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Occupation
  
Actor

Spouse
  
Brigitte Duvivier

Role
  
Actor


Name
  
Jean-Pierre Leaud

Years active
  
1958- present

Awards
  
Honorary Cesar

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Born
  
5 May 1944 (age 80) (
1944-05-05
)
Paris, France

Parents
  
Pierre Leaud, Jacqueline Pierreux

Nominations
  
Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actor

Movies
  
The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Masculin Feminin, Bed and Board, Day for Night

Similar People
  
Francois Truffaut, Jean‑Luc Godard, Jean Eustache, Aki Kaurismaki, Jeanne Moreau

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Jean-Pierre Léaud ([ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ le.o]; born 28 May 1944) is a French actor, best known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with The 400 Blows in 1959. He also worked several times with Jean-Luc Godard, and is a notable figure of the French New Wave.

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Early life

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Born in Paris, Léaud made his major debut as an actor at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the life events of French film director François Truffaut, in The 400 Blows. To cast the two adolescents, Truffaut published an announcement in France-Soir and auditioned several hundred children in September and October 1958. Jean Domarchi, a critic at Cahiers du cinéma, had earlier recommended the son of an assistant scriptwriter, Pierre Léaud, and the actress Jacqueline Pierreux.

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Truffaut was immediately captivated by the fourteen-year-old adolescent, who had already appeared the previous year with Jean Marais in Georges Lampin's La Tour prends garde! He recognized traits they both shared, "for example a certain suffering with regard to the family...With, however, this fundamental difference: though we were both rebels, we hadn't expressed our rebellion in the same way. I preferred to cover up and lie. Jean-Pierre, on the contrary, seeks to hurt, shock and wants it to be known...Why? Because he's unruly, while I was sly. Because his excitability requires that things happen to him, and when they don't occur quickly enough, he provokes them.". In his final interview, Truffaut mentioned he was happy with how Léaud improvised within the flexibly written script.

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Jean-Pierre Léaud, then in the eighth grade at a private school in Pontigny, was far from an ideal student. The director of the school wrote this to Truffaut, "I regret to inform you that Jean Pierre is more and more 'unmanageable'. Indifference, arrogance, permanent defiance, lack of discipline in all its forms. He has twice been caught leafing through pornographic pictures in the dorm. He is developing more and more into an emotionally disturbed case." But this unstable boy, who often ran away with the older students on their nights out, could also be brilliant, generous, and affectionate. Extremely cultured for his age,. he was already very good at writing, and he even claimed to Truffaut that he had written a "verse tragedy", Torquatus.

Truffaut's influence from adolescence into adulthood

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Throughout the production of The 400 Blows,”Truffaut would take Léaud to see rushes of Godard's Breathless each evening. They'd sit up late talking film with Godard, Rivette, Rohmer, Eustache, Orson Welles.” Upon the filmmaker’s death, the actor reminisced Truffaut was the first person he admired and that he “spoke to children like they were adults. He realized that children understood things better than adults did. He was purely intuitive. We operated in a sort of complicity.”

During and following the filming of The 400 Blows, Truffaut’s concern for Léaud extended beyond the film set. He took charge of the difficult adolescent’s upbringing after Léaud was expelled from school and kicked out of the home of the retired couple taking care of him. Truffaut subsequently rented a studio apartment for Léaud. Truffaut also hired him for assistant work on The Soft Skin and Mata Hari, Agent H21.

Acting career

Léaud starred in four more Truffaut films depicting the life of Doinel, spanning a period of 20 years—after the short-film Antoine et Colette in 1962—beside actress Claude Jade as his girlfriend, and then wife, Christine. Those films are Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979). Truffaut stated that Léaud was the source of inspiration for the Antoine Doinel character and "I created some scenes just because I knew he would be funny in them—at least I laughed during the writing as I thought of him." He also collaborated with Truffaut on non-Antoine Doinel films like Two English Girls and La Nuit américaine and became the actor most commonly affiliated with him. Although Antoine Doinel is his most famous character, he often found his performances in other films to be compared to his Doinel character whether there were legitimate similarities or not.

