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| 3 | Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 28 May 1944 in Paris, France) is a French actor, considered to be one of the leading acting figures of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave. |
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| 5 | Although he had appeared in a previous film (''Film/LaTourPrendsGarde'') in a minor role, his film career truly took off at the age of 14, with him answering an ad placed by Creator/FrancoisTruffaut. Léaud would beat out over a hundred other teenagers for the role of Antoine Doinel in ''The 400 Blows''. Léaud and Truffaut would grow close over the filming, with Truffaut becoming Léaud's guardian after the latter was expelled from school and kicked out of the home of his foster parents. Léaud would go on to become Truffaut's most famous collaborator, reprising the role of Antoine Doinel in [[Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel four more films]], and starring in two non-Doinel films by Truffaut. |
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| 7 | Léaud would go on to work with other New Wave directors throughout the sixties and into the seventies, engaging in multiple collaborations with Creator/JeanLucGodard and Creator/JacquesRivette, and also starring in Jean Eustache's controversial ''The Mother and the Whore.'' He would begin to work more sporadically after the the early seventies and into the eighties, until he eventually experienced a career renaissance in the nineties, with young filmmakers such as Creator/OlivierAssayas and Creator/AkiKaurismaki casting him as a way of paying homage to the New Wave films that influenced them. |
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| 9 | In 2016, he was awarded an honorary UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr, an honor usually reserved for directors. |
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| 11 | !!Films: |
| 12 | * ''Film/LaTourPrendsGarde'' (1958) |
| 13 | * Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel |
| 14 | ** ''Film/The400Blows'' (1959) |
| 15 | ** ''Film/AntoineAndColette'' (1962) |
| 16 | ** ''Film/StolenKisses'' (1968) |
| 17 | ** ''Film/BedAndBoard'' (1970) |
| 18 | ** ''Film/LoveOnTheRun'' (1979) |
| 19 | * ''Film/TheTestamentOfOrpheus'' (1959) |
| 20 | * ''Film/PierrotLeFou'' (1965)(cameo) |
| 21 | * ''Film/MasculinFeminin'' (1966) |
| 22 | * ''Film/{{Weekend|1967}}'' (1967) |
| 23 | * ''Film/LastTangoInParis'' (1972) |
| 24 | * ''Film/DayForNight'' (1973) |
| 25 | * ''Film/TheMotherAndTheWhore'' (1973) |
| 26 