Ulliel began his career on French television in the late 1990s. but he began to gain notoriety in 2002 with “Besen whoever you want”.
The role that catapulted him to fame in France was as a World War I soldier in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “A Long Courtship Sunday” (2004).
In 2014 he played the couturier Yves Saint Laurent in “Saint Laurent” and in 2017 he won the César for best actor with “Just before the end of the world” by Xavier Dolan.
Handsome, with a small scar on his face that he kept from childhood, Ulliel filmed alongside great stars such as Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, and also advertised a Chanel perfume.
The actor was skiing in La Rosière (Savoy) when he suffered the accident, according to sources who confirmed information from the news network BFM TV.