{"id":111654,"date":"2025-11-02T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/111654\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T16:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:56:06","slug":"actor-tcheky-karyo-star-of-nikita-and-the-bear-dies-aged-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/111654\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Tch\u00e9ky Karyo, star of &#8216;Nikita&#8217; and &#8216;The Bear&#8217; dies aged 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  By&amp;nbsp<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/profiles\/2264\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Kazakevich<\/a>&amp;nbsp&amp;&amp;nbspEuronews&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbspagences<\/p>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            02\/11\/2025 &#8211; 17:18 GMT+1\n            <\/p>\n<p>Tch\u00e9ky Karyo, a rugged and easily recognisable figure in French cinema, who starred in &#8216;The Bear&#8217;, &#8216;Nikita&#8217; and &#8216;Dobermann&#8217;, has died aged 72.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Val\u00e9rie Keruzor\u00e9, his wife, and their children are saddened to announce the death of Tch\u00e9ky Karyo from cancer on Friday 31 October&#8221;, his family wrote in a statement sent to French news agency AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Istanbul in 1953 to a Greek father and Turkish mother, the actor grew up in Paris and made his film debut in 1982 in Chantal Akerman&#8217;s &#8216;All Night Long&#8217; (Toute une nuit).<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, he played a number of dark and violent characters and will probably be best remembered for his roles as a hunter in Jean-Jacques Annaud&#8217;s 1988 classic The Bear and as Anne Parillaud&#8217;s recruiting agent in Luc Besson&#8217;s 1990 noir thriller Nikita.<\/p>\n<p>A polyglot, Karyo appeared in around 100 films in several countries, and was increasingly present on television since the 2010s with his appearance in the British crime series &#8216;The Missing&#8217; (2014-2016) also ranking as one of his biggest hits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspAlexander Kazakevich&amp;nbsp&amp;&amp;nbspEuronews&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbspagences Published on 02\/11\/2025 &#8211; 17:18 GMT+1 Tch\u00e9ky Karyo, a rugged and easily recognisable figure in French&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16539,40489,146,878,85,46,5365,8443,72384],"class_list":["post-111654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-cinema","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-obituary","tag-television","tag-tv-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}