French actor Gaspard Ulliel succumbed to a head injury that he suffered during a skiing accident in the Alps. He was 37.

On Tuesday afternoon, the actor collided with another skier in the Savoie region’s Rosiere ski area. Preliminary investigation indicated that “both skiers fell to the ground after the collision,” the prosecutor said. Ulliel was “motionless and unconscious when rescuers arrived,” while the other skier was unharmed.

He was airlifted to Grenoble University Hospital, where doctors tried to revive him. He was pronounced dead on Wednesday.

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The actor played the role of the young Hannibal Lecter in 2007’s “Hannibal Rising” and protrayed fashion mogul Yves Saint Laurent in the 2014 biopic “Saint Laurent.” He will next be seen in the upcoming Marvel series “Moon Knight.”

He was also the advertising face of the Chanel men’s fragrance Bleu de Chanel.

The House of Chanel said in a statement it has lost its “ambassador of 12 years and a friend.”

“We have been fortunate to have had by our side all these years a person endowed with great culture, an immense talent, and of unparalleled kindness. He will be sorely missed,” Chanel said.

He has a net worth of $8 million. 

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Following his death, tributes poured in from fans and the corridors of power.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex tweeted an homage that said, “Gaspard Ulliel grew up with cinema and cinema grew up with him. They loved each other madly.”

French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin said she was deeply saddened by Ulliel’s death, describing the actor as “a child prodigy of cinema, who embodied perfectly the French style all over the world.”

With inputs from The Associated Press