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
2023
- Umami as Gabriel
- L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70 as Self - actor (archive footage)
- Adieu Paris as Michael
- Maigret as Jules Maigret
- Robust as George
- Employee of the Month as Gérard Depardieu
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président as Self (archive footage)
- Retirement Home as Lino Vartan
- The Green Shutters as Jules Maugin
- The King’s Favorite as Nostradamus
- Le Late avec Alain Chabat
- Patrick Dewaere, My Hero as Self (archive footage) - actor
- Chez Jordan De Luxe as Self - Guest
2021
- Lost Illusions as Dauriat
- Do You Do You Saint-Tropez as Maurice Lefranc
- Un homme d'honneur as Bruno Riva
- Sous le soleil de Pialat as Self
2020
- Home Front as Feu-de-Bois
- Creators: The Past as Master of Faith
2019
- Fahim as Sylvain Charpentier
- Thalasso as Gérard Depardieu
- Wide Load as Taupin
- Crystal Frog as Benjamin
- André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2018
- The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin as Christopher Colombus
- Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero as Gaston Baptiste (voice)
- To the Ends of the World as Saintonge
- The Other Woman as Patrick
- Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya as Self (archive footage)
- Gérard de par le monde - Japon as lui-même
- Private Eye as Camionneur
- Saving My Pig as Vania
2017
- Carbone as Aron Goldstein
- Nobody's Perfect! as Gérard, dit Bonne Pomme
- Mečiar: The Lust For Power
- You Only Live Once as Duges
- The Force of Destiny as Self
- À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Mata Hari as Abbé Busoni
- Let the Sunshine In as Clairvoyant
- Michel Sardou – Dernier show as Self
2016
- Saint Amour as Jean
- Marseille as Robert Taro
- A Mighty Team as Jacques Belloc
- French Tour as Serge
- Rhapsody as Gérard
- Stalin's Couch as Joseph Staline
- The End as L'homme
2015
- Capitaine Marleau as Philippe Muir
- Fifty Shades of Erotica as (archive footage)
- Agafia as Savka
- Le Rustre et le Juge as Charpentevich
- Le Magicien et les Siamois as Borach
- Valley of Love as Gérard
- Bon appetit: Gérard Depardieu's Europe as Himself
2014
- United Passions as Jules Rimet
- Obsessive Rhythms as Père Villedieu
- The Term. Beginning of a Big Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Viktor as Victor Lambert
- Duras and Cinema as Self [archive footage]
- Welcome to New York as Devereaux
- Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes as He (segment 'Two, Deux')
- La voix des steppes as Anatole
- Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas as Himself
2013
- Turf as Monsieur Paul
- The World Petanque Tour as Jacky
- Miserere as Lionel Kasdan
- A Farewell to Fools as Ipu
- Nothing Can Stop Us Now as Henry
2012
- Life of Pi as Cook
- Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia as Obélix
- The Man Who Laughs as Ursus
- The Big Night as Juvénal
- Frank-Etienne Towards Beatitude as Frank-Étienne Boulard
- My Sinful Angel
2011
- Rasputin as Grigori Raspoutine
- Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell as Self
- Glenn, the Flying Robot as TV reporter
- A Butterfly Kiss as le médecin de Manon
- A Frog in Winter as Benjamin
- Fucking Kassovitz as Self
- Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Trophy Wife as Maurice Babin
- Mammuth as Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
- My Afternoons with Margueritte as Germain
- The Great Restaurant as Gérard - un client du restaurant
- Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là as Self (archive footage)
- The Other Dumas as Alexandre Dumas
- Small World as Conrad Lang
- Late Love as Gueorgui
2009
- Diamond 13 as Mat
- Coco as Le cardiologue
- Bellamy as Paul Bellamy
- In the Beginning as Abel
- L'Abolition as Henry Torrès
- Gérard Depardieu, blessures secrètes as Gérard Depardieu
2008
- Hello Goodbye as Alain Gaash
- Asterix at the Olympic Games as Obélix
- Babylon A.D. as Gorsky
- Disco as Jean-François
- Mesrine: Killer Instinct as Guido
- The Beaches of Agnès as Le beatnik (archive footage)
- Final Arrangements as Hugo
- Trouble at Timpetill as Le général Igor
- The Easy Way as Le chef
- Kings Can Do Everything
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- La Vie en Rose as Louis Leplée
- L'abbuffata as Gérard Depardieu
- Michou d'Auber as Georges
- Lebo, l'ombre et la lumière
2006
- Last Holiday as Chef Didier
- Paris Je T'aime as Le patron (Quartier Latin)
- On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
- The Singer as Alain Moreau
- Semperopernball as Self
- Journey of the Dissidents as Narrator (voice)
2005
- How Much Do You Love Me? as Charly
- La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre as Gérard Depardieu
- Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre as Self
- The Accursed Kings as Jacques de Molay
- Boudu as Boudu
- Rockpolitik as Self
- Let's Be Friends as Serge
- Olé ! as François Veber
2004
- RRRrrrr!!! as Le chef des Cheveux Sales
- Volpone as Volpone
- San Antonio as l'inspecteur Bérurier
- Battle of the Brave as Father Thomas Blondeau
- 36th Precinct as Denis Klein
- Changing Times as Antoine Lavau
- The Lady Musketeer as Cardinal Mazarin
2003
- Bon Voyage as Jean-Étienne Beaufort
- Ruby & Quentin as Quentin
- Nathalie... as Bernard
- Crime Spree as Daniel Foray
- The Pact of Silence as Joachim
- The Car Keys as Cheesemaker
2002
- Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra as Obélix
