Jean-Louis Trintignant
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| Born | Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant 11 December 1930 Piolenc, France |
| Died | Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day Uzès, France |
| Alma mater | La Fémis |
| Occupation | Actor, director, producer, racecar driver |
| Years active | 1951–2019 |
| Spouse(s) | Stéphane Audran (m. 1954; div. 1956) Nadine Marquand (m. 1960; div. 1976) Marianne Hoepfner (m. 2000) |
| Children | 3, including Marie |
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi tʁɛ̃tiɲɑ̃]; 11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022) was a French actor, filmmaker and racecar driver. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, going on to be seen as one of the most gifted French dramatic actors of the post-war era, known for his starring roles in many classic films of European cinema. He 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 rose to prominence during the French New Wave period, making 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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Early life
Trintignant was on 11 December 1930[1] in Piolenc, Vaucluse, the son of Claire (née Tourtin) and Raoul Trintignant, an industrialist.[2] He grew up with the intention of studying law, but he soon discovered an interest in acting, and moved to Paris at the age of 20 to study drama, making his theatrical debut in 1951.[2]
Career
After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955 and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman.
Trintignant's acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service[citation needed]. After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and resumed his work in film. He had the leading male role in A Man and a Woman, which at the time was the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market.
In Italy, he was always dubbed into Italian, and he worked with Italian directors including Sergio Corbucci in The Great Silence, Valerio Zurlini in Violent Summer and The Desert of the Tartars, Ettore Scola in La terrazza, Bernardo Bertolucci in The Conformist and Dino Risi in The Easy Life.
Throughout the 1970s, Trintignant starred in numerous films, including the English-language films The Outside Man in 1971 and Under Fire in 1983. Following this, he starred in François Truffaut's final film, Confidentially Yours, and reprised his best-known role in the sequel A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later.
In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowski's last film, Three Colors: Red. Since then, he has taken an occasional film role but been focusing on stage work. After a 14-year gap, Trintignant came back on screen for Michael Haneke's film Amour.[3] Haneke sent Trintignant the script, which had been written specifically for him.[4] Trintignant said he chooses the films he does on the basis of the director and said of Haneke that "he has the most complete mastery of the cinematic discipline, from technical aspects like sound and photography to the way he handles actors". He worked with Haneke again in 2017 when he starred in Happy End.[4]
On 20 July 2018 Trintignant announced his retirement from cinema,[5] but in March 2019 he accepted a role in Claude Lelouch's film Les plus belles annees d'une vie, a follow-up to Un homme et une femme and its sequel Un homme et une femme, 20 ans dejà.[6][7][8]
Personal life
Trintignant comes from a wealthy family. He is the nephew of racecar driver Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practising on the Péronne racetrack in Picardy.[9] Another uncle, Maurice Trintignant (1917–2005), was a Formula One driver who twice won the Monaco Grand Prix as well as the 24 hours of Le Mans. Jean-Louis himself was an enthusiastic amateur rally driver and competed in a number of high-level rallies in the 1970s and 1980s, including several rounds of the World Rally Championship;[10] he finished first in his class in the 1981 Monte Carlo Rally.[11] Raised in and around automobile racing, Trintignant was the natural choice of film director Claude Lelouch for the starring role of a racecar driver in the 1966 film A Man and a Woman. He suffered a leg injury from a motorbike accident in June 2007.[12]
His first wife was actress Stéphane Audran. His second wife, Nadine Marquand, was an actress, screenwriter and director. They had three children: Vincent, Pauline (who died of crib death in 1969) and Marie Trintignant (21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003). At age 17 Marie performed in La terrazza alongside her father and later became a successful actress. She was killed at the age of 41 by her boyfriend, singer Bertrand Cantat, in a hotel room in Vilnius, Lithuania.[13]
In 2018, Trintignant announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and would not be seeking treatment.[14] In November 2021, it was reported that he was gradually losing his sight and was in declining health.[15] He died at his home on 17 June 2022, at the age of 91.[2][16]
Filmography
Awards and honours
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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| 1968 | Berlin International Film Festival | Silver Bear for Best Actor | The Man Who Lies | Won | [17] |
| 1969 | Cannes Film Festival | Best Actor | Z | Won | [18] |
| 1986 | César Award | Best Supporting Actor | La Femme de ma vie | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Best Actor | Three Colors: Red | Nominated | ||
| 1995 | Best Actor | Fiesta | Nominated | ||
| 1998 | Best Supporting Actor | Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train | Nominated | ||
| 2012 | Best Actor | Amour | Won | ||
| European Film Award | Best Actor | Won | |||
| Lumières Award | Best Actor | Won | |||
| Globes de Cristal Award | Best Actor | Nominated | |||
| International Cinephile Society Award | Best Actor | Nominated | |||
| London Film Critics Circle Award | Best Actor of the Year | Nominated |
- Trintignant was nominated to receive the César five times: in 1987, 1995, 1996, 1999 and in 2013.
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- Jean-Louis Trintignant biography on newwavefilm.com
- Jean-Louis Trintignant at the Internet Movie Database
- Jean-Louis Trintignant at New Wave Film
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