1. Michel Bouquet was a French stage and film actor.
15 Facts About Michel Bouquet
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Michel Bouquet appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020.
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Michel Bouquet won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Cesars for How I Killed My Father and The Last Mitterrand.
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Michel Bouquet received the Moliere Award for Best Actor for Les cotelettes in 1998, then again for Exit the King in 2005.
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Michel Bouquet received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018.
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Michel Francois Pierre Bouquet was born on 6 November 1925 in Paris.
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Michel Bouquet aspired to become a doctor but had to quit school at the age of 15 after his father had been taken prisoner during World War II.
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Marie Michel Bouquet was passionate about theater, and that helped the young Michel Bouquet to find his vocation.
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Michel Bouquet took acting classes under the tutelage of Maurice Escande, a member of the Comedie Francaise, and made his stage debut in the play La premiere etape in 1944.
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Michel Bouquet played many roles from the classical repertoire at the Festival d'Avignon, created by Vilar in 1947.
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Michel Bouquet regularly worked with Anouilh until the early 1970s, then helped popularize in France the works of the British author Harold Pinter: The Collection in 1965, The Birthday Party in 1967 and No Man's Land in 1979.
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Michel Bouquet went on to act in several Chabrol films and received wide acclaim for his performances in The Unfaithful Wife, The Breach, and Just Before Nightfall.
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Michel Bouquet's second wife Juliette Carre was an actress, who often shared the stage with him.
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Michel Bouquet died in Paris on 13 April 2022, at the age of 96.
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Michel Bouquet was made Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1983, promoted to Officer in 1996, Commander in 2007, Grand Officer in 2013, and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on 13 July 2018.