Tchéky Karyo Biography
Tchéky Karyo ( Baruh Djaki Karyo) is a Turkish-French actor and musician well known for his leading French police investigator Julien Baptiste in the British drama The Missing (2014) and its spin-off series Baptiste (2019).
Tchéky Karyo Age
Karyo was born on 4th of October 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey, he is 65 years old as of 2019.
Tchéky Karyo Family | Young
He was born to his mother who was Greek and his father from a Sephardic Jewish family with ancestral roots in Spain. While he was young, his family relocated to Paris, France, where he was raised up. The spelling of his name, Djaki, was changed to Tchéky in a form of French transliteration.
Tchéky Karyo Married | Wife | Children
Karyo is married to his longtime girlfriend, Valerie Keruzore who is a French actress. The pair exchanged the vow at an intimate ceremony in the presence of their closed ones and family members. The couple pair has a daughter, Louise Karyo.
Tchéky Karyo Education
He was enrolled at Cyrano Theatre where he studied drama. He then joind the Daniel Sorano Company where he played many classical roles. HHe later joined the National Theater of Strasbourg and acted in both contemporary and classical plays.
Tchéky Karyo Career
Karyo bean his career when he joined the National Theatre of Strasbourg, He starred in both contemporary and classical plays. He later rose to fame success in French films beginning in the 1980s, first as a character actor. He later got featured in leading roles in several notable films, such as The Bear, in which he played one of the hunters, and director Luc Besson’s Nikita, in which he played the heroine’s spy mentor.
He later appeared in many Hollywood movies, often portraying a French character, in the same fashion as Jean Reno. His movies earned credits include 1994’s Nostradamus in which he plays the famous French prophet, and 1995’s Bad Boys opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in which he plays a character named Fouchet, a criminal who steals heroin from the Miami-Dade Police Department’s headquarters and tries to kill a woman named Julie Mott, played by Téa Leoni, who witnessed a murder.
Tchéky Karyo
He as well got featured alongside Jet Li in 2001’s Kiss of the Dragon as a corrupt and violent Paris police detective who frames Li’s character for murder and later, gets killed by him in retribution. He lated appeared in prominent roles in major films set during wartime. His performances include his acting as a vengeful French officer together with Mel Gibson in The Patriot (2000), set during the American Revolutionary War, and his role as Jean de Dunois in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc. In the DVD edition of The Patriot, Karyo overdubbed his own lines on the French-language track. He appeared in the Martin Sheen film The Way (2010) as Captain Henri.
Karyo later appeared as Julien Baptiste in the acclaimed BBC One/Starz drama series The Missing. He has earned critical praise for his performance. In 2018, He was onfirmed by BBC that he would reprise his role as Julien Baptiste in a spin-off series titled Baptiste, to be written by Jack and Harry Williams. The new six-episode series began on 17 February 2019. He is also a musician and songwriter. He has released the album Ce lien qui nous unit (English: “The link that binds us”), and Credo in 2013 on his 60th birthday.
Tchéky Karyo Movies | Tv Shows
- 2019 Baptiste (TV series)
- 2019 The Name of the Rose
- 2016 The Missing, Series 2 (TV Series)
- 2015 Through the Air
- 2015 Belle et Sébastien, l’aventure continue
- 2014 The Missing, Series 1 (TV Series)
- 2013 Jappeloup
- 2013 Belle and Sebastian
- 2012 No Limit (TV Series)
- 2012 Pieces of Me
- 2011 A Gang Story
- 2011 Forces spéciales
- 2010 The Way
- 2009 A Man and His Dog
- 2009 Kaamelott (TV series)
- 2007 Jacquou le Croquant
- 2007 Boxes
- 2007 La Masseria Delle Allodole
- 2006 The Gravedancers
- 2005 Les Rois maudits (miniseries)
- 2004 A Very Long Engagement
- 2004 Taking Lives
- 2004 Blueberry
- 2003 The Core
- 2002 The Good Thief
- 2001 Kiss of the Dragon
- 2000 Arabian Nights
- 2000 Le Roi danse
- 2000 Saving Grace
- 2000 The Patriot
- 1999 My Life So Far
- 1999 Jeanne d’Arc
- 1999 Wing Commander
- 1998 From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
- 1998 Que la lumière soit
- 1997 Dobermann
- 1997 Habitat
- 1997 Addicted to Love
- 1996 To Have & to Hold
- 1995 Colpo di luna
- 1995 Crying Freeman
- 1995 Bad Boys
- 1995 GoldenEye
- 1995 Foreign Land
- 1995 Operation Dumbo Drop
- 1994 La Cité de la peur
- 1994 Nostradamus
- 1993 And the Band Played On
- 1992 1492: Conquest of Paradise
- 1992 L’Atlantide
- 1992 Sketch Artist
- 1991 A Grande Arte (American title: Exposure
- 1991 Isabelle Eberhardt
- 1991 Husband and Lovers
- 1990 Nikita
- 1990 Vincent and Me
- 1989 Australia
- 1988 The Bear
- 1986 Bleu comme l’enfer
- 1985 L’amour braque
- 1984 Full Moon in Paris
- 1983 Le Marginal
- 1982 The Return of Martin Guerre
- 1982 La Balance
Tchéky Karyo Net Worth
Karyo has an estimated net worth of $4 million which he has earned from his acting career. He as well earns good sum from his appearances in movies TV series.
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