François Berléand

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 film 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

Berléand was born in Paris, France.^[1] The son of an Armenian father, who imported the first American gadgets into France in the 1950s and a French mother,^[2] he found his childhood traumatic until the age of eleven after taking a remark of his father out of context^[3]

Career

While studying at business school, he trained as an actor, somewhat against his will; his first stage role was in a play called Sur une plage de l'Ouest (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 characters ("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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to François Berléand.

• François Berléand at the Internet Movie Database
• Le coin du cinéphage

César Award for Best Supporting Actor 1976 Jean Rochefort 1977 Claude Brasseur 1978 Jacques Dufilho 1979 Jacques Villeret 1980 Jean Bouise 1981 Jacques Dufilho 1982 Guy Marchand 1983 Jean Carmet 1984 Richard Anconina 1985 Richard Bohringer 1986 Michel Boujenah 1987 Pierre Arditi 1988 Jean-Claude Brialy 1989 Patrick Chesnais 1990 Robert Hirsch 1991 Jacques Weber 1992 Jean Carmet 1993 André Dussollier 1994 Fabrice Luchini 1995 Jean-Hugues Anglade 1996 Eddy Mitchell 1997 Jean-Pierre Darroussin 1998 Jean-Pierre Bacri 1999 Daniel Prévost 2000 François Berléand 2001 Gérard Lanvin 2002 André Dussollier 2003 Bernard Le Coq 2004 Darry Cowl 2005 Clovis Cornillac 2006 Niels Arestrup 2007 Kad Merad 2008 Sami Bouajila 2009 Jean-Paul Roussillon 2010 Niels Arestrup 2011 Michael Lonsdale 2012 Michel Blanc 2013 Guillaume de Tonquédec 2014 Niels Arestrup 2015 Reda Kateb