Jean-Pierre Léaud is a French actor born in 1944 in Paris.
Jean-Pierre Léaud is a French actor born in 1944 in Paris.
At the age of 14, Jean-Pierre Léaud began his acting career in François Truffaut’s film Les quatre cents coups. He continued with the director in this tetralogy: Antoine et Colette, Baisers volés and Domicile conjugal.
He also played in Le testament d’Orphée by Jean Cocteau, Pierrot le fou by Jean-Luc Godard and La nuit américaine by Truffaut.
He received an honorary César in 2000 and an honorary Palme d’honneur at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.
During his studies in anthropology at the Sorbonne, Jean-Luc Godard assiduously attended the film clubs of the capital. He became friends with André Bazin, Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Éric Rohmer….