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Nationality: French.

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Born: Châteauroux, 27 December 1948. Education: Attended École communale; Cours d'art dramatique de Charles Dullin; École d'art dramatique de Jean Laurent Cochet. Family: Married Elisabeth Guignot, 1970, children: Guillaume, an actor, and Julie; a third child, Roxanne, born in 1993.

Career: Spent his early teens as petty thief; a prison psychologist suggested dramatics as possible therapy, early 1960s; made his film debut while still in his teens in Leenhardt's Le Beatnik et le minet, 1965; appeared in occasional drama on French television, 1966–1970s; appeared in a number of plays in Paris, 1968–1970s; appeared in the French TV series L'Inconnu, 1974; earned international critical and popular recognition in such films as Le Retour de Martin Guerre and Danton, early 1980s; directed his first film, Tartuffe, 1984; made his first English-language film, Green Card, 1990.

Awards: Prix Gérard Philipe, France, 1973; César