He began his theatrical career in 1951 in the Raymond Hermantier Ensemble, making his film debut four years later in a drama about the solidarity of people of different nationalities if all the men of the world.
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However, he drew more attention to himself in the film And God Created a Woman, where he embodied the serious, sentimental and unyielding Michel Tardieu, the youngest of three men whose life is affected by the fateful girl Brigitte Bardot.
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From the figures of timid, romantic young men, he switched during the 1960s to the more complex and psychologically complex roles of inconspicuous and contradictory men, which he portrayed with subdued civilism and special internal tension.
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One such character was embodied in the film Man and Woman, where he played the widowed car racer Jean-Louis Duroca, with whom the widowed film script Anouk Aimé will establish a love affair.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant
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At the West Berlin Film Festival in 1968, he received a Silver Bear for his role as a man named Boris in The Man Who Lies. A year later, he won the role of investigating judge, trying to clarify the circumstances of the assassination of a Greek left-wing MP, in the political thriller “Z” awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Other films include Crime of an Express, A Tale of a Cop, No Motive, The Assassination in Paris, The Others’ Money and more.
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Passionate racer
In 1973, he first appeared behind the camera during the filming of The Filled Day.
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For his artistic ambitions, however, he never gave up his passion for motoring, he participated several times behind the wheel of the Chamonix 24 Hours, Rallye Monte Carlo or Tour de France Automobile.
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He was twice married. Actress Stéphane Audran became his first wife, and the marriage was very short. The second woman was film editor Nadine Marquand, who later established herself as a film director and cast Trintignant in her films (My Love, My Love, Criminal Thief, Knowing Forbidden, The Honeymoon). Their daughter Marie Trintignant, also an actress, died tragically in 2003.
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