in an interview<\/a>, \u201cespecially when you realize how [beloved Baptiste is] with the audience. It\u2019s like a big embrace, and I\u2019m glad to give back every time I\u2019m called.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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\t\t\t\t\tTch\u00e9ky Karyo with Kelly Preston in 1997\u2019s Addicted to Love.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWarner Bros.\/courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
\n\tKaryo was born on Oct. 4, 1953, in Istanbul, the son of a Turkish delivery man and builder, and raised in Paris. When his parents separated when he was 13, his mother ordered him to leave the house as well. \u201cShe put me out,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was terrible. My world was breaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWith dreams of becoming a French Laurence Olivier, he acted at the National Theatre of Strasbourg, then played a disturbed henchman in one of his first films, La Balance (1982), receiving a C\u00e9sar Award for \u201cbest male revelation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHe scored leading roles in such French films as Eric Rohmer\u2019s Full Moon in Paris (1984), Sorceress (1987), The Bear (1988) and Vincent and Me (1990), where he starred as Vincent Van Gogh.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn 1994, he played the titular prophet in Nostradamus and a year later was the French drug kingpin Fouchet in the first Bad Boys movie and another tough guy, Russian defense minister Dimitri Mishkin, in GoldenEye, the first outing for Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.<\/p>\n
\n\tHis big-screen r\u00e9sum\u00e9 also included Australia (1989), Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), Saving Grace (2000), The Core (2003), A Very Long Engagement (2004), Taking Lives (2004), A Previous Engagement (2008), The Way (2010), Les Lyonnais (2011), Daydreams (2016) and The Killer (2024).<\/p>\n
\n\tHe also was a musician and songwriter who released the albums Ce lien qui nous unit and Credo in 2006 and 2013, respectively.<\/p>\n
\n\tSurvivors include his second wife, actress Val\u00e9rie Keruzor\u00e9, whom he married in 2002, and their children, Louise and Liv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tch\u00e9ky Karyo, the Turkish-born French actor who sparkled as a detective on the harrowing BBC series The Missing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,1801,593,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-348669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-international","10":"tag-obituaries","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115476171570358119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}