Jacques Penot

Jacques Penot was born on Mar 20, 1959 in France. Jacques Penot's big-screen debut came with Guy de Maupassant directed by Michel Drach in 1982, strarring . Jacques Penot is known for Au nom de tous les miens directed by Robert Enrico, Michael York stars as Martin Gray à 40 ans and Jacques Penot as Martin Gray, jeune. Jacques Penot has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Jacques Penot achieved is Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Jacques Penot plays is Fait d'hiver which will be released on Apr 28, 1999.

Jacques Penot was born in Strasbourg, Haut-Rhin, France. He is 20 when Robert Hossein discovers it. Jacques Penot was then a photographer for the magazine "Voile et voiliers". Robert Hossein decided to make him his hero at the theater in "Les Hauts de Hurlevent". Very quickly the press and the world of spectacle are racing. Jacques Penot becomes an inescapable actor. In 1983, he played under the direction of Robert Enrico in the film "Au nom de tous les miens" starring Michael York and Brigitte Fossey, based on Martin Gray's novel. The following year he was named the best male hopeful for the César. He then gave a reply to Annie Girardot, Claude Brasseur, Philippe Léotard and Bruno Crémer. In 1991, he met on the set of "Catorce Estaciones", the actress Geraldine Danon who became his companion for a few years. Television is also interested in him. He plays in the series "Sandra, princesse rebelle", "Les Cordier, juge et flic", or "Quai N ° 1". But Jacques Penot is fragile, and does not support celebrity. In 1999, he directed his last film at the "Fait d'hiver" film directed by Robert Enrico. He continued to shoot for television until 2004, when he decided to stop working as an actor to devote himself to painting and navigation. At that moment, he married Isabelle Bich, one of the children of Baron Bic, inventor of the famous black pen. The actor will share his time between Paris and Ibiza. Degraded by the premature death of his wife Isabelle Bich in 2014 and his great friend, ex-navigator Florence Arthaud, in 2015, he died of a heart attack on December 17, 2016, at the age of 57 years. However his death will be announced only a month later, by his ex-companion, Geraldine Danon.