Michel Piccoli

The distinguished French actor, Michel Piccoli, was a ubiquitous presence in French cinema for nearly seven decades, extending his illustrious career to both stage and screen. With an uncanny ability to transform into any character, he effortlessly assumed the roles of police inspectors, gangsters, priests, academics, King Louis XVI, and the Marquis de Sade, to name a few. He was particularly adept at portraying ordinary bourgeois characters caught in difficult circumstances or undergoing mid-life crisis, but truly excelled in sardonic, cynical, or morally ambiguous roles.