R.I.P. Gaspard Ulliel, French actor and Moon Knight star
The 37-year-old actor died following a ski accident in France
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Gaspard Ulliel, the French actor perhaps best known to US audiences for his roles in Hannibal Rising and for his upcoming role in Disney+’s Moon Knight, has died after a ski accident. The news was confirmed by AFP, per Deadline. He was 37.
Ulliel was skiing in the Savoie region of France when he and another skier collided at an intersection between two slopes. He was taken to the hospital via helicopter on Tuesday and, local French broadcaster France Bleu said he was in serious condition and sustained a skull injury, per ABC News. According to the Savoie prosecutor’s office, an investigation into the accident has been launched.
Conditions out on the slope have been treacherous due to the weather conditions in the area. According to ABC News, the mountain police have had to organize “five or six rescues per day in recent days as the snow has hardened.”
Ulliel was born in the suburbs of France to a runway show producer mother and a stylist father. He studied cinema at the University of Saint-Denis, and he got started on his acting career while he was still in school.
During the late ‘90s and early ‘oos, he appeared in a slew of made-for-TV movies and began solidifying his role in the French acting world. However, he achieved international success in 2007 with Hannibal Rising, his first English-language film.
Ulliel was thrice nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2002, 2003, 2004, when he won for his role in A Very Long Engagement with Audrey Tautou. In 2017, he won the César Award for Best Actor for his role in Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End Of The World, which costarred Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, and Léa Seydoux.
Ulliel was also the face of Chanel’s men’s fragrance, Bleu de Chanel, since the cologne’s launch in 2010.
Most recently, Ulliel filmed a role in Marvel’s Moon Knight series for Disney+. In the six-episode series, set to be released this March, Ulliel was cast as Midnight Man, often portrayed in the comics as a thief and archrival of Moon Knight.
Ulliel is survived by his partner Gaëlle Piétri and their son.
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RIP.
I only knew him from Hannibal Rising.
Skiing sounds treacherous. How fast were they going to to collide that hard?
I suspect it had less to do with speed and more to do with Ulliel falling at a bad angle and hitting his head. The other skier wasn’t hurt at all. Apparently the slopes were extremely hard packed an icy due to recent whether conditions. Hitting your head on ice is little different than hitting it on concrete.
You don’t have to be going that fast if you hit head on head. Or worse if one person is wearing a helmet and the other isn’t. The helmet almost always wins.
He wasn’t wearing a helmet.
This is why we wear helmets on the slopes.
It’s really morbid, but I’m getting a kick out of how this decaying husk of a website keeps overlaying bad news with that “Subscribe to our Newsletter!” text because nobody can be fucked to close a p tag or whatever.Anyway, this is sad news. It sucks when anyone dies, but especially so when they have more than half their life ahead of them, and seem to be cruising on to great things.
I’m not seeing that happen at all, not even in an incognito window with no addons enabled. Are you sure it’s not some issue with your browser?
Mines been doing it for the last two weeks. Doesn’t matter what browser or computer I use. I still see it. Here’s a screenshot I took of the Bob Saget article from last week.
If Saget says so, I’ll do it!
It was Saget’s dying wish that you subscribe. Will you deny him that, you monster?
No, other people have reported it too, although I guess it might be browser related(firefox here).
The first time I saw it was on the post announcing Sagat’s death, which
has a post about it. Though I noticed after posting this that it doesn’t actually show up until you scroll down to the comments and then scroll back up. Whatever Kinja activation spell that happens when you get to the comments messes up the box right above them.
I see it as well, using Chrome (yes, I know) in a Chromebook (yes, I know).
Huh weird. I’m not seeing it on either Firefox or Chrome. Ah well.
It might be zoom related, especially on smaller Windows laptops, which have a weirdly hidden auto-zoom function for text that’s independent of the zoom in the browsers themselves.
The first time I saw it was on the post announcing Sagat’s death, which has a post about it.That might have been my post! I’m using Chrome and I still see it.
They stopped proofing articles weeks ago, clearly have stopped coding, and fired all the staff. I think we may coming into the endgame.
Somewhat related, in that it’s a sign that nobody’s behind the wheel, was the “sign up for child pornography alerts” thing from a while back.
https://www.avclub.com/1848300667
RIP2022, thirsty for more blood. Terry Teachout, Zephyr Teachout’s dad and a really great theatre critic for the Wall Street Journal, passed last week as well
Unlikely as it seems, Terry Teachout was not Zephyr’s dad. Her father’s name was Peter according to Wikipedia (I looked it up when I saw that he died).
oh shit, you’re right, their names are just a coincidence
I just assume the other skier survived, as otherwise their death would be mentioned in articles like this…right?
From another source (BBC): “The other skier was not hospitalised and an investigation is now under way.”
Sure, if they were famous.
Otherwise, there are pages devoted to non-celebrity deaths. I think they still have obits in papers.
They still have papers?
Probably not, as “articles like this” are “articles about one particular person’s death, a person in entertainment…on an entertainment website.”
According to The Guardian, the other skier was not hospitalized.
I am going to hell because I read this and then just pictured a really fat ski basically skiing through this guy. With an explosion of blood like an 80s anime.
You may be onto another Friday the 13th concept here…
I’m going to hell because my first thought when I saw the headline was “does this mean the character ‘Frenchie’ from the comics is going to be in it?” (Yes, there’s actually a sidekick character called that in the Moon Knight comics, or there was the last time I read a Moon Knight comic, which I admit was many years ago.)
Doesn’t mean they didn’t die.
