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.
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Cannes Film Festival
Best Actor
Known For
Babylon A.D.
(2008)
Gorsky
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
(2002)
Obélix
Life of Pi
(2012)
Cook
Last Holiday
(2006)
Chef Didier
The Man in the Iron Mask
(1998)
Porthos
102 Dalmatians
(2000)
Jean Pierre Le Pelt
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
(1999)
Obélix
Asterix at the Olympic Games
(2008)
Obélix
How Much Do You Love Me?
(2005)
Charly
RRRrrrr!!!
(2004)
Le chef des Cheveux Sales
Maigret
(2022)
Jules Maigret
Going Places
(1974)
Jean-Claude
Lost Illusions
(2021)
Dauriat
Aladdin 2
(2018)
Christophe Colomb
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
(2012)
Obélix
Hamlet
(1996)
Reynaldo
Full Filmography
Acting
Christmas Carole
(1966)
Le Cyborg (Le Voyage vertical)
(1970)
Gabriel
La pomme de son œil
(1970)
Hamid
The Adventures of Zadig
(1970)
Zadig
Nausicaa
(1971)
Le voleur de livres
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
(1971)
Henri
A Little Sun in Cold Water
(1971)
Pierre
The Pariah
(1972)
Un jeune truand, homme de main
Killer
(1972)
Fredo, the sheep
The Annuity
(1972)
Victor, le complice de Jo
La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur
(1972)
33 year old father
Two Men in Town
(1973)
Young mobster
Rude journée pour la reine
(1973)
Fabien
The Year 01
(1973)
A traveler who does not take the train
L'Inconnu
(1973)
Gérard
The Dominici Affair
(1973)
Zézé Perrin
Nathalie Granger
(1973)
Le démarcheur
At the Meeting with Joyous Death
(1973)
Beretti
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
(1974)
Jean Lavallée, ami de Vincent
Going Places
(1974)
Jean-Claude
The Wonderful Crook
(1974)
Pierre
Stavisky...
(1974)
Le jeune inventeur
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
(1974)
le facteur
Woman of the Ganges
(1974)
Guy on the beach / "The Fool"
Seven Deaths by Prescription
(1975)
Dr Jean-Pierre Berg
Abicinema
(1975)
Self
I Love You, I Don't
(1976)
Horseman
1900
(1976)
Olmo Dalcò
The Last Woman
(1976)
Gérard
Barocco
(1976)
Samson / Samson's Killer
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
(1976)
Self
Maîtresse
(1976)
Oliver
This Sweet Sickness
(1977)
David Martinaud
Baxter, Vera Baxter
(1977)
Michel Cayre
The Lorry
(1977)
lui
Rene the Cane
(1977)
René Bornier
The Left-Handed Woman
(1977)
The Man with the T-Shirt
At Night All Cats Are Crazy
(1977)
Philippe Larcher
Sugar
(1978)
Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
Bye Bye Monkey
(1978)
Gérard Lafayette
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
(1978)
Raoul
Violanta
(1978)
Fortunat
Buffet Froid
(1979)
Alphonse Tram
Traffic Jam
(1979)
Franco
The Dogs
(1979)
Morel
I Love All of You
(1980)
Patrick
Loulou
(1980)
Loulou
Hurricane Rosie
(1980)
Raoul Lamarre
The Last Metro
(1980)
Bernard Granger
My American Uncle
(1980)
René Ragueneau
Inspector Blunder
(1980)
Roger Morzini, public enemy number 1
Droit de Réponse
(1981)
Self
Choice of Arms
(1981)
Mickey
The Woman Next Door
(1981)
Bernard Coudray
La Chèvre
(1981)
Campana
The Return of Martin Guerre
(1982)
Arnaud du Tilh
The Big Brother
(1982)
Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo
Danton
(1983)
Georges Danton
The ComDads
(1983)
Jean Lucas
The Moon in the Gutter
(1983)
Gérard Delmas - un docker hanté par le suicide de sa soeur
Rive droite, rive gauche
(1984)
Paul Senanques
17ème jour de tournage du film "Police"
(1984)
Self
Le Tartuffe
(1984)
Tartuffe
Fort Saganne
(1984)
Charles Saganne
Police
(1985)
Louis Vincent Mangin
One Woman or Two
(1985)
Julien Chayssac
Vivement Truffaut
(1985)
Self / Bernard (archive footage)
The Way Out
(1986)
Father of Clara
The Fugitives
(1986)
Jean Lucas
Jean de Florette
(1986)
Jean Cadoret, le bossu, fils de Florette
Ménage
(1986)
Bob
Under the Sun of Satan
(1987)
Donissan
Camille Claudel
(1988)
Auguste Rodin
Strange Place for an Encounter
(1988)
Charles
I Want to Go Home
(1989)
Christian Gauthier
Deux
(1989)
Marc Lambert
Too Beautiful for You
(1989)
Bernard Barthélémy
Uranus
(1990)
Léopold
Cyrano de Bergerac
(1990)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Green Card
(1990)
Georges Faure
All the Mornings of the World
(1991)
Marin Marais
Thank You, Life
(1991)
Marc Antoine Worms
My Father the Hero
(1991)
André Arnel
1492: Conquest of Paradise
(1992)
Christopher Columbus
Oh, Woe Is Me
(1993)
Simon Donnadieu
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
(1993)
Self
Germinal
(1993)
Toussaint Maheu
Colonel Chabert
(1994)
Chabert
A Pure Formality
(1994)
Onoff
My Father the Hero
(1994)
Andre
The Machine
(1994)
Dr. Marc Lacroix
One Hundred and One Nights
(1995)
Self
Elisa
(1995)
Jacques 'Lébovitch', Marie's father
The Son Of...