He is one of the most visible and well-known actors to be associated with the French New Wave film movement and, aside from his work with Truffaut, collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard (nine films), Jean Eustache, Jacques Rivette and Agnes Varda. 1973 was perhaps the peak of his professional career when he had three critically acclaimed films released: Truffaut's La Nuit américaine, Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris and Eustache's The Mother and the Whore.

In 1966, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin, féminin. He was nominated for a César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1988 for Les Keufs and was awarded an Honorary César for lifetime achievement in 2000.

Léaud acted in films by other influential directors, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jerzy Skolimowski, Bernardo Bertolucci, Aki Kaurismäki and more recently Olivier Assayas and Tsai Ming-liang. He appeared with a hero of his, Marlon Brando in the Bertolucci film Last Tango in Paris, although the two never met, since all of Léaud's scenes were shot on Saturdays and Brando refused to work on Saturdays.

Personal life

He is married to the French actress Brigitte Duvivier.

Honours and awards

  • (1961) Nominated for the BAFTA Film Award for being the "Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles" for his role in The 400 Blows (1959).
  • (1966) Won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Masculin Féminin.
  • (1987) Nominated for César Award for Best Supporting Actor at the César Awards for his role in the film Les keufs.
  • (1996) Won "Best Actor" at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for his role in Pour rire!
  • (2000) Received the Honorary César at the César Awards.
  • (2001) Shared the FIPRESCI Prize with Bertrand Bonello for his role in The Pornographer.
  • (2016) Received the Honorary Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
  • (2017) Won the Lumières Award for Best Actor for his role in The Death of Louis XIV.
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    Filmography

