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Julien Rassam
French actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Julien Rassam (né Langmann) (14 June 1968 – 3 February 2002) was a French actor.
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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]
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Career
As a child, Rassam appeared in two films directed by his father. In 1992, he played the lead role of the film Albert Souffre. That same year, he appeared in The Accompanist, for which he was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 1993, and he wrote and directed the short film Jour de colère. In 1994, he played a supporting role in Queen Margot.
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, three years after his mother committed suicide by jumping from a building.[2] Rassam committed suicide in 2002.[2][4][5]
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