1. Gaspard Ulliel was known for having portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising, fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic Saint Laurent, and for being the face of Chanel men's fragrance Bleu de Chanel for twelve years.
60 Facts About Gaspard Ulliel
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Gaspard Ulliel voiced Jack Frost in the French version of Rise of the Guardians, and portrayed Anton Mogart in the Disney+ miniseries Moon Knight.
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Gaspard Ulliel was nominated for the Cesar Award for Most Promising Actor for three consecutive years for his performances in Summer Things, Strayed, and A Very Long Engagement ; winning that award in 2005 for his performance as World War I soldier Manech in A Very Long Engagement.
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Gaspard Ulliel became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2015.
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Gaspard Ulliel died on 19 January 2022 at the age of 37, following a skiing accident at La Rosiere resort in Savoie, France.
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Gaspard Ulliel was born in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine to Christine, a stylist and runway show producer, and Serge Gaspard Ulliel, a fashion designer.
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Gaspard Ulliel's great-grandfather, Raoul Ulliel, was a bronzesmith who distinguished himself in combat during World War I Gaspard Ulliel's paternal grandmother was of Italian and Spanish descent.
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Gaspard Ulliel had a scar on his left cheek as a result of a doberman attacking him with its claws when he attempted to ride the dog like a horse at the age of six.
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Gaspard Ulliel once quipped that the scar increased his emotional acting abilities because it looked like a dimple.
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Gaspard Ulliel attended the bilingual school Ecole Jeannine Manuel in Paris where he learned English.
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Gaspard Ulliel wanted to be a jazz musician and even tried playing the saxophone for a couple of years, but he quit because he thought he wasn't talented.
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Gaspard Ulliel dreamed of becoming a film director and attended the University of Saint-Denis in Paris, where he studied cinema for two years until he quit to focus on his acting career.
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Gaspard Ulliel began acting while he was still at school, at eleven years old, when a friend of a friend of his mother was working at an agency and was looking for young actors.
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Gaspard Ulliel asked Ulliel if he wanted to give it a try and he said "yes", but just for fun.
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Gaspard Ulliel made his acting debut with a small part in one episode of Une femme en blanc, a 1997 miniseries for French television starring Sandrine Bonnaire.
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Gaspard Ulliel continued appearing in made-for-television films and TV series during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and then became known as a film actor in France.
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In 2001, Gaspard Ulliel made his feature film debut with a minor role in Christophe Gans's Brotherhood of the Wolf, alongside Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci.
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In 2002, Gaspard Ulliel played the role of Loic in Michel Blanc's romantic comedy-drama film Summer Things, for which he earned his first Cesar Award nomination for Most Promising Actor, as well as winning the Lumieres Award for Most Promising Actor.
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Gaspard Ulliel performed at the drama school Cours Florent, where he was discovered by director Andre Techine, who cast him in the lead role of his World War II drama film Strayed in 2003, starring opposite Emmanuelle Beart as a mysterious teenager who protects her family.
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Gaspard Ulliel had his first English-speaking role in Peter Greenaway's 2004 film The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea, where he played a French man named Leon.
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In 2005, Gaspard Ulliel played Izik in Richard Dembo's World War II drama Nina's House.
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In 2007, Gaspard Ulliel starred in the title role in the movie Hannibal Rising, his first major English-language film where he portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter.
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Gaspard Ulliel starred as Joseph, the son of Isabelle Huppert's character in Rithy Panh's drama The Sea Wall, based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras.
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In 2009, Gaspard Ulliel starred opposite Jean Reno in the thriller Inside Ring, directed by Laurent Tuel.
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Gaspard Ulliel portrayed the angel Xas in Niki Caro's English-language romantic drama film The Vintner's Luck, based on the 1998 novel The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox, in which he appeared opposite Jeremie Renier, Vera Farmiga, and Keisha Castle-Hughes.
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Gaspard Ulliel portrayed French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the 2014 biographical film Saint Laurent directed by Bertrand Bonello, which earned him a Lumieres Award for Best Actor and nominations for the Cesar, and for the Globe de Cristal for Best Actor.
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In December 2014, Gaspard Ulliel was a member of the jury of the Cinecoles Short Film section at the 14th Marrakech International Film Festival.
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In 2015, Gaspard Ulliel starred as Tomas in an adaptation of Lars Noren's play Demons, directed by Marcial Di Fonzo Bo at the Theatre du Rond-Point in Paris.
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In 2016, he appeared in two films: the lead role in Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World as Louis, a playwright who returns home after twelve years to tell his family that he's dying, in which he starred opposite Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Lea Seydoux and Nathalie Baye; and in Stephanie Di Giusto's The Dancer, an unconventional biopic of American dancer Loie Fuller where Gaspard Ulliel portrayed Count Louis d'Orsay.