    Actor
    2019
    C'è tempo as
    Jean-Pierre Léaud
    2018
    Alien Crystal Palace as
    Horus
    2017
    The Lion Sleeps Tonight as
    Jean
    2017
    M as
    Le père de Lila
    2016
    The Death of Louis XIV as
    Louis XIV
    2014
    La collection: Ecrire pour... la trentaine vue par des écrivains (TV Mini Series)
    - Rosa mystica (2014)
    2014
    Rosa Mystica (Short)
    2012
    Camille Rewinds as
    Monsieur Dupont, l'horloger
    2011
    Le Havre as
    Le dénonciateur
    2009
    Visage as
    Antoine / King Herode
    2009
    Collection Fred Vargas (TV Series) as
    Le Nermord / Clémence
    - L'homme aux cercles bleus (2009) - Le Nermord / Clémence
    2005
    J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka as
    Georges Franju
    2004
    A Wonderful Spell as
    Fernand
    2002
    La guerre à Paris as
    Haut Placé
    2001
    The Pornographer as
    Jacques Laurent
    2001
    What Time Is It There? as
    Jean-Pierre / Man at the Cemetery
    2000
    L'affaire Marcorelle as
    François Marcorelle
    2000
    A Matter of Taste as
    Le juge d'instruction
    1999
    Innocent as
    Le poète
    1998
    Elizabeth (uncredited)
    1996
    Just for Laughs! as
    Nicolas Gardinier
    1996
    Irma Vep as
    René Vidal
    1996
    Diary of a Seducer as
    Hugo
    1996
    My Man as
    M. Claude
    1995
    One Hundred and One Nights as
    Le second Jean-Pierre (complete version) (uncredited)
    1994
    Personne ne m'aime as
    Lucien
    1993
    The Birth of Love as
    Marcus
    1992
    The Bohemian Life as
    Blancheron
    1991
    C'est la vie
    1991
    Paris Awakens as
    Clément (as Jean-Pierre Leaud)
    1991
    Le gorille (TV Series) as
    Bicchieri
    - Gorille Poker (1991) - Bicchieri
    1990
    I Hired a Contract Killer as
    Henri Boulanger
    1989
    Bunker palace hôtel as
    Solal
    1989
    Femme de papier as
    Marc
    1988
    La couleur du vent as
    Decourt
    1988
    36 fillette as
    Boris Golovine
    1988
    Jane B. for Agnes V. as
    L'amoureux colérique
    1988
    Sei delitti per padre Brown (TV Mini Series)
    - Il problema insolubile (1988)
    1987
    Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel as
    Georg Ossegg
    1987
    Les keufs as
    Le commissaire Bouvreuil
    1987
    Boran - Zeit zum Zielen as
    Abgeortneter
    1986
    Treasure Island as
    Midas (as Jean-Pierre Leaud)
    1986
    Corps et biens as
    Marcel
    1986
    Black Sequence (TV Series) as
    Gaspard Bazin
    - Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1986) - Gaspard Bazin
    1985
    Le tueur assis (TV Movie)
    1985
    Néo Polar (TV Series) as
    Fontaine
    - Des choses qui arrivent (1985) - Fontaine
    1985
    Csak egy mozi as
    Péter - a rendezõ
    1985
    L'herbe rouge (TV Movie) as
    Lazuli
    1985
    Detective as
    Inspector Neveu
    1984
    Paris Seen By... 20 Years After as
    René - segment 3
    1984
    Rebelote as
    Rémi Chauveau
    1982
    Véra (Short)
    1982
    Mersonne ne m'aime (TV Movie) as
    Daniel Flipo-Risq
    1982
    Pour Bonnie (Short) as
    Charles Blaine
    1981
    La cassure as
    Le commissaire de police Rauffast
    1981
    Help Me Dream as
    Mario
    1981
    Parano as
    Ignazio
    1981
    Cinéma 16 (TV Series) as
    Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine
    - Le petit Pommier (1981) - Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine
    1979
    Love on the Run as
    Antoine Doinel (as Jean-Pierre Leaud)
    1976
    Le pendule (TV Movie)
    1976
    Les lolos de Lola as
    Bernard Dubois
    1975
    Umarmungen und andere Sachen as
    Tom
    1973
    The Mother and the Whore as
    Alexandre
    1973
    Day for Night as
    Alphonse (as Jean-Pierre Leaud)
    1973
    L'éducation sentimentale (TV Mini Series) as
    Frédéric Moreau
    1972
    Out 1: Spectre as
    Colin
    1972
    Last Tango in Paris as
    Tom - un cinéaste, le fiancé de Jeanne (as Jean-Pierre Leaud)
    1971
    Two English Girls as
    Claude Roc
    1971
    Out 1 as
    Colin
    1971
    A Girl Is a Gun as
    Billy le Kid
    1970
    Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças as
    Preacher
    1970
    Bed & Board as
    Antoine Doinel
    1969
    The Inheritors as
    Danton
    1969
    Porcile as
    Julian Klotz (as Jean Pierre Leaud)
    1969
    Le Gai Savoir as
    Émile Rousseau
    1969
    Paul as
    Paul
    1968
    La concentration
    1968
    Dialogue 20-40-60 as
    Adamik (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")
    1968
    Stolen Kisses as
    Antoine Doinel
    1967
    Bande-annonce De 'Week End' (Short) as
    Saint-Just / Le jeune minet du 16ème (uncredited)
    1967
    Weekend as
    Saint-Just / Le jeune minet du 16ème (uncredited)
    1967
