French film legend Jean-Louis Trintignant has died at the age of 91.
The veteran international superstar died at his home in the Gard region of southern France on Friday. His wife Marianne confirmed his death to the Agence France-Presse.
He is perhaps best known for his work in art house cinema, including A Man and a Woman, My Night at Maud’s, The Conformist, Three Colors: Red and Amour.
His 60-year career has resulted in more than 130 film roles and at least 50 stage roles, ranging from Shakespeare to French comedy.
In 1969, Trintignant won the Best Actor award at Cannes for the political thriller “Z”, directed by the famous Greek director Costa-Gavras.
Most recently, in 2013, he received the French Cesar Award for Michael Haneke’s Amour, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in the same year.
During his 60-year career, the French actor has won Best Actor at Cannes and a Cesar Award, and acted in other Oscar-winning films. Courtesy of the Everett Collection
Jean-Louis Trintignant starred opposite French actress Anouk Aimée in Man and Woman and again 53 years later for the epilogue The Best Years of Life. Courtesy of Everett Collection
Trintignant rose to international fame in 1966 when he played a racing driver in love opposite French bombshell Anouk Aimée in Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman. He also received the Oscar for the best screenplay and the best foreign language film.
In 2017, the actor declared he was done with the film business, but came out of retirement for his final role in The Prime of Life – 53 years later he returned to Aimée for the epilogue to Lelouch’s classic romantic theatre .