# Gérard Darmon

Gérard Darmon (French pronunciation:, Arabic: جيرار دارمون; born 29 February 1948) is a French-Moroccan actor and singer. He has been nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, for Betty Blue (1987) and Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2003).

## Personal life

He was the second husband of actress Mathilda May (mother of his two youngest children). He has three children: Virginie (born 1968) and, by May, daughter Sarah (born 17 August 1994) and son Jules (born 4 March 1997).
Darmon also did a cover of "Mambo Italiano".
Darmon is of Sephardic Jewish (Algerian-Jewish) descent. In July 2012, he was naturalized Moroccan by a decree from King Mohamed VI.

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director |
| 1970 | Les Fraises musclées | Jean-Michel Ribes | Jean-Michel Ribes |
| 1971 | Murder in the Cathedral | T. S. Eliot | Jean Guichard |
| 1972 | Je suis un steak | Jean-Michel Ribes | Jean-Michel Ribes |
| 1972 | Par delà les marronniers | Jean-Michel Ribes | Jean-Michel Ribes |
| 1974 | L'Odyssée d'une tasse de thé | Jean-Michel Ribes | Jean-Michel Ribes |
| 1975 | The Baron in the Trees | Italo Calvino | Jacques Échantillon |
| 1976 | Ruy Blas | Victor Hugo | Jean-Pierre Bouvier |
| 1977 | Les Catcheuses | Jean-Bernard Moraly | Jean-Louis Manceau |
| 1978 | King's Men | William Shakespeare | Denis Llorca |
| 1978 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | Denis Llorca |
| 1978 | Le Voyage sur la lune | Edmond Rostand | Denis Llorca |
| 1979 | Lorenzaccio | Alfred de Musset | Jean-Pierre Bouvier |
| 1980 | La Guerre des roses | Denis Llorca | Raoul Billerey & Denis Llorca |
| 1981 | Le Cid | Pierre Corneille | Pierre Debauche |
| 1981 | À force d'attendre l'autobus | Eva Darlan | Eva Darlan |
| 1982 | Crime on Goat-Island | Ugo Betti | Louis Thierry |
| 1983 | Un caprice | Alfred de Musset | Anémone |
| 1983 | On purge bébé | Georges Feydeau | Pascal Aubier |
| 1983 | Argent mon bel amour | Roger Hanin | Roger Hanin |
| 1996 | Le Roman de Lulu | David Decca | Didier Long |
| 2007-08 | Thalasso | Amanda Sthers | Stéphan Guérin-Tillié |
| 2010-11 | Je l'aimais | Anna Gavalda | Patrice Leconte |
| 2012-13 | Address Unknown | Kressmann Taylor | Delphine de Malherbe |
| 2015 | Vous êtes mon sujet | Didier Van Cauwelaert | Alain Sachs |
| 2016-17 | Tout à refaire | Philippe Lellouche | Gérard Darmon |
| 2018-19 | L'Ordre des choses | Marc Fayet | Richard Berry |
| 2022-23 | Relatively Speaking | Alan Ayckbourn | Ladislas Chollat |
| 2025 | Un château de cartes | Hadrien Raccah | Serge Postigo |

