Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant
Trintignant in Il Sorpasso (1962)
Born	Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (1930-12-11)11 December 1930 Piolenc, France
Died	17 June 2022(2022-06-17) (aged 91) Collias, France
Alma mater	La Fémis
Occupations	Actor film director racecar driver
Years active	1951–2019
Spouses	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. 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). 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 The Great Silence (1968), 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.