Jean-Louis Trintignant, the Cesar-winning actor and star of French classics such as Amour, Z and The Conformist, has died aged 91.
The iconic actor, also known for Three Colors: Red and A Man and a Woman, died on Friday at his home in southern France, his wife and agent Marianne Hoepfner confirmed to Agence France Presse.
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In a long and varied career, he appeared in more than 130 films and played numerous stage roles. He was a three-time Cesar Best Actor winner — for Three Colors: Red, Fiesta and Amour, his most recent win in 2013. He was also named Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969 for political thriller Z.
Trintignant shot to fame in 1966 playing opposite Anouk Aimée in the double-Oscar winning A Man and a Woman (1966), which won Academy Awards for best screenplay and foreign-language film. In 2019, his final role was a reprisal of the character.
The iconic actor, also known for Three Colors: Red and A Man and a Woman, died on Friday at his home in southern France, his wife and agent Marianne Hoepfner confirmed to Agence France Presse.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
In a long and varied career, he appeared in more than 130 films and played numerous stage roles. He was a three-time Cesar Best Actor winner — for Three Colors: Red, Fiesta and Amour, his most recent win in 2013. He was also named Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969 for political thriller Z.
Trintignant shot to fame in 1966 playing opposite Anouk Aimée in the double-Oscar winning A Man and a Woman (1966), which won Academy Awards for best screenplay and foreign-language film. In 2019, his final role was a reprisal of the character.
- 6/17/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Jean-Louis Trintignant, the thoughtful French actor who headlined such art house classics as A Man and a Woman, My Night at Maud’s, The Conformist, Three Colors: Red and Amour, has died. He was 91.
Trintignant died Friday at his home in the Gard region of southern France, his wife, Marianne, and agent told the Agence France-Presse.
Trintignant received a number of accolades throughout his 60-plus-year career, including the best actor prize from Cannes in 1969 for Costa-Gavras’ political thriller Z and a Cesar Award in 2013 for Michael Haneke’s Amour, which also won the Oscar for best foreign-language film.
With more than 130 screen and 50-plus stage credits to his name, Trintignant was a highly prolific and respected talent who could perform anything from Shakespeare to commercial French comedies, from art house favorites by Bertolucci, Kieślowski and Truffaut to popular romances and sci-fi flicks — as...
Trintignant died Friday at his home in the Gard region of southern France, his wife, Marianne, and agent told the Agence France-Presse.
Trintignant received a number of accolades throughout his 60-plus-year career, including the best actor prize from Cannes in 1969 for Costa-Gavras’ political thriller Z and a Cesar Award in 2013 for Michael Haneke’s Amour, which also won the Oscar for best foreign-language film.
With more than 130 screen and 50-plus stage credits to his name, Trintignant was a highly prolific and respected talent who could perform anything from Shakespeare to commercial French comedies, from art house favorites by Bertolucci, Kieślowski and Truffaut to popular romances and sci-fi flicks — as...
- 6/17/2022
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- Lawyers launched an appeal Tuesdayin an effort to halve the eight-year prison sentence handed down to French rock star Bertrand Cantat, who was found guilty by a Lithuanian court earlier this year of killing his actress-girlfriend Marie Trintignant. Officials in the prosecutor general's office in Vilnius said Cantat's local attorney had lodged an appeal with the Lithuanian appeal court, arguing that the sentence was too harsh and that a shorter term of four years would be more suitable. The appeal follows calls by lawyers representing the family of the dead actress to increase Cantat's sentence to 10 years.
- 5/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- French rock star Bertrand Cantat was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday after being found guilty by a Lithuanian court of killing his actress girlfriend Marie Trintignant last summer. The verdict was announced by a panel of three judges in a Vilnius courtroom, which said Cantat's guilt was beyond dispute. Asked if he understood the ruling, Cantat nodded his head and replied "Yes". The actor's lawyer, Olivier Metzner, later said he would likely appeal the sentence, which he called excessive. He told reporters that he will make an announcement later this week after he has seen a copy of the verdict and judges' reasoning behind it.
