Julien Rassam Explained

Julien Rassam
Birth Name:Julien Langmann
Birth Date:14 June 1968
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Place:Paris, France
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.[1] 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.[2]

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.[3] 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.[2] Rassam committed suicide in 2002.[2] [4] [5]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1972Sex-Shop Jules Uncredited
1975Le Mâle du siècle Julien
1992Albert Souffre Albert
1992The Accompanist Benoît Weizman
1993Maigret Lecoeur Episode: "Maigret et l'homme du banc"
1993Jour de colère Short, writer and director
1993Nulle part
1994Queen Margot Alençon
1994Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... Paul Episode: "Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles"
1994Yalla yaana
1997Le Secret de Polichinelle Julien
1998Le Poulpe Le Travesti
1999Furia Le résistant #1 (final film role)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rassam, in memoriam . 2001-04-24 . liberation.fr . French.
  2. News: Claude Berri : adieu, Monsieur Cinéma . François-Guillaume . Lorrain . . Paris . 15 January 2009 . 14 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107003857/http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-cinema/2009-01-13/claude-berri-adieu-monsieur-cinema/903/0/306358 . 7 November 2017 . dead .
  3. News: MARION ET GUILLAUME: UN BÉBÉ POUR LE PRINTEMPS . Paris Match . Paris . 8 October 2013.
  4. Web site: Julien Rassam. 14 June 1968 .
  5. Web site: Claude Berri : Adieu, Monsieur Cinéma, actualité Cinéma : Le Point . 2012-02-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090116035559/http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-cinema/claude-berri-adieu-monsieur-cinema/903/0/306358 . 2009-01-16 . dead .