In the Pantheon of deceased actors, he is undoubtedly king. On Friday July 29, 2022, France regrets 15 years, already, without Michel Serrault. The actor is actually died in the summer of 2007, in Honfleur, Calvados, when he was 79 years old. The only thing that reassures his relatives since then is that he has joined his Caroline up there. His 19-year-old daughter had died long before him in a terrible road accident.
She was about to turn 20 when she found the stars. Caroline had just obtained her driver’s license and had gone, for the first time, on vacation without her parents. On the road, she found herself face to face with Guy G., a young 21-year-old driver accompanied by two friends… all three pursued by the police. Suspected of being in the Bois de Boulogne for “chasing the transvestite“, the driver had burned several red lights and hit Caroline’s vehicle, which was returning to Neuilly. She died instantly.
I needed to work immediately to fix my mind on something external
Faced with the ordeal, Michel Serrault had shut himself up in silence and in work. The next day, the actor resumed filming Folies Offenbachfor TV, then went up on the stage of the Palais-Royal theater to play the role of Zaza Napoli in The Fool’s Cage. That evening, no one felt his distress, and yet he was very marked by this unbearable mourning. “I needed to work immediately to fix my mind on something external: gestures, action, anything that can hold me up, but I feel like a sleepwalker and acting in someone else’s place“he explained.
Guy G., the cause of the accident, did quite well. He caused the death of Caroline, the daughter of Michel Serrault and Juanita Saint-Peyron, known as Nitabut was only sentenced to 10 month suspended sentencea fine of 1050 francs and a 2-year license suspension.