- 3/30/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- Bertrand Cantat, the French rock star accused of killing his actress girlfriend Marie Trintignant last summer, on Monday begged a court in Vilnius, Lithuania, to show forgiveness. Cantat, the lead singer in cult band Noir Desir, made an emotional ten-minute plea for forgiveness and understanding to a panel of three judges on the closing day of a weeklong trial in Vilnius. "I know I can do nothing. I know I can only ask forgiveness as I have since the beginning -- to ask forgiveness from the depths of my heart," Cantat said, according to media reports.
- 3/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- French rock star Bertrand Cantat, accused of killing his actress girlfriend Marie Trintignant, faces as many as nine years in jail if found guilty by a Lithuanian court, where a verdict is expected late Thursday or early Friday. Prosecutors in the trial in Vilnius -- where Trintignant was fatally injured last July during a drunken fight while on location shooting a television version of Colette -- called Thursday for the singer to be jailed for nine years in closing their case after a three-day trial. Prosecutor Vladimiras Serguejevas declared that the evidence proved Cantat's guilt in the death of Trintignant, who died Aug. 1 in Paris after being flown home for emergency brain surgery. He refuted Cantat's claim that the actress suffered fatal head injuries in an accidental fall after their fight.
- 3/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- Columbia TriStar Home Video in France said Monday that it has asked retailers to suspend sales of a DVD starring deceased French actress Marie Trintignant until the conclusion of the trial of rock singer Bertrand Cantat, who stands accused of her killing. Copies of the TV miniseries Colette went on sale during the weekend in a launch planned before it was known that Cantat's trial begins Tuesday in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. But after a growing row in the Gallic media, CTHV contacted sales outlets to request the suspension of sales until the trial is over. Proceedings are expected to last several days. CTHV president Thierry Rogister said in an interview that he had been informed the miniseries was due to be broadcast Monday by pubcaster France 2, and subsequently planned his launch around that date. On March 4, when the trial date was known, France 2 decided to postpone the broadcast. But at CTHV, "The product was already in the circuit, catalogs were printed and so on," Rogister said. The company, however, did decide to suspend its ad campaign to avoid accusations of cashing in on the trial.
- 3/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- The trial of French rock star Bertrand Cantat, accused of killing his actress girlfriend Marie Trintignant last year, opened Tuesday in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Cantat -- lead singer in the band Noir Desir -- who has admitted striking the actress during a drunken fight in a Vilnius hotel room last July, faces 15 years behind bars if found guilty of the killing. He told the court that the couple had come to blows but insisted her death was a tragic accident. During an hourlong appearance before a panel of three judges -- and watched from public galleries by members of his family and Trintignant's -- Cantat declared that he had no reason to harm the actress. She had been filming on location in Vilnius, where she was appearing in "Colette", directed by her mother, Nadine Trintignant. "We loved each other and our love was growing," Cantat told the court.
- 3/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- The lawyer acting for the family of late French actress Marie Trintignant said Tuesday that they welcome the decision by a Vilnius, Lithuania, public prosecutor to try Noir Desir pop star Bertrand Cantat for intentional manslaughter, equivalent to first-degree murder in the United States. The Lithuanian authorities have set the trial for early next year. They have held Cantat in solitary confinement in the Lithuanian capital's Lukiskui prison since he was accused of beating his actress girlfriend in a Vilnius hotel room July 28. Trintignant subsequently died in a Paris hospital Aug. 1.
