Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant made his theatrical debut in 1951 and broke through five years later in And God Created Woman, then became a true name with A Man and a Woman in 1966. He won Best Actor at Berlin in 1968 for The Man Who Lies and at Cannes the next year for Costa-Gavras's Z. Between those festivals and beyond he worked steadily with the auteurs - Bertolucci's The Conformist in 1970, Rohmer's My Night at Maud's in 1969, Kieślowski's Three Colours: Red in 1994 - building a career defined less by noise than by the quality of the company he kept. At eighty-one he took the 2013 César for Amour, Haneke's quiet brutal study of a marriage ending, a final proof that his method had never softened. He died in June 2022.