Editing Gérard Depardieu (section)

==Acting career==
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At the age of 16, Depardieu left [[Châteauroux]] for Paris. There, he began acting in the new comedy theatre [[Café de la Gare]], along with [[Patrick Dewaere]], Romain Bouteille, [[Sotha (actress)|Sotha]], [[Coluche]], and [[Miou-Miou]].<ref>[http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/scene/theatre/30-ans-toutes-ses-dents_498236.html 30th Anniversary of Café de la Gare] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104185054/http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/scene/theatre/30-ans-toutes-ses-dents_498236.html |date=4 November 2013 }}, ''[[L'Express (France)|L'Express]]'', 15 August 2002, (in French)</ref> He studied theater under Jean-Laurent Cochet. Regardless of his lack of culture, he heavily studied the classics and followed a therapy to correct his disastrous diction and improve his memory. Moreover, through his first wife, Élisabeth Guignot, he discovered the Parisian bourgeoisie. Thus, he met [[Agnès Varda]] and her husband [[Jacques Demy]]. His first film role to gain attention was playing Jean-Claude in [[Bertrand Blier]]'s comedy ''[[Going Places (1974 film)|Les Valseuses]]'' (''Going Places'', 1974).<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.imdb.com/list/9baDvZc-KPA/| title = Gérard Depardieu at IMDb| website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref> Other prominent early films include [[Barbet Schroeder]]'s controversial ''[[Maîtresse]]'' (1975), a starring role in [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]'s historical epic ''[[1900 (film)|1900]]'' (1976), with [[Robert De Niro]], and a role in [[François Truffaut]]'s ''[[The Last Metro]]'' (1980), with [[Catherine Deneuve]] for which he won his first [[César Award for Best Actor]]. Depardieu and Deneuve have since made nine more films together.

Depardieu's international profile rose as a result of his performance as a doomed, hunchbacked farmer in the film ''[[Jean de Florette]]'' (1986) and received notice for his starring role in ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'' (1990), for which he won his second [[César Award for Best Actor]], the [[Cannes Film Festival]] for [[Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actor]], and received a nomination for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]. Depardieu co-starred in [[Peter Weir]]'s English language romantic comedy ''[[Green Card (film)|Green Card]]'' (1991), for which he won a Golden Globe Award. He has since had other roles in other English language films, including [[Ridley Scott]]'s ''[[1492: Conquest of Paradise]]'' (1992), [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s ''[[Hamlet (1996 movie)|Hamlet]]'' (1996), ''[[102 Dalmatians]]'' (2000, ''[[Between Strangers]]'' (2002), and [[Ang Lee]]'s ''[[Life of Pi (film)|Life of Pi]]'' (2012). He played [[Obelix|Obélix]] in the four live-action ''[[Asterix films (live action)|Astérix]]'' films in which he is said to have discovered [[Mélanie Laurent]] when she was fourteen.<ref name="gede">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/this-europe-confessions-of-depardieu-597202.html |title=This Europe: Confessions of Depardieu |work=The Independent |location=UK |date=10 February 2003 |access-date=26 February 2010 |first=John |last=Lichfield |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117012434/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/this-europe-confessions-of-depardieu-597202.html |archive-date=17 January 2009 }}</ref> In 2009, he took part in a rare performance of Sardou's ''[[La Haine (drama)|La Haine]]'' at the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon, with [[Fanny Ardant]]; subsequently broadcast on [[France Musique]].<ref>[http://www.festivalradiofrancemontpellier.com/2009/19-la-haine-ardant-depardieu-onm.php Presentation of concert on Festival de Radio France site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214164556/http://www.festivalradiofrancemontpellier.com/2009/19-la-haine-ardant-depardieu-onm.php |date=14 December 2013 }}</ref> In 2013, he starred in an independent film titled ''[[A Farewell to Fools]]''.<ref name="indiewire.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/monterey-media-acquires-us-and-canada-rights-to-no-god-no-master-redwood-highway-and-a-farewell-to-fools|title=Monterey Media Acquires Three Films, Including Works Starring Gerard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel |publisher=indiewire.com|date=17 October 2013|access-date=6 November 2013}}</ref> Depardieu featured as a main character in [[Antwerp]] ([[Edinburgh Festival]] 2014), a play in The Europeans Trilogy ([[Bruges]], Antwerp, [[Tervuren]]) by Paris-based UK playwright [[Nick Awde]]. In 2014, he starred in the controversial ''[[Welcome to New York (2014 film)|Welcome to New York]]'' in the thinly-disguised impersonation of disgraced former [[IMF]] chief [[Dominique Strauss-Kahn]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR4Hz_72c1s|title = Welcome to New York Official US Release Trailer (2015) - Abel Ferrara Drama HD|website = YouTube| date=2 March 2015 }}</ref>