(1995)
Gerard
Guardian Angels
(1995)
Antoine Carco / His guardian angel
The Horseman on the Roof
(1995)
Police commissioner of Manosque
Unhook the Stars
(1996)
Big Tommy
The Best Job in the World
(1996)
Laurent Monier
Bogus
(1996)
Bogus
Hamlet
(1996)
Reynaldo
The Secret Agent
(1996)
Ossipon
XXL
(1997)
Jean Bourdalou
Pitch
(1997)
Himself
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
(1997)
Self
Der Graf von Monte Christo
(1998)
Edmond Dantès / Graf von Monte Christo
The Man in the Iron Mask
(1998)
Porthos
Notes of Love
(1998)
Levi
Bimboland
(1998)
Laurent Gaspard
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
(1999)
Obélix
Balzac: A Life of Passion
(1999)
Honoré de Balzac
The Bridge
(1999)
Georges
Bérénice
(2000)
Titus
Actors
(2000)
Self
The Envy of Gods
(2000)
Bernard
Vatel
(2000)
Francois Vatel
Mirka
(2000)
Strix
102 Dalmatians
(2000)
Jean Pierre Le Pelt
Tutto l'amore che c'è
(2000)
Molotov
Vidocq
(2001)
Vidocq
CQ
(2001)
Andrezej
Streghe verso nord
(2001)
Self
The Closet
(2001)
Félix Santini
Unfair Competition
(2001)
Professor Angelo
City of Ghosts
(2002)
Emile
How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
(2002)
Self
Between Strangers
(2002)
Max
Blanche
(2002)
D'Artagnan
Ruy Blas
(2002)
Don Salluste
I Am Dina
(2002)
Jacob
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
(2002)
Obélix
A Loving Father
(2002)
Léo Shepherd
Nathalie...
(2003)
Bernard
The Car Keys
(2003)
Le fromager
The Pact of Silence
(2003)
Joachim
Crime Spree
(2003)
Daniel Foray
Ruby & Quentin
(2003)
Quentin
Bon Voyage
(2003)
Jean-Étienne Beaufort
Changing Times
(2004)
Antoine Lavau
36th Precinct
(2004)
Denis Klein
Volpone
(2004)
Volpone
RRRrrrr!!!
(2004)
Le chef des Cheveux Sales
Battle of the Brave
(2004)
Father Thomas Blondeau
San Antonio
(2004)
l'inspecteur Bérurier
Let's Be Friends
(2005)
Serge
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
(2005)
Self
Boudu
(2005)
Boudu
How Much Do You Love Me?
(2005)
Charly
La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre
(2005)
Gérard Depardieu
Olé !
(2005)
François Veber
Last Holiday
(2006)
Chef Didier
Paris Je T'aime
(2006)
Le patron (Quartier Latin)
Journey of the Dissidents
(2006)
Narrator
The Singer
(2006)
Alain Moreau
Lebo, l'ombre et la lumière
(2007)
L'abbuffata
(2007)
Gérard Depardieu
Michou d'Auber
(2007)
Georges
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
(2007)
Himself
La Vie en Rose
(2007)
Louis Leplée
Hello Goodbye
(2008)
Alain Gaash
Kings Can Do Everything
(2008)
Final Arrangements
(2008)
Hugo
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
(2008)
Guido
Babylon A.D.
