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Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born December 27, 1948; pronunciation ▶(?))
is a French actor.
He was born in Châteauroux, Centre, France, the son of a sheet metal worker.
His acting career started in the 1970s and by the early 1980s, he was one of
the leading French actors gaining much attention for his role opposite Fanny
Ardant in François Truffaut's film La Femme d'à côté (The Woman Next Door),
and winning his first César Award for Best Actor for his role in Le Dernier
métro.
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He also starred in Le Retour de Martin Guerre in 1982.
In the 1990s he achieved some fame in North America too. His most
significant English-language productions are Green Card with Andie MacDowell
and 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
He first married Élisabeth Depardieu, with whom he has two children:
Guillaume and Julie.
He later had an affair with fellow actress Carole Bouquet, from 1997 to
2004.
Depardieu is the highest-paid actor in France, and one of the most powerful
within the French film industry. In addition to the nearly 150 motion-pictures
he has appeared in, he has also directed and/or produced several major films
through his company, "DD Productions."
On September 15, 2005, he released a cookbook entitled Gérard Depardieu: My
Cookbook. On October 31, 2005 he announced his intention to retire from
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