François Berléand

Acting · Born 1952-04-22 in Paris, France

Biography

François Berléand (born April 22, 1952) is a French actor. He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in Le Bureau, the French version of The Office, produced by Canal+. He also appeared in the 2002 film The Transporter as the French commissaire named Tarconi, an active and honest police officer who is an acquaintance of Frank Martin (Jason Statham). He reprised the role in the sequels Transporter 2 and Transporter 3 and the TV series. Berléand was born in Paris, France. The son of a Russian-Armenian father and a French mother, until the age of eleven he found his childhood traumatic after being told by his father that Berléand was the son of the Invisible Man. While studying at business school, he trained as an actor, somewhat against his will; his first…

Filmography

• Au Revoir les Enfants as Father Michel
• Tell No One as Eric Levkowitch
• The Chorus as Rachin
• The Concert as Olivier Morne Duplessis
• Colours of Time as Victor Hugo
• School of Life as Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye
• Could This Be Love? as Roland
• May Fools as Daniel
• Me and My Sister as Pierre Demouthy
• The Transporter as Tarconi

TV

• Call My Agent! as Self
• Le Bureau as Gilles Triquet, Directeur Régional de la Cogirep sur Villepinte
• Télématin as Self
• Mot de Passe as Self
• Salut les Terriens ! as Self - Guest
• Transporter: The Series as Tarconi
• Je te promets as Alexandre Gallo
• Peplum as Titus
• The Unexpected Getaway as Self
• Love (and Trouble) In Paris as Georges