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Jean-Louis Trintignant (Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant) was born on 11 December, 1930 in Piolenc, France, is a French actor (1930–2022). Discover Jean-Louis Trintignant's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

Popular As Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant
Occupation Actor · film director · racecar driver
Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 11 December 1930
Birthday 11 December
Birthplace Piolenc, France
Date of death 17 June, 2022
Died Place Collias, France
Nationality France

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Jean-Louis Trintignant Height, Weight & Measurements

At 91 years old, Jean-Louis Trintignant height is 5′ 8″ .

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Height 5′ 8″
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Who Is Jean-Louis Trintignant's Wife?

His wife is Stéphane Audran (m. 1954-1956) Nadine Marquand (m. 1960-1976) Marianne Hoepfner (m. 2000)

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Wife Stéphane Audran (m. 1954-1956) Nadine Marquand (m. 1960-1976) Marianne Hoepfner (m. 2000)
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Children 3, including Marie

Jean-Louis Trintignant Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jean-Louis Trintignant worth at the age of 91 years old? Jean-Louis Trintignant’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from France. We have estimated Jean-Louis Trintignant's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Source of Income Actor

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1917

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.

1930

Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022) was a French actor.

Trintignant was born on 11 December 1930 in Piolenc, Vaucluse, the son of Claire (née Tourtin) and Raoul Trintignant, an industrialist.

he had older brother by four years, During World War II, his father joined the resistance against the Nazi regime by aiding Jews, and his mother began an affair with Nazi officer which led her Horizontal collaboration which affected Jean Louis for his entire life.

Jean-Louis Trintignant: 1930–2022". diariodelyaqui NEWS

1933

He was the nephew of racecar driver Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practising on the Péronne racetrack in Picardy.

1950

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.

1951

He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era.

He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke.

He grew up with the intention of studying law, but he soon discovered an interest in acting and moved to Paris at the age of 20 to study drama, making his theatrical debut in 1951.

1956

He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966).

1962

They had three children: Vincent, Pauline (who died of crib death in 1969), and Marie Trintignant (21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003).

At age 17 Marie performed in La terrazza alongside her father and later became a successful actress.

She was killed at age 41 by her boyfriend, rock musician Bertrand Cantat, in a hotel room in Vilnius, Lithuania.

1966

He had the leading male role in Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme, 1966), which was the most commercially successful French film internationally for some years.

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.

Raised in and around automobile racing, Trintignant was the natural choice of film director Claude Lelouch for the starring role of a racecar driver in the 1966 film A Man and a Woman.

1968

He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's Z.

Trintignant's other notable films include The Great Silence (1968), My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970), Three Colours: Red (1994), and The City of Lost Children (1995).

1970

Throughout the 1970s, Trintignant starred in many films, including the English-language films The Outside Man in 1971 and Under Fire in 1983.

Jean-Louis himself was an enthusiastic amateur rally driver and competed in a number of high-level rallies in the 1970s and 1980s, including several rounds of the World Rally Championship; he finished first in his class in the 1981 Monte Carlo Rally.

1986

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 (Un homme et une femme, 20 ans dejà, 1986).

1994

In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowski's final film, Three Colors: Red.

For the remainder of his career, he took an occasional film role but focused on stage work.

After a 14-year gap, Trintignant came back to the screen for Michael Haneke's film Amour.

Haneke sent Trintignant the screenplay, which had been written specifically for him.

Trintignant said he chose film projects on the basis of the director and said of Haneke that "he has the most complete mastery of the cinematic discipline, from technical aspects like sound and photography to the way he handles actors".

2007

He suffered a leg injury from a motorbike accident in June 2007.

His first wife was actress Stéphane Audran.

His second wife, Nadine Marquand, was an actress, screenwriter, and director.

2013

He won the 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke's Amour.

2017

He worked with Haneke again in 2017 when he starred in Happy End.

2018

On 20 July 2018, Trintignant announced his retirement from cinema, but, in March 2019, he accepted a role in Claude Lelouch's film The Best Years of a Life (Les plus belles annees d'une vie), a follow-up to A Man and a Woman and its sequel A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later.

Trintignant came from a wealthy family.

In 2018, Trintignant announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and would not be seeking treatment.

In November 2021, it was reported that he was gradually losing his sight and was in declining health.

Trintignant died at his home on 17 June 2022, at the age of 91.

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