- 12/3/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- Rock star Bertrand Cantat's lawyer sought an injunction in a Paris court Wednesday against the sale and distribution of a book by French director Nadine Trintignant about her daughter, actress Marie Trintignant. Cantat is awaiting trial in connection with the actress' death. Cantat's lawyer Olivier Metzner said the book, "My Daughter Marie", called his client a "murderer" 73 times, though Cantat has yet to be tried in the killing of Marie Trintignant, his girlfriend. Metzner has accused Nadine Trintignant of commercializing the tragic death of her daughter. Cantat, the 39-year-old lead singer of rock band Noir Desir, has been charged in the Aug. 1 death of Marie Trintignant and has been detained in a Lithuanian prison on suspicion of beating her to death during a late-July row in their Vilnius, Lithuania, hotel room (HR 8/15). The book, with an initial print run of 140,000, is described as a mother's emotional account of her daughter's life and death and has been selling well since its high-profile release Monday. The court will examine the case against the book, published by Fayard, on Friday. Cantat, who will be tried in Lithuania in December, has pleaded that the death was not premeditated but was an accident.
- 10/1/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French rock singer Bertrand Cantat's dark good looks have been staring out from the front page of French magazines and papers for the past two weeks. But not because the band he fronts, Noir Desir, has released a new album. Cantat is in the spotlight because he is charged with giving his actress girlfriend, Marie Trintignant, a fatal beating. It's no understatement to say the affair has shocked France. News of Trintignant's injuries and the circumstances surrounding the incident have blown the lid off one of the strongest taboos in French society. When she succumbed Aug. 1 after five days in a coma, Trintignant instantly became a symbol of women victims of male violence. She was 41 and the mother of four children. Cantat is in custody pending an investigation. He faces as many as 15 years in prison if convicted.
- 8/18/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
An array of French stars turned out to pay tribute to French actress Marie Trintignant at her funeral yesterday. Trintignant - who died last week aged 41, after sustaining severe head injuries in a shocking domestic drama - was buried at Paris's Pere Lachaise cemetery, the resting place of Irish writer Oscar Wilde and American rocker Jim Morrison. Her internment followed a tribute ceremony attended by her family and friends including screen legend Catherine Deneuve. Former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, British actress Jane Birkin and director Claude Lelouch were among celebrities who gathered at the Edouard VII theatre, where they sang songs in memory of the daughter of movie star Jean-Louis Trintignant. The actress slipped into an irreversible coma on 27 July after an incident at her hotel in Lithuania, where she was shooting a film about the French writer Colette. She died on Friday after being flown to France. An autopsy showed her death was caused by repeated blows to the head. Her boyfriend, singer Bertrand Cantat of the top French rock bank Noir Desir, is being held in jail by Lithuanian authorities pending an investigation.
- 8/7/2003
- WENN
The rocker accused of fatally beating Marie Trintignant didn't learn of the actress' death until Monday - three days after she succumbed to her injuries. Bertrand Cantat, who is imprisoned in Lithuania, was not told earlier because he was too unstable - even talking about killing himself - to cope with the news, says his attorney Leonas Papirtis. Papirtis adds that Cantat "took it very, very badly". Trintignant, 41, was hospitalized in the city of Vilnius on July 27 after Cantat allegedly beat her at the hotel where they were staying with her mother and one of her sons. She was flown from Lithuania to France, where she was kept alive on a respirator before she died Friday. Cantat, 39, lead singer of France's most popular rock band Noir Desir, denies beating the actress and no charges have been filed. Officials are expected to take at least two weeks before deciding on any indictment. Trintignant, daughter of French film director Jean-Louis Trintignant, had been in Lithuania since June filming TV movie Colette, about the French writer.
- 8/6/2003
- WENN
PARIS -- An autopsy on French actress Marie Trintignant, who died on Friday after five days in a coma, has concluded that repeated blows to the head caused her death, a judicial official said at the weekend. Police in Lithuania, where the actress suffered her injuries, is detaining Trintignant's boyfriend, French rock singer Bertrand Cantat, in connection with the death. "She succumbed to a trauma from multiple blows to the face, which caused cranial trauma, and blows to various other areas, which confirms what doctors first concluded," an official at the Paris prosecutor's office told Reuters. Trintignant, 41, daughter of movie star Jean-Louis Trintignant and a familiar face in French films since her childhood, died in a French hospital a day after being flown back from Vilnius in a coma. Doctors in Lithuania had performed two operations to try to save her. The autopsy was carried out Friday evening. Cantat, lead singer in one of France's most popular bands, Noir Desir, is behind bars in Lithuania after being placed under arrest on Thursday for two weeks. He is being held in the prison hospital under a strict suicide watch owing to his fragile mental state. His lawyer only informed him Monday that Trintignant had died. Cantat has maintained that Trintignant's injuries were the result of an accidental fall during a fight.
