announced the news to AFP on Friday. Over a 60-year career, the actor, filmmaker and racing car driver worked with some of the best-known directors of their time, including François Truffaut, Bernardo Bertolucci and Krzysztof Kieślowski.
He also starred alongside the likes of Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu and Alain Delon. Born in 1930 in Piolenc, south-eastern France, Trintignant’s passion for racing developed before his interest in acting, thanks to two uncles, one of whom was killed on the track in 1933.
Swapping from his intention to study law to drama, he moved to Paris and made his theatrical debut in 1951. He first acted on screen in 1955, and the following year achieved mainstream success opposite Bardot in And God Created Woman.
However, mandatory military service interrupted his star’s ascendancy, and he was sent to Algeria during the war of independence.
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