## Filmography
### Cinema

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1973 | The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | Farès's bodyguard | Gérard Oury | |
| 1975 | Le faux-cul | Blumenfeld | Roger Hanin | |
| 1976 | Un mari, c'est un mari | The biker | Serge Friedman | |
| 1979 | On efface tout | Brahim | Pascal Vidal | |
| 1979 | Courage fuyons | The provocative | Yves Robert | |
| 1981 | Diva | L'Antillais | Jean-Jacques Beineix | |
| 1981 | Putain d'histoire d'amour | Max | Gilles Béhat | |
| 1982 | La baraka | Julien | Jean Valère | |
| 1982 | Le grand pardon | Roland Bettoun | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 1983 | Les princes | Nara | Tony Gatlif | |
| 1983 | Cap Canaille | Nino Baretto | Juliet Berto & Jean-Henri Roger | |
| 1983 | Le grand carnaval | Gaby Atlan | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 1984 | Our Story | Duval | Bertrand Blier | |
| 1985 | Among Wolves | The Cavale | José Giovanni | |
| 1985 | Liberté, égalité, choucroute | Mirabeau | Jean Yanne | |
| 1985 | He Died with His Eyes Open | Jean-Loup Soeren | Jacques Deray | |
| 1986 | Betty Blue | Eddy | Jean-Jacques Beineix | |
| 1986 | Rue du Départ | The Inspector | Tony Gatlif | |
| 1986 | Suivez mon regard | The cinema manager | Jean Curtelin | |
| 1987 | Le beauf | Serge | Yves Amoureux | |
| 1988 | Preuve d'amour | Martin Fresnel | Miguel Courtois | |
| 1988 | Without Fear or Blame | Jacques de Mailles | Gérard Jugnot | |
| 1988 | Pathos - Segreta inquietudine | Georges | Piccio Raffanini | |
| 1990 | Passport | Merab Papashvili / Yasha | Georgiy Daneliya | |
| 1990 | Gaspard et Robinson | Gaspard | Tony Gatlif | |
| 1990 | There Were Days... and Moons | The moody policeman | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1991 | Pour Sacha | David Malka | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 1992 | Vagabond | Quentin Christiani | Ann Le Monnier | |
| 1992 | La Belle Histoire | The biker | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1992 | Day of Atonement | Roland Bettoun | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 1993 | Tout ça... pour ça ! | Henri Poncet | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1993 | Pas d'amour sans amour ! | Bruno | Evelyne Dress | |
| 1994 | La Cité de la peur | Patrick Bialès | Alain Berbérian | |
| 1994 | Le voleur et la menteuse | Paul Salomon | Paul Boujenah | |
| 1994 | Save the Rabbits | The Inspector | Jean-Pierre Marois | Short |
| 1995 | The Tit and the Moon | Maurice | Bigas Luna | |
| 1996 | Les victimes | Bleche | Patrick Grandperret | |
| 1996 | Let's Hope it Lasts | Victor Brulin | Michel Thibaud | |
| 1997 | Amour et confusions | Simon | Patrick Braoudé | |
| 1999 | Les grandes bouches | Lamar | Bernie Bonvoisin | |
| 2000 | Granturismo | Jean-Michel | Denis Thybaud | Short |
| 2002 | 3 zéros | Oscar Marbello | Fabien Onteniente | |
| 2002 | Le Boulet | Kowalski | Alain Berbérian & Frédéric Forestier | |
| 2002 | Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra | Amonbofis | Alain Chabat | |
| 2003 | The Car Keys | Himself | Laurent Baffie | |
| 2003 | The Good Thief | Raoul | Neil Jordan | |
| 2003 | Le Cœur des hommes | Jeff | Marc Esposito | |
| 2003 | Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ? | Phil Canon | Éric Lartigau | |
| 2004 | Pédale dure | Loïc | Gabriel Aghion | |
| 2004 | Mariage mixte | Max Zagury | Alexandre Arcady | |
| 2005 | Les parrains | Henri | Frédéric Forestier | |
| 2005 | Emmenez-moi | Jean-Claude Meunier | Edmond Bensimon | |
| 2007 | Deux vies... plus une | Sylvain Weiss | Idit Cebula | |
| 2007 | Le coeur des hommes 2 | Jeff | Marc Esposito | |
| 2008 | The American Trap | Paul Mondolini | Charles Binamé | |
| 2009 | Celle que j'aime | Jean | Élie Chouraqui | |
| 2009 | Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard | Maltazard | Luc Besson | Voice |
| 2010 | Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds | Maltazard | Luc Besson | Voice |
| 2011 | Low Cost | Jean-Claude | Maurice Barthélemy | |
| 2011 | Bienvenue à bord | Richard Morena | Éric Lavaine | |
| 2011 | The End | Himself | Didier Barcelo | Short |
| 2012 | Nos plus belles vacances | Bernard | Philippe Lellouche | |
| 2013 | The Ultimate Accessory | The doctor | Valérie Lemercier | |
| 2015 | Bis | Eric's father | Dominique Farrugia | |
