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 of Syrian Christian ancestry. 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

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's mother.

Career

As a child, Rassam appeared in two films directed by his father. In 1992, he played the lead role of the film ''Albert Souffre''. That same year, he appeared in '' The Accompanist'', for which he was nominated for the

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for Most Promising Newcomer in 1993, and he wrote and directed the short film ''Jour de colère''. In 1994, he played a supporting role in '' Queen Margot''.

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

Filmography

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