Hervé Paillet

Hervé Paillet (born 1968) is a French actor and painter born with atrophied legs. He is the fifth child of his family. His legs were amputated when he was three years old, and he uses a wheelchair. Eventually he learned to run with his arms and became a weightlifter. As a teenager he won a silver medal in weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Paralympics. He participated in two more Paralympic Games in 1992 and 1996 as a powerlifter. In both 1994 and 1995 he won a French weightlifting championship.

Paillet is married and he has two daughters.

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Category:1968 births
Category:French male actors
Category:French amputees
Category:20th-century French painters
Category:French male painters
Category:21st-century French painters
Category:Living people
Category:Paralympic weightlifters of France
Category:Weightlifters at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
Category:Paralympic powerlifters of France
Category:Powerlifters at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
Category:Powerlifters at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Category:Paralympic silver medalists for France
Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics