Jean michel bouquet biography

Michel Bouquet

ACTOR

1925 - 2022

Michel Bouquet

Michel Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Bouquet has received more than 173,772 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Michel Bouquet is the 1,134th most popular actor (up from 1,464th in 2019), the 1,847th most popular biography from France (up from 2,185th in 2019) and the 94th most popular French Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Michel Bouquet ranks 1,134 out of 13,578. Before him are Pietro Germi, Nicole Garcia, Lee Maj

Michel Bouquet

Michel Bouquet was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris on the 6 November 1925. His father, Georges Bouquet, was a World War One veteran and a wine-maker. His mother Marie was a milliner. He had three older brothers: Georges, Bernard and Serge. Michel's father was always a shadowy figure in his life: having been deeply affected by the war, he used to talk very little and developed a very distant and estranged relationship with his sons. When he was 7 years old, Michel was sent to the "École Privée Catholique Fénelon", a Catholic boarding school located inside a 17th century hunting lodge in Vaujours. He would keep very unpleasant memories of this period his entire life, describing it as "seven years of darkness and loneliness". Being used to receive corporal punishment or other cruel and unusual forms of penalty for absurd reasons -like keeping his arms crossed in a supposedly insolent way- and to be bullied by older boys, Michel chose to withdraw into himself and dream of exciting, picaresque adventures far away from the school. This

Biography: life and films

Through a career that spans almost seventy years and includes over one hundred screen roles, Michel Bouquet has earned his reputation as one of France's most distinguished character actors, well regarded for his subtle portrayal of complex villains and solitary individuals living behind an implacable mask. He was born in Paris on 6th November 1925 and made up his mind at an early age that he would become an actor (having taken on a wide variety of odd jobs that include being a warehouse worker and bank delivery man). After studying drama under Maurice Escande of the Comédie-Française, he attended the Paris Conservatoire and embarked on a promising stage career, becoming the favourite actor of the great playwright Jean Anouilh.

Bouquet made his film debut in 1947 in two very different roles, first a killer in Gilbert Gil's routine crime drama Brigade criminelle (1947), then as a wretch suffering from tuberculosis in Maurice Cloche's Monsieur Vincent (1947). Over the next two decades, he would continue appearing in minor roles in films by some of Fra

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