Rémi Laurent

Rémi Laurent 12 October 1957 Suresnes 14 November 1989 Paris was a French actor best known for playing the son Laurent in La Cage aux Folles He died from an HIV related illness in 1989 Laurent was born and raised in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and was the son of a nursery nurse his mother 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 film La Cage aux Folles as Laurent the son of Renato Baldi Ugo Tognazzi He also is remembered in his role as Denis Boucher in the québécois film The Plouffe Family Les Plouffe directed by Gilles Carle He was romantically involved with actress Anne Caudry who in turn died of HIV in 1991 then married Emöke Masznyik a young Hungarian dancer and mime He died of an HIVrelated illness on 14 November 1989 and is interred at SaintPourçainsurSioule Source Article Rémi Laurent from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30