Пьер Пальмаде: биография, карьера и скандалы

French actor and comedian

Pierre Palmade (born 23 March 1968) is a French actor, comedian, stage director and playwright.

Pierre Palmade began his career in sketch comedy shows on stage and on television in the late 1980s, and in the 1990s he wrote and played his own stand up acts. His signature humor was to portray unpleasant or irritating characters in his sketches. Palmade also wrote several plays with Muriel Robin, with whom they were notable in the 1990s for their play Ils s'aiment and its sequel Ils se sont aimés, both directed by Muriel Robin and played on stage by Palmade and Michèle Laroque. For his theater work, Palmade has been nominated several times for the Molière Awards. In the late 1990s and 2000s, Palmade played in several films and TV series. In 2005, he participated in Rendez vous en terre inconnue. He also worked as a writer for the films Pédale douce and Pédale dure. In 2007, he was the host of sketch comedy television show Made in Palmade; the following year, he wrote the play Le comique, which he played on stage with fellow actors from Made in Palmade and was followed by a sequel, Le Fils du Comique with Anne Élisabeth Blateau at Théâtre Saint Georges in Paris. In 2008, Palmade starred in the biographical film Sagan, a dramatization of the life of novelist Françoise Sagan directed by Diane Kurys, in which Palmade plays the role of dancer and socialite Jacques Chazot. In 2010, after a ten year hiatus from on stage solo performances, Palmade came back with a new show J'ai jamais été aussi vieux. The prime time television show was followed by three sequels, as of 2022. In 2018, Palmade wrote the play Paprika, played on stage at Théâtre de la Madeleine by Victoria Abril and Jean Baptiste Maunier.

Palmade was married to singer Véronique Sanson from 1995 to 2004. In October 2008, Palmade came out as gay, his homosexuality was one of the topics of his 2010 autobiographical show J'ai jamais été aussi vieux.

On 12 April 2019, early in the morning, Palmade reportedly called the police, telling them that a nineteen year old man, who was in Palmade's home in Paris, was damaging his property. When the police arrived, the young man told he was acting in self defense, and in turn accused Palmade of raping him. Both men were put in custody. Later that day, Palmade's accuser admitted to making a false accusation of rape and Palmade was released from custody. In June, Palmade (who was previously convicted of cocaine use in 1995) was sentenced to a fine for his drug charges. His accuser was himself charged with drug use and criminal damage, and in October he was issued a three month suspended sentence and a fine. Palmade was sent in critical condition to Bicêtre Hospital, but recovered the next day. which eventually resulted in the death of her baby. While Palmade was hospitalized, investigation found that he was driving under the influence of cocaine at the time of the accident. The investigation also found that two other passengers were in Palmade's car during the accident, and were wanted by the police for questioning. and that he would be put under electronic tagging while being confined at a residential treatment center. On the same day, the two men who were in Palmade's car during the accident were put into custody and questioned by the police. They recounted that after the accident, they got out of Palmade's car and had walked away from the scene. On the same day, a man contacted police and told them that Palmade was in possession of child pornography, which led to an investigation. Three days later, another man contacted police and the media, claiming he had proof that Palmade possessed child pornography. Two days later, Palmade was due to be put on remand while recovering from his stroke.