Mini Biography
Young delinquent and wanderer in the past, Gérard Depardieu started his acting career at the small traveling theatre "Cafe de la Gare", along with Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou. After minor roles in cinema, at last, he got his chance in Bertrand Blier's Going Places (1974). That film established a new type of hero in the French cinema and the actor's popularity grew enormously. Later, he diversified his screen image and became the leading French actor of the 80s and 90s. He was twice awarded a César as Best Actor for The Last Metro (1980) and Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), also received an Oscar nomination for "Cyrano" and a number of awards at international film festivals. In 1996, he was distinguished by the highest French title of "Chevalier du Légion d'Honneur". He married Elisabeth Depardieu in 1971, and they divorced in 1996; she appeared with him in Jean de Florette (1986) and Manon of the Spring (1986); their children Guillaume Depardieu and Julie Depardieu are both actors.
Filmography
Le Père Noël est africain (in production)
2013 Affaires étrangères (announced)
2013 Niente può fermarci (filming)
2013 La marque des anges (post-production)
Lionel Kasdan
2013 Cadences obstinées (post-production)
Père Villedieu
2013 Les boulistes (completed)
Jacky
2013 A Farewell to Fools
Ipu
2013 Turf
M. Paul
2012 My Sinful Angel
2012 Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia
Obélix
2012 Life of Pi
Cook
2012 The Man Who Laughs
Ursus
2012 Franck-Étienne vers la béatitude (short)
Frank-Étienne
2012 Le grand soir
Juvénal, l'homme qui lit l'avenir dans le verre de saké
2011 Raspoutine (TV movie)
Raspoutine
2011 A Butterfly Kiss
Le médecin de Manon
2011 Grenouille d'hiver (short)
Benjamin
2010 Je n'ai rien oublié
Konrad Lang
2010 Pozdnyaya lyubov
Gueorgui
2010 Potiche
Maurice Babin
2010 My Afternoons with Margueritte
Germain Chazes
2010 Glenn, the Flying Robot
TV reporter
2010 Le grand restaurant (TV movie)
Gérard - un client du restaurant
2010 Mammuth
Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
2010 Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
2009 Groland magzine (TV series)
Le gros monsieur
2009 In the Beginning
Abel
2009 Inspector Bellamy
Paul Bellamy
2009 Coco
Le cardiologue
2009 Diamond 13
Mat
2008 Les enfants de Timpelbach
Le général Igor
2008/I Hello, Goodbye
Alain Gaash
2008 Bouquet final
Hugo
2008 L'abolition (TV movie)
Henry Torrès
2008 Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Guido
2008 Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Guido
2008 Babylon A.D.
Gorsky
2008 The Easy Way
Le parrain des truands marseillais
2008 Disco
Jean-François
2008 Vsyo mogut koroli
2008 Asterix at the Olympic Games
Obélix
2007 Michou d'Auber
Georges
2007 La vie en rose
Louis Leplée
2006 Quand j'étais chanteur
Alain Moreau
2006 Paris, je t'aime
Le patron (segment "Quartier Latin")
2006 Last Holiday
Chef Didier
2005 Olé!
François Veber
2005 A Cursed Monarchy (TV mini-series)
Jacques de Molay
2005 How Much Do You Love Me?
Charly
2005 Boudu
Boudu
2005 Je préfère qu'on reste amis
Serge
2005 La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre
Gérard Depardieu
2004 Changing Times
Antoine Lavau
2004 36th Precinct
Denis Klein
2004 Battle of the Brave
Father Thomas Blondeau
2004 San Antonio
Lieutenant Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier
2004 The Lady Musketeer (TV movie)
Cardinal Mazarin
2004 RRRrrrr!!!
Le chef des Cheveux Sales
2003 Volpone (TV movie)
Volpone
2003 The Car Keys
Le fromager
2003 Ruby & Quentin
Quentin
2003 Nathalie...
Bernard
2003 Bon voyage
Jean-Étienne Beaufort
2003 Crime Spree
Daniel Foray
2003 Le pacte du silence
Joachim
2003 Uboynaya sila (TV series)
2002 Ruy Blas (TV movie)
Don Salluste
2002 Blanche
D'Artagnan
2002 City of Ghosts
Emile (as Gerard Depardieu)
2002 Between Strangers
Max
2002 A Loving Father
Leo Shepherd
2002 I Am Dina
Jacob
2002 Asterix and Obelix Meet Cleopatra
Obélix
2002 Les Misérables (TV mini-series)
Jean Valjean
2002 Napoléon (TV mini-series)
Joseph Fouché
2001 Witches to the North
Depardieu
2001 Vidocq
Vidocq
2001 CQ
Andrezej
2001 Unfair Competition
Professor Angelo
2001 The Closet
Félix Santini
2000 102 Dalmatians
Jean-Pierre Le Pelt (as Gerard Depardieu)
2000 The Envy of Gods
Bernard
2000 Bérénice (TV movie)
Titus
2000 Vatel
François Vatel
2000 Tutto l'amore che c'è
Molotov
2000 Mirka
Strix
1999 Balzac: A Life of Passion (TV movie)
Honoré de Balzac
1999 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV mini-series)
Abbé Busoni / Edmond Dantes / Lord Wilmore / …
1999 The Bridge
Georges
1999 Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
Obélix
1998 Bimboland
Laurent Gaspard
1998 Notes of Love
Avv. Levi
1998/I The Man in the Iron Mask
Porthos
1997 XXL
Jean Bourdalou
1996 Hamlet
Reynaldo
1996 The Best Job in the World
Laurent Monier
1996 The Secret Agent
Ossipon
1996 Bogus
Bogus (as Gerard Depardieu)
1996 Unhook the Stars
Big Tommy Bellaveau (as Gerard Depardieu)
1995 Le garçu
Gerard
1995 Guardian Angels
Antoine Carco / Son ange gardien
1995 The Horseman on the Roof
Commissaire de Police à Manosque (uncredited)
