Jacques Charrier (6 November 1936 – 3 September 2025) was a French actor, film producer, painter and ceramist.

Early life and career

In 1980 he returned to the School of Fine Arts, and went back to painting that was full of references to his two passions, travel and antiquity. His art work has been regularly exhibited in Paris, Geneva and San Francisco. With the publication of the memoirs of Brigitte Bardot, he found himself in the media spotlight. He sued for "violation of privacy", and was successful.

Personal life and death

Charrier and first wife Brigitte Bardot in 1960

In 1959, he married Brigitte Bardot; they had one son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, before divorcing in 1962. 

In 1964, he married France Louis-Dreyfus, of the Louis-Dreyfus family, with whom he had two daughters, Sophie and Marie, before divorcing in 1967.

In 1982, he met his third wife Linda with whom he had one daughter, Rosalie.

Since 2009 and until his death, he was married to Japanese artist Makiko Kumano. 

Since 1997 he lived in Paris.

Charrier died on 3 September 2025, at the age of 88.