Guillaume Depardieu (7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008) was a French actor, winner of a César Award, and the son of Gerard Depardieu.
Depardieu was the son of actor Gérard Depardieu and his first wife actress Élisabeth Depardieu (nee Guignot). He was the brother of actress Julie Depardieu and half-brother of Roxane and Jean Depardieu.
Depardieu married actress Elise Ventre on the 30th of December, 1999. They had a daughter Louise, and separated in 2001. Guillaume was known to have had a strained relationship with his famous father, which he detailed in his 2004 autobiography “Tout Donner” (“Giving Everything”). The two were said to have reconciled shortly before his death.
Guillaume was often called an “enfant terrible” by the French magazine Paris Match and was called eccentric and bohemian by others. By 1993, he had already served two jail sentences for drug offenses which included dealing heroin and theft. In 2003, he was fined and given a nine-month suspended prison… read more
Guillaume Depardieu (7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008) was a French actor, winner of a César Award, and the son of Gerard Depardieu.
Depardieu was the son of actor Gérard Depardieu and his first wife actress Élisabeth Depardieu (nee Guignot). He was the brother of actress Julie Depardieu and half-brother of Roxane and Jean Depardieu.
Depardieu married actress Elise Ventre on the 30th of December, 1999. They had a daughter Louise, and separated in 2001. Guillaume was known to have had a strained relationship with his famous father, which he detailed in his 2004 autobiography “Tout Donner” (“Giving Everything”). The two were said to have reconciled shortly before his death.
Guillaume was often called an “enfant terrible” by the French magazine Paris Match and was called eccentric and bohemian by others. By 1993, he had already served two jail sentences for drug offenses which included dealing heroin and theft. In 2003, he was fined and given a nine-month suspended prison sentence for threatening a man with a gun. In 2008 he was arrested for driving his scooter while intoxicated.
In 1995 Depardieu suffered a motorcycle accident due to a suitcase that fell off a vehicle in front of him which required him to have surgery on his knee. In the hospital he contracted a Staphylococcus aureus infection in the knee, which led to 17 surgeries and the eventual amputation of the respective leg in June 2003.
Guillaume shared the screen with his father several times throughout his career beginning with his first film role at age three playing Gérard’s son in Claude Goretta’s “That Wonderful Crook” (“Pas Si Méchant Que Ça”) in 1974. In 1993 in the film Tous les matins du monde, in 1998 Count of Monte Cristo, and in “Aime Ton Père” (released under the title of “A Loving Father” in 2002). In 1996 he won a César Award (France’s national film awards) as the most promising newcomer in “Les Apprentis”. In 2007, he began rebuilding his career with the film Don’t Touch the Axe (“Ne Touchez Pas La Hache”), La France in 2007, and De la guerre in 2008.
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. —Wikipedia
