Rémi Laurent
French actor (1957–1989)
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Rémi Laurent (12 October 1957 – 14 November 1989) was a French actor who was born in Suresnes, known for playing the son Laurent in La Cage aux Folles (1978). He died in Paris from an HIV-related illness in 1989.
Biography
Laurent was born and raised in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, and was the son of a nursery nurse (his mother) and an agricultural engineer. He learned to play the piano at an early age but decided in his adolescence to pursue comedic acting.
Laurent debuted in the 1976 film À nous les petites Anglaises. He was then featured in a number of popular French films in the late 1970s and most of the 1980s. He is particularly remembered in his role in the 1978 film La Cage aux Folles as Laurent, the son of Renato Baldi (Ugo Tognazzi). He also is remembered in his role as Denis Boucher in the 1981 Québécois film The Plouffe Family directed by Gilles Carle.
He was romantically involved with actress Anne Caudry, who died of AIDS in 1991,[1] then married Emöke Masznyik, a young Hungarian dancer and mime.
He died of AIDS on 14 November 1989 and is interred at Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | À nous les petites Anglaises (Let's Get Those English Girls) | Alain | |
| 1977 | Dis bonjour à la dame | David Ferry | |
| 1977 | Arrête ton char... bidasse! | Francis | |
| 1978 | La Cage aux folles | Laurent Baldi | |
| 1978 | Les Seize ans de Jérémy Millet | Short | |
| 1979 | C'est dingue... mais on y va | Nicolas | |
| 1980 | All Stars | Laurent Dermoncourt | |
| 1981 | Les Plouffe | Denis Boucher | |
| 1981 | La Cassure | Le frère de Rauffast | |
| 1982 | Une glace avec deux boules ou je le dis à maman | Bernard | |
| 1982 | Le Cadeau (Bankers Also Have Souls aka. The Gift) | Laurent | |
| 1986 | Black Mic Mac | L'inspecteur adjoint | |
| 1987 | La Princesse surgelée | Short film (final film role) |