- Blanche as D'Artagnan
- Napoleon as Joseph Fouché
- City of Ghosts as Emile
- Ruy Blas as Don Salluste
- I Am Dina as Jacob
- A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Self
- Sucré salé as Self
- A Loving Father as Léo Shepherd
- Between Strangers as Max
- How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra as Self - Actor
2001
- Vidocq as Vidocq
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- Unfair Competition as Angelo Melchiorri
- CQ as Andrezej
- The Closet as Félix Santini
- Streghe verso nord as Self
2000
- 102 Dalmatians as Jean Pierre Le Pelt
- Vatel as Francois Vatel
- Actors as Gérard Depardieu
- Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
- Tutto l'amore che c'è as Molotov
- Killing Power as Cannes City Police Commissioner
- The Envy of Gods as Bernard
- Bérénice as Titus
- Mirka as Strix
1999
- Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar as Obélix
- Balzac: A Life of Passion as Honoré de Balzac
- The Bridge as Georges
- Balzac as Honoré de Balzac
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Porthos
- Bimboland as Laurent Gaspard
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantès
- Notes of Love as Levi
- Junket Whore as Self
1997
- XXL as Jean Bourdalou
- Pitch as Self
- She's So Lovely ... (Executive Producer)
- Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo as Self
1996
- Hamlet as Reynaldo
- Bogus as Bogus
- The Best Job in the World as Laurent Monier
- Unhook the Stars as Big Tommy
- The Secret Agent as Ossipon
1995
- Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- Elisa as Jacques 'Lébovitch', Marie's father
- The Son Of... as Gerard
- The Horseman on the Roof as Police commissioner of Manosque
- Guardian Angels as Carco / M. Ciccolini / La « bonne conscience »
- One Hundred and One Nights as Self
1994
- Brisant as Self
- The Machine as Dr. Marc Lacroix
- My Father the Hero as Andre
- A Pure Formality as Onoff
- Colonel Chabert as Chabert
1993
- Germinal as Toussaint Maheu
- Oh, Woe Is Me as Simon Donnadieu
- François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits as Self
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
- The Stranger ... (Executive Producer)
- All the Mornings of the World as Marin Marais
- Thank You, Life as Marc Antoine Worms
1990
- Stars 90 as Self
- Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
- Uranus as Léopold
- The Branches of the Tree ... (Producer)
- Green Card as Georges Faure
1989
- Deux as Marc Lambert
- I Want to Go Home as Christian Gauthier
- Too Beautiful for You as Bernard Barthélémy
1988
- Camille Claudel as Auguste Rodin
- Strange Place for an Encounter as Charles
1987
- Under the Sun of Satan as Donissan
1986
- The Fugitives as Jean Lucas
- Jean de Florette as Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette
- Ménage as Bob
- The Way Out as Father of Clara
1985
- Police as Louis Vincent Mangin
- Vivement Truffaut as Self / Bernard (archive footage)
- One Woman or Two as Julien Chayssac
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Fort Saganne as Charles Saganne
- Rive droite, rive gauche as Paul Senanques
- Le Tartuffe as Tartuffe
- 17ème jour de tournage du film "Police" as Self
1983
- The ComDads as Jean Lucas
- Danton as Georges Danton
- 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
- The Woman Next Door as Bernard Coudray
- Droit de Réponse as Self
- Choice of Arms as Mickey
1980
- The Last Metro as Bernard Granger
- My American Uncle as René Ragueneau
- Inspector Blunder as Roger Morzini, public enemy number 1
- Loulou as Loulou
- I Love You All as Patrick
- Hurricane Rosie as Raoul Lamarre
1979
- The Dogs as Morel
- Traffic Jam as Franco
- Buffet Froid as Alphonse Tram
1978
- Sugar as Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
- Violanta as Fortunat
- Bye Bye Monkey as Gérard Lafayette
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs as Raoul
- The Left-Handed Woman as The Man with the T-Shirt
1977
- The Lorry as lui
- Rene the Cane as René Bornier
- Baxter, Vera Baxter as Michel Cayre
- At Night All Cats Are Crazy as Philippe Larcher
- Tell Her That I Love Her as David Martinaud
1976
- 1900 as Olmo Dalcò
- Barocco as Samson / Samson's Killer
- Maîtresse as Oliver
- The Last Woman as Gérard
- I Love You, I Don't as Horseman
- The Cinema According to Bertolucci as Self
1975
- Midi Première as Self
- Apostrophes as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- Abicinema as Self
- Seven Deaths by Prescription as Dr Jean-Pierre Berg
- 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 Year 01 as A traveler who does not take the train
- The Dominici Affair as Zézé Perrin
- Un monsieur bien rangé as Jean Joseph Jenk
- Rude journée pour la reine as Fabien
- At the Meeting with Joyous Death as Beretti
- L'Inconnu as Gérard
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- The Pariah as Young crook
- The Annuity as Victor, le complice de Jo
- Killer as Frédo Babasch, the sheep
- La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur as 33 year old father
1971
- Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques as Henri
- A Little Sun in Cold Water as Pierre
- Nausicaa as Le voleur de livres
1970
- Le Cyborg ou Le Voyage vertical as Gabriel
- La Pomme de son œil as Hamid
- The Adventures of Zadig as Zadig
- Rendez-vous à Badenberg as Eddy Balmont
- Tango as Edek
1967
- Le Beatnik et le minet as Le beatnik
1966
- Christmas Carole as Igor