Jean-Louis Trintignant
Actor
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.
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As Director
Filmography
Amour
as Georges 2012
Three Colors: Red
as The Judge 1994
The City of Lost Children
as L'oncle Irvin (voice) 1995
Il Sorpasso
as Roberto Mariani 1962
The Conformist
as Marcello Clerici 1971
Z
as Examining Magistrate 1969
The Great Silence
as Silence 1968
Happy End
as Georges Laurent 2017
My Night at Maud's
as Jean-Louis 1969
A Man and a Woman
as Jean-Louis Duroc 1966
...And God Created Woman
as Michel Tardieu 1956
Is Paris Burning?
as Captain Serge 1966
Confidentially Yours
as Julien Vercel 1983
Under Fire
as Marcel Jazy 1983
The Most Precious of Cargoes
as Narrateur (voice) 2024
The Terrace
as Enrico D'Orsi 1980
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
as Claude le Petit, dit Le poète croté 1965