BIOGRAPHY:
Gerard Depardieu was born on December 27, 1948 in Chateauroux
in a modest family. Rebel and difficult the teenager is implied
in various small flights and other dishonest persons activities
and his future seems black. Small larcenies in odd jobs, Gerard
evolves/moves while walking on a tightrope which is likely to
see it falling at every moment an evening that it attends a
stage performance, the catch with place, it will become actor.
He goes up to Paris where he follows courses of comedy of Jean-Laurent
Cochet and meets that which will become his wife, Elizabeth,
with which he will have two children. After having taken down
some figurations in films, it obtains its first truth minor
part in 1970 in "the Cry Of the Cormorant the Evening Above
Jonques".
The four years which
follow allows to see appearing Gerard in about fifteen films,
but the dedication arrives in 1974 when Bertrand Blier decides
to engage it at the sides of Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou in
"the Waltzers". The film is a true success and the
career of Gerard takes off immediately. It connects thereafter
with roles which left it the image of small hooligan and pass
with ease of the light register in comedies like "Compère"
or "the Goat" to more dramatic films, "the Return
Of Martin Guerre" or "the Last Subway". Its services
of actor brings a world fame to him and Gerard quickly becomes
one of best representing French cinema abroad, the American
realizers and Italians wish it to play in films like "1492,
Christophe Colombs", "Green Card" or "Unfair
Competition". With with its credit more than hundred Gerard
films does not have today anything any more to prove concerning
its immense talent and the love of the public for him seems
acquired forever and one can of golds and already to affirm
that Gerard has his place with the Pantheon of the French cinema.