Pierre Deny Dies at 69 After ALS Battle, Emily In Paris Star Dies
Pierre Deny, an emily in paris star dies at 69 after a sudden and severe case of ALS. His daughters said he died this Monday, and the loss now reaches two audiences at once: viewers who knew him from the Netflix series and French television fans who followed his much longer run.
Paul Forman and Emily in Paris
69 is the age Deny reached after a career that stretched from 1986 to 2023, beginning with Medecins De Nuit and later including more than 500 episodes of Tomorrow is Ours. He also appeared in The African Woman in 1990, The Role Of Her Life in 2004, and Another Woman’s Life in 2012.
Three episodes of Emily in Paris brought Deny into a much larger international frame, where he played Paul Forman’s on-screen father and worked inside a series that is heading toward its sixth and final series. Forman posted, “Heartbroken to hear of the passing of Pierre Deny.” He added, “It was a privilege to work alongside him and to witness his warmth and talent up close.”
Luce Mouchel on Instagram
32 is not the only number that matters here, but it does sit inside the larger picture of Deny’s long television presence and the suddenness of the disease his daughters described. They said his death followed “a sudden and severe case of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis),” a statement that gives the cause directly and leaves no ambiguity about how quickly the illness turned fatal.
Luce Mouchel, one of his Tomorrow is Ours co-stars, posted a tribute that read like a working relationship measured in years, trains, lunches, and shared theater trips: “Pierre, seven years of filming together, taking the train together, having lunch together in the cafeteria, sometimes confiding in each other, occasionally inviting each other over and congratulating you on your hidden talent as a cook, introducing our daughters, going to applaud each other at the theater, habitually calling each other ‘doctor,’ and so much more.” She also wrote, “A little over a decade of shared life that shouldn’t have ended so quickly and so brutally.”
French Television Legacy
2017 through 2023 marked the stretch when Deny played Dr. Renaud Dumaze in Tomorrow is Ours, and that span is the clearest measure of his screen footprint for French viewers. For anyone who knew him through that role, his death closes a run that reached well past Emily in Paris and into one of France’s most durable series.
The last public sign of his life on Instagram came in October, when he promoted a reading in Paris. That is where the story lands now: a working actor with a 40-year span on screen, remembered by co-stars on both sides of his career, and gone at 69 from ALS.
