Tchéky Karyo, star of hit BBC drama The Missing within a wide-spanning 40-year career, has died aged 72.

The renowned French actor – born in Istanbul and raised in Paris – died of cancer on Friday, his agent confirmed. He is survived by his wife, actress Valérie Keruzoré, and their children

Kayro was best known by UK audiences as TV detective Julien Baptiste in BBC anthology drama The Missing from 2014 to 2016 and was widely-watched and praised at the time as ‘hauntingly brilliant television’.

This led to a two-series spin-off, Baptiste.

In a career spanning four decades, he rose to prominence in the 80s in the crime thriller La Balance (1982), for which he landed a César Award for Best Male Revelation.

Later, he played the handler Bob in Luc Besson’s assassin film Nikita (1990).

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