François Berléand

François Berléand
Born:
Career: 1978-2009
Countries: France
Genre/Type: Comedy Drama
Comedy
Drama
Thriller
Biography by Nathan Southern
One of the sturdiest supporting players in French cinema for decades and an instantly recognizable face onscreen, François Berléand seemed as comfortable in genteel, laid-back slice-of-lifers as he did in saucy, edgy erotic dramas; throughout his career (unlike some of his Gallic colleagues), this distinguished performer remained squarely in France and seldom, if ever, worked internationally. Berléand accepted one of his earliest roles in director Bob Swaim's violent and cynical 1982 police thriller La Balance (an arthouse hit in its day), then subsequently worked for directors including Caroline Huppert (Signe Charlotte, 1986), Nicole Garcia (Place Vendôme, 1998), and Benoît Jacquot (Seventh Heaven, 1997).

American arthouse audiences may most commonly associate the thespian, however, with a pair of collaborations: his two-film association with the eminent Louis Malle (for whom he played a priest in Au Revoir les Enfants and a bourgeois family member in May Fools) and his sizzling work for Catherine Breillat as a sadomasochistic professor in the director's groundbreaking, feminist-infused erotic drama Romance (1999). In 2006, Berléand teamed up with the celebrated Guillaume Canet for a supporting role in the psychological thriller Tell No One. In addition, Berléand appeared as Inspector Tarconi in the action-packed Transporter movies and portrayed Gilles Triquet, the equivalent of David Brent (Ricky Gervais) and Michael Scott (Steve Carell), on Le Bureau (2006), the French version of The Office.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Le Concert 2009 Actor [Starring]
Cash 2008 Actor [Starring]
Transporter 3 2008 Actor [Starring]
Could This Be Love? 2007 Actor [Starring]
Fragile (s) 2007 Actor [Starring]
La Fille Coupée en Deux 2007 Actor [Starring]
A Comedy of Power 2006 Actor [Starring]
One Summer 2006 Actor [Starring]
Tell No One 2006 Actor [Starring]
Edy 2005 Actor [Starring]
Transporter 2 2005 Actor [Starring]
Eros Therapie 2004 Actor [Starring]
Le Convoyeur 2004 Actor [Starring]
Le Grand Role 2004 Actor [Starring]
Me and My Sister 2004 Actor [Starring]
Narco 2004 Actor [Starring]
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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 released a book about his childhood...
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Awards

Year Movie/Film Role
2002 French Academy of Cinema Mon Idole Best Actor (Nom)
1999 French Academy of Cinema Ma Petite Entreprise Best Supporting Actor (Won)
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