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French actor Michel Serrault dies
Michel Serrault, star of the 1978 comedy La Cage aux Folles and one of the most popular actors in France, has died, the government said yesterday. He was 79.
Serrault?s performance as Albin helped make La Cage aux Folles one of the most popular French films ever and earned him a Cesar, the French equivalent of an Oscar, in 1979. French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute to Serrault, saying his talents had left a mark on all French people.
?He was a monument in the world of popular theatre, cinema and television?, he said in a statement. La Cage aux Folles was a farce but in more than 100 other films Serrault played a series of more serious roles, which played on an ambiguous air that could be comic and sinister. His performances as a notary accused of raping and murdering a little girl in Garde à vue or as a retired businessman who hires a young Emmanuelle Beart to type his memoirs in Nelly and Mr Arnaud both earned him Cesar awards. Serrault?s death adds to a number of recent losses for French cinema following the deaths of veteran actors Philippe Noiret last year and Jean-Pierre Cassel and Jean-Claude Brialy earlier this year. He had been suffering from a long illness.
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