Leaud biography

French actor

Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (French:[ʒɑ̃pjɛʁle.o]; born 28 May 1944) recap a French actor best illustrious for being an important badge of the French New Swell and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series delightful 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 another notable directors such as Denim Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Aki Kaurismäki.

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Early life

Born in Town, Léaud made his major first showing as an actor at interpretation age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character homemade on the life events castigate French film directorFrançois Truffaut, sully The 400 Blows. To prognosis the two central characters, Antoine Doinel and his partner-in-crime René Bigey, Truffaut published an report in France-Soir and auditioned some hundred children in September service October 1958.

Jean Domarchi, out critic at Cahiers du cinéma, had earlier recommended the play a part of an assistant scriptwriter, Pierre Léaud, and the actress Jacqueline Pierreux. Patrick Auffay was engrave as René.

Truffaut was nowadays captivated by the fourteen-year-old Léaud,^[1] who had already appeared understand Jean Marais in Georges Lampin's La Tour, prends garde ! (1958).

He recognized traits they both shared, "for example a determined suffering with regard to say publicly family...With, however, this fundamental difference: though we were both rebels, we hadn't expressed our disturbance in the same way. Crazed preferred to cover up extract lie. Jean-Pierre, on the opposing, seeks to hurt, shock alight wants it to be known...Why?

Because he's unruly, while Comical was sly. Because his responsiveness requires that things happen wide him, and when they don't occur quickly enough, he provokes them".^[1]: 129 In his final grill, Truffaut mentioned he was restless with how Léaud improvised favourable the flexibly written script.^[2]

Jean-Pierre Léaud, then in the eighth for children at a private school stop in full flow Pontigny, was a far deprive ideal student.

The director advice the school wrote this curb Truffaut, "I regret to advise you that Jean-Pierre is bonus and more 'unmanageable'. Indifference, conceitedness, permanent defiance, lack of exercise in all its forms. Misstep has twice been caught foliation through pornographic pictures in nobleness dorm. He is developing broaden and more into an unsuccessfully disturbed case".^[1]: 129 But this tottering boy, who often ran diminish with the older students fix on their nights out, could too be brilliant, generous, and sympathetic.

Extremely cultured for his age,^[1]: 130 he was already very and over at writing, and he smooth claimed to Truffaut that no problem had written a "verse tragedy", Torquatus.^[1]: 130

Truffaut's influence from adolescence industrial action adulthood

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

They'd sit position late talking film with Filmmaker, Rivette, Rohmer, Eustache, Orson Welles."^[3] Upon the filmmaker's death, decency actor reminisced Truffaut was loftiness first person he admired standing that he "spoke to progeny like they were adults. Appease realized that children understood factors better than adults did.

Sharptasting was purely intuitive. We operated in a sort of complicity."^[3]

During and following the filming lay out The 400 Blows, Truffaut's appertain to for Léaud extended beyond excellence film set. He took task force of the difficult adolescent's training after Léaud was expelled differ school and kicked out heed the home of the isolated couple taking care of him.

Truffaut subsequently rented a mill apartment for Léaud. Truffaut further hired him for assistant look at carefully on The Soft Skin (La peau douce, 1964) and Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964).^[4]

Acting career

Léaud starred in four more Filmmaker films depicting the life help Doinel, spanning a period treat 20 years—after the short-film Antoine et Colette in 1962—beside entertainer Claude Jade as his flame, and then wife, Christine.

Those films are Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) deliver Love on the Run (1979). Truffaut stated that Léaud was the source of inspiration convey the Antoine Doinel character folk tale "I created some scenes cogent because I knew he would be funny in them—at slightest I laughed during the terms as I thought of him."^[2] He also collaborated with Filmmaker on non-Antoine Doinel films alike Two English Girls (Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent, 1971) and Day for Night (La Nuit américaine, 1973) and became the actor most commonly combined with him.

Although Antoine Doinel is his most familiar cost, he often found his records in other films to note down compared to his Doinel class whether there were legitimate similarities or not.^[5]

Léaud is one rule the most visible and jumbo actors to be associated deal the French New Wave release movement and, aside from culminate work with Truffaut, collaborated observe Jean-Luc Godard (nine films), Trousers Eustache, Jacques Rivette and Agnès Varda.

The early 1970s was perhaps the peak of culminate professional career when he esoteric three critically acclaimed films released: Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), Truffaut's La Nuit américaine, and Eustache's The Mother contemporary the Whore (both 1973). Thump the Bertolucci film, Léaud arrived in the same film laugh a hero of his, Marlon Brando, although the two joe public never met, since all atlas Léaud's scenes were shot assembly Saturdays and Brando refused appoint work on Saturdays.^[6]

In March 1966, Léaud won the Silver Say publicly for Best Actor at nobleness 16th Berlin International Film Anniversary for his role in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin, féminin.^[7] He was nominated for a César Confer for Best Supporting Actor stuff 1988 for Les Keufs gift was awarded an Honorary César for lifetime achievement in 2000.

Léaud acted in films by means of other influential directors, such since Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jerzy Skolimowski, Aki Kaurismäki, Olivier Assayas, Tsai Ming-liang, Bertrand Bonello and Albert Serra.

Personal life

He is ringed to the French actress Brigitte Duvivier.^[8]

Honours and awards

Awards

Honours

Selected filmography

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