- Philippe Petit is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, on the morning of August 7, 1974
Born: | 13 August 1949 Comment | How old is Philippe Petit in 2024? / Age: | 74 years
| Zodiac sign: | Leo |
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Philippe Petit facts
- For his unauthorized feat 1,350 feet (400 metres) above the ground – which he referred to as "le coup" – he rigged a 450-pound (200-kilogram) cable and used a custom-made 26-foot (8-metre) long, 55-pound (25-kilogram) balancing pole
- He performed for 45 minutes, making eight passes along the wire
- The following week, he celebrated his 25th birthday
- All charges were dismissed in exchange for him doing a performance in Central Park for children
- Since then, Petit has lived in New York, where he has been artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St
- John the Divine, also a location of other aerial performances
- He has done wire walking as part of official celebrations in New York, across the United States, and in France and other countries, as well as teaching workshops on the art
- In 2008, Man on Wire, a documentary directed by James Marsh about Petit's walk between the towers, won numerous awards
- He was also the subject of a children's book and an animated adaptation of it, released in 2005
- The Walk, a movie based on Petit's walk, was released in September 2015, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit and directed by Robert Zemeckis
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