Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (French pronunciation: ​[Ê'É'̃ lwi
tÊ É›ÌƒtiɲÉ'̃]; born 11 December 1930) is a French actor. He won the
Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Best
Actor Award at the César Awards 2013. He starred in classic films
such as Z, A Man and a Woman, The Great Silence, The Conformist, Three
Colours: Red, and Amour.Trintignant was born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, the
son of Claire (née Tourtin) and Raoul Trintignant, an industrialist.
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-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.Trintignant's acting was interrupted for several years
by mandatory military service. After serving in Algiers, he returned
to Paris and resumed his work in film. He had the leading male role in
A Man and a Woman, which at the time was the most successful French
film ever screened in the foreign market.In Italy, he was always
dubbed into Italian, and he worked with Italian directors including
Sergio Corbucci in The Great Silence, Valerio Zurlini in Violent
Summer and The Desert of the Tartars, Ettore Scola in La terrazza,
Bernardo Bertolucci in The Conformist, and Dino Risi in The Easy Life. Jean-Louis Trintignant Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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