Age, Biography and Wiki
| Who is it? | Actor, Writer, Director |
| Birth Day | December 11, 1930 |
| Birth Place | Piolenc, Vaucluse, France, France |
| Age | 93 YEARS OLD |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter, director |
| Years active | 1951–present |
| Spouse(s) | Stéphane Audran (div.) Nadine Marquand (div.) |
| Children | 3, including Marie Trintignant |
Net worth: $18 Million (2024)
Jean-Louis Trintignant, a renowned French actor, writer, and director, is said to have an estimated net worth of $18 Million in 2024. With an illustrious career spanning several decades, Trintignant has become synonymous with exceptional talent and versatility in the industry. He has garnered immense recognition and acclaim for his performances in various films, establishing himself as one of France's finest actors. Additionally, Trintignant's contributions as a writer and director have further solidified his place in the industry, highlighting his multidimensional skillset.
Biography/Timeline
Trintignant comes from a wealthy family. He is the nephew of race car driver, Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practising on the Péronne racetrack in Picardy. Another uncle, Maurice Trintignant (1917–2005), 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, A Man and a Woman. He suffered a leg injury from a motorcycle accident in June 2007.
Trintignant was born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, France, 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.
His first wife was Actress Stéphane Audran. His second wife, Nadine Marquand, was also an Actress as well as a Screenwriter and Director. They had three children: Vincent Trintignant, Pauline (who died of crib death in 1969) and Marie Trintignant (21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003). At the age of 17, Marie performed in La terrazza alongside her father and later became a successful Actress in her own right. She was killed at the age of 41 by her boyfriend, singer Bertrand Cantat, in a hotel room in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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 François Truffaut's final film, Confidentially Yours, and reprised his best-known role in the sequel A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later.
Trintignant was nominated to receive the César five times: in 1987, 1995, 1996, 1999, and in 2013.
In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowski's last film, Three Colors: Red.
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 the classic A Man and a Woman, which at the time was the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market.
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