Pierre Cassignard is gone. Monday, December 20, actress Michèle Bernier was the first to announce her death on Twitter. The star, who had had the pleasure of working with him, did not hide his sadness and emotion when he learned of his death.
“Hello my love Pierrot … I miss you so much already“, wrote Michèle Bernier in the caption of a photo of the late actor. They had played together in the play A great cry of love, in 2019. “With Michèle we shot a TV movie together where I was a transvestite. We fell in friendship“, said the actor in an interview for Theatrical magazine. Two years before, they had also given the cue in Mad Amanda.
It was on the stage that Pierre Cassignard had led an impressive career that began in the 1980s after leaving his Gironde for Paris. He had thus played in around thirty pieces, some of which were very popular like Madame Sans-Gêne (with Clémentine Célarié). He had thus been nominated twice at the Molières ceremony and had won once, in 1997, receiving the trophy for best actor for The Venetian Twins.
A highly appreciated figure in the profession, Pierre Cassignard had multiplied the roles on the small and big screen. In the cinema, his first film was The Provincial by Christian Gion released in 1990 then, subsequently, he notably appeared in Russian dolls, A man and his dog, The conquest or The Student and Mr. Henri. Most recently, it is on the bill of Slim then 2! that we could see. On the television side, Pierre Cassignard had been able to play in popular programs, adored by viewers of Josephine, guardian angel at Boulevard du Palais Passing by Research Section, Cain Where The Little Murders of Agatha Christie.