Who are some famous french men?

Answer 1

Gaspard Ulliel - He's fit, and a good actor too, but actually there's quite a few great, young french actors - Olivier Martinez is great, so is Romain Duris, he's been in an Audiard film 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped' which he was amazing in. Tahar Rahim is a new french actor, and he's the main character in the new Audiard film 'A Prophet' which got rave reviews and won loads of awards at Cannes. Can't think of any more 'young' ones at the moment, but those four are really good. Hope that helped!

Answer 2

Gerard Depardieu, Vincent Cassel, and Jean-Paul Belmondo are all French male actors. Philippe Noiret was a well-known French actor that once stated that being a success as an actor in films was a big surprise to him.

Answer 3

Louis Jourdan, Adolphe Menjou, are two that come to mind. There was another Frenchman of the movie theatre who died with his wife in a bizarre suicide pact sometime in the thirties. I cannot recall his name. It was really a sorry affair, as it was thought the man was religious.

Answer 4

Bernhardt was born in Paris as Rosine Bernardt,[3] the daughter of Julie Bernardt (1821, Amsterdam - 1876, Paris) and an unknown father. Julie was one of six children of a widely traveling Jewish spectacle merchant, "vision specialist" and petty criminal, Moritz Baruch Bernardt, and Sara Hirsch (later known as Janetta Hartog; c. 1797-1829).[4] Julie's father remarried Sara Kinsbergen (1809-1878) two weeks after his first wife's death, and abandoned his family in 1835.[4] Julie left for Paris, where she made a living as a courtesan and was known by the name "Youle". Sara would add the letter "H" to both her first and last names. Sarah's birth records were lost in a fire in 1871, but in order to prove French citizenship, necessary for Légion d'honneur eligibility, she created false birth records, on which she was the daughter of "Judith van Hard" and "Edouard Bernardt" from Le Havre, in later stories either a law student, accountant, naval cadet or naval officer.[4][5]

Bernhardt photographed by Félix Nadar 1865

Much of the uncertainty about Bernhardt's life arises because of her tendency to exaggerate and distort. Alexandre Dumas, fils described her as a notorious liar.[2]

Stage careerBernhardt's stage career started in 1862 while she was a student at the Comédie-Française, France's most prestigious theater. She decided to leave France, and soon ended up in Belgium, where she became the mistress of Henri, Prince de Ligne, and gave birth to their son, Maurice, in 1864. After Maurice's birth, the Prince proposed marriage, but his family forbade it and persuaded Bernhardt to refuse and end their relationship.[6]

She was not entirely successful at the conservatory, however, and left to become a courtesan by 1865. During this time she acquired her famous coffin, in which she often slept in lieu of a bed - claiming that doing so helped her understand her many tragic roles. She made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s and was soon in demand all over Europe and in New York.[7] She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning the title "The Divine Sarah"; arguably, she was the most famous actress of the 19th century.[8] In 1872, she left the Odéon and returned to Comédie-Française. One of her remarkable successes there was in the title role of Voltaire's Zaïre (1874). She even traveled to Cuba and performed in the Sauto Theater, in Matanzas, in 1887. She coached many young women in the art of acting, including actress and courtesan Liane de Pougy.[citation needed]

Personal lifeJules Bastien-Lepage, Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, 1879

The Fool and Death, a bronze sculpture by Bernhardt depicting the character of Triboulet in Hugo's Le roi s'amuse

Sarah Bernhardt as the Queen in Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas

Bernhardt's grave at Père Lachaise cemetery

Bernhardt had an affair with a Belgian nobleman, Charles-Joseph Eugène Henri Georges Lamoral de Ligne (1837-1914), son of Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne, with whom she had her only child, Maurice Bernhardt (1864-1928). Maurice did not become an actor but worked for most of his life as a manager and agent for various theaters and performers, frequently managing his mother's career in her later years, but rarely with great success. Maurice and his family were usually financially dependent, in full or in part, on his mother until her death. Maurice married a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowska (see Jablonowski), with whom he had two daughters, Simone (who married Edgar Gross, son of a wealthy Philadelphia soap manufacturer) and Lysiana (who married the playwright Louis Verneuil ).[9]

Sarah's close friends included several artists, most notably Gustave Doré and Georges Clairin, and actors Mounet-Sully and Lou Tellegen, as well as the famous French author Victor Hugo. Alphonse Mucha based several of his iconic Art Nouveau works on her. Her friendship with Louise Abbéma (1853-1927), a French impressionist painter, some nine years her junior, was so close and passionate that the two women were rumored to be lovers. In 1990, a painting by Abbéma, depicting the two on a boat ride on the lake in the bois de Boulogne, was donated to the Comédie-Française. The accompanying letter stated that the painting was "Peint par Louise Abbéma, le jour anniversaire de leur liaison amoureuse."[10]

Bernhardt also expressed strong interest in inventor Nikola Tesla, only to be disregarded as a distraction to his work.

She later married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala (known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala) in London in 1882, but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, quickly collapsed, largely due to Damala's dependence on morphine. During the later years of this marriage, Bernhardt was said to have been involved in an affair with the future King Edward VII [11] while he was still the Prince of Wales.

Bernhardt once stated, "Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist."[12] However, she had been baptised a Roman Catholic, and accepted the last rites shortly before her death.[13]

Silent film careerBernhardt was one of the pioneer silent movie actresses, debuting as Hamlet in the two-minute long film Le Duel d'Hamlet in 1900. (Technically, this was not a silent film, and in fact, it is cited as one of the first examples of a sound and moving image syncing system created with the new phono-cinema-theatre system.)[14] She went on to star in eight motion pictures and two biographical films in all. The latter included Sarah Bernhardt à Belle-Isle (1912), a film about her daily life at home. Later careerIn 1905, while performing in Victorien Sardou's La Tosca in Teatro Lírico do Rio de Janeiro, Bernhardt injured her right knee when jumping off the parapet in the final scene. The leg never healed properly. By 1915, gangrene had set in and her entire right leg was amputated; she was required to use a wheelchair for several months. Bernhardt reportedly refused a $10,000 offer by a showman to display her amputated leg as a medical curiosity (while P.T. Barnum is usually cited as the one to have made the offer, he had been dead since 1891). She continued her career often without using a wooden prosthetic limb; she had tried to use one but didn't like it. She carried out a successful tour of America in 1915, and on returning to France she played in her own productions almost continuously until her death. Her later successes included Daniel (1920), La Gloire (1921), and Régine Armand (1922). According to Arthur Croxton, the manager of London's Coliseum, the amputation was not apparent during her performances, which were done with the use of an artificial limb.[15] Her physical condition may have limited her mobility on the stage, but the charm of her voice, which had altered little with age, ensured her triumphs.[16]

Sarah Bernhardt died from uremia following kidney failure in 1923; she is believed to have been 78 years old.[17] She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine Street.

Answer 5

French actor, director, producer, and comedian Jean Dujardin was born on June 19, 1972. Dujardin was the first French actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Answer 6

Daniel balavoine