In these celebrity vs nobody accidents the celebrity usually gets the worst of it. I am beginning to think that celebrities are just more fragile than the rest of us.
Too soon…
Sonny Bono was the first guy my wife thought of when she read about Ulliel’s death. Skiing is a dangerous sport folks.
You. I always think of Michael Schumacher- he spent his whole professional life flying around Formula 1 courses at ridiculous speeds, only to be left in a coma by a skiing accident. My right knee can also attest to how hazardous that damn sport is..
I know. Ironic and unfortunate. The guy spent his life on the edge. Skiing was a leisure activity for him, and likely something he did with a relaxed attitude compared to racing.
Natasha Richardson as well (Liam Neeson’s wife). The very first time I wore a helmet (against my wishes, wife’s insistance) I caught an edge and banged my heads on some rocks. Wouldn’t have killed me but would definitely have been an injury. I was fully onboard after that.
Indeed. Richardson was taking a beginners’ lesson when she fell and knocked her head. It caused a brain bleed and she died of an epidural hematoma. It really doesn’t take all that much force to cause a head injury.Of course, with both Bono and Ulliel, they were going downhill at speed. Bono hit a tree, while Ulliel hit another skier. Let’s face it, tying boards to your feet and sliding down a mountain is inherently dangerous. Wear a helmet.
Even the Kennedys added skiing accident as one of their ways to die:https://apnews.com/article/c5a0e4bcfb3937738c657172f06e8078
Of course it happened to him while playing ski football and he ran into a tree. A very Kennedy way to go.
Unless they both slammed their heads into each other, it would be really unlikely the other skier died.
Especially if the other skier was wearing a helmet.Ulliel was not.
R.I.P. He was great in It’s Only the End of the World.
Ulliel was born in the suburbs of FranceWhat are the “suburbs of France,” exactly? Belgium? Luxembourg?
I’m really sad to see this news. He was super talented. For the record (since you some really bad copy in the above), he was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, in France.
I’m unfamiliar with the man (and his work), but I’ll get to see his work when Moon Knight comes around.
Probably a smaller city in France.
Algeria?
I should have put Andorra on that list as well.
Hey now, only two people wrote this obit–you’d need a full fact-checking team of 10 or 12 to investigate stuff like where Ulliel was born.
You need at least one person to work a single letter grouping on a keyboard, and there’s at least 7 groupings in “wikipedia.org,” so this tracks.
Newark?
Grenoble. In the French Alps.
Get Cena to read a French apology this time, I guess
Yeah, there are numerous French cities that have suburbs. It’s a big country, and that’s not even counting the overseas territories. That statement doesn’t do anything to tell us where he was from. It’s just lazy writing.It took me all of about 30 seconds to look up his birthplace on Wikipedia and another minute and a half to verify it on three different news sites. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb about five miles from the center of Paris, France.
“Ulliel was also the face of Chanel’s men’s fragrance, Bleu de Chanel”Gaaah, THAT’S why I recognized him since I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen his other work (the Hannibal Rising novel was terrible enough to put me off the movie). Those were some weird commercials, but he always looked good. Poor guy. I can only assume no helmet?
RIP
Too young to go. RIP
Ulliel was born in the suburbs of FranceWhat does that even mean? I assume you meant Paris, not France?
Someone else caught this out too, but I don’t think it sounds that weird even if she did mean to put Paris. If I told someone I was born in the suburbs of America, it wouldn’t give a clear impression of where I was born, but some might take it as a descriptor of my character, or more likely my class. With his family details, I just took it to mean he wasn’t some beloved actors’ scion like half of Hollywood. He wasn’t born in the golden glow of Paris’ high streets, he fought his way in from the rough and tumble outskirts. Maybe a bit too purple, but it’s not wrong per se.
Boulogne-billancourt is a wealthy suburd of Paris, actually one of the wealthiest city of the country, with major communication and entertainment companies headquarters. Your theory only works if you considere suburbs are ghettos or sort of. But surburb just means it’s close to a bigger city.
No, my point would be muddled if I thought a suburb was the same thing as a ghetto, although I can see if you took my tongue-in-cheek “rough and tumble” literally where you would get that impression. I don’t know French class nuance, but I can’t imagine it’s significantly different from here, which is that the suburbs are where the Middle Class live, work, and die.
The distinction I was drawing was as between Will Smith, born in a modest suburb of West Philadelphia to a school teacher and engineer, compared to Jaden Smith, born in Malibu, California to movie stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Paris has a number of low income suburbs, so it makes sense that there is a little conflict of understanding. Nevertheless, beginning in the 1970s, the term banlieue has taken on a particular connotation, becoming a popular word for economically-deprived suburbs featuring low-income housing projects (HLMs) that are home to large immigrant populations. People of foreign descent reside, in what are often called poverty traps.
Ok then, in the end it is indeed misleading, as it wrongly gives the impression of a specific background, like you had in mind. Even in France, “la banlieue” (the suburb) can just refer the metropolitan area, whatever the class(es), as well as its most underprivileged areas. So I’m not saying I’m stranger to the confusion.
In Ulliel’s case, a was the son of a stylist and a designer, both well established in the the parisian fashion circle. It’s no Jaden, but still..
Sad news like this is one reason why you’ll never see me on a ski slope.
“The suburbs of France” is an exceptionally stupid phrase.
He was really good in Saint Laurent. He captured the impish self-destruction of Yves Saint Laurent perfectly.
It’s always unfortunate when someone dies this young, especially in an easily preventable accident. Apparently the conditions were bad and he wasn’t wearing a helmet.RIP