Actor and film-maker, born in Piolenc, France. He abandoned his legal studies to become an actor, making his Paris stage debut in 1951. His appearance in Et Dieu créa la femme (1956, And God Created Woman) with Brigitte Bardot brought him to popular attention. His career includes the internationally successful Un Homme et Une Femme (1966, A Man and a Woman), and a variety of work for Europe's most distinguished directors, including Les Biches (1968, The Does), Z (1968). He played the president in Girod's Le bon Plaisir, appeared in four of his wife Nadine's films, and starred in many Italian productions, such as Bertolucci's Le Conformiste (1970, The Conformist). He has also worked as a director. Later films include an English-language production, Under Fire (1983), Merci, la vie (1991, Thanks, Life), and Ceux qui m'aiment Prendront le train (1998). His daughter, Marie (19622004), was also an actress.
Jean-Louis Trintignant (born on December 11, 1930 in Piolenc, Vaucluse, France) is a French actor.
At the age of twenty, Trintignant moved to Paris, France to study drama, and made his theatrical debut in 1951 going on to be seen as one of the most gifted French actors of the post-war era.
From a wealthy family, he is the nephew of race car driver, Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practicing on the Péronne racetrack in Picardie. Raised in and around automobile racing, Jean-Louis Trintignant was the natural choice of film director Claude Lelouch for the starring role of race car driver in the 1966 film, Un homme et une femme, a global success that made him an international star. Subsequent leading roles in art-house classics such as Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) (at the time the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market), Bertolucci's The Conformist, and the 1969 political thriller Z, in which he portrayed an idealistic young attorney, garnered him an international following as well as the Best Actor award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
Throughout the 1970s Trintignant starred in numerous films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film, Under Fire. Following this, he starred in François Truffaut's final film, Vivement Dimanche!
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Trintignant worked infrequently because of health problems (consecutive from a car accident) and a growing lack of interest for movies.
The following year he lent his voice to the widely acclaimed La Cité des Enfants Perdus, and has made films only occasionally since.
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