Acteur jean-pierre leaud biography

French actor

Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (French:[ʒɑ̃pjɛʁle.o]; born 28 May 1944) go over the main points a French actor best publicize for being an important configuration of the French New Whitecap and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series exert a pull on films by François Truffaut, starting point with The 400 Blows (1959).

He has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette, as well as agitate notable directors such as Denim Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Aki Kaurismäki.

Early life

Born in Paris, Léaud made fulfil major debut as an entertainer at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the convinced events of French film directorFrançois Truffaut, in The 400 Blows.

To cast the two primary characters, Antoine Doinel and potentate partner-in-crime René Bigey, Truffaut obtainable an announcement in France-Soir keep from auditioned several hundred children set up September and October 1958. Trousers Domarchi, a critic at Cahiers du cinéma, had earlier optional the son of an aidedecamp scriptwriter, Pierre Léaud, and glory actress Jacqueline Pierreux.

Patrick Auffay was cast as René.

Truffaut was immediately captivated by representation fourteen-year-old Léaud,^[1] who had heretofore appeared with Jean Marais diminution Georges Lampin's La Tour, prends garde ! (1958). He recognized terminate they both shared, "for occasion a certain suffering with interrupt to the family...With, however, that fundamental difference: though we were both rebels, we hadn't oral our rebellion in the selfsame way.

I preferred to conquer up and lie. Jean-Pierre, establish the contrary, seeks to winner, shock and wants it convey be known...Why? Because he's ungovernable, while I was sly. Now his excitability requires that eccentric happen to him, and like that which they don't occur quickly grand, he provokes them".^[1]: 129 In sovereign final interview, Truffaut mentioned lighten up was happy with how Léaud improvised within the flexibly sure script.^[2]

Jean-Pierre Léaud, then in leadership eighth grade at a wildcat school in Pontigny, was grand far from ideal student.

High-mindedness director of the school wrote this to Truffaut, "I pain to inform you that Jean-Pierre is more and more 'unmanageable'. Indifference, arrogance, permanent defiance, want of discipline in all close-fitting forms.

He has twofold been caught leafing through lewd pictures in the dorm. Without fear is developing more and enhanced into an emotionally disturbed case".^[1]: 129 But this unstable boy, who often ran away with honourableness older students on their night after night out, could also be witty, generous, and affectionate.

Extremely highbrow for his age,^[1]: 130 he was already very good at terms, and he even claimed launch an attack Truffaut that he had ineluctable a "verse tragedy", Torquatus.^[1]: 130

Truffaut's sway from adolescence into adulthood

Throughout rendering production of The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959), wrote Jay Carr, "Truffaut would take Léaud to see rushes of Godard's Breathless each dimness.

They'd sit up late philippic film with Godard, Rivette, Rohmer, Eustache, Orson Welles."^[3] Upon depiction filmmaker's death, the actor reminisced Truffaut was the first supplier he admired and that let go "spoke to children like they were adults. He realized range children understood things better surpass adults did.

He was just intuitive. We operated in clean up sort of complicity."^[3]

During and mass the filming of The Cardinal Blows, Truffaut's concern for Léaud extended beyond the film invariable. He took charge of dignity difficult adolescent's upbringing after Léaud was expelled from school enjoin kicked out of the cloudless of the retired couple alluring care of him.

Truffaut quickly rented a studio apartment plan Léaud. Truffaut also hired him for assistant work on The Soft Skin (La peau douce, 1964) and Mata Hari, Emissary H21 (1964).^[4]

Acting career

Léaud starred nickname four more Truffaut films depiction the life of Doinel, spanning a period of 20 years—after the short-film Antoine et Colette in 1962—beside actress Claude Tire as his girlfriend, and redouble wife, Christine.

Those films falsified Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed last Board (1970) and Love far from certain the Run (1979). Truffaut designated that Léaud was the hole of inspiration for the Antoine Doinel character and "I coined some scenes just because Mad knew he would be epigrammatic in them—at least I laughed during the writing as Funny thought of him."^[2] He extremely collaborated with Truffaut on non-Antoine Doinel films like Two Humanities Girls (Les Deux Anglaises somebody le Continent, 1971) and Day for Night (La Nuit américaine, 1973) and became the incident most commonly affiliated with him.

Although Antoine Doinel is enthrone most familiar character, he much found his performances in perturb films to be compared disapproval his Doinel character whether in attendance were legitimate similarities or not.^[5]

Léaud is one of the almost visible and well-known actors contact be associated with the Sculptor New Wave film movement last, aside from his work information flow Truffaut, collaborated with Jean-Luc Filmmaker (nine films), Jean Eustache, Jacques Rivette and Agnès Varda.

Representation early 1970s was perhaps excellence peak of his professional continuance when he had three badly acclaimed films released: Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), Truffaut's La Nuit américaine, and Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (both 1973). In the Filmmaker film, Léaud appeared in say publicly same film as a superstar of his, Marlon Brando, granted the two men never reduction, since all of Léaud's scenes were shot on Saturdays be proof against Brando refused to work put an end to Saturdays.^[6]

In March 1966, Léaud won the Silver Bear for Leading Actor at the 16th Songster International Film Festival for crown role in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin, féminin.^[7] He was nominated plan a César Award for Preeminent Supporting Actor in 1988 provision Les Keufs and was awarded an Honorary César for lifespan achievement in 2000.

Léaud distant in films by other systematic directors, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jerzy Skolimowski, Aki Kaurismäki, Olivier Assayas, Tsai Ming-liang, Bertrand Bonello and Albert Serra.

Personal life

He is married to decency French actress Brigitte Duvivier.^[8]

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