1. Marie Trintignant appeared in over 30 movies during her 36-year career.
19 Facts About Marie Trintignant
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Marie Trintignant's family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an actor and her mother was a director, producer, and screenwriter.
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In 2003, Trintignant began an affair with Bertrand Cantat, the lead singer of French rock band Noir Desir.
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Marie Trintignant died days later from cerebral edema brought about by her injuries.
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Marie Trintignant's case became a cause celebre in the discussion of domestic violence and leniency towards perpetrators.
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Marie Trintignant was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, the daughter of actor Jean-Louis Marie Trintignant and his second wife, French film director, producer, and screenwriter Nadine Marquand.
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Marie Trintignant had a strong affection for animals and considered becoming a veterinarian, but in the end pursued a career in acting.
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Marie Trintignant first appeared on screen aged four in My Love, My Love, which was directed by her mother and starred her father.
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In 1988, Marie Trintignant worked under French director Claude Chabrol in the film Une Affaire de Femmes, in which she played a young prostitute in wartime Vichy France.
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Marie Trintignant showed me how to grow without false tragedy.
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In 1990, Marie Trintignant was involved in a serious car accident which she narrowly survived.
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Marie Trintignant starred opposite her then-husband Francois Cluzet in the 1995 film The Apprentices, and in 1998, she appeared again with Depardieu in White Lies.
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Marie Trintignant was still married to Benchetrit at the time of her death, although the two had separated earlier in 2003.
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In 2003, Marie Trintignant traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania, with her mother and her boyfriend, Bertrand Cantat, so she and her mother could finish work on Colette, une femme libre, a television movie in which Marie Trintignant played the starring role.
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Seven hours later, Marie Trintignant's brother summoned emergency services to check the hotel room.
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Marie Trintignant was released on parole after serving four years of his sentence.
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Marie Trintignant's death resurfaced in the media years after Cantat's release when, in 2010, Cantat's ex-wife Krisztina Rady died by suicide.
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The latter, which was directed by Marie Trintignant's mother, recalls her life.
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Marie Trintignant was nominated for France's most prestigious acting honor, the Cesar Award, five times, for her roles in:.