François Berléand

Known for ActingBorn 1952-04-22 (age 74)Paris, France

François Berléand (born April 22, 1952) is a French actor. He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in Le Bureau, the French version of The Office, produced by Canal+. He also appeared in the 2002 film The Transporter as the French commissaire named Tarconi, an active and honest police officer who is an acquaintance of Frank Martin (Jason Statham). He reprised the role in the sequels Transporter 2 and Transporter 3 and the TV series. Berléand was born in Paris, France. The son of a Russian-Armenian father and a French mother, until the age of eleven he found his childhood traumatic after being told by his father that Berléand was the son of the Invisible Man. While studying at business school, he trained as an actor, somewhat against his will; his first stage role was in a play called Sur une plage de l'Ouest (On a beach in the West). After graduation, he enrolled in drama classes with Tania Balachova and then met Daniel, a director under whose auspices he worked from 1974 to 1981, participating in a dozen productions, mainly of contemporary classics. Berléand began his film career in 1978 with supporting roles in successful comedies throughout the 1980s. After a series of highly acclaimed supporting roles, including My Small Business for which he won the César for best actor in a supporting role in 2000, he won his first major role in the film My Idol by Guillaume Canet which brought his name and face to the wider public. For this, Berléand thanks his former girlfriend, actress-director Nicole Garcia. In Martin et Léa, he plays a police inspector, a role he went on to perform many times on screen (La Balance, Les mois d'avril sont meurtriers (based on the novel The Devil's Home on Leave by Derek Raymond), Marche à l'ombre (Walking in the Shade), The Bait, The Death the Chinese, Fred, The Smile of the Clown, Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One), Transporter 1, 2, and 3) thanks in part to a cold, distant, and piercing gaze. Berléand often plays military characters (The Hostage of Europe, Stella, Les Milles, Captain Conan, The Prince of the Pacific); he has also played a detective (Follow This Plane), pastor (Au revoir les enfants) and psychiatrist in Seventh Heaven, the film that really showed his talents to the public in late 1997. He released a book about his childhood in 2006, Le fils de l'homme invisible (The son of the invisible man). Berléand was in a relationship with French actress, film director and screenwriter Nicole Garcia for twelve years. He has been in a long-term relationship with Alexia Stresi; their twins Adèle and Lucy were born in December 2008. He is also the father of two grown children, Martin (born 1978) and Fanny (born 1983). He is the grandfather of Elios (born 2013), son of Martin. Description above from the Wikipedia article François Berléand, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

La fille de son père

Man of My Life

Un si joli bouquet

Tableau d'honneur

The Violin Player

Jeanne, Marie et les autres

Madame le Consul

La Femme de l'amant

The Unexpected Getaway

La fidèle infidèle

93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré : la crème de la crème

The Grand Restaurant IV

La troupe à Palmade s'amuse avec...François Berléand

Le Parc, Prince des stades

Main basse sur une île

L'Héritière

Recrutement

L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?

Innocent

Dormez, je le veux!

Les Chamois

The Boy

Call My Agent!

The Chorus

School of Life

Phoenix

Colours of Time

Le sourire du clown

L'Année des Guignols - Y'a paaas de méthode

Le garçon d'orage

Chez Maupassant

Par le bout du nez

Le pot de colle

Au Revoir les Enfants

The Hostage of Europe

Suivez cet avion

Deux hommes tout nus

The Concert

Tell No One

Faisons un rêve

Girl for a Day

Love (and Trouble) In Paris

Ramsès II

La Boîte à secrets

Sur la route de la grande vadrouille

Je te promets

L'Arbre de joie

Tailleur pour dames