French actress Marie Trintignant has died from massive head injuries after an alleged beating by her boyfriend. Trintignant's lawyer Georges Kiejman says the 41-year-old passed away Friday at the Hartmann Clinic in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, an eastern suburb of Paris, after being flown back France from Lithuania in a coma. Trintignant had been filming a TV movie with her director mother Nadine Trintignant. She had been in a coma since last Sunday, July 27, after an alleged altercation with rocker boyfriend Bertrand Cantat, 39, left them both in hospital. Cantat - who sings in popular French band Noir Desir - is in detention for two weeks while Lithuanian cops investigate the incident, and is now a prime suspect in the murder investigation, after being detained on "suspicion of causing bodily injury". Trintignant, a mother of four, was flown back to France from Vilnius at the request of her family.
- 8/4/2003
- WENN
French actress Marie Trintignant died Friday in a clinic near Paris after spending five days in a coma resulting from a blow to the head received while working in Lithuania, the neurosurgeon who treated her said. She was 41 and the mother of four children. Lithuanian police remanded Trintignant's boyfriend, French rock singer Bertrand Cantat, in custody pending an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fatal injury. A court in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Thursday ordered Cantat held in connection with the incident for an additional 14 days while evidence is gathered. Trintignant was admitted to Vilnius University Hospital in the early hours of July 27 already in a coma. The actress underwent two operations to drain blood from around her brain but never showed any sign of recovery, hospital officials said. Still in a deep coma, she was flown home to Paris late Thursday.
Comatose French actress Marie Trintignant has undergone a "last chance" brain operation in an effort to save her life - after her family begged doctors to try everything. Trintignant remains in a deep coma after being discovered unconscious at a Lithuanian hotel on Sunday. Police are questioning her musician boyfriend Bertrand Cantat - who allegedly beat her on the night in question. Her film director parents Jean-Louis Trintignant and Nadine, and her son Roman are keeping a vigil at her bedside but doctors fear that the second surgery did nothing to improve her condition. Doctor Robertas Kvascevicius says, "We have done an operation at the request of the patient's relatives and it was a last chance operation because the patient's condition was very complicated. Unfortunately, I think her days are numbered now because she is in a deep coma, and the surgical decompression that was performed wasn't enough."...
- 7/31/2003
- WENN
French actress Marie Trintignant is hospitalized in a coma after allegedly being beaten at her Lithuania hotel on Sunday. Police have identified her boyfriend, French rock singer Bertrand Cantat, as a suspect. Trintignant, 41, was brought to the hospital on Sunday morning from the Vilnius Domina Plaza Hotel where she was staying with her mother and Cantat, says DR. Robertas Kvascevicius, a physician treating her at Vilnius University Hospital. Trintignant, daughter of film star Jean-Louis Trintignant, who is in the European country to film in a TV movie, underwent surgery to ease pressure on her brain caused by cerebral hemorrhaging but remains in a coma. The doctor says, "At this point, I cannot promise anything." Kvascevicius says that Trintignant is being kept alive by artificial respiration, adding, "In such cases, the chances for survival are minimal. The rate of mortality is 90 to 95 per cent. There is little chance she will pull through it." Cantat is suspected of beating her early Sunday morning, says police spokeswoman Ruta Andruiskaite. She says Cantat, lead singer of the popular French band Noir Desir, had been admitted to the same hospital Sunday after drinking "dangerously high" amounts of alcohol but that he was released Monday, returning to the Domina Plaza Hotel. He was expected to go under police interrogation Tuesday.
- 7/30/2003
- WENN
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