(2008)
Gorsky
Disco
(2008)
Jean-François Jackson
Trouble at Timpetill
(2008)
Le général Igor
Asterix at the Olympic Games
(2008)
Obélix
The Easy Way
(2008)
Le chef
The Beaches of Agnès
(2008)
Self (archive footage)
Coco
(2009)
Le cardiologue
Bellamy
(2009)
Paul Bellamy
L'Abolition
(2009)
Henry Torrès
In the Beginning
(2009)
Abel
Diamond 13
(2009)
Mat
Gérard Depardieu, blessures secrètes
(2009)
Gérard Depardieu
The Great Restaurant
(2010)
Gérard - un client du restaurant
Late Love
(2010)
Gueorgui
Small World
(2010)
Conrad Lang
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
(2010)
Self (archive footage)
Trophy Wife
(2010)
Maurice Babin
My Afternoons with Margueritte
(2010)
Germain
Mammuth
(2010)
Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
The Other Dumas
(2010)
Alexandre Dumas
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
(2010)
Fucking Kassovitz
(2011)
Self
A Butterfly Kiss
(2011)
le médecin de Manon
A Frog in Winter
(2011)
Benjamin
Rasputin
(2011)
Grigori Raspoutine
Glenn, the Flying Robot
(2011)
TV reporter
My Sinful Angel
(2012)
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
(2012)
Obélix
Frank-Etienne Towards Beatitude
(2012)
Frank-Étienne Boulard
The Man Who Laughs
(2012)
Ursus
Life of Pi
(2012)
Cook
The Big Night
(2012)
Juvénal
A Farewell to Fools
(2013)
Ipu
Miserere
(2013)
Lionel Kasdan
The World Petanque Tour
(2013)
Jacky
Turf
(2013)
Monsieur Paul
Nothing Can Stop Us Now
(2013)
Henry
La voix des steppes
(2014)
Anatole
Duras and Cinema
(2014)
Self [archive footage]
Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas
(2014)
Himself
Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
(2014)
He (segment 'Two, Deux')
United Passions
(2014)
Jules Rimet
Welcome to New York
(2014)
Devereaux
Obsessive Rythms
(2014)
Père Villedieu
Viktor
(2014)
Victor Lambert
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
(2014)
Himself (archival footage) (uncredited)
Le Magicien et les Siamois
(2015)
Borach
Agafia
(2015)
Savka
Le Rustre et le Juge
(2015)
Charpentevich
Valley of Love
(2015)
Gérard
Fifty Shades of Erotica
(2015)
Stalin's Couch
(2016)
Joseph Staline
A Mighty Team
(2016)
Jacques Belloch
The End
(2016)
L'homme
French Tour
(2016)
Serge
Rhapsody
(2016)
Gérard
Saint Amour
(2016)
Jean
Nobody's Perfect!
(2017)
Gérard, dit Bonne Pomme
Carbone
(2017)
Aron Goldstein
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
(2017)
Self - Comédien (archive footage)
Michel Sardou – Dernier show
(2017)
Self
You Only Live Once
(2017)
Duges
Let the Sunshine In
(2017)
Clairvoyant
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
(2018)
Gaston Baptiste (voice)
Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
(2018)
Self (archive footage)
Saving My Pig
(2018)
Vania
Private Eye
(2018)
Camionneur
To the Ends of the World
(2018)
Saintonge
The Other Woman
(2018)
Patrick
Aladdin 2
(2018)
Christophe Colomb
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
(2019)
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Thalasso
(2019)
Gérard Depardieu
Wide Load
(2019)
Taupin
Fahim
(2019)
Sylvain Charpentier
Crystal Frog
(2019)
Benjamin
Home Front
(2020)
Feu-de-Bois
Creators: The Past
(2020)
Master of Faith
Lost Illusions
(2021)
Dauriat
Sous le soleil de Pialat
(2021)
Self
Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
(2021)
Maurice Lefranc
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
(2022)
Self (archive footage)
Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
(2022)
Self - actor
Employee of the Month
(2022)
Gérard Depardieu
Adieu Paris
(2022)
Michael
The Green Shutters
(2022)
Jules Maugin
Maigret
(2022)
Jules Maigret
Retirement Home
(2022)
Lino Vartan
Robust
(2022)
George
Umami
(2023)
Gabriel
L'Âge d'or de la pub
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
Gérard Depardieu: The Fall of the Ogre
(2023)
Self
Production
The ComDads
(1983)
Producer
Deux
(1989)
Producer
The Branches of the Tree
(1990)
Producer
The Stranger
(1991)
Executive Producer and Producer
She's So Lovely
(1997)
Executive Producer
The Bridge
(1999)
Producer
A Loving Father
(2002)
Producer
Mammuth
(2010)
Co-Producer
Saint Amour
(2016)
Co-Producer
A Mighty Team
(2016)
Co-Producer
Directing
Le Tartuffe
(1984)
Director
The Bridge
(1999)
Director
Paris Je T'aime
(2006)
Director
La voix des steppes
(2014)
Director
Crew