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
• Confidentially Yours as Julien Vercel
• Z as Examining Magistrate
• Is Paris Burning? as Captain Serge
• Il Sorpasso as Roberto Mariani
• The Conformist as Marcello Clerici
• The Great Silence as Silence
• A Man and a Woman as Jean-Louis Duroc
• My Night at Maud's as Jean-Louis
• Amour as Georges

TV

• Nulle part ailleurs as Self
• Agnès Varda: From Here to There
• Midi trente as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
• Numéro un as Self
• Kulturzeit as self
• Samedi soir as Self
• Agnès Varda: From Here to There as Self
• From Rock Star to Killer as Self (archive footage)