Personal life Patrick Bauchau was born in
Brussels, Belgium, on 6 December 1938, the son of Mary (née Kozyrev), a Russian-born school administrator and publisher, and
Henry Bauchau, a school administrator, lawyer, publisher, writer, and psychoanalyst who served as an officer in the Belgian Underground during
World War II. He was raised in Belgium, Switzerland and England. He attended
Oxford University on an academic scholarship and speaks German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, and a little Russian, Portuguese and Dutch. He is married to the French actress and writer
Mijanou Bardot. They have a daughter and live in
Los Angeles.
Career Bauchau began his career in
French New Wave cinema, including acting in two films by
Éric Rohmer,
La Carrière de Suzanne (1963) and
La Collectionneuse (1967). He also participated in the
New German Cinema in films like
Wim Wenders'
Der Stand der Dinge (1982). Bauchau is better known for his roles in American television. Bauchau has starred in many different TV shows and movies, including
Choose Me,
A View to a Kill as Scarpine,
The Pretender,
Kindred: The Embraced,
The Rapture,
Clear and Present Danger,
The Cell,
Panic Room,
Boy Culture,
Carnivàle,
2012,
Extraordinary Measures and
Get the Gringo. In 1987, he was considered for the part of Captain
Jean-Luc Picard in
Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 1989 he starred as the murderer in
Columbo episode "Murder: A Self Portrait". In 1992 he guest-starred on
Murder, She Wrote episode "The Monte Carlo Murders". In 2004 he appeared in the
Ray Charles biopic
Ray as Dr. Hacker. In 2005, he appeared as a guest star on
ABC's
Alias, as well as on the
Fox shows
House and
24. In 2007 Bauchau took the lead dramatic role in the biographical movie
The Gray Man—a
thriller which dramatised the crimes of the American
sadomasochistic serial killer, rapist, and
cannibal Albert Fish. In 2009, he appeared as a guest star on ABC's show
Castle. For movies, he often performs the French
dubbing of his characters himself, as he is a native French speaker. In 2011, Bauchau guest-starred on the episode "Eye for an Eye" of
USA's
Burn Notice. ==Filmography==