Gerard Depardieu was born in France in 1948. He made his first film”Maitresse” directed by Barbet Schroeder in 1973. He has made films with most of the renowned French directors of the recent past e.g. Bertrand Blier, Claude Sautet, Bernardo Bertolucci, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol. In 1990 he went to the US to make “Green Card” with Andie McDowell. Despite it’s huge success, he choose to return to filmmaking in France. Article on Moviemail, please click here.