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Gaspard Ulliel won his second Cesar Award, this time for Best Actor, for his performance in the film, and earned second nominations for Best Actor in both the Lumieres, and the Globe de Cristal awards.
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In 2007 and 2019, Gaspard Ulliel was a member of the jury of the Deauville American Film Festival in France.
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Between April and May 2021, Gaspard Ulliel filmed Alex Lutz and Arthur Sanigou's La Vengeance au Triple Galop, a comedy TV film for France's Canal Plus, where he appeared as plastic surgeon Danley Marchal-Widkins opposite Marion Cotillard and Audrey Lamy.
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In June 2021, Gaspard Ulliel finished shooting his penultimate film More Than Ever, directed by Emily Atef, which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2022.
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In July 2021, Gaspard Ulliel joined the cast of the Disney+ streaming superhero miniseries Moon Knight, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and released on 30 March 2022.
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Gaspard Ulliel voiced the doll Scott in Bertrand Bonello's hybrid live-action and animation film Coma, which had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival where it competed in the Encounters section on 12 February 2022, marking it as the first film released after Gaspard Ulliel's death.
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Bonello said on 24 December 2021 that he had just finished filming Coma, which makes it the last film that Gaspard Ulliel filmed but Gaspard Ulliel's presence in Coma was kept a secret until it was selected for the Berlin Film Festival in February 2022.
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Gaspard Ulliel was set to collaborate for the third time with Bonello in the science-fiction film The Beast, co-starring with Lea Seydoux.
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In December 2021, Gaspard Ulliel started shooting Of Money and Blood, a Canal Plus crime thriller miniseries about the carbon tax fraud where he would play a character inspired by French businessman Arnaud Mimran.
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In January 2022, Gaspard Ulliel was on a break from shooting Of Money and Blood, when he died after a skiing accident.
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In 2007, Gaspard Ulliel appeared on the cover of the February issue of French Vogue with supermodel Doutzen Kroes.
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In 2008, Gaspard Ulliel was the face of Longchamp, a French leather and luxury goods company, along with Kate Moss.
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Gaspard Ulliel was announced as the face for Chanel new men's fragrance, Bleu de Chanel, on 16 February 2010, making him Chanel's first male ambassador.
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In 2016, Gaspard Ulliel became the face of Chanel's first men's watch, Monsieur de Chanel.
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In June 2020, Gaspard Ulliel narrated the last episode of the "Chanel Parfumeur" series, I Am a Fragrance Trail, in both French and English.
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Gaspard Ulliel was the face of Bleu de Chanel for twelve years.
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Gaspard Ulliel's androgynous look in films such as 2003's Strayed, 2006's Paris, je t'aime, and his performance as Yves Saint Laurent in the 2014 film Saint Laurent, turned him into a gay icon.
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In January 2007, Gaspard Ulliel was included on The Washington Post's "What's In and Out for 2007" list in the "In" category.
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Gaspard Ulliel dated French actress and singer Cecile Cassel from 2005 to 2007, and Chanel's then-International VIP relations officer, Jordane Crantelle, from 2008 to 2011.
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Gaspard Ulliel was in a relationship with French model and singer Gaelle Pietri from 2013 to 2020, with whom he had a son, born in January 2016.
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In 2012, Gaspard Ulliel supported the charity campaign "Juste Un Coeur" by choosing a blue T-shirt whose sales were donated to UNICEF's Action Against Hunger.
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In 2015, Gaspard Ulliel signed The Calais Appeal, which asked the French government for an emergency plan to end the undignified living conditions that migrants and refugees were facing in the Calais Jungle.
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An investigation indicated that both skiers fell to the ground after the collision, and that Gaspard Ulliel was motionless and unconscious when rescuers arrived.
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La Rosiere's director, Jean Regaldo, told France's BFM TV that Gaspard Ulliel was not wearing a helmet when rescuers arrived.
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Gaspard Ulliel told the investigators that the collision was not too violent.
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Gaspard Ulliel was on vacation at the resort with his friends.
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On 27 January 2022, a memorial service for Gaspard Ulliel was held at the Church of St Eustache in Paris.
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Gaspard Ulliel was buried in a private ceremony at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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On 27 February 2022, Gaspard Ulliel was honored in the "In Memoriam" segment from the 28th SAG Awards ceremony, which featured his last scene in A Very Long Engagement.
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On 13 April 2022, that week's episode of the Marvel Studios miniseries Moon Knight, which featured Gaspard Ulliel guest starring in the role of Anton Mogart, was dedicated to his memory with a tribute in the end credits.
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Gaspard Ulliel's death caused a rise in the number of ski helmet sales in France.