Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1930-12-11
Day of Death
2022-06-17
Place of Birth
Piolenc, Vaucluse, France
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Biography
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 (170)
One Hero, The People
2026
The Most Precious of Cargoes
2024
Romy, A Free Woman
2022
Shoot to Live
2022
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
2022
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
2021
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
2021
The Best Years of a Life
2019
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019
Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
2018Making of Happy End
2018
