13 Facts About Guillaume Depardieu

Guillaume Jean Maxime Antoine Depardieu was a French actor, winner of a Cesar Award, and the second oldest child of Gerard Depardieu.

Guillaume Depardieu was the brother of actress Julie Depardieu, and half-brother of Roxane and Jean Depardieu.

Guillaume Depardieu shared the screen with his father several times throughout his career, beginning with his first film role, aged three, playing Gerard's son in Claude Goretta's That Wonderful Crook in 1974.

Guillaume Depardieu had a relationship with actress Clotilde Courau from 1997 to 1999, then married actress Elise Ventre on 30 December 1999.

Guillaume Depardieu was known to have had a strained relationship with his famous father, which he detailed in his 2004 autobiography Tout Donner.

Guillaume Depardieu was said to have reconciled with his father shortly before his death.

Guillaume Depardieu was often called an enfant terrible by the French magazine Paris Match and was called eccentric and bohemian by others.

In 1995, Guillaume Depardieu crashed on his motorcycle when he ran over a suitcase that had fallen off a car and onto the roadway.

Guillaume Depardieu underwent surgery to repair damage to his knee.

Doctors performed seventeen subsequent operations in an attempt to clear the infection and save the leg; however, these efforts were unsuccessful, and Guillaume Depardieu's leg was amputated above the knee in June 2003.

Guillaume Depardieu's health was compromised by drug addiction and by his 1995 motorcycle accident and subsequent surgeries.

Guillaume Depardieu contracted a severe viral pneumonia, caused by MRSA, while filming The Childhood of Icarus.

Guillaume Depardieu was unable to overcome the infection, and on 13 October 2008, died at the hospital in Garches, aged 37.