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Jean-Louis Trintignant (b. December 11 1930 in
Piolenc, Vaucluse) is a France|French actor.

At the age of twenty, Trintignant moved to Paris
to study drama, and made his theatrical debut in
1951 going on to be seen as one of the most gifted
French actors of the post-World War II|war era.
After touring in the early 1950s in several
theater productions, his first motion picture
appearance came in 1955 and the following year he
gained stardom with his performance opposite
Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's And God Created
Woman.

From a wealthy family, he is the nephew of race
car driver Louis Trintignant who was killed in
1933 while practicing on the Péronne racetrack in
Picardie. His other uncle, Maurice Trintignant
(born 1917), was a Formula One driver who twice
won the Monaco Grand Prix as well as the 24 hours
of Le Mans. Raised in and around automobile
racing, Jean-Louis Trintignant was the natural
choice of film director Claude Lelouch for the
starring role of race car driver in the 1966 film,
Un homme et une femme, a global success that made
him an international star.

Trintignant’s acting was interrupted for
several years by mandatory military service. After
serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and a
very successful career. Subsequent leading roles
in art-house classics such as  Un homme et une
femme (A Man and a Woman) (at the time the most
successful French film ever screened in the
foreign market), Bernardo Bertolucci|Bertolucci's
The Conformist, and the 1969 political thriller Z
(film)|Z, in which he portrayed an idealistic
young attorney, garnered him an international
following as well as the Best Actor award at the
1969 Cannes Film Festival.

He married Nadine Marquand, herself an actress as
well as a screenwriter and director. Since
divorced, they have had a daughter, Marie
Trintignant|Marie (January 21 1962–August 1
2003), who at the age of 17 years of age performed
in  La Terrasse alongside her father and had
become a very successful actress in her own right.

Throughout the 1970s Trintignant starred in
numerous films and in 1983 he made his first
English language feature film, Under Fire.
Following this, he starred in Francois Truffaut's
final film, Vivement Dimanche!

In the late 1980s and early 1990s|90s, Trintignant
worked infrequently because of health problems.
His 1994 role in Krzysztof Kieślowski's last
film, Three Colors: Red marked a rare appearance
for him but still earned him a Cesar Award
nomination for Best Actor. The following year he
lent his voice to the widely acclaimed The City of
Lost Children|La Cité des Enfants Perdus and has
made films only occasionally since.

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