EFE.- The actor Jean-Louis Trintignantmythical face of French cinema for his performance in films like “Z” o “A Man and a Woman“He died at the age of 91, his family informed the French press.
The interpreter died “quietly, as a result of old age, this morning at his home in the Gard department, surrounded by his loved ones,” said his wife, Mariane Hoepfner Trintignant.
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With more than 120 films, Trintignant was for decades one of the essentials of French cinema, from its beginnings in 1956, under the orders of Roger VadimClaude Lelouch, Francois Truffaut, Costa-Gravras or Michael Hanekecreator of one of his last memorable roles, “Amor”.
The shyest actor in French cinema and theater, he ended up becoming an icon for his discreet charm and his “normal” man profile, which he highlighted in films such as “And God created woman“, con Brigitte Bardottewhich gave him international fame.
He was born on December 11, 1930 in Piolencin 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 beginning 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 gave “a little embarrassed“.
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In the 1970s he tried his luck as a film director with two black humor films that did not 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 was his partner, an event from which he never managed to recover, as he himself recently acknowledged.
In 2019 he climbed the stairs again Cannes Film Festival beside Anouk Aimee y Claude Lelouch for the premiere of “The best years of a life”, in which the couple 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 movies, ”summarized his ex-wife Nadine Trintignant in brief telephone statements to the French news channel BFMTV.
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Trintignant “It has accompanied our lives a little through French cinema. The page of a formidable artistic talent is closed, also of a voice”, said the French president, Emmanuel Macronin a few words to the press while attending a technology fair.
