Deny appeared in seasons three and four of the hit Netflix streaming show as Louis de Leon, a French luxury goods executive.
WASHINGTON — Pierre Deny, a French actor who appeared on the Netflix series “Emily in Paris,” has died from a “sudden” case of ALS, his daughters confirmed to a French news service on Wednesday. He was 69.
In a press release to the French news service Agence France-Presse, Deny’s daughters confirmed that the actor died on Monday.
Deny appeared in three episodes between seasons three and four of “Emily in Paris,” where he played a fictional French luxury goods executive, Louis de Leon.
Beyond “Emily in Paris,” Deny was known in France for his appearances on popular police dramas and soap operas. According to DEADLINE, Deny appeared in more than 300 episodes of the soap opera “Tomorrow Is Ours” as the character Renaud Dumaze.
What is ALS?
Also known in the United States as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis causes a progressive loss of neurons that control muscle movement.
Baseball player namesake Lou Gehrig and British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking also suffered from the disease. In France, ALS is often referred to as Charcot’s disease, after the 19th-century French neurologist who first identified the ailment.