Jean-Louis Trintignant


 
 
Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant (born on December 11 1930 in Vaucluse, France) is a French actor.

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At the age of twenty, Trintignant moved to Paris, France to study drama, and made his theatrical debut in 1951 going on to be seen as one of the most gifted French actors of the post-war era. After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955 and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman.

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From a wealthy family, he is the nephew of race car driver, Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practicing on the P?ronne racetrack in Picardie. His other uncle, Maurice Trintignant (born 1917), was a Formula One driver who twice won the Monaco Grand Prix as well as the 24 hours of Le Mans. Raised in and around automobile racing, Jean-Louis Trintignant was the natural choice of film director Claude Lelouch for the starring role of race car driver in the 1966 film, Un homme et une femme, a global success that made him an international star.

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Trintignant’s acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and a very successful career. Subsequent leading roles in art-house classics such as Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) (at the time the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market), Bertolucci's The Conformist, and the 1969 political thriller Z, in which he portrayed an idealistic young attorney, garnered him an international following as well as the Best Actor award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.

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He married Nadine Marquand, herself an actress as well as a screenwriter and director. Since divorced, they had a daughter, Marie (January 21 1962–August 1 2003), who at the age of 17 years of age performed in La Terrasse alongside her father and had become a very successful actress in her own right.

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Throughout the 1970s Trintignant starred in numerous films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film, Under Fire. Following this, he starred in Fran?ois Truffaut's final film, Vivement Dimanche!

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Trintignant worked infrequently because of health problems. His 1994 role in the late Krzysztof Kie?lowski's last film, ' marked a rare appearance for him but still earned him a C?sar Award nomination for Best Actor.

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The following year he lent his voice to the widely acclaimed La Cit? des Enfants Perdus, and has made films only occasionally since.

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December 11: December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining....

1930: 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday....

Vaucluse: :For other uses of the name Vaucluse, see Vaucluse (disambiguation)...


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Jean-Louis Trintignant and Françoise Brion: Le Coeur Battant  1960
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Françoise Brion: Le Coeur Battant 1960
Charles Aznavour  Etienne Bierry and Jean-Louis Trintignant: Horace 62  1962
Charles Aznavour Etienne Bierry and Jean-Louis Trintignant: Horace 62 1962
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Baron Jean Louis Alibert
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Louis de Funès and Jean Gabin: Le Tatoué 1968
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Jean Gabin and Louis Seigner: Le Baron de L'Écluse 1959

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Un homme et une femme (2) - December 11 (2) - Cannes Film Festival (1) - Z (1) - January 21 (1) - Marie (1) - 1969 (1) - Algiers (1) - 1966 (1) - The Conformist (1) - Bertolucci (1) - 1994 (1) - Fran?ois Truffaut (1) - Krzysztof Kie?lowski (1) - Gregorian calendar (1) -
 

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