Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Date of Birth:

Dec 11, 1930

Place of Birth:

Piolenc, Vaucluse, France

Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke. He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966), and The Great Silence (1968). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's Z. Trintignant's other notable films include, My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970), Three Colours: Red (1994), and The City of Lost Children (1995). He won the 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke's Amour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Trintignant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

filmography:

Cover Up Cover Up

1983

Under Fire Under Fire

1983

Fiesta Fiesta

1995

Michel Michel

2013

Credo Credo

1983

Escapade Escapade

1974

Happy End Happy End

2017

Tykho Moon Tykho Moon

1996

Malevil Malevil

1981

Close Up Close Up

2012

Flic Story Flic Story

1975

Lust Lust

1962

Z Z

1969

Les Biches Les Biches

1968

The Secret The Secret

1974

Amour Amour

2012

Deep Water Deep Water

1981

The Crook The Crook

1970

Long March Long March

1966

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