The funeral of actor Gaspard Ulliel took place this Thursday in the Saint-Eustache church in Paris

Young actors and cinema icons, family and friends paid a last tribute on Thursday January 27 to Gaspard Ulliel, who died last Tuesday in a skiing accident at the age of 37, brutally interrupting a career of more than twenty years.

The short benediction, all in sobriety, ended shortly after noon in the Saint-Eustache church in Paris, in front of which had been installed a magnificent portrait of the one who was a magnetic Saint Laurent on the big screen.

Among the representatives of the world of cinema: Jérémie Renier, a close friend, who played Pierre Bergé alongside Gaspard Ulliel in Bertrand Bonello’s feature film. He was one of those carrying the black coffin.

Catherine Deneuve, Léa Seydoux, Raphaël Personnaz, Alex Lutz, Anna Mouglalis, Louis Garrel, Nathalie Baye, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, Vincent Lindon, Mélanie Thierry, Niels Schneider also attended the blessing.

A thousand people were gathered inside the building, and some 200 others were in its forecourt. Unusual image, a policeman distributed the proceedings of the ceremony to the Parisians gathered.

Fans and young moviegoers testified with great emotion. “He was a solar actor“, believes one of them. “He was my favorite comedian, his death shocked me“, says another.

Many wreaths of flowers, often white, were laid, including those of the Césars, the actor Vincent Cassel and the bilingual school Jeannine Manuel in Paris with the inscription “To our dear Gaspouille”.

The La Rosière area in Savoie will also pay tribute to Gaspard Ulliel this Thursday afternoon, a week after his disappearance in a skiing accident.

“This Thursday January 27, the day of Mr. Gaspard Ulliel’s funeral in Paris, at 3:58 p.m., which was the time of his accident on January 18, we will symbolically stop the ski lifts for one minute in tribute to him, his family and to his loved ones”, announced Jean Régaldo, director of the La Rosière ski area.

The accidental death of Gaspard Ulliel, Tuesday, January 18, aroused a multitude of tributes to a man who led a brilliant career and was very popular in the film industry. Investigation was entrusted by the public prosecutor’s office of Albertville (Savoie) to the CRS Alpes to clarify the circumstances of the fatal collision between Gaspard Ulliel and another skier.

The 37-year-old actor had experienced a meteoric rise, marked in particular by two Césars, that of the best male hope (in 2005 for A long engagement Sunday) and Best Actor (in 2017 for Just the end of the world). He had notably played alongside Emmanuelle Béart, Audrey Tautou, Mélanie Laurent, Nicole Garcia, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet or Gérard Depardieu, and in front of the camera of André Téchiné, Bertrand Bonello or Xavier Dolan.