Actor Gerard Depardieu says he's giving up his French passport after he was called pathetic by the country's Prime Minister for becoming a tax exile in Belgium. 

In an open letter published in the French press today, Mr Depardieu said he had been unfairly singled out.

He is the most high profile figure to leave France - after President Francois Hollande's government introduced a scheme to tax annual incomes above €1 million at 75 per cent.