Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor. Born: 11 December 1930 in Piolenc, near Avignon, France. Died: 17 June 2022 in Uzes, Occitanie, aged 91. One of France’s most distinguished actors, Jean-Louis Trintignant had a career that stretched from the mid-1950s and his role as Brigitte Bardot’s lover in And God Created Woman to 2012 and Michael Haneke’s Oscar-winning drama Amour, in which he was an elderly man dealing with his wife’s physical and mental decline.
Life imitated art at several points in Trintignant’s life. His off-set affair with Bardot led to his divorce from actress Stephane Audran and Bardot’s split with husband Roger Vadim, who happened to the be film’s director.
The film itself was a big international hit, it turned Bardot into a sex symbol and it seems Vadim did not carry a grudge against Trintignant as they subsequently worked together on a couple of other films.
Life also imitated art when it came to the 1966 Nouvelle Vague classic Un Homme et Une Femme. Trintignant played a racing driver.
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