Whatever happened to Michelle Mueller, the comedian and actress of Wasabi and Asterix?

At the peak of popularity in the first half of the 2000s, Michelle Muller has disappeared from the screens since 2017. What happened to the actor who started as a comedian on stage and then cut his teeth on Canal+?

Michel Miller taught mathematics for a while before completely changing course, starting commercials and doing some comedy shows on the stages of Paris. His dark humor caused a sensation and in 1998 he landed his first role on the big screen in La Voie est libre and has since specialized in comedy.

Michel Muller excelled in comedies in different tones: the pure comedy Recto verso (1998), Asterix and Obelix against Caesar (1999) and Les Dalton (2004), against the background of the thriller Like a Fish in Water (1999), or the mixed action Taxi 2 (2000) and Wasabi (2001), his first leading role, opposite Jean Reno.

Sometimes Michel Muller changes register, especially approaching dramatic comedies (Train de vie, 1998), horror films (Promenons-nous dans les bois, 2000) and swimming films (Fanfan la Tulipe, 2003). In 2005, he began directing Michelle Muller’s Life Is More Beautiful Than Yours, a comedy in which he pokes fun at his daily life as an artist.

In 2007, he directed a mini-series called “Hénaut President”, which was adapted for the big screen five years later, with Olivier Gourmet in one of the title roles. Alongside his work behind the camera, he continues to appear in various feature films (La Grande vie in 2009, The Small Murders of Agatha Christie in 2011, etc.) and is illustrated in Neil Jordan’s historical series, The Borgias. , in the guise of King Charles VIII.

In 2012, he returned behind the camera to sign on for the film adaptation of his TV series. It will be Hanaut President, who will come out one month before the first round of presidential elections. About fifty works were released, the film almost did not participate, only 4739 tickets were sold. This failure put a real brake on the comedian’s career, despite the film’s small budget, estimated at 850,000 to 1.5 million euros.

We find him in 2016 in the political series Baron noir, in which he plays the unscrupulous Gerard Balleroy. Her narrative arc ends at the end of season 1 and her contract with him. After two small roles as a policeman in Jour J and a cut in 2017’s La Fête est finie, he is no longer spoken of.

In the absence of social networks, the actor is discreet and we are looking forward to a new project in which we will see him again and allow a new audience to rediscover him. Look forward to a rich career, including three one-man anthology shows!