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Patrice Chéreau
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French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer (1944-2013)
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Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, France
Patrice Chéreau (November 2, 1944 – October 7, 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films La Reine Margot and Intimacy, and for his staging of the Jahrhundertring, the centenary Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976.
Known for
- Die Macht des Rings — Self (archive) - stage director2026
- Patrice Chéreau - France's Theatre Genius — Self (archive footage)2023
- Des Amandiers aux Amandiers — Self (archive footage)2022
- René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu — Lui-même2021
- Resistencia Cultural — Self (archive footage)2021
- Il était une fois… « La Reine Margot » — Self2013
- Square — Self2012
- Patrice Chéreau, the body at work — Self2010
- Time of the Wolf — Thomas Brandt2003
- Nearest to Heaven — Pierre2002
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1944-11-02 ) 2 November 1944, Lézigné , France
- Died
- 7 October 2013 (2013-10-07) (aged 68), Clichy , France
- Occupations
- Theatre director opera director film director actor screenwriter television producer
- Years active
- 1966–2013
- Awards
- César Award for Best Original Screenplay (1984) Cannes Jury Prize (1994) César Award for Best Director (1998) Golden Berlin Bear (2001) Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director (2003) Europe Theatre Prize (2008)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Patrice
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Lézigné
- Place of death
- Clichy
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Image
- Patrice Chéreau 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra).jpg
- Work location
- Bayreuth
- Significant event
- funeral
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- Commons category
- Patrice Chéreau
- date of birth
- 1944-11-02
- date of death
- 2013-10-07
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- archives at
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- name in native language
- Patrice Chéreau
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Patrice Chéreau
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
- end of work period
- 2013-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- birth name
- Patrice Chéreau
- sexual orientation
- gay
- P12674
- conservation status
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Encyclopedic overview
Patrice Chéreau (/ʃəˈroʊ/; French: [patʁis ʃeʁo]; 2 November 1944 – 7 October 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films La Reine Margot and Intimacy, and for his staging of the Jahrhundertring, the centenary Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. Winner of almost twenty movie awards, including the Cannes Jury Prize and the Golden Berlin Bear, Chéreau served as president of the jury at the 2003 Cannes festival.
From 1966, he was artistic director of the Public-Theatre in the Parisian suburb of Sartrouville, where in his team were stage designer Richard Peduzzi, costume designer Jacques Schmidt and lighting designer André Diot, with whom he collaborated in many later productions. From 1982, he was director of "his own stage" at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers at Nanterre where he staged plays by Jean Racine, Marivaux and Shakespeare as well as works by Jean Genet, Heiner Müller and Bernard-Marie Koltès.
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