Who are his three children?

French cinema owes him several great classics that have remained timeless, including Evening wear (1986), Too beautiful for you (1989) or even Prepare your tissueswhich earned him a prestigious Oscar for best foreign film in 1979. Bertrand Blier died peacefully at his home in Paris at the age of 85, surrounded by his children and his wife, his loved ones said on Tuesday 21 January 2025 with AFP. The director born in 1939 in Boulogne-Billancourt, known in particular for cult comedies with black humor between the 1970s and 1980s, met with public success with his Waltzesin 1974, with Gérard Depardieu, whom he would appear in seven other films. Privately, the son of actor Bernard Blier left behind three children, born to three different mothers.

Bertrand Blier had a story with Anouk Grinberg in the 1990s

Bertrand Blier was 20 years old when he married his first wife, Françoise. From a second marriage, he had a first daughter, whom he called Béatrice, “a beautiful first name, also chosen to please my father”, he said, quoted by VSD in 2008. Then Leonard arrives, his only boy, born in 1993 from his story with Anouk Grinberg, actress and writer 24 years his junior, who we notably saw in A very discreet hero by Jacques Audiard. In another register, the actress also took a position in the Gérard Depardieu affair, accused of rape and sexual assault, affirming that “Everyone who worked with him knows that he attacks women.”

Bertrand Blier “has practically never been single”

Bertrand Blier is also the father of a second daughter, Leïla, the youngest of the blended family, whom he had with his current partner, Farida Rahouadj. The director directed it in Exceptional convoyher latest film released in 2019. This actress of Algerian origin has made a career in the cinema, but also on the stage and in TV series, including Red Bracelets on TF1. Regarding his troubled love life, the filmmaker admitted to having “started very early” to associate with women. “I have hardly ever been single, but I have never been a collector. And I divorced like everyone else. I have a complicated, fragmented, modern life”he admitted, always quoted by VSDbased on remarks taken from the documentary Bertrand Blier, The Man Against.