Although he is probably best recognized in this country as the face of Chanel men's fragrance, Bleu de Chanel, Gaspard Ulliel was an award-winning French actor who has tragically passed away on January 19th at only the age of thirty-seven, He was involved in a skiing accident in Savoie, France the day before in which he crashed in to another skier without a helmet, causing severe head trauma with the handsome actor sadly succumbing to his injuries.
Ulliel, who had a notable small scar on his left cheek which he got as a six year old from a dog attack, began acting as a child performer, appearing in several television movies before his breakout performance in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "A Very Long Engagement" with Audrey Tautou, which he was awarded a César Award for Most Promising Actor. Other highlights in his filmography include playing a young Hannibal Lecter in "Hannibal Rising" (which was his first English-language film); portraying French fashion designer, Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic, "Saint Laurent" which he received a Lumières Award for Best Actor in 2014; appearing in Xavier Dolan's drama, "Juste la fin du monde (It's Only the End of the World)" which won Ulliel the Best Actor César in 2016. His last released feature film was the comedy-drama, "Sibyl" which was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Ulliel had completed work on the upcoming Marvel Studios series, "Moon Knight" which he plays the character, Midnight Man. This is such a sad loss of a great talent in the prime of his career.
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