Julien Rassam (né Langmann) (14 June 1968 – 3 February 2002) was a French actor.

Biography

Born Julien Langmann, Rassam was the son of French film director

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and brother of film producer

Thomas Langmann Thomas Langmann (born 24 May 1971) is a French film producer and actor, known for producing '' The Artist'' (2011), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Picture as producer in 2012. Career Langmann began his career as an actor in his ...

. His father Claude Berri is Jewish, and his mother Anne-Marie Rassam, who was born in

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, is

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. On his mother's side, he was the nephew of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam and Paul Rassam. His mother, Anne-Marie Rassam, committed suicide in 1997, jumping from the apartment of

Isabelle Adjani Isabelle Yasmina Adjani ; born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She is the only performer in history to win five César Awards for acting; she won the Best Actress award for '' Possession'' (1981), '' ...

's mother.

Career

Rassam's film work included ''Albert Souffre'', '' Queen Margot'', and ''

The Accompanist ''The Accompanist'' (French: ''L'Accompagnatrice'') is a 1992 French film directed by Claude Miller from a novel by Nina Berberova, and starring Romane Bohringer, Yelena Safonova and Richard Bohringer. Plot In 1942 Nazi-occupied Paris, a young ...

'', for which he was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 1993. In 1992 he wrote and directed the short film ''Jour de colère''.

Personal life and death

Rassam was in a relationship with actress

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in the late 1990s. He became a paraplegic in 2000 after an accidental fall from the fourth floor of the Hôtel Raphael in

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, just three years after his mother committed suicide by jumping from a building. Rassam committed suicide in 2002.

Filmography

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* 1968 births 2002 deaths French male film actors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters Male actors from Paris Suicides in France People with paraplegia Film directors from Paris French people of Lebanese descent French people of Polish-Jewish descent French people of Romanian-Jewish descent 2002 suicides 20th-century French male writers {{France-actor-stub