Julien Rassam
{{Short description|French actor}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Julien Rassam
| birth_name = Julien Langmann
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1968|6|14|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|2|3|1968|6|14|df=y}}
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1972–2000
| parents = Claude Berri
Anne-Marie Rassam
| relatives = Thomas Langmann (brother)
Arlette Langmann (aunt)
Dimitri Rassam (cousin)
}}
Julien Rassam (né Langmann) (14 June 1968 – 3 February 2002) was a French actor.
Biography
Born Julien Langmann, Rassam was the son of French film director Claude Berri and brother of film producer Thomas Langmann. His father Claude Berri is Jewish, and his mother Anne-Marie Rassam, who was born in Lebanon, is of Syrian Christian ancestry.{{Cite web |title=Rassam, in memoriam |url=https://www.liberation.fr/guide/2001/04/24/rassam-in-memoriam_362320/ |access-date=2001-04-24 |website=liberation.fr |language=French}} On his mother's side, he was the nephew of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam and Paul Rassam. His mother, Anne-Marie Rassam, committed suicide in 1997, jumping from the apartment of Isabelle Adjani's mother.{{cite news | url = http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-cinema/2009-01-13/claude-berri-adieu-monsieur-cinema/903/0/306358 | title = Claude Berri : adieu, Monsieur Cinéma | first = François-Guillaume | last = Lorrain | work = Le Point | location = Paris | date = 15 January 2009 | access-date = 14 January 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171107003857/http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-cinema/2009-01-13/claude-berri-adieu-monsieur-cinema/903/0/306358 | archive-date = 7 November 2017 | url-status = dead }}
Career
Rassam's film work included Albert Souffre, Queen Margot, and The Accompanist, for which he was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 1993. In 1992, he wrote and directed the short film Jour de colère.
Personal life and death
Rassam was in a relationship with actress Marion Cotillard in the late 1990s.{{cite news | url = http://www.parismatch.com/People/Cinema/Marion-Cotillard-Guillaume-Canet-un-bebe-pour-le-printemps-154400 | title = MARION ET GUILLAUME: UN BÉBÉ POUR LE PRINTEMPS | work = Paris Match | location = Paris |access-date = 8 October 2013}} He became a paraplegic in 2000 after an accidental fall from the fourth floor of the Hôtel Raphael in Paris, just three years after his mother committed suicide by jumping from a building. Rassam committed suicide in 2002.{{Cite web|url=http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/julien-rassam-22900.php|title = Julien Rassam| date=14 June 1968 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-cinema/claude-berri-adieu-monsieur-cinema/903/0/306358 |title=Claude Berri : Adieu, Monsieur Cinéma, actualité Cinéma : Le Point |access-date=2012-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116035559/http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-cinema/claude-berri-adieu-monsieur-cinema/903/0/306358 |archive-date=2009-01-16 |url-status=dead }}
Filmography
| class="wikitable" | |||
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Sex-Shop | Jules | Uncredited |
| 1975 | Le Mâle du siècle | Julien | |
| 1992 | Albert Souffre | Albert | |
| 1992 | The Accompanist | Benoît Weizman | |
| 1993 | Maigret | Lecoeur | Episode: "Maigret et l'homme du banc" |
| 1993 | Jour de colère | Short, writer and director | |
| 1993 | Nulle part | ||
| 1994 | Queen Margot | Alençon | |
| 1994 | Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... | Paul | Episode: "Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles" |
| 1994 | Yalla yaana | ||
| 1997 | Le Secret de Polichinelle | Julien | |
| 1998 | Le Poulpe | Le Travesti | |
| 1999 | Furia | Le résistant #1 | (final film role) |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|711492|Julien Rassam}}
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Category:French male film actors
Category:French male screenwriters
Category:20th-century French screenwriters
Category:Male actors from Paris
Category:People with paraplegia
Category:Film directors from Paris
Category:French people of Syrian descent
Category:French people of Polish-Jewish descent
Category:French people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Category:20th-century French male writers
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