Silhouette of a model (which he was for some time), face of a handsome and tender kid, Gaspard Ulliel, whose acting career was decided while he was still in college, died on Wednesday January 19 at La Tronche (Isère), at the age of 37, following a skiing accident. Suffering from a head trauma, he had been transported the day before by helicopter to the Grenoble University Hospital after colliding with another skier at the intersection of two blue slopes, in the winter sports resort of La Rosière in Savoie.
The prosecution announced that an investigation had been opened and entrusted to the Republican Security Company (CRS) Alpes in order to establish the circumstances of the accident. The actor was not wearing a helmet.
At the announcement of this tragic death, the tributes have multiplied. The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron announced in a press release “his great sadness” in front of the “brutal disappearance” of one “French icon of elegance”. The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot, “ravaged” in his words by this death, evokes the “sensitivity and intensity of his playing” which made Gaspard Ulliel, “an exceptional actor”. “It is with a heavy heart that we will now see his most beautiful interpretations and meet this certain look”, said Prime Minister Jean Castex.
First shoot at the age of 12
Actor Pierre Niney wrote on twitter ” to have a broken heart. Gaspard was benevolence and kindness. Beauty and talent ». It was on Instagram that Jean Dujardin spoke, writing the comedian’s first name followed by a black heart. A publication commented by several personalities of the trade.
Born on November 25, 1984 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), from a stylist mother and a designer father, Gaspard Ulliel had his first shoot at the age of 12, thanks to a small role in the television series by Aline Issermann A woman in white, with Sandrine Bonnaire. The following year, he plays in the short film A.k.a by Marina de Van. It then appears in The Pact of the Wolves, by Christophe Gans (2001)… The beginnings of a career that did not prevent him from carrying out parallel studies at the Jeannine-Manuel Active Bilingual School in 15and district of Paris, where he obtained the baccalaureate. Although he had tasted the profession of actor, he was destined for directing when he decided to continue his apprenticeship by going to study the 7and art at the University of Saint-Denis.
But the overly theoretical nature of the teaching given to him did not please him, to the point that he chose to return to the game by following the summer courses of the Cours Florent. His talent is not in doubt and leads him straight to the casting of the bittersweet comedy Kiss whoever you want, by Michel Blanc (2002) in which Gaspard Ulliel plays a teenager prey to his first sexual and romantic emotions.
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