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Rémi Laurent

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Rémi Laurent
Born
Rémi François Simon Laurent

(1957-10-12)October 12, 1957
Suresnes, Paris, France
DiedNovember 14, 1989(1989-11-14) (aged 32)
Paris, France
OccupationActor
Years active1976–1987

Rémi Laurent (12 October 1957 – 14 November 1989) was a French actor who was born in Suresnes, best known for playing the son Laurent in La Cage aux Folles. He died in Paris from an HIV related illness in 1989.

Biography

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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 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 Québécois film The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) directed by Gilles Carle.

He was romantically involved with actress Anne Caudry [fr], 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

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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, (final film role)

References

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Translated from the French article.

  1. ^ "Anne Caudry".
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