French actor Gaspard Ulliel, best known for his portrayal of Yves Saint Laurent and César Award for ‘Juste la fin du monde’, died today at the age of 37, victim of a skiing accident: this is what his family announced in a note sent to France Presse. “Victim of a ski accident today, Gaspard Ulliel is dead”; reads the press release.
“Gaspard Ulliel grew up with cinema and cinema grew with him. They loved each other madly. We will review his most beautiful interpretations with a broken heart and we will meet that certain look of his. We lose a French actor”: the premier writes in a tweet. French, Jean Castex, paying homage to Gaspard Ulliel, the actor who died today in a skiing accident at the age of 37.
The actor died today at the CHU hospital in Grenoble, after yesterday he was the victim of a skiing accident in the French Alps, in La Rosière, in Savoy. Yesterday, shortly after 4pm, the actor was found unconscious on a ski slope after colliding with another skier at the intersection of two blue slopes, according to a spokesman for the ski resort quoted by France Bleu-Pays. -de-Savoie, which evokes a severe head injury.
For about an hour and a quarter Ulliel was assisted on site before being transported by helicopter to the CHU hospital in Grenoble. The Albertville prosecutor has announced the opening of an investigation to determine the causes of the tragedy. “His sensitivity and the intensity of his acting made Gaspard Ulliel an exceptional actor. The cinema today loses an immense talent. I extend my condolences to his loved ones and my affectionate thoughts go out to all those who mourn him today”, he writes in a tweet the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot.
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, on November 25, 1984, Ulliel was known to the general public for films such as ‘A long Sunday of passions’ (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2004), ‘Saint Laurent’ (2014) by Bertrand Bonello, ‘It is only the end of the world’ (Juste la fin du monde, 2016) by Xavier Dolan, with who won the César – French equivalent of the Oscar – for Best Actor in 2017. Ulliel also played the role of cannibal psychiatrist in Hannibal Lecter – The Origins of Evil (Hannibal Rising), directed by Peter Webber (2007). Throughout his rich career, despite his young age, he has filmed alongside great names in French cinema such as Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu. He also lent his angel face to a Chanel commercial directed by Martin Scorsese. France today loses one of its brightest and most promising actors.
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