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. Depardieu has been repeatedly accused of sexual assault. The French authorities have charged him with rape and, since 2021, have had him under formal investigation. Depardieu has denied any wrongdoing and has not been convicted in connection with any of the accusations against him. He was stripped of the National Order of Quebec in 2023.

Filmography

• 2025Ne crains pas le bruit de mes ailes — Angel (voice)
• 2023Umami — Gabriel
• 2022Adieu Paris — Michael
• 2022Employee of the Month — Gérard Depardieu
• Le Late avec Alain Chabat
• 2022Maigret — Jules Maigret
• 2022Retirement Home — Lino Vartan
• 2022Robust — George
• 2022The Green Shutters — Jules Maugin
• The King’s Favorite — Nostradamus
• 2021Do You Do You Saint-Tropez — Maurice Lefranc
• 2021Lost Illusions — Dauriat
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes
• Un homme d'honneur — Bruno Riva
• 2020Creators: The Past — Master of Faith
• 2020Home Front — Feu-de-Bois
• 2019Crystal Frog — Benjamin
• 2019Fahim — Sylvain Charpentier
• 2019Thalasso — Gérard Depardieu
• 2019Wide Load — Taupin
• Gérard de par le monde - Japon — lui-même
• 2018Private Eye — Camionneur
• 2018Saving My Pig — Vania
• 2018Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero — Gaston Baptiste (voice)
• 2018The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin — Christopher Colombus
• 2018The Other Woman — Patrick
• 2018To the Ends of the World — Saintonge
• 2017Carbone — Aron Goldstein
• 2017Let the Sunshine In — Clairvoyant
• Mata Hari — Abbé Busoni
• 2017Mečiar: The Lust For Power
• 2017Nobody's Perfect! — Gérard, dit Bonne Pomme
• 2017You Only Live Once — Duges
• 2016A Mighty Team — Jacques Belloc, Co-Producer
• 2016French Tour — Serge
• Marseille — Robert Taro
• 2016Rhapsody — Gérard
• 2016Saint Amour — Jean, Co-Producer
• 2016Stalin's Couch — Joseph Staline
• 2016The End — L'homme
• 2015Agafia — Savka
• Capitaine Marleau — Philippe Muir
• 2015Fifty Shades of Erotica — (archive footage)
• 2015Le Magicien et les Siamois — Borach
• 2015Le Rustre et le Juge — Charpentevich
• 2015Valley of Love — Gérard
• 2014La voix des steppes — Anatole, Director
• 2014Obsessive Rhythms — Père Villedieu
• 2014Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes — He (segment 'Two, Deux')
• 2014United Passions — Jules Rimet
• 2014Viktor — Victor Lambert
• 2014Welcome to New York — Devereaux
• 2013A Farewell to Fools — Ipu
• 2013Miserere — Lionel Kasdan
• 2013Nothing Can Stop Us Now — Henry
• 2013Rasputin — Grigori Raspoutine
• 2013The World Petanque Tour — Jacky
• 2013Turf — Monsieur Paul
• 2012Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia — Obélix
• 2012Frank-Etienne Towards Beatitude — Frank-Étienne Boulard
• 2012Life of Pi — Cook
• 2012The Big Night — Juvénal
• 2012The Man Who Laughs — Ursus
• 2011A Butterfly Kiss — le médecin de Manon
• 2011A Frog in Winter — Benjamin
• 2011Glenn, the Flying Robot — TV reporter
• 2011My Sinful Angel
• 2010Late Love — Gueorgui
• 2010Mammuth — Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth, Co-Producer
• 2010My Afternoons with Margueritte — Germain, Executive Producer
• 2010Small World — Conrad Lang
• 2010The Great Restaurant — Gérard - un client du restaurant
• 2010The Other Dumas — Alexandre Dumas
• 2010Trophy Wife — Maurice Babin
• 2009Bellamy — Paul Bellamy
• 2009Coco — Le cardiologue
• 2009Diamond 13 — Mat
• 2009Gérard Depardieu, blessures secrètes — Gérard Depardieu
• 2009In the Beginning — Abel
• 2009L'Abolition — Henry Torrès
• L'Abolition — Henry Torrès
• 2008Asterix at the Olympic Games — Obélix
• 2008Babylon A.D. — Gorsky
• 2008Disco — Jean-François
• 2008Final Arrangements — Hugo
• 2008Hello Goodbye — Alain Gaash
• 2008Kings Can Do Everything
• 2008Mesrine: Killer Instinct — Guido
• 2008The Beaches of Agnès — Le beatnik (archive footage)
• 2008The Easy Way — Le chef, Thanks
• 2008Trouble at Timpetill — Le général Igor
• 2007L'abbuffata — Gérard Depardieu
• 2007La Vie en Rose — Louis Leplée
• 2007Lebo, l'ombre et la lumière
• 2007Michou d'Auber — Georges
• 2006Journey of the Dissidents — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Last Holiday — Chef Didier
• 2006Paris Je T'aime — Le patron (Quartier Latin), Director
• 2006The Singer — Alain Moreau
• 2005Boudu — Boudu
• 2005How Much Do You Love Me? — Charly
• 2005La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre — Gérard Depardieu
