Rémi Laurent

Rémi Laurent was a French actor who was born in Suresnes, known for playing the son Laurent in La Cage aux Folles. He died in Paris from an HIV-related illness in 1989.

Biography

Laurent was born and raised in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, and was the son of a nursery nurse and an agricultural engineer. He learned to play the piano at an early age but decided in his adolescence to pursue comedic acting.
Laurent debuted in the 1976 film À nous les petites Anglaises. He was then featured in a number of popular French films in the late 1970s and most of the 1980s. He is particularly remembered in his role in the 1978 film La Cage aux Folles as Laurent, the son of Renato Baldi. He also is remembered in his role as Denis Boucher in the 1981 Québécois film The Plouffe Family directed by Gilles Carle.
He was romantically involved with actress, who died of AIDS in 1991, then married Emöke Masznyik, a young Hungarian dancer and mime.
He died of AIDS on 14 November 1989 and is interred at Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule.