Celebrity Biographies
Guillaume Depardieu
He always wanted to become as great as his father, Gérard Depardieu, although he was quite clear that it was an impossible goal. Pneumonia has prematurely ended the life of the actor, who was only 37 years old. This wayward young man did not have an easy life, who died on Monday, October 13, early in the afternoon at the Garches hospital, on the outskirts of Paris. He was always peppered with continual scandals, and yet he was a very talented actor. His great specialty was embodying his father as a young man.
Guillaume Jean Maxime Antoine Depardieu was born on April 7, 1971, in Paris. His parents, Gérard Depardieu and Elizabeth Guignot had married a year earlier, after meeting in a theater group. “When my son was born, I felt that I had reached a peak and that for the first time in my life I knew where I was headed,” said Gérard Depardieu, who shortly after had another daughter, Julie -also an actress-, just when he was beginning to make himself known. with the ballbreakers. Despite everything, Guillaume always blamed his father for leaving them alone at home, because according to him he was more concerned about his film career than his family. The boy became a rebellious youth. “He provoked Homeric rages in me. He was uncontrollable. He came to threaten me with a knife, ”explained his father in an interview. The boy ran away from home, became addicted to heroin and cocaine, and did time for robbery and drug possession.
Although he had already appeared on movie screens when he was 3 years old in Pas si méchant que ça , his first big role was the composer and teacher of ‘viola da gamba’ in All the Mornings of the World . His father played the same character, more advanced in years. Guillaume was nominated for the César, for most promising actor, but did not win the award despite the fact that the film won 7 of these awards. He won it a few years later for the comedy The Apprentices . He also reprized the role of his father as a young man, in the television versions of The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) and Les Miserables (2000) . Leos Carax directed him in Pola X, where he was a successful young writer who meets a mysterious girl who changes his life. The film was screened at the 1999 Gijón Festival, where Guillaume starred in a dark episode, as he destroyed a hotel room where he was staying and was expelled from the competition after attempting to attack the director of the event. He asked the actor not to throw beer at the journalists gathered for the film’s press conference. He soon returned to Spain, in 2001, to shoot Amor, curiosio, prozak y dudas , by Miguel Santesmases .
In 2000, Guillaume Depardieu married Élise Ventre, another actress, with whom he had a daughter. And he also finally reconciled with his father, with whom he had not spoken for years, and with whom he starred in Aime ton père (Love your father) , in which they played a father and a son who had a love-hate relationship. very close to your own. But misfortune struck Guillaume, who suffered a leg amputation in 2003, infected by injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident he had years before.
Lately, Guillaume Depardieu was a very active actor, chaining one shoot after another. He has Christine Dory’s comedy Circuit fermé pending release , and was working on L’enfance d’Icare , a thriller by Alex Iordachescu.