Gérard Depardieu

Alternately described as the "French Robert De Niro," an international sex symbol, or simply a "loutish giant," acclaimed actor Gerard Depardieu was nonetheless universally regarded as one of the finest international performers of his generation. Miraculously emerging from a childhood of delinquency and crime, Depardieu found his salvation in the theater, and later began working steadily with small roles on French television and in films like …