Actor Gaspard Ulliel, 37, died following a skiing accident which took place on Tuesday January 18 in La Rosière (Savoie), announced his agent via a press release stating: “Victim of an accident of skiing this Wednesday, Gaspard Ulliel died”. Tuesday shortly before 4 p.m., the actor was transported by helicopter to the Grenoble University Hospital after colliding with another skier at the intersection of two blue slopes, according to a spokeswoman for the station. Gaspard Ulliel was declared as “seriously injured” a few hours after the accident. An investigation was opened and entrusted to the CRS Alpes, the prosecution also indicated. Revealed at the age of 19 in Les Égarés by André Téchiné alongside Emmanuelle Béart, he won the César for Best Male Hope in 2005 thanks to his interpretation of a soldier from the First World War in A Long Sunday Engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. This son of two designers notably played the famous couturier Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic directed by Bertrand Bonello in 2014. In 2017, he won the César for Best Actor for his role in Xavier Dolan’s Just the End of the World. Also leading an international career, he will soon star in the Marvel Moon Knight series broadcast on the Disney+ platform. In October 2018, on the occasion of the release of the film The Ends of the World, we had it met to discuss and look back on his career:
