Pierre Cassignard (19 December 1965 – 20 December 2021) was a French stage and screen actor.

Early life

Pierre Cassignard was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande in Grionde, France, on 19 December 1965. In the early 1980s, he moved to Paris to study theater, but wound up working in a production a few days later. He landed his first role in the play House & Garden in 1987. Television and Film followed quickly when he was cast in the TV series

Haute Tension ''High Tension'' (French: ''Haute Tension'', ; released in the United Kingdom as ''Switchblade Romance'') is a 2003 French slasher film directed by Alexandre Aja, co-written with Grégory Levasseur, and starring Cécile de France and Maïwenn, ...

in 1988. Cassignard was well received. In 1996, he won the coveted Moliere for Best Actor in the Carlo Goldoni play

The Venetian Twins ''The Venetian Twins'' ( it, I due gemelli veneziani, links=no, or "The two Venetian twins") is a 1747 play by Carlo Goldoni, based on Plautus's ''Menaechmi''. It was performed by Il Teatro Stabile of Genoa at the 1965 Edinburgh International F ...

. He was also nominated as Best Newcomer for the same role. A second Best Actor nomination came in 2005, again for a Carlo Goldoni play,

the Mistress of the Inn ''The Mistress of the Inn'' ( it, La locandiera ), also translated as ''The Innkeeper Woman'' or ''Mirandolina'' (after the play's main character), is a 1753 three-act comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni about a coquette. The play ...

Theater

Filmography

Death

Monsieur Cassignard suffered from cancer prior to his death. He died on 20 December 2021, just one day after his 56th birthday.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cassignard, Pierre 1965 births 2021 deaths French male film actors French male television actors French male stage actors 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors People from Gironde