1995 Élisa
Jacques 'Lébovitch' Desmoulin
1995 Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
Gérard Depardieu, en visite
1994 La machine
Dr. Marc Lacroix
1994 Colonel Chabert
Chabert
1994 A Pure Formality
Onoff
1994 My Father the Hero
Andre
1993 Germinal
Toussaint Maheu
1993 Oh, Woe Is Me
Simon Donnadieu
1992 1492: Conquest of Paradise
Christopher Columbus
1992 From Time to Time (short)
Paris Airport Employee
1991 All the Mornings of the World
Marin Marais
1991 Mon père, ce héros.
André Arnel
1991 'Merci la vie'
Doctor Marc Antoine Worms
1990 Green Card
Georges
1990 Uranus
Léopold Lajeunesse
1990 Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano De Bergerac
1989 I Want to Go Home
Christian Gauthier
1989 Too Beautiful for You
Bernard Barthélémy (as Gerard Depardieu)
1989 Deux
Marc Lambert
1988 Camille Claudel
Auguste Rodin
1988 Strange Place for an Encounter
Charles
1987 Under the Sun of Satan
Donissan
1986 Fugitives
Jean Lucas
1986 The Way Out
Clara's father
1986 I Hate Actors
Un détenu au commissariat (uncredited)
1986 Jean de Florette
Jean de Florette (as Gerard Depardieu)
1986 Ménage
Bob
1985 One Woman or Two
Julien Chayssac
1985 Police
Louis Vincent Mangin
1984 Rive droite, rive gauche
Paul Senanques - un avocat d'affaires au sens moral élastique
1984 Le tartuffe
Tartuffe
1984 Fort Saganne
Charles Saganne
1983 Les compères
Jean Lucas
1983 The Moon in the Gutter
Gérard Delmas - un docker hanté par le suicide de sa soeur
1983 Danton
Danton
1982 Le grand frère
Gérard Berger/Bernard Vigo
1982 The Return of Martin Guerre
Arnaud de Tihl
1981 The Goat
Campana
1981 The Woman Next Door
Bernard Coudray
1981 Choice of Arms
Mickey
1980 Je vous aime
Patrick
1980 Inspector Blunder
Roger Morzini - l'ennemi public N°1 (as Depardieu)
1980 The Last Metro
Bernard Granger
1980 Loulou
Loulou
1980 Mon oncle d'Amérique
René Ragueneau
1980 Temporale Rosy
Raoul Lamarre
1979 Buffet Froid
Alphonse Tram
1979 The Dogs
Morel
1979 Traffic Jam
Franco
1978 Le sucre
Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
1978 Die linkshändige Frau
Mann mit dem T-Shirt
1978 Violanta
Fortunat
1978 Bye Bye Monkey
Gerard Lafayette
1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Raoul
1977 At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Philippe Larcher
1977 This Sweet Sickness
David Martinaud
1977 Baxter, Vera Baxter
Michel Cayre
1977 Le camion
Lui
1977 Rene the Cane
René Bornier
1976 Barocco
Samson/Samson's Killer
1976 1900
Olmo Dalcò (as Gerard Depardieu)
1976 The Last Woman
Gerard
1976 I Love You, I Don't
Le paysan au cheval
1975 7 morts sur ordonnance
Doctor Jean-Pierre Berg
1975 Maîtresse
Olivier
1975 The Wonderful Crook
Pierre
1974 Vincent, François, Paul and the Others
Jean Lavallee
1974 Stavisky...
Le jeune inventeur
1974 Woman of the Ganges
L'homme de la plage
1974 Going Places
Jean-Claude
1974 The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Le facteur/The postman
1973 L'inconnu (TV movie)
Gérard
1973 Rude journée pour la reine
Fabien
1973 Two Men in Town
Un jeune truand
1973 Un monsieur bien rangé (TV mini-series)
Jean-Joseph Jenk
1973 Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (TV series)
De Greef
1973 The Dominici Affair
Zézé Perrin
1973 The Year 01
Un voyageur qui ne prend pas le train
1973 Expulsion of the Devil
Beretti
1972 Scoumoune
Un homme de main/Burglar
1972 Nathalie Granger
Salesman
1972 Killer
Frédo Babasch, le 'mouton' de la Santé
1972 The Annuity
Victor, le complice de Jo
1971 A Few Hours of Sunlight
Pierre, le frère de Nathalie
1971 Cry of the Cormoran
Henri
1971 La vie sentimentale de Georges Le Tueur (short)
1970 Les aventures de Zadig (TV movie)
Zadig
1970 Rendez-vous à Badenberg (TV series)
Eddy Belmont
1970 La pomme de son oeil (TV movie)
Hamid
1970 Le cyborg ou Le voyage vertical (TV movie)
Gabriel
1970 Tango (TV movie)
Edek
1970 Nausicaa (TV movie)
Le voleur de livres
1967 Le beatnik et le minet (short)
Le beatnik (as G. de Pardieu)
