

2021

Lost Illusions as Dauriat
Morceaux de Cannes
Un homme d'honneur as Bruno Riva
Do You Do You Saint-Tropez as Maurice Lefranc
Sous le soleil de Pialat as Self

2020

Creators: The Past as Master of Faith
Home Front as Feu-de-Bois

2019

Fahim as Sylvain Charpentier
Crystal Frog as Benjamin
Wide Load as Taupin
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Thalasso as Gérard Depardieu

2018

The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin as Christopher Colombus
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero as Gaston Baptiste (voice)
The Other Woman as Patrick
To the Ends of the World as Saintonge
Gérard de par le monde - Japon as lui-même
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya as Self (archive footage)
Private Eye as Camionneur
Saving My Pig as Vania

2017

Mata Hari as Abbé Busoni
Let the Sunshine In as Clairvoyant
Carbone as Aron Goldstein
You Only Live Once as Duges
Michel Sardou – Dernier show as Self
Mečiar: The Lust For Power
Nobody's Perfect! as Gérard, dit Bonne Pomme
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Force of Destiny as Self

2016

Marseille as Robert Taro
Stalin's Couch as Joseph Staline
Saint Amour as Jean
A Mighty Team as Jacques Belloc
Rhapsody as Gérard
French Tour as Serge
The End as L'homme

2015

Capitaine Marleau as Philippe Muir
Bon appetit: Gérard Depardieu's Europe as Himself
Fifty Shades of Erotica as (archive footage)
Valley of Love as Gérard
Agafia as Savka
Le Rustre et le Juge as Charpentevich
Le Magicien et les Siamois as Borach

2014

United Passions as Jules Rimet
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Welcome to New York as Devereaux
Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes as He (segment 'Two, Deux')
Duras and Cinema as Self [archive footage]
Viktor as Victor Lambert
Obsessive Rhythms as Père Villedieu
La voix des steppes as Anatole
Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas as Himself

2013

The World Petanque Tour as Jacky
Rasputin as Grigori Raspoutine
A Farewell to Fools as Ipu
Miserere as Lionel Kasdan
Nothing Can Stop Us Now as Henry
Turf as Monsieur Paul

2012

Life of Pi as Cook
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia as Obélix
Frank-Etienne Towards Beatitude as Frank-Étienne Boulard
The Man Who Laughs as Ursus
The Big Night as Juvénal
My Sinful Angel

2011

Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell as Self
Fucking Kassovitz as Self
A Butterfly Kiss as le médecin de Manon
Glenn, the Flying Robot as TV reporter
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres as Self (archive footage)
A Frog in Winter as Benjamin

2010

Mammuth as Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
My Afternoons with Margueritte as Germain
Trophy Wife as Maurice Babin
Small World as Conrad Lang
The Other Dumas as Alexandre Dumas
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là as Self (archive footage)
The Great Restaurant as Gérard - un client du restaurant
Late Love as Gueorgui

2009

L'Abolition as Henry Torrès
Bellamy as Paul Bellamy
Diamond 13 as Mat
Coco as Le cardiologue
In the Beginning as Abel
L'Abolition as Henry Torrès
Gérard Depardieu, blessures secrètes as Gérard Depardieu

2008

Asterix at the Olympic Games as Obélix
Babylon A.D. as Gorsky
Mesrine: Killer Instinct as Guido
The Beaches of Agnès as Le beatnik (archive footage)
The Easy Way as Le chef
Trouble at Timpetill as Le général Igor
Final Arrangements as Hugo
Disco as Jean-François
Hello Goodbye as Alain Gaash
Kings Can Do Everything

2007

The Graham Norton Show as Self
La Vie en Rose as Louis Leplée
Michou d'Auber as Georges
L'abbuffata as Gérard Depardieu
Maurice Pialat, l'amour existe as Self (voice)
Lebo, l'ombre et la lumière

2006

On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
Last Holiday as Chef Didier
Paris Je T'aime as Le patron (Quartier Latin)
Semperopernball as Self
The Singer as Alain Moreau
Journey of the Dissidents as Narrator (voice)

2005

How Much Do You Love Me? as Charly
The Accursed Kings as Jacques de Molay
Boudu as Boudu
Let's Be Friends as Serge
Rockpolitik as Self
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre as Self
Olé ! as François Veber
La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre as Gérard Depardieu

2004

RRRrrrr!!! as Le chef des Cheveux Sales
The Lady Musketeer as Cardinal Mazarin
36th Precinct as Denis Klein
Battle of the Brave as Father Thomas Blondeau
San Antonio as l'inspecteur Bérurier
Changing Times as Antoine Lavau
Volpone as Volpone

2003

Ruby & Quentin as Quentin
Nathalie... as Bernard
Crime Spree as Daniel Foray
Bon Voyage as Jean-Étienne Beaufort
The Car Keys as Cheesemaker
The Pact of Silence as Joachim

2002

Sucré salé as Self
Napoleon as Joseph Fouché
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra as Obélix
City of Ghosts as Emile
Between Strangers as Max
I Am Dina as Jacob
A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Self
Ruy Blas as Don Salluste
How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra as Self - Actor
Blanche as D'Artagnan
A Loving Father as Léo Shepherd

2001

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
The Closet as Félix Santini
CQ as Andrezej
Vidocq as Vidocq
Unfair Competition as Angelo Melchiorri
Streghe verso nord as Self

