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Film legend Trintignant is dead – “And the woman always lures”
French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant has died. Photo: Claudio Onorati/ANSA/dpa
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Jean-Louis Trintignant has shot with the big names in cinema and starred alongside divas Brigitte Bardot and Romy Schneider. France’s film legend has died at the age of 91.
French film legend Jean-Louis Trintignant has died.
The character actor, who made his breakthrough with Brigitte Bardot with “And always lures the woman”, died at the age of 91, as the AFP news agency reported on Friday, citing a message from the actor’s wife.
Trintignant has appeared in more than 140 film and television roles, including A Man and a Woman, My Night at Maud’s and Three Colors Red, which made him an international star.
Trintignant worked with the biggest names in the film business. With Costa-Gavras he shot the political thriller “Z”. His role as coroner earned him the Best Actor award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. This was followed by Alain Robbe-Grillet’s “Liar”, “The Great Error” by Bernardo Bertolucci and “The Wild Sheep” with Romy Schneider, in which he embodies a woman seducer.
With “best director in the world”
Michael Haneke brought Trintignant back to film after a break of several years. In 2012’s “Love” he plays a pensioner who puts his wife, who is bedridden after a stroke, out of her misery. Again with Haneke, whom he considered the best director in the world, he shot “Happy End” from 2017.
Trintignant was born on December 11, 1930 in Piolenc in southern France into a well-to-do family of industrialists. He began his career in the theater, to which he remained faithful throughout his life. The actor has been married twice. In 2003, his daughter Marie from his second marriage to the director Nadine Trintignant was killed by her boyfriend, the singer Bertrand Cantat, in an argument while filming.