Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, legendary face of French cinema, passed away

The actor Jean-Louis Trintignantmythical face of french cinema for his performance in films such as “Z” or “A man and a woman”, he has died at the age of 91, according to what his family told the French press.

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The interpreter died “quietly, as a result of old age, this morning at his home in the department of Gardsurrounded by his loved ones,” said his wife, Mariane Hoepfner Trintignant.

With more than 120 films behind him, Trintignant It was for decades one of the essentials of French cinema, since its inception in 1956, under the orders of Roger Vadim, Claude Lelouch, François Truffaut, Costa-Gravras or Michael Haneke, creator of one of his last memorable roles, “Amor”.

The shyest actor cine and the French theater, he ended up becoming an icon for his discreet charm and his profile of a “normal” man, which he highlighted in films such as “And God created woman”, with Brigitte Bardotte, which gave him international fame.

He was born on December 11, 1930 in Piolenc, in the southern region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, where he settled again to live the last years of his life, surrounded by the olive trees and vines that he liked to take care of.

After starting to study law, he moved to Paris with 20 years to do film studies and drama classes, which helped him cope with his shyness, which led him to say that “for years” he was an actor who was “a little embarrassed”.

In the 70’s he tried his luck as a film director with two black humor movies that didn’t have much of a career, and it was actually after he turned forty that he gained more weight in the industry, with that mysterious, ironic and almost weak image.

His personal life was especially marked twenty years ago by the murder of his daughter Marie Trintignantbeaten to death by whoever his partner was, an event from which he never managed to recover, as he himself recently acknowledged.

In 2019 he climbed the stairs again Cannes Film Festival together with Anouk Aimée and Claude Lelouch for the premiere of “The best years of a life”, in which the p

areja from “A man and a woman” met again fifty years later.

“He was a huge actor. He was working all his life, he made great films, ”summarized his ex-wife Nadine Trintignant in brief telephone statements to the French news channel BFMTV.

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