• 2005Let's Be Friends — Serge
• 2005Olé ! — François Veber
• The Accursed Kings — Jacques de Molay
• 200436th Precinct — Denis Klein
• 2004Battle of the Brave — Father Thomas Blondeau
• 2004Changing Times — Antoine Lavau
• 2004Nathalie... — Bernard
• 2004RRRrrrr!!! — Le chef des Cheveux Sales
• 2004San Antonio — l'inspecteur Bérurier
• The Lady Musketeer — Cardinal Mazarin
• 2004Volpone — Volpone
• 2003Bon Voyage — Jean-Étienne Beaufort
• 2003Crime Spree — Daniel Foray
• 2003Ruby & Quentin — Quentin
• 2003The Car Keys — Cheesemaker
• 2003The Pact of Silence — Joachim
• 2002A Loving Father — Léo Shepherd, Producer
• 2002Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra — Obélix
• 2002Between Strangers — Max
• 2002Blanche — D'Artagnan
• 2002City of Ghosts — Emile
• 2002I Am Dina — Jacob
• Napoleon — Joseph Fouché, Producer
• 2002Ruy Blas — Don Salluste
• 2001CQ — Andrezej
• 2001The Closet — Félix Santini
• 2001Unfair Competition — Angelo Melchiorri
• 2001Vidocq — Vidocq
• 2000102 Dalmatians — Jean Pierre Le Pelt
• 2000Actors — Gérard Depardieu
• 2000Bérénice — Titus
• Killing Power — Cannes City Police Commissioner
• Les Misérables — Jean Valjean, Producer
• 2000Mirka — Strix
• 2000The Envy of Gods — Bernard
• 2000Tutto l'amore che c'è — Molotov
• 2000Vatel — Francois Vatel
• 1999Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar — Obélix
• Balzac — Honoré de Balzac
• 1999Balzac: A Life of Passion — Honoré de Balzac
• 1999The Bridge — Georges, Director, Producer
• 1998Bimboland — Laurent Gaspard
• 1998Notes of Love — Levi
• The Count of Monte Cristo — Edmond Dantès
• 1998The Man in the Iron Mask — Porthos
• 1997She's So Lovely — Executive Producer
• 1997XXL — Jean Bourdalou
• 1996Bogus — Bogus
• 1996Hamlet — Reynaldo
• 1996The Best Job in the World — Laurent Monier
• 1996The Secret Agent — Ossipon
• 1996Unhook the Stars — Big Tommy
• 1995Guardian Angels — Carco / M. Ciccolini / La « bonne conscience »
• 1995Le Garçu — Gerard
• 1995The Horseman on the Roof — Police commissioner of Manosque
• 1995Élisa — Jacques 'Lébovitch', Marie's father
• 1994A Pure Formality — Onoff
• 1994Colonel Chabert — Chabert
• 1994My Father the Hero — Andre
• 1994The Machine — Dr. Marc Lacroix
• 1993Germinal — Toussaint Maheu
• 1993Oh, Woe Is Me — Simon Donnadieu
• 19921492: Conquest of Paradise — Christopher Columbus
• 1992From Time to Time — L'agent de piste de Roissy
• 1991All the Mornings of the World — Marin Marais
• 1991My Father the Hero — André Arnel
• 1991Thank You, Life — Marc Antoine Worms
• 1991The Stranger — Producer
• 1990Cyrano de Bergerac — Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1990Green Card — Georges Faure
• 1990The Branches of the Tree — Producer
• 1990Uranus — Léopold
• 1989Deux — Marc Lambert, Producer
• 1989I Want to Go Home — Christian Gauthier
• 1989Too Beautiful for You — Bernard Barthélémy
• 1988Camille Claudel — Auguste Rodin
• 1988Strange Place for an Encounter — Charles
• 1987Under the Sun of Satan — Donissan
• 1986Jean de Florette — Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette
• 1986Ménage — Bob
• 1986The Fugitives — Jean Lucas
• 1986The Way Out — Father of Clara
• 1985One Woman or Two — Julien Chayssac
• 1985Police — Louis Vincent Mangin
• 1984Fort Saganne — Charles Saganne
• 1984Le Tartuffe — Tartuffe, Director, Writer
• 1984Rive droite, rive gauche — Paul Senanques
• 1983Danton — Georges Danton
• 1983The ComDads — Jean Lucas, Producer
• 1983The Moon in the Gutter — Gérard Delmas, docker haunted by his sister's suicide
• 1982The Big Brother — Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo
• 1982The Return of Martin Guerre — Arnaud du Tilh
• 1981Choice of Arms — Mickey
• 1981La Chèvre — Campana, private detective
• 1981The Woman Next Door — Bernard Coudray
• 1980Hurricane Rosie — Raoul Lamarre
• 1980I Love You All — Patrick
• 1980Inspector Blunder — Roger Morzini, l'ennemi public n°1
• 1980Loulou — Loulou
• 1980My American Uncle — René Ragueneau
• 1980The Last Metro — Bernard Granger
• 1979Buffet Froid — Alphonse Tram
• 1979The Dogs — Morel
• 1979Traffic Jam — Franco
• 1978Bye Bye Monkey — Gérard Lafayette
• 1978Get Out Your Handkerchiefs — Raoul
• 1978Sugar — Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
• 1978The Left-Handed Woman — The Man with the T-Shirt
• 1978Violanta — Fortunat
• 1977At Night All Cats Are Crazy — Philippe Larcher
• 1977Baxter, Vera Baxter — Michel Cayre
• 1977Rene the Cane — René Bornier
