Jean-Louis Trintignant (born 11 December 1930) is a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.

Career

At the age of twenty, Trintignant moved to Paris 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.

Trintignant’s acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and resumed his work in film.

had the leading male role in the art-house classic Un homme et une femme, which at the time was the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market.

In Italy, he was always dubbed into Italian, and his work stretched into collaborations with renowned Italian directors, including Valerio Zurlini in Summer Violent and The Desert of the Tartars, Ettore Scola in La terrazza, Bernardo Bertolucci in The Conformist, and Dino Risi in the cult film The Easy Life.

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 François Truffaut's final film, Confidentially Yours.

In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowski's last film, Three Colors: Red.

Though he takes an occasional film role, he has, as of late, been focusing essentially on his stage work.

Awards

• 1968- Silver Bear for Best Actor for L'homme qui ment
• 1969- Cannes Award for Best Actor for Z
• 1972- David di Donatello - Special Award

Trintignant was nominated to receive the César four times: in 1987, 1995, 1996, and in 1999.

Personal life

Trintignant comes from a wealthy family. He is the nephew of race car driver, Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practicing on the Péronne racetrack in Picardie. Another uncle, Maurice Trintignant (1917-2005), 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. He suffered a leg injury from a motorcycle accident in June of 2007.

His first wife was actress Stéphane Audran. His second wife, Nadine Marquand, was also an actress as well as a screenwriter and director. They had three children: Vincent Trintignant, Pauline (died in 1966) and Marie Trintignant (21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003), who at the age of 17 performed in La terrazza alongside her father and became a very successful actress in her own right.

Selected filmography

• And God Created Woman (1956)
• Les liaisons dangereuses (1959)
• Summer Violent (1959)
• Austerlitz (1960)
• The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
• Un homme et une femme (1966)
• Les Biches (1968)
• The Great Silence (1968)
• L'homme qui ment (1968)
• The Libertine (1969)
• L'américain (1969)
• Z (1969)
• My Night at Maud's (1969)
• The Conformist (1970)
• Le Voyou (1970)
• The Outside Man (1972)
• Le train (1973)
• Violins at the Ball (1974)
• Le mouton enragé (1974)
• Flic Story (1975)
• Le jeu avec le feu (1975)
• L'Argent des autres (1978)
• La terrazza (1980)
• Je vous aime (1980)
• Passion of Love (1981)
• Confidentially Yours (1983)
• Under Fire (1983)
• Viva la vie! (1984)
• Partir, revenir (1985)
• Rendez-vous (1985)
• A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986)
• Three Colors: Red (1994)
• The City of Lost Children (1995) (voice)
• Fiesta (1995)
• A Self Made Hero (1996)

References

1. http://www.enterinside.com/browse/news/3/118435/

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