1. Jean-Louis Trintignant 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.
18 Facts About Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Jean-Louis Trintignant 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, Eric Rohmer, Francois Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Michael Haneke.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman, followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant 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 The Great Silence, My Night at Maud's, The Conformist, Three Colours: Red, and The City of Lost Children.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant won the 2013 Cesar Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke's Amour.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant grew up with the intention of studying law and enrolled in Aix-Marseille University.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant's acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant had the leading male role in Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman, which was the most commercially successful French film internationally for some years.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant said he chose film projects 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".
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Jean-Louis Trintignant worked with Haneke again in 2017 when he starred in Happy End.
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On 20 July 2018, Jean-Louis Trintignant announced his retirement from cinema, but, in March 2019, he accepted a role in Claude Lelouch's film The Best Years of a Life, a follow-up to A Man and a Woman and its sequel A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant was the nephew of racecar driver Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practising on the Peronne racetrack in Picardy.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant 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; he finished first in his class in the 1981 Monte Carlo Rally.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant suffered a leg injury from a motorbike accident in June 2007.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant's second wife, Nadine Marquand, was an actress, screenwriter, and director.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant was killed at age 41 by her boyfriend, rock musician Bertrand Cantat, in a hotel room in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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In 2018, Jean-Louis Trintignant announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and would not be seeking treatment.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant died at his home on 17 June 2022, at the age of 91.