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Jean-Louis Trintignant

Born 1930-12-11

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.

Known for

Three Colors: Red 1994 · 8.1 Amour 2012 · 7.9 The City of Lost Children 1995 · 7.4 Happy End 2017 · 6.8 The Conformist 1971 · 7.9 Z 1969 · 8.1 The Great Silence 1968 · 7.7 My Night at Maud's 1969 · 7.8 Il sorpasso 1962 · 8.2 A Man and a Woman 1966 · 7.5 ...And God Created Woman 1956 · 6.3 Under Fire 1983 · 7.0 Les Biches 1968 · 6.9 A Self-Made Hero 1996 · 7.2 Flic Story 1975 · 6.9 Rendez-vous 1985 · 6.4 That Night in Varennes 1982 · 7.2 The Sleeping Car Murder 1965 · 7.2 Death Laid an Egg 1968 · 5.9 Merveilleuse Angélique 1965 · 6.6 The Last Train 1973 · 6.9 The Best Years of a Life 2019 · 6.7 Successive Slidings of Pleasure 1974 · 6.2 The Sunday Woman 1975 · 6.5 See How They Fall 1994 · 6.5 So Sweet... So Perverse 1969 · 6.0 The Battle of Austerlitz 1960 · 6.2 Malevil 1981 · 6.5 The Libertine 1968 · 5.4 ...And Hope to Die 1972 · 6.7 The Big Pardon 1982 · 5.7 Tykho Moon 1996 · 5.9 Playing with Fire 1975 · 5.7 Spotlight on a Murderer 1961 · 6.5 Viva la vie 1984 · 6.1 Partir, revenir 1985 · 6.3 La femme de ma vie 1986 · 6.6 La crime 1983 · 5.7 Un homme à abattre 1967 · 6.3 Boulevard des assassins 1982 · 5.6 L'homme aux yeux d'argent 1985 · 5.2