• 1977The Lorry — lui
• 1977This Sweet Sickness — David Martinaud
• 19761900 — Olmo Dalcò
• 1976Barocco — Samson / Samson's Killer
• 1976I Love You, I Don't — Horseman
• 1976Maîtresse — Oliver
• 1976The Last Woman — Gérard
• 1975Seven Deaths by Prescription — Dr Jean-Pierre Berg
• 1975The Wonderful Crook — Pierre Vaucher
• 1974Going Places — Jean-Claude
• 1974Stavisky... — Le jeune inventeur
• 1974The Down-in-the-Hole Gang — le facteur
• 1974Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others — Jean Lavallée, ami de Vincent
• 1974Woman of the Ganges — Guy on the beach / "The Fool"
• 1973At the Meeting with Joyous Death — Beretti
• 1973L'Inconnu — Gérard
• 1973Nathalie Granger — Le démarcheur
• 1973Rough Day For a Queen — Fabien
• 1973The Dominici Affair — Zézé Perrin
• 1973The Year 01 — A traveler who does not take the train
• 1973Two Men in Town — Young mobster
• 1973Un monsieur bien rangé — Jean Joseph Jenk
• Un monsieur bien rangé — Jean-Joseph Jenk
• 1972Killer — Frédo Babasch, the sheep
• 1972La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur — 33 year old father
• 1972The Annuity — Victor, le complice de Jo
• 1972The Pariah — Young crook
• 1971A Little Sun in Cold Water — Pierre
• 1971Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques — Henri
• 1971Nausicaa — Book Thief
• 1970La Pomme de son œil — Hamid
• 1970Le Cyborg ou Le Voyage vertical — Gabriel
• Rendez-vous à Badenberg — Eddy Balmont
• 1970Tango — Edek
• 1970The Adventures of Zadig — Zadig
• 1967Le Beatnik et le minet — Le beatnik
• 1966Christmas Carole — Igor
• 70
• Ahmed Bey — Hussein Dey
• She Looked Without Seeing — Volk
• Twins — Bishop Tarcisi
• Спорт без границ — Sergei Romanov

Appearances as themselves (58)

• 2023L'Âge d'or de la pub — Self (archive footage)
• Chez Jordan De Luxe — Self - Guest
• 2022Feet in the Mayonnaise: The Irreverent Ones of the 70s — Self - actor (archive footage)
• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
• 2022La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Patrick Dewaere, My Hero — Self (archive footage) - actor
• 2021Sous le soleil de Pialat — Self
• 2019André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2018Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Michel Sardou – Dernier show — Self
• 2017The Force of Destiny — Self
• 2017À la recherche de... Pierre Richard — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• Bon appetit: Gérard Depardieu's Europe — Himself
• 2014Duras and Cinema — Self [archive footage]
• 2014Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas — Himself
• 2014The Term. Beginning of a Big Story — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2011Fucking Kassovitz — Self
• 2011Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres — Self (archive footage)
• Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell — Self
• 2010Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Maurice Pialat, l'amour existe — Self (voice)
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• On n'est pas couché — Self - Guest
• Semperopernball — Self
• 2005Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre — Self
• Rockpolitik — Self
• 2002A Day in the Life of French Cinema — Self
• 2002How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra — Self - Actor
• Sucré salé — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
• 2001Streghe verso nord — Self
• 1998Junket Whore — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• 1997Pitch — Self
• 1997Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo — Self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• 1995One Hundred and One Nights — Self
• Brisant — Self
• 1993François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits — Self
• Stars 90 — Self
• 1985Vivement Truffaut — Self / Bernard (archive footage)
• 198417ème jour de tournage du film "Police" — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• 1981Droit de Réponse — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• La macchina cinema — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Cérémonie des César — Self - Presenter, Self - President
• 1976The Cinema According to Bertolucci — Self
• 1975ABCinema — Self
• Apostrophes — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Midi Première — Self
• Numéro un — Self, Self (archive footage)
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• New Line: Independent Legacies — Self (archive footage)