His last appearance on the screens dates back to last fall when he shared the poster for the comedy "La vengeance au triple gallop" by Alex Lutz with Leïla Bekhti and Audrey Lamy.
Two years earlier, he starred in the film "Sibyl" by Justine Triet with Virginie Efira and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
The film was presented in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Having become a key player in French cinema in a few years, Gaspard Ulliel is in the cast of "Moon Knight", a Marvel series, soon to be broadcast on Disney+.
Revealed in 2003, at barely 19 years old, in "Les Egarés" by André Téchiné alongside Emmanuelle Béart, Gaspard Ulliel had impressed in 2014 for his interpretation of couturier Yves Saint Laurent in "Saint Laurent" by Bertrand Bonello.
Emmanuelle Béart and Gaspard Ulliel at the Cannes Film Festival for the film "Les Egarés" by André Téchiné, in May 2003 Pascal GUYOT AFP / Archives
He had been nominated for the César for best actor for this film, but had been beaten by his competitor Pierre Niney in "Yves Saint Laurent".
Two Caesars
Born on November 25, 1984, to stylist parents, Gaspard Ulliel spent his childhood between school and the family apartment in central Paris, where he drew for hours.
It is a friend of his mother who offers him to join the agency of actors that she has just created.
He is only 11 years old but he quickly gets a small role in a TV movie.
Actor Gaspard Ulliel at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006 FRANCOIS GUILLOT AFP/Archives
After a few summer internships at the Cours Florent, he enrolled after his baccalaureate at the University of Saint-Denis for cinema studies, which he abandoned all the more quickly as his career quickly took off.
He was noticed by Michel Blanc who in 2002 offered him a role in a successful comedy, "Embrassez qui vous disponible".
But the revealer will be André Téchiné with "Les Egarés" where he plays Yvan, a rather wild boy who, during the exodus, crosses the roads of France with two children and their mother.
For these two films, Gaspard Ulliel was nominated for the César for Best Male Newcomer in 2003 and 2004.
Gaspard Ulliel, César for best young male hope for his role in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film "A Long Engagement Sunday", February 26, 2005 in Paris Bertrand GUAY AFP / Archives
This is the third time that will be the right one: he won the statuette in 2005 thanks to "A long engagement Sunday" by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, in which he plays Manech, the fiancé of Mathilde (Audrey Tautou), who died in 1917 in the trenches.
Muse
His eclecticism is undeniable: in 2009, we find him as the son of Isabelle Huppert in "Un barrage contre le Pacifique" by Rithy Panh, but also as an offspring of Jean Reno in a thriller, "Le Premier Cercle".
In 2010, he played Henri de Guise in "La Princesse de Montpensier" by Bertrand Tavernier.
Gaspard Ulliel at the Cannes Film Festival for the film "La Princesse de Montpensier" by Bertrand Tavernier, in May 2010 Loic VENANCE AFP / Archives
Having become a leading actor, he went on filming, including in the United States in "Hannibal Lecter: the origins of evil", which recounts the young years of the cannibalistic serial killer.
Her first role in English.
In 2017, he won the César for best actor for his moving role in "Juste la fin du monde" by Quebec prodigy Xavier Dolan, about a writer who, after twelve years of absence, comes to announce to his family that he is going to die. .
His face and his silhouette of a young first, he also displays them in fashion shows and advertising films.
Gaspard Ulliel in Paris in July 2017 Patrick KOVARIK AFP/Archives
A contract signed with Chanel for which he becomes the muse of a perfume made him say: "Suddenly, I had a financial comfort which allowed me to choose, to wait, not to flood the screens".
One of his directors, Rodolphe Marconi, who made him turn in "The Last Day", said of him: "Gaspard is a blue sky crossed by clouds which never burst. A strange boy, difficult to pierce. It surely has a crack, the day it will open, it will hurt...".
The actor was the father of a little boy.
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