Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant
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Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant 🇫🇷

Jean-Louis Trintignant (Known as "Jean-Louis Trintignant")
["actor","film_actor","stage_actor","director","racecar_driver"]
Born Dec 11, 1930 🇫🇷 Piolenc, France
Passed Away Jun 17, 2022 Collias, France
Lifespan 91 years old
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"I was an extremely shy young man. Acting was a way of hiding in plain sight behind words written by others."

Archival Overview

Giant of European cinema whose understated, enigmatic elegance illuminated masterworks spanning seven decades, including And God Created Woman, A Man and a Woman, The Conformist, Three Colors: Red, and Michael Haneke's Amour.

Biographical Record

Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant was born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, the nephew of Formula One driver Maurice Trintignant. Moving to Paris to study law, he switched to theatre, making his film breakthrough in 1956 opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman. He achieved worldwide cinematic glory opposite Anouk Aimée in Claude Lelouch's Palme d'Or and Oscar-winning romance A Man and a Woman (1966).

Trintignant won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's political thriller Z and delivered a career-defining performance as the repressed fascist Marcello Clerici in Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece The Conformist (1970). In his late career, he gave sublime, unforgettable turns as the retired judge in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors: Red (1994) and the devoted, grief-stricken husband in Michael Haneke's Oscar and Palme d'Or-winning Amour (2012), winning the César Award for Best Actor at age 82.

Key Life Milestones

May 23, 1969

Cannes Best Actor Award for Z

Won the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for playing the dogged examining magistrate in Z.

February 22, 2013

César Award for Amour

Won the César Award for Best Actor for his heart-wrenching performance in Michael Haneke's Amour.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Pont de Justice Cemetery
Nîmes, France
GPS: 43.8367, 4.3601
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