At 83, Richard Bohringer is discreet. The famous actor has moved away from film sets and is spending peaceful days… between two countries?
At 83, Richard Bohringer has an impressive career. The actor, whose last project dates back to 2023 when he took the stage for the play Fifteen Roundshas never had both feet in the same shoe. And that goes for his life as an artist as well as his private life. The proof: he has dual nationality.
Richard Bohringer naturalized in this country on another continent
Passionate about Africa, the actor born in 1942 in Moulins (in Allier) applied for Senegalese nationality after falling in love with the country on the set of the film The Caprices of a Riverby Bernard Giraudeau, in the 1990s. In 2002, Richard Bohringer then obtained the grail and, since then, he has shared his life between France, where his entire family lives including his daughter the actress Romane Bohringer, and Saint-Louis, a city on the west coast of Senegal where he has a house.
Moreover, Richard Bohringer spent his life proclaiming loud and clear that Senegal had given him everything. “This continent took me in its arms. It has a sense of sharing. Those who gave me had nothing: they went looking in the holes in their hands. It’s very difficult to feel in your place when you’re a drug addict. (‘White’ in Wolof and Malinké) because there, life is only African. But I felt accepted.”had confided the actor in Geo, in 2016.
Richard Bohringer almost didn’t “take the return flight”
Many times tried not to “take the return flight”the double Caesarized actor reasoned with himself all his life, until he had to return to France permanently to fight against cancer in the greatest secrecy. “But I had my children and their mother in France. Africa has already distanced me from them so much… It started in 1985. I made a number of trips there. I was very lost. This continent is powerful and devastating, it makes what we were disappear, makes you become someone else. At that time, Africa tore me from my life. It disrupted it. Today, I miss it terribly. I’m in love.”he admitted, still in Geo.
Naturalized Senegalese “to show him full time my love, my esteem and my respect” as he explained on the set of Thierry Ardisson in 2002, Romane Bohringer’s father even shot a film for free in his country of heart: Baobabs do not grow in winter, by Henri Henriol.
