Gaspard Ulliel Movies and Career Information

Gaspard Ulliel (born 25 November 1984) is a French film actor. He began appearing in made-for-television films during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and then began to be known as a film actor in France, as well as starring in the title role in the thriller Hannibal Rising. Ulliel was born in Boulogne-Billancourt (a suburb in Paris) to a runway show producer mother and a stylist father. He has a scar on his cheek as a result of a dog's scratch from when he attempted to ride the dog like a horse when he was six years old. He says it increases his emotional acting abilities because it looks like a dimple. Ulliel attended the University of Saint-Denis, where he studied cinema. He began acting while he was still at school, appearing in Une Femme En Blanc, a film for French television. He also performed at the Cours Florent, where he was discovered by Les égarés director André Téchiné. In 2007, he appeared on the cover of the January issue of French Vogue with Dutch supermodel Doutzen Kroes. Ulliel is the current face of Longchamp, a French leather and luxury goods company, along with Kate Moss. Ulliel dated Cécile Cassel from 2005 to 2007 but is now dating French fashion designer