PARIS (AFP) – French actor Gaspard Ulliel, who performed a younger Hannibal Lecter and Yves Saint Laurent, died on Wednesday (Jan 19) on the age of 37 following a snowboarding accident, his household mentioned.
One of the hanging faces of his technology, Ulliel was already within the high rank of French actors.
He gained worldwide consideration for his efficiency because the well-known cannibal in Hannibal Rising in 2007.
He additionally had a number one position within the new Marvel TV sequence Moon Knight launching on Disney+ in March.
His household confirmed the dying – which adopted a snowboarding accident on Tuesday – in a press release given to AFP by his agent.
Ulliel received a Cesar – the French equal of an Oscar – for greatest actor in 2017 for It is Solely The Finish Of The World, wherein he starred alongside Marion Cotillard and Lea Seydoux.
He had already taken house a Cesar in 2005 for many promising actor after showing within the World Struggle I drama A Very Lengthy Engagement alongside Audrey Tautou.
He starred in Saint Laurent, one in every of two biopics concerning the legendary designer to be launched in 2014, although he misplaced out on the Cesars to the star of the rival movie, Pierre Niney.
‘Tough to penetrate’
Ulliel was born simply outdoors Paris on Nov 25, 1984 and picked up a small scar from a canine chunk as a toddler.
He mentioned it helped him as a result of it seemed like a dimple.
He was simply 11 when he began engaged on display screen and picked up two Cesar newcomer nominations in 2003 and 2004 earlier than lastly profitable the next yr.
There have been additionally some main modelling gigs, together with a contract because the face of a Chanel aftershave.
Considered one of his administrators described him as one thing of an enigma.
“He is an odd boy, tough to penetrate,” mentioned Rodolphe Marconi, who directed him in one in every of his early movies, The Final Day.
“He certainly has a crack, the day it opens, it would harm.”