Jacques Charrier (6 November 1936 – 3 September 2025) was a French actor, film producer, painter and ceramist.
Early life and career
Charrier was born in Metz in 1936. His father, Joseph Jules Léon Charrier, was a career military officer. His mother was Marie Marguerite () Charrier.
He first studied pottery at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg. After several years, he moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.
In 1980 he returned to the School of Fine Arts, and went back to painting that was full of references to his two passions, travel and antiquity. His art work has been regularly exhibited in Paris, Geneva and San Francisco. With the publication of the memoirs of Brigitte Bardot, he found himself in the media spotlight. He sued for "violation of privacy", and was successful."Showing Her Claws". The Irish Times. 4 February 1998.
Personal life and death
In 1959, he married Brigitte Bardot; they had a son, Nicolas-Jacques (born on January 11, 1960). Nicolas-Jacques himself is the father of two daughters, Anna-Camilla and Théa-Joséphine, born in 1985 and 1990. Bardot and Charrier divorced in 1962. In 1964, he married France Louis-Dreyfus, of the Louis-Dreyfus family, with whom he had two daughters, Marie and Sophie , before divorcing in 1967. In 1982, he met his third wife Linda with whom he had one daughter. From 2009 until his death, he was married to Japanese artist Makiko Kumano.
Charrier died on 3 September 2025, at the age of 88, in Saint-Malo, near where he had lived for 13 years.
Selected filmography + Film Year Title Role Notes 1958Young Sinners Bob1959Les Dragueurs FreddyBabette Goes to War Lt. Gérard de Crécy-Lozère 1960 Michel 1961Tiro al piccione Marco Laudato1962The Eye of Evil Albin MercierCarmen di Trastevere Antonio Lizzani 1963À cause, à cause d'une femme Remy Fertet1964Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise Jean-Marc DubreuilAnatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc Jean-Marc Dubreuil1966 AxelLiving It Up Jean-Loup Costa 1967The Oldest ProfessionNick / John Demetrius1967An Evening in ParisFrench manHindi Movie
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