François Berléand

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François Berléand

Berléand at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival
Born (1952-04-22) 22 April 1952
Paris, France
Occupation Actor
Years active 1977–present

François Berléand (born 22 April 1952) is a French actor.

He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in Le Bureau, the French version of The Office, produced by Canal+. He released a book about his childhood in 2006, Le fils de l'homme invisible (The son of the invisible man). He also appeared in the 2002 movie The Transporter as the French commissaire named Tarconi, an active and honest police officer who is an acquaintance of Frank Martin (Jason Statham). He reprised the role in the sequels Transporter 2 and Transporter 3.

Early Life

The son of an Armenian father, who imported the first American gadgets into France in the 1950's and a French mother,[1] Berléand found his childhood traumatic until the age of eleven after taking a remark of his father out of context[2]

Alongside his studies at Business school, he followed a theatre course, somewhat against his will and debuted on stage in a piece called Sur une plage de l'Ouest.

Career

Berléand was born in Paris, France.[3] While studying at business school, he trained as an actor, somewhat against his will; his first stage role was in a play called On a beach in the West. After graduation, he enrolled in drama classes with Tania Balachova and then met Daniel, a director under whose auspices he worked from 1974 to 1981, participating in a dozen productions, mainly of contemporary classics.

Berléand began his film career in 1978 with supporting roles in successful comedies throughout the 1980s. After a series of highly acclaimed supporting roles, including My Small Business for which he won the César for best actor in a supporting role in 2000, he won his first major role in the film My Idol Guillaume Canet which brought his name and face to the wider public. For this, Berléand thanks his former girlfriend, actress-director Nicole Garcia.

In "Martin et Léa", he plays a police inspector, a role he went on to perform many times on screen ("La Balance", "Les mois d'avril sont meurtriers" ("April is a Murderous Month," based on the novel by Derek Raymond), "Marche à l'ombre (Walking in the shade)", "The Bait", "The Death the Chinese", "Fred", "The Smile of the Clown", "Ne le dis à personne" ("Tell No One"), "Transporter 1, 2, and 3") thanks in part to a cold, distant, and a piercing gaze. Berléand often plays military characteres ("The Hostage of Europe", "Stella", "Les Milles", "Captain Conan", "The Prince of the Pacific"); he has also played a detective ("Follow this plane"), pastor ("Au revoir, les enfants") and psychiatrist in " Seventh Heaven", the film that really showed his talents to the public in late 1997.

Berléand has been in a long-term relationship with Alexia Stresi; their twins Adèle and Lucy were born in December 2008. He is also the father of two grown children aged 26 and 31 years.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "François Berléand". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2 February 2014. "François Berléand est un acteur français, né le 22 avril 1952 à Paris d'un père russe d'origine arménienne (importateur en France des premiers gadgets américains qui firent fureur à la même époque), et d'une mère française." 
  2. ↑ Berléand, François (2006). Le Fils de l'Homme invisible. Paris: Stock. pp. unkn. ISBN 978-2234058033. 
  3. ↑ Robert Belleret, « François Berléand : Le rescapé de l'incognito » in the newspaper Le Monde, 3 January 2007.

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