Michel Bouquet

Michel Bouquet
Bouquet in 2010
Born(1925-11-06)6 November 1925
Paris, France
Died13 April 2022(2022-04-13) (aged 96)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationCNSAD
OccupationActor
Years active1944–2021
Spouses
Ariane Borg
(m. 1954; div. 1967)

Michel Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005). He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Les côtelettes in 1998, then again for Exit the King in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018.