Jean-Louis Trintignant

The following year he lent his voice to the widely acclaimed La Cité des Enfants Perdus and has made films only occasionally since. James Woods appeared as himself in the episode of The Simpsons entitled "Homer and Apu.". His 1994 role in Krzysztof Kieslowski's last film, Three Colors: Red marked a rare appearance for him but still earned him a Cesar Award nomination for Best Actor. He has also garnered critical praise for his voice work for Hades in Disney's Hercules. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Trintignant worked infrequently because of health problems. He was nominated for an Academy Award twice: the first in 1987 for Best Actor in Salvador and again in 1997 for Best Supporting Actor for Ghosts of Mississippi. Following this, he starred in Francois Truffaut's final film, Vivement Dimanche!. His career has been noted for the intense characters he has chosen.

Throughout the 1970s Trintignant starred in numerous films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film, Under Fire. He attended MIT, but dropped out in 1969, just before his graduation, in order to pursue a career in acting. Since divorced, they have had a daughter, Marie (January 21, 1962 - August 1, 2003), who at the age of 17 years of age performed in La Terrasse alongside her father and had become a very successful actress in her own right. Born in Vernal, Utah, he grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island where he attended Pilgrim High School. He married Nadine Marquand, herself an actress as well as a screenwriter and director. James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. Subsequent leading roles in art-house classics such as Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) (at the time the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market), Bertolucci's The Conformist, and the 1969 political thriller Z, in which he portrayed an idealistic young attorney, garnered him an international following as well as the Best Actor award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. The Way We Were (1973).

After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and a very successful career. The Choirboys (1977). Trintignant’s acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. The Onion Field (1979). Raised in and around automobile racing, Jean-Louis Trintignant was the natural choice of film director Claude Lelouch for the starring role of race car driver in the 1966 film, Un homme et une femme, a global success that made him an international star. Eyewitness (1981). His other uncle, Maurice Trintignant (born 1917), was a Formula One driver who twice won the Monaco Grand Prix as well as the 24 hours of Le Mans. Videodrome (1983).

From a wealthy family, he is the nephew of race car driver Louis Trintignant who was killed in 1933 while practicing on the Péronne racetrack in Picardie. Once Upon a Time in America (1984). After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955 and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman. Against All Odds (1984). At age 20, Trintignant moved to Paris to study drama, and made his theatrical debut in 1951 going on to be seen as one of the most gifted French actors of the post-war era. Salvador (1986). Jean-Louis Trintignant (born December 11, 1930) is a French actor, born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Best Seller (1987).

True Believer (1989). Chaplin (1992). The Specialist (1994). Casino (1995).

Nixon (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Hercules (voice) (1997). Contact (1997).

John Carpenter's Vampires (1998). The Virgin Suicides (1999). The General's Daughter (1999). Any Given Sunday (1999).

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (voice) (2001). Scary Movie 2 (2001). John Q (2002). Stuart Little 2 (voice) (2002).

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (voice of Mike Toreno) (2004).