Gaspard Ulliel, two-time César Award-winning actor, passes away at just 37 years of age.

French actor Gaspard Ulliel, among the most talented artists of his generation and a two-time César Award winner, passed away today at the age of only 37. The news was given today by his family in a statement sent to Agence France Presse. Ulliard died as a result of a serious skiing accident yesterday La Rosière, Val d’Isère, France. Transported by helicopter to Grenoble University Hospital, he passed away after several hours. He leaves behind his wife Gaelle Pietri and a five-year-old son.

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt on November 25, 1984, to Serge, a designer, and Christine, a stylist, he began acting at a very young age (his first part in a TV movie in 1997, when he was only 13). Immediately establishing himself as one of the best young men of his generation, he came to the fore on the big screen in 2001 with Christophe Gans’s The Covenant of Wolves, and in 2003 he won the Lumière Award for Best Revelation for his role in the film Embrassez qui vous voudrez, for which he also received a nomination for the César Award, the highest honor in French cinema. For the same film he won the male revelation award at the Étoiles d’or du cinéma français the following year. After being nominated for a second César in 2004 for Les Égarés, again in the “best promise” category, Gaspard Ulliel managed to win the award the following year for his role in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s A Long Sunday of Passions.

International notoriety came in 2007 with his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter as a young man in Peter Webber’s Hannibal Lecter - The Origins of Evil, based on the Thomas Harris novel of the same name. In Italy he is also known for lending his face for the advertisement for the men’s perfume Bleu de Chanel, directed by Martin Scorsese, and for his starring role in the film Saint Laurent (2014), where he played the role of the great fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent, a part that earned him another César Award nomination, this time for best actor. The César for best actor would later come in 2017 for Xavier Dolan’s It’ s Only the End of the World, where Ulliel plays Louis, a terminally ill writer who decides to reunite with his family.

For Ulliel also a dense modeling career (he regularly participated in Paris Fashion Week shows), and a few parts in theater. The latest part is in Marvel’s Moon Knight series, scheduled for release in March 2022 on Disney+.

Gaspard Ulliel, two-time César Award-winning actor, passes away at just 37 years of age.

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