    La Chinoise as
    Guillaume
    1967
    Le départ as
    Marc
    1967
    The Oldest Profession as
    Le garçon d'étage (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)
    1966
    Bande-annonce De 'Made in U.S.A.' (Short)
    1966
    Bande-annonce de 'Masculin féminin' (Short)
    1966
    Made in U.S.A as
    Donald Siegel (as JPL)
    1966
    Le père Noël a les yeux bleus as
    Daniel
    1966
    Masculine Feminine as
    Paul - un jeune homme instable
    1965
    Pierrot le Fou as
    Le jeune homme au cinéma (uncredited)
    1965
    Love at Sea as
    Le gars du métro
    1965
    Alphaville as
    Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)
    1964
    Mata Hari, agent H21 as
    Absalon (uncredited)
    1964
    Robinson's Place (Short)
    1962
    Antoine and Colette (Short) as
    Antoine Doinel
    1962
    Love at Twenty as
    Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")
    1960
    Boulevard as
    Georges 'Jojo' Castagnier
    1960
    Testament of Orpheus as
    Dargelos (uncredited)
    1959
    The 400 Blows as
    Antoine Doinel
    1958
    King on Horseback as
    Pierrot (as J.P. Leaud)
    Assistant Director
    1966
    Made in U.S.A (assistant director)
    1965
    Pierrot le Fou (assistant director - uncredited)
    1965
    Alphaville (assistant director - uncredited)
    1964
    Mata Hari, agent H21 (assistant director - uncredited)
    1964
    Une Femme Mariée (assistant director)
    1964
    The Soft Skin (trainee assistant director - uncredited)
    Director
    1974
    De quoi s'agit-il? (Short)
    Writer
    2004
    Léaud de Hurle-dents (Documentary short)
    Soundtrack
    1967
    Weekend (performer: "Allo, tu m'Entends ?")
    Thanks
    2006
    Paris, je t'aime (personal thanks) / (thanks)
    1970
    The Wild Child (dedicatee)
    Self
    1985
    La nuit des Césars (TV Series documentary) as
    Self / Self - Audience Member / Self - César d'honneur / ...
    - 48e cérémonie des César (2023) - Self - Audience Member
    - 45e cérémonie des César (2020) - Self
    - 25ème nuit des Césars (2000) - Self - César d'honneur
    - 13ème nuit des Césars (1988) - Self - Nominee
    - 10ème nuit des Césars (1985) - Self
    2019
    Film Önü / Arkasi (TV Series) as
    Self - Subject
    - Le Havre (2019) - Self - Subject
    - Les Quatre Cents Coups (2019) - Self - Subject
    2019
    I shot Antoine Doinel (Short) as
    Self
    2016
    Cannes Film Festival (TV Series) as
    Self - Winner
    - Cérémonie de clôture du 69ème Festival de Cannes 2016 (2016) - Self - Winner
    2011
    Días de cine (TV Series) as
    Self - Interviewee
    - Episode dated 21 July 2011 (2011) - Self - Interviewee
    - Episode dated 14 April 2011 (2011) - Self - Interviewee
    - Episode dated 7 April 2011 (2011) - Self - Interviewee
    2010
    Sodankylä Forever (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Ensimmäisen elokuvamuiston kaiho (2010) - Self
    2010
    Gilles Jacob: Citizen Cannes (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2009
    Fleurs dans le miroir, lune dans l'eau (Documentary) as
    Self / Antoine / King Herode
    2004
    Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois (Documentary) as
    Self
    2004
    Léaud de Hurle-dents (Documentary short) as
    Self
    2003
    Cinema Sex Politics: Bertolucci Makes 'The Dreamers' (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2003
    The Dreamers as
    Self (as Jean-Pierre Leaud)
    2001
    Léaud l'unique (TV Special) as
    Self
    2001
    Barra 68 - Sem Perder a Ternura (Documentary) as
    Self
    1991
    Missä on Musette? (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1989
    Les ministères de l'art (TV Movie documentary)
    1987
    The Italian Traveler (Video documentary) as
    Self
    1985
    Valkokangas (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #5.12 (1985) - Self
    1985
    Drôle de festival (TV Short documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1985
    Étoiles et toiles (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Cannes 85 (1985) - Self
    1979
    Spécial cinéma (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 25 February 1979 (1979) - Self
    1978
    Ciné regards (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 17 December 1978 (1978) - Self
    1976
    Allons au cinéma (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 19 February 1976 (1976) - Self
    1973
    Le dernier des cinq (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 10 June 1973 (1973) - Self
    1973
    Pour le cinéma (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 8 June 1973 (1973) - Self
    1964
    Grand écran (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Le Cinéma Nouvelle Vague (1973) - Self
    - Moi et les hommes de quarante ans, Mata Hari (1964) - Self
    1968