2000

Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
102 Dalmatians as Jean Pierre Le Pelt
Actors as Gérard Depardieu
Killing Power as Cannes City Police Commissioner
Vatel as Francois Vatel
Bérénice as Titus
Mirka as Strix
The Envy of Gods as Bernard
Tutto l'amore che c'è as Molotov

1999

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar as Obélix
Balzac as Honoré de Balzac
Balzac: A Life of Passion as Honoré de Balzac
The Bridge as Georges

1998

Vivement dimanche as Self
The Count of Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantès
The Man in the Iron Mask as Porthos
Junket Whore as Self
Bimboland as Laurent Gaspard
Notes of Love as Levi

1997

She's So Lovely ... (Executive Producer)
XXL as Jean Bourdalou
Pitch as Self
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo as Self

1996

Hamlet as Reynaldo
Unhook the Stars as Big Tommy
Bogus as Bogus
The Secret Agent as Ossipon
The Best Job in the World as Laurent Monier

1995

Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
One Hundred and One Nights as Self
Guardian Angels as Carco / M. Ciccolini / La « bonne conscience »
Élisa as Jacques 'Lébovitch', Marie's father
The Horseman on the Roof as Police commissioner of Manosque
Le Garçu as Gerard

1994

Brisant as Self
My Father the Hero as Andre
A Pure Formality as Onoff
Colonel Chabert as Chabert
The Machine as Dr. Marc Lacroix

1993

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits as Self
Germinal as Toussaint Maheu
Oh, Woe Is Me as Simon Donnadieu

1992

1492: Conquest of Paradise as Christopher Columbus
From Time to Time as L'agent de piste de Roissy

1991

My Father the Hero as André Arnel
All the Mornings of the World as Marin Marais
Thank You, Life as Marc Antoine Worms
The Stranger ... (Producer)

1990

Stars 90 as Self
Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
Green Card as Georges Faure
Uranus as Léopold
The Branches of the Tree ... (Producer)

1989

Too Beautiful for You as Bernard Barthélémy
I Want to Go Home as Christian Gauthier
Deux as Marc Lambert

1988

Camille Claudel as Auguste Rodin
Strange Place for an Encounter as Charles

1987

Under the Sun of Satan as Donissan

1986

Jean de Florette as Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette
The Fugitives as Jean Lucas
Ménage as Bob
The Way Out as Father of Clara

1985

One Woman or Two as Julien Chayssac
Police as Louis Vincent Mangin
Vivement Truffaut as Self / Bernard (archive footage)

1984

Goldene Kamera as Self
Fort Saganne as Charles Saganne
Le Tartuffe as Tartuffe
Rive droite, rive gauche as Paul Senanques
17ème jour de tournage du film "Police" as Self

1983

Danton as Georges Danton
The ComDads as Jean Lucas
The Moon in the Gutter as Gérard Delmas, docker haunted by his sister's suicide

1982

Champs-Elysées as Self
The Return of Martin Guerre as Arnaud du Tilh
The Big Brother as Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo

1981

Wetten, dass..? as Self
La Chèvre as Campana, private detective
Choice of Arms as Mickey
The Woman Next Door as Bernard Coudray
Droit de Réponse as Self

1980

The Last Metro as Bernard Granger
Loulou as Loulou
Inspector Blunder as Roger Morzini, l'ennemi public n°1
My American Uncle as René Ragueneau
I Love You All as Patrick
Hurricane Rosie as Raoul Lamarre

1979

Buffet Froid as Alphonse Tram
Traffic Jam as Franco
La macchina cinema as Self
The Dogs as Morel
The Cinema Machine

1978

Ciné regards as Self
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs as Raoul
The Left-Handed Woman as The Man with the T-Shirt
Bye Bye Monkey as Gérard Lafayette
Sugar as Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
Violanta as Fortunat

1977

The Lorry as lui
Baxter, Vera Baxter as Michel Cayre
Rene the Cane as René Bornier
This Sweet Sickness as David Martinaud
At Night All Cats Are Crazy as Philippe Larcher

1976

Cérémonie des César as Self - Presenter
1900 as Olmo Dalcò
Maîtresse as Oliver
The Last Woman as Gérard
I Love You, I Don't as Horseman
The Cinema According to Bertolucci as Self
Barocco as Samson / Samson's Killer

1975

Apostrophes as Self
Midi Première as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
Numéro un as Self
Seven Deaths by Prescription as Dr Jean-Pierre Berg
ABCinema as Self
The Wonderful Crook as Pierre Vaucher

1974

Spécial cinéma as Self
Going Places as Jean-Claude
Stavisky... as Le jeune inventeur
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang as le facteur
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others as Jean Lavallée, ami de Vincent
Woman of the Ganges as Guy on the beach / "The Fool"

1973

Two Men in Town as Young mobster
Nathalie Granger as Le démarcheur
The Dominici Affair as Zézé Perrin
The Year 01 as A traveler who does not take the train
At the Meeting with Joyous Death as Beretti
Un monsieur bien rangé as Jean-Joseph Jenk
L'Inconnu as Gérard
Rude journée pour la reine as Fabien
Un monsieur bien rangé as Jean Joseph Jenk

1972

Le Grand Échiquier as Self
The Annuity as Victor, le complice de Jo
The Pariah as Young crook
Killer as Frédo Babasch, the sheep
La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur as 33 year old father