At 52, Guillaume Canet is now single. The actor and director has long shared his life with Marion Cotillard but was also married before that to the actress Diane Kruger. A marriage he spoke of in “Legend”.
While viewers can always see him in his latest film, Ad Vitam, Available on Netflix, actor Guillaume Canet is already preparing his next feature film; He is in the casting of Beautifulfrom Benoît Jacquot. But does he have time for love, he who has now been single since his break with Marion Cotillard?
Guillaume Canet’s romantic life has not always been pink. This is what he told Guillaume Pley in Legendon Youtube, notably by evoking his first marriage to Diane Kruger.
Guillaume Canet reveals behind the scenes of his marriage to Diane Kruger
In 1999, Guillaume Canet met the German actress Diane Kruger and it was love at first sight. Barely two years later, they get married! A decision that the director of the film Little handkerchiefs Comment now with a lot of hindsight and humor: “I don’t know what took me.“For him, this precipitated marriage can be explained by his temperament.”I am a ram, so the rags go for it, and it thinks afterwards “, he commented laughing.
But now, five years later, it’s the couple’s end and divorce was pronounced in 2006. “It is a life experience. I don’t regret (…) To come to get married, to make a marriage proposal (…) I was very in love“, He explained. Is Guillaume Canet still in contact with Diane Kruger, who has since couple with Norman Reedus?”We stayed in touch for a little while, and then it’s been a few years that it’s colder“, he admitted.
“”I suffered a lot from separation“”
Behind this sudden desire for marriage, Guillaume Canet recognizes today a form of precipitation … with much deeper roots. His parents separated when he was only 10 years old. “”I do not know if it is the breakdown of my parents, the need all at a time to try to start a family, to do things well and rectify things on which I suffered kid. I think I suffered a lot from the separation of my parents“said the actor.
Unfortunately, Guillaume Canet also imposed separation on his own children. Indeed, after having shared her life with the actress Marion Cotillard since 2007 and had two children with her – Marcel (in 2011) and Louise (in 2017) -, the couple announced in June 2025 their rupture through a press release to AFP.