    Françoise et Udo... (TV Special) as
    Self
    1967
    Cinéma (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 26 October 1967 (1967) - Self
    1967
    Pour le plaisir (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Festivals 66 Cinéma 67 (1967) - Self
    1966
    XVI. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1966 (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1965
    Cinéastes de notre temps (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - François Truffaut ou l'esprit critique (1965) - Self
    1964
    Nadja in Paris (Short) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1959
    Carrefour (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Les Quatre Cents Coups de Truffaut (1959) - Self
    1959
    Cinépanorama (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 15 May 1959 (1959) - Self
    1959
    Reflets de Cannes (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 9 May 1959 (1959) - Self
    - Episode dated 5 May 1959 (1959) - Self
    - Episode dated 2 May 1959 (1959) - Self
    1951
    Vedettes sans maquillage (Documentary short) as
    Self (Jacqueline Pierreux's son) (uncredited)
    Archive Footage
    2022
    Godard, seul le cinéma (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2022
    Cariño, sabes que soy de otro planeta (Podcast Series) as
    Paul
    - Un año ajetreado (2022) - Paul
    2022
    Gérard Philipe, le dernier hiver du Cid (Documentary) as
    Self
    2022
    Hollywood Insider (TV Series) as
    Self
    - A Quintessential Guide to the Adventures of Antoine Doinel and François Truffaut (2022) - Self
    2022
    La Nouvelle Vague, une bande à part (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2021
    Rochefort, Noiret, Marielle: les copains d'abord (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2021
    Morceaux de Cannes (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2021
    Rembob'Ina (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Françoise et Udo de Pierre Koralnik (2021)
    - François Chalais (2021) - Self
    2021
    Lotte Eisner, aucun lieu, nulle part (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2020
    Le fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (Documentary)
    2018
    Cannes 1968, révolution au palais (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2018
    On n'est pas couché (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 11 May 2018 (2018) - Self (uncredited)
    2017
    Journeys Through French Cinema (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Les enfants de la libération et de la Cinémathèque (2017) - Self
    2016
    Invitation au voyage (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.685 - Self
    2015
    Compression (TV Series documentary)
    - Compression Out 1: noli me tangere de Jacques Rivette (2016)
    - Compression Irma Vep d'Olivier Assayas (2016)
    - Compression Personne ne m'aime de Marion Vernoux (2016)
    - Compression La Chinoise de Jean-Luc Godard (2015)
    - Compression Masculin Féminin de Jean-Luc Godard (2015)
    2016
    Fandor (TV Series documentary) as
    Colin
    - Under a Spell of Acting: Jean Pierre Leaud in Rivette's OUT 1 (2016) - Colin
    2016
    Duels (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Truffaut vs. Godard (2016) - Self
    2014
    Truffaut Insurrected (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2014
    Welcome to New York
    2012
    Cinéphiles de notre temps (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - D'un écran à l'autre (1965-2012) (2012) - Self
    2012
    Ta Compagnie me manque I (Video short)
    2010
    Un étrange équipage (Documentary)
    2010
    Deux de la Vague (Documentary) as
    Self
    2009
    Jean-Luc Cinema Godard (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2009
    Uuden aallon jäljillä (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2007
    Personnel et confidentiel (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires (2007) - Self
    2005
    Premiers pas (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2004
    François Truffaut, une autobiographie (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2004
    Graffiti 60 (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    2002
    Heart of the Festival (TV Movie) as
    Self
    1996
    François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child (TV Movie documentary)
    1993
    François Truffaut: Portraits volés (Documentary) as
    Self
    1985
    Vivement Truffaut (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self / Doinel
    1970
    Langlois (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    1969
    Thèmes et variations du cinéma (TV Series) as
    Self
    - L'enfance au cinéma (1969) - Self

    References

    Jean-Pierre Léaud Wikipedia


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