Jean-Louis Trintignant

Acting · Born 1930-12-11 in Piolenc, Vaucluse, France

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…

Filmography

• Three Colors: Red as The Judge
• Les Biches as Paul Thomas
• Journey Beneath the Desert as Pierre
• The Last Train as Julien Maroyeur
• Confidentially Yours as Julien Vercel
• Z as Examining Magistrate
• Lust as Bernard Duparc
• The Sleeping Car Murders as Éric Grandin, étudiant vétérinaire
• Swimming Instructor as le jardinier
• The Lady Banker as Horace Vannister