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Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli

Birthday: 1925-12-27 | Place of Birth: Paris, France

Michel Piccoli (1925-2020) was a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster, in more than 170 movies. Piccoli worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani and Jacques Doillon. He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine Clerc. He had one daughter from his first marriage, Anne-Cordélia. Piccoli was politically active on the left, and is vocally opposed to the Front National.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Film Study 01

as    Footage from La Belle Noiseuse

2024
It's Not Me

as    (archive footage)

2021
Marx Can Wait

as    Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019
Elsa the Rose

as    Narrator (voice)

2018
Dios de monoambiente

as    Self (archive footage)

2015
Our Lady of Hormones

as    Narrator

2014
The Taste of Blueberries

as    Michel

2012
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

as    Le père

2012
Holy Motors

as    Man with the Wine Stain

2012
Max and the Junkmen

as    Max, inspector

2012
We Have a Pope

as    Melville

2011
2011
2009
Le Bel Âge

as    Maurice Reverdy

2009
2008
On War

as    Le grand Hou

2008
The Dust of Time

as    Spyros

2007
Boxes

as    Daddy

2007
Le Roi Lear

as    Le roi Lear

2007
2007
Sole Meeting

as    Nikita Khrushchev

2007
To Each His Own Cinema

as    Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")

2007
Sole Meeting

as    Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

2007
The Duchess of Langeais

as    Vidame de Pamiers

2006
Belle Toujours

as    Henri Husson