| 2015 | All Three of Us | The father | Kheiron | |
| 2015 | Robin des bois, la véritable histoire | Sheriff of Nottingham | Anthony Marciano | |
| 2017 | Everyone's Life | Paul Richer | Claude Lelouch | |
| 2018 | Brillantissime | Georges | Michèle Laroque | |
| 2018 | Rolling to You | Max | Franck Dubosc | |
| 2019 | Vous êtes jeunes vous êtes beaux | Lucius Marnant | Franchin Don | |
| 2020 | Boutchou | Roberto | Adrien Piquet-Gauthier | |
| 2020 | Brutus vs César | Cassius | Kheiron | |
| 2020 | Dernière ligne droite | Dominique | Arnaud Mizzon | Short |
| 2022 | King | Max | David Moreau | |
| 2022 | Irréductible | Roselyn Bacheron | Jérôme Commandeur | |
| 2022 | L'amour c'est mieux que la vie | Gérard Prat | Claude Lelouch | |
| 2022 | La débandade | Gaëtan | Fanny Dussart | Short |
| 2023 | Little Jesus | Bernard | Julien Rigoulot | |
| 2023 | Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom | The narrator | Guillaume Canet | |
| 2024 | Les cadeaux | Michel Stein | Raphaële Moussafir & Christophe Offenstein | |
| 2024 | À l'ancienne | Henri | Hervé Mimran | |
| 2024 | Neuilly-Poissy | The juge | Grégory Boutboul | |
| 2024 | L'heureuse élue | Roland | Frank Bellocq | |
| 2024 | On fait quoi maintenant ? | Jean-Pierre Savarin | Lucien Jean-Baptiste | |
| 2024 | The Lies We Tell Ourselves | Gérard | Saara Lamberg | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1973 | Arsène Lupin | Prévailles's bodyguard | Jean-Pierre Desagnat | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1977 | Auteurs en folie | Paul | Joseph Drimal, Claude Fayard & Jean-Paul Roux | TV mini-series |
| 1978 | Douze heures pour mourir | Pépé Gomez | Abder Isker | TV movie |
| 1979 | Les héritiers | The notary | Joyce Buñuel | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1979 | Il était un musicien | Stravinski | Roger Hanin | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1980 | Le coffre et le revenant | Blaise | Roger Hanin | TV movie |
| 1981 | Henri IV | Di Nolli | Jeannette Hubert | TV movie |
| 1983 | Merci Bernard | Paolini | Jean-Michel Ribes | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1988 | Les après-midi de Monsieur Forestier | Bernard Barrière | Gérard Jourd'hui | TV movie |
| 1989 | Série noire | Laurent | Laurent Heynemann | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1993 | Le sang des innocents | Vincent Millau | Miguel Courtois | TV movie |
| 1995 | Comment épouser un héritage ? | Cargèse | Patrice Ambard | TV movie |
| 1996 | L'enfer vert | Maurice Laporta | Philippe Bensoussan | TV movie |
| 1996 | La ferme du crocodile | Serge Maillart | Didier Albert | TV movie |
| 1998 | Un flic presque parfait | Blanev | Marc Angelo | TV movie |
| 2000 | La cape et l'épée | The minstrel | Jean-Jacques Amsellem | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2001 | H | The Inspector | Éric Lartigau | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2005 | Callas e Onassis | Aristotle Onassis | Giorgio Capitani | TV movie |
| 2010 | Le grand restaurant | Gérard | Gérard Pullicino | TV movie |
| 2011 | Le client | Fred Fondary | Arnauld Mercadier | TV movie |
| 2014-15 | Casting(s) | Himself | Pierre Niney & Hugo Gélin | TV series (7 episodes) |
| 2014-16 | Duel au soleil | Ange Renucci | Olivier Guignard & Didier Le Pêcheur | TV series (12 episodes) |
| 2017 | Crimes Parfaits | Frank | Didier Le Pêcheur | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2019-20 | Family Business | Gérard Hazan | Igor Gotesman | TV series (12 episodes) |
| 2021 | Capitaine Marleau | Frédéric Lefranc | Josée Dayan | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2022 | 1H30 Max | Gérard | Léo Grandperret | TV movie |
| 2022 | Le Flambeau | Philippe | Jonathan Cohen & Jérémie Galan | TV series (6 episodes) |

## Discography

* Au milieu de la nuit (2003)
* Dancing (2006)
* On s'aime (2008)

## Accolades

| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result |
| 1987 | César Award for Best Supporting Actor | Betty Blue | Nominated |
| 2003 | César Award for Best Supporting Actor | Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra | Nominated |
| 2008 | Lumière Award for Best Actor | Le Cœur des hommes 2 | Nominated |
| 2020 | Globe de Cristal Award - Best Actor in a Television Series or Mini-Series | Family Business | Nominated |