Father of Marie Trintignant, Pauline Trintignant and Vincent Trintignant.
Graduated from L'IDHEC ("La Fémis", at present)
His acting career was interrupted for several years by military service in Algiers.
His actress/daughter, Marie Trintignant, who was married at the time to director/actor Samuel Benchetrit, was fatally beaten in a Lithuanian hotel in 2003 by her jealous boyfriend, Bertrand Cantat, the lead rock singer and guitarist of the group, Noir Désir. Apparently, he became outraged when she received a telephone call from her husband. She suffered a cerebral edema as a result of her skull fractures and died four days after the incident. In 2004, Cantat was sentenced to eight years in prison for manslaughter, which was initially appealed by Marie's family, who wished for a heavier sentence. They later canceled their appeal and the judgment was final.
His daughter Pauline died as a baby while he and his family were on location in Rome in 1969.
Lent his voice to the widely acclaimed The City of Lost Children (1995).
Nephew of sport car driver Maurice Trintignant (1917-2005).
Raised in and around automobile racing, he was the natural choice of director Claude Lelouch for the role of a race car driver in A Man and a Woman (1966).
Said he didn't accept the leading role in Last Tango in Paris (1972), because he didn't like the numerous nude scenes.
Was chosen to play opposite Vittorio Gassman in The Easy Life (1962) because he looked like Jacques Perrin, who started the picture but left to do Family Portrait (1962) under Valerio Zurlini 's direction.