{"id":265936,"date":"2025-11-02T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265936\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:34:08","slug":"french-actor-from-the-missing-was-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265936\/","title":{"rendered":"French Actor from ‘The Missing’ Was 72"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTch\u00e9ky Karyo<\/a>, the French actor who starred in the BBC\u2019s \u201cThe Missing<\/a>\u201d and \u201cBaptiste\u201d and appeared in \u201cLa Femme Nikita,\u201d \u201cAddicted to Love,\u201d \u201cBad Boys<\/a>\u201d and \u201cGoldenEye<\/a>,\u201d died of cancer on Oct. 31, according to AFP<\/a>. He was 72.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in Istanbul in 1953, Karyo\u2019s family moved to Paris when he was young. There, he studied drama at the Cyrano Theatre and later performed as part of the Daniel Sorano Company. As a young man, he joined the National Theatre of Strasbourg and began acting in French films. He had notable early roles in Jean-Jacques Annaud\u2019s \u201cThe Bear\u201d and Luc Besson\u2019s \u201cLa Femme Nikita.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the 1990s, Karyo started appearing in Hollywood movies. He played the title character in \u201cNostradamus,\u201d a villain opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in \u201cBad Boys,\u201d an adversary opposite Jet Li in \u201cKiss of the Dragon,\u201d a French officer opposite Mel Gibson in \u201cThe Patriot\u201d and a Russian Defense Minister opposite Pierce Brosnan in his first turn as James Bond in \u201cGoldenEye.\u201d He also appeared in Ridley Scott\u2019s \u201c1492: Conquest of Paradise\u201d and had a memorable role as a French restaurant owner in Griffin Dunne\u2019s \u201cAddicted to Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThroughout the new millennium, he acted in several American and French movies and shows. In 2014, he began portraying detective Julien Baptiste in \u201cThe Missing.\u201d He played the central character for two seasons and then reprised the role for a two-season spinoff, \u201cBaptiste\u201d from 2019 through 2021. Earlier this year, he appeared in the French comedy film \u201cFaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKaryo was also a songwriter and musician and had released two albums throughout his career. He was married twice, first to actress Isabelle Pasco. After their divorce, he married actress Val\u00e9rie Keruzor\u00e9 in 2002. They remained married up until his death.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe is survived by Keruzor\u00e9 and their two children, Louise and Liv. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tch\u00e9ky Karyo, the French actor who starred in the BBC\u2019s \u201cThe Missing\u201d and \u201cBaptiste\u201d and appeared in \u201cLa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[142801,236,88,109951,142802,142803],"class_list":{"0":"post-265936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bad-boys","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-goldeneye","12":"tag-tchu00e9ky-karyo","13":"tag-the-missing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}