Michel Bouquet was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for
Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for
How I Killed My Father (2001) and
The Last Mitterrand (2005). He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for
Les côtelettes in 1998, then again for
Exit the King in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018.