Jacques Charrier

Jacques Charrier (6 November 1936 – 3 September 2025) was a French actor, film producer, painter and ceramist.

Early life and career

Charrier was born in Metz in 1936. His father, Joseph Jules Léon Charrier, was a career military officer. His mother was Marie Marguerite Charrier.

He first studied pottery at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg. After several years, he moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.

Personal life and death

In 1959, he married Brigitte Bardot; they had a son, Nicolas-Jacques (born on January 11, 1960). Nicolas-Jacques himself is the father of two daughters, Anna-Camilla and Théa-Joséphine, born in 1985 and 1990 . Bardot and Charrier divorced in 1962. In 1964, he married France Louis-Dreyfus, of the Louis-Dreyfus family , with whom he had two daughters, Marie and Sophie , before divorcing in 1967. In 1982, he met his third wife Linda with whom he had one daughter.

Selected filmography