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. Shortly before his death from lung cancer, Williams was awarded a papal knighthood. 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. Both devout Christians (though from different denominations), theirs was one of the most successful showbiz marriages, and they worked together on several series of the sitcom, A Fine Romance, from 1981 onwards. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Trintignant worked infrequently because of health problems. He married Judi Dench in 1971, and they had one daughter. Following this, he starred in Francois Truffaut's final film, Vivement Dimanche!. His first film appearance was in 1962, and he subsequently appeared frequently on television (notably in Elizabeth R), and in British films such as Educating Rita (1983) and Henry V (1989).

Throughout the 1970s Trintignant starred in numerous films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film, Under Fire. Born to a Catholic family in Liverpool, he worked as an insurance assessor before going into the theatre as a career. 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. Although best known as the husband of Judi Dench, Williams had a distinguished career of his own, as both a classical and a comedy actor. He married Nadine Marquand, herself an actress as well as a screenwriter and director. Michael Leonard Williams (July 9, 1935 - January 11, 2001) was a well-loved British 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.

After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and a very successful career. Trintignant’s acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. Jean-Louis Trintignant (born December 11, 1930) is a French actor, born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.