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Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Birthday: 1930-12-11 | Place of Birth: Piolenc, Vaucluse, France

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Trintignant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
The Most Precious of Cargoes

as    Narrateur (voice)

2022
2021
The Conformist

as    Marcello Clerici

2021
2021
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

as    Self - Actor (archive footage)

2019
The Best Years of a Life

as    Jean-Louis Duroc

2018
Making of Happy End

as    Self

2017
Happy End

as    Georges Laurent

2014
Cinéma Jacques Perrin

as    Self

2013
Making of Amour

as    Self

2012
Amour

as    Georges

2011
2011
2010
Le Miracle du silence

as    Self

2009
Le Combat dans l’île

as    Clément Lesser

2009
Z

as    Examining Magistrate

2003
Janis and John

as    Monsieur Cannon

1999
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

as    Narration (Voice)

1998
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train

as    Lucien Emmerich / Jean-Baptiste Emmerich