Gérard Depardieu has been one of the most active French actors since the 1970s.

* Le Mans has a well-preserved old town ( Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans ), where the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1989 ) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien, is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.

For her first movie, Casta has made forays into the blockbuster Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar directed by Claude Zidi, a live-action film of the comic book Asterix created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in which Obelix, portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, plays a love interest for Falbala.

Since 2005, Depardieu has lived with a Harvard-educated novelist, Clémentine Igou.

Depardieu is a well known Anglophile, and has been known to criticise and even insult his home country of France.

The play has been adapted for cinema several times, most recently in 1990 with Gerard Depardieu in the title role.

Edmond Dantès has been portrayed on film many times by actors such as Robert Donat, Jean Marais, Louis Jourdan, Gérard Depardieu, Richard Chamberlain and, most recently, James Caviezel.

He has starred in 2009 as Etienne Balsan in Coco avant Chanel by Anne Fontain, with Audrey Tautou ; as Jean-René in 2010 with Isabelle Carré in a charming comedy by Jean-Pierre Améris Émotifs anonymes about two extremely shy persons who fall in love, and also as August Maquet in L ' autre Dumas by Safy Nebbou, alongside Gérard Depardieu and Dominique Blanc, a movie about the creative ghostwriter, Maquet, whose played a crucial role in the production of French writer Alexandre Dumas ' Three Musketeers.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has been hosted at the National Theater, with screenings at the Open-air theater Metalac and the Bosnian Cultural Center, all located in downtown Sarajevo and has been attended by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Steve Buscemi, Jeremy Irons, Bono Vox ( Bono holds dual Bosnian and Irish citizenship and is an honorary citizen of Sarajevo ), Nick Cave, Coolio, Stephen Frears, Michael Moore, Gérard Depardieu, Darren Aronofsky, Sophie Okonedo, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Spacey, Eric Cantona, Victoria Abril, James Floyd and many others.

* Élisabeth Depardieu as Aimée Cadoret: Jean's beautiful wife is a former opera singer, who has named her daughter after her favourite role, Manon Lescaut.

The town has since been home to noted residents including Darco, Frank Alamo, Guillaume Depardieu, Jean-Louis Aubert, Michel Rocard, Flavie Flament, Laurent Garnier, Jean-Marie Hullot, Jean Michel Jarre, Benjamin Castaldi and Gilbert Montagné have been residents of Bougival.

Wincott has worked with many of cinema's highly regarded directors, including Mike Newell, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel, Jim Jarmusch, Ridley Scott, Katherine Bigelow, and Barry Levinson and fellow actors Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Benicio Del Toro, Javier Bardem, Morgan Freeman, and Liam Neeson.

He has also appeared frequently on television, in productions such as Damiano Damiani's landmark MOW Lenin: The Train ( 1990 ), with Ben Kingsley, and Josee Dayan's 1998 version of The Count of Monte Cristo, with Gérard Depardieu.

Numerous celebrities have been treated at the Salpêtrière, including Michael Schumacher, Ronaldo, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu.

Guillaume Depardieu died on 13 October 2008, at the Garches hospital, aged 37, after contracting severe viral pneumonia at a filming location in Romania, where he had been working on a new film, L ' Enfance d ' Icare.

Depp was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, but lost to Gérard Depardieu of Green Card.

Camille Claudel, directed by newcomer Bruno Nuytten and starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu, was a major commercial success in 1988, earning Adjani, who was also the film's co-producer, a César Award for best actress.

Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac was a major box-office success in 1990, earning several César Awards, including best actor for Gérard Depardieu, as well as an Academy Award nomination for best foreign picture.

Depardieu won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

At the age of 16, Depardieu left Châteauroux for Paris.

The lead role of Luc was originally written for Gerard Depardieu, but Kevin Kline accepted the role when Depardieu was not available for the film.

Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Lino Ventura were considered for the role.

By the early 1980s she was a major motion picture star, gaining international recognition for her role opposite Gérard Depardieu in La Femme d ' à côté ( The Woman Next Door ).

He directed Gérard Depardieu in three films, including Sous le soleil de Satan ( Under the Sun of Satan ), for which Pialat won the Palme d ' Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Her subsequent feature films included three with director André Téchiné: French Provincial ( Souvenirs en France, 1975 ); The Bronte Sisters ( Les Sœurs Brontë, 1979 ), in which she portrayed Charlotte ; and Barocco ( 1976 ), for which she won a second César for her performance alongside Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu.

She developed a close working relationship with rising film star, Gérard Depardieu and his wife Élisabeth, collaborating on songs for film and records.

She co-wrote the music for the stage play " Lily Passion " with Luc Plamondon in which she co-starred with Gérard Depardieu.

In 2003, the play was rewritten for television by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt for a production starring Gérard Depardieu as Volpone and Daniel Prévost as Mosca.

The film starred three of France's most prominent actors – Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, who won a BAFTA award for his performance, and Yves Montand in one of the last roles before his death.

The film also earned six more nominations, including both Depardieu and Montand in the ' Best Actor '- category, as well as ' Best Direction ' and ' Best Foreign Language Film '.

Guillaume Depardieu ( 7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008 ) was a French actor, winner of a César Award, and the elder son of Gerard Depardieu.

Depardieu spent more time on the street than in the classroom and left school at 15.

From 1997 to 2005, she dated actor Gérard Depardieu, with whom she had worked several times.

In 2006, she wrote and directed the documentary, “ Parcours de Dissidents ” (“ The Journey of the Dissidents ”), narrated by Oscar-Nominated and esteemed French actor, Gérard Depardieu about the unknown odyssey of the boys and girls from Martinique and Guadeloupe island ( FWI ) who were trained at Fort Dix New Jersey during WWII and became the daredevil soldiers of Free French Force Division 1.

Veber and Richard had a long and successful partnership during the 1980s, highlighted by three comedies — La Chèvre, Les Compères and Les Fugitifs — which paired Richard with Gérard Depardieu.

During her short career, Laffin appeared with many of France's rising young stars, including Gérard Depardieu, Juliette Binoche and Miou-Miou as well as established stars such as Yves Montand.

* 1990 French movie adaptation with Gérard Depardieu in the title role won several awards including an Oscar.

Kevin Kline, Rowan Atkinson, Gérard Depardieu and Tim Curry were all considered before Benigni won the role.

Bertolucci increased his fame with his next few films, from Novecento ( 1976 ), an epic depiction of the struggles of farmers in Emilia-Romagna from the beginning of the 20th century up to World War II with an impressive international cast ( Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda ) to La Luna, set in Rome and in Emilia-Romagna, in which Bertolucci deals with the thorny issue of drugs and incest, and finally La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo ( 1981 ), with Ugo Tognazzi.

* 1981: La Chèvre ( Knock on Wood ), starring Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard

In a 1991 episode, Vizard, actor Gerard Depardieu and film director Peter Weir were dining at Lynch ’ s before the show.