Gaspard Ulliel died suddenly after a skiing accident, aged just 37, ending a multi-award winning career.
The actor, who was on a family vacation in Savoie, collided on Tuesday afternoon with another skier at the crossroads of two blue slopes in the resort of La Rosière.
Seriously injured, he was then transported by helicopter to the Grenoble University Hospital, where he died.
Magnificent
Saint Laurent
in Bertrand Bonello's film released in 2014, he also played a moving writer in
Just the end of the world
(2016) by director Xavier Dolan.
The one that the spectators saw growing up with his roles in the cinema was also the face of a perfume from the house of Chanel.
Definition of pure beauty, here is the life, in pictures, of the actor twice Caesarized.
Directed by:
Olivier JUSZCZAK
Born November 25, 1984 to designer parents, Gaspard Ulliel spent his childhood between school and the family apartment in central Paris.
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.
He was noticed by Michel Blanc who in 2002 offered him a role in a successful comedy,
Embrace who you want
.
The revealer will be the filmmaker André Téchiné with
Les Egarés
where Gaspard Ulliel 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.
In 2004, he played Manech, the fiancé of Mathilde (Audrey Tautou), who disappeared in 1917 in the trenches in the film
A Long Engagement Sunday
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
In 2005, at his third nomination for the César for Best Newcomer, he won the statuette for this role.
He then went on to many films such as
Jacquou le Croquant
(2007) by Laurent Boutonnat
His eclecticism is undeniable.
In 2009, we find him as the son of Isabelle Huppert in Rithy Panh's
Un barrage contre le Pacifique
, but also as the 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.
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.
In 2014, he played Yves Saint Laurent in the film
Saint Laurent
by Bertrand Bonello.
His performance earned him a César nomination for Best Actor, ultimately won by the second Yves Saint Laurent nominee, Pierre Niney.
The latter paid tribute to his colleague on Twitter: “Heartbroken.
Gaspard was benevolence and kindness.
Beauty and talent.
»
His face and his silhouette of a young first, he also displays them in fashion shows and advertising films.
A contract signed with the Chanel house for which he becomes the muse of a perfume.
“Suddenly, I had a financial comfort which allowed me to choose, to wait, not to flood the screens”, told Gaspard Ulliel.
In 2016, he produced a moving performance of a writer bidding farewell in the film
Just the End of the World
by Quebec prodigy Xavier Dolan.
In 2017, Gaspard Ulliel won the César for best actor for this role.
In 2019, he starred in the film
Sibyl
by Justine Triet with Virginie Efira and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
During an eclectic career, he toured alongside big names in French cinema, such as Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye.
The last appearance on the screens of Gaspard Ulliel dates back to the fall of 2021 where he shared the poster for the comedy
La vengeance au triple gallop
by Alex Lutz with Leïla Bekhti and Audrey Lamy.
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 break through.
It surely has a crack, the day it opens, it will hurt..."
The 37-year-old actor leaves behind his partner Gaelle Pietri, and their 6-year-old son, Orso.
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