Tchéky Karyo, star of hit BBC drama The Missing within a wide-spanning 40-year career, has died aged 72.
The renowned French actor – born in Istanbul and raised in Paris – died of cancer on Friday, his agent confirmed. He is survived by his wife, actress Valérie Keruzoré, and their children
Kayro was best known by UK audiences as TV detective Julien Baptiste in BBC anthology drama The Missing from 2014 to 2016 and was widely-watched and praised at the time as ‘hauntingly brilliant television’.
This led to a two-series spin-off, Baptiste.
In a career spanning four decades, he rose to prominence in the 80s in the crime thriller La Balance (1982), for which he landed a César Award for Best Male Revelation.
Later, he played the handler Bob in Luc Besson’s assassin film Nikita (1990).
Other major movies included Ridley Scott’s 1492: Conquest of Paradise in 1992 and the James Bond film GoldenEye. Elsewhere, in 1994’s Nostradamus, he played the titular medieval prophet.
In 2000, he starred in Jean Villeneuve’s The Patriot as well as 2004’s A Very Long Engagement and 2013’s Belle and Sebastian.
As recently as 2023, he starred in the BBC comedy thriller, Boat Story as The Tailor and his last listed project is the short movie Le Papillon d’acier with a total of 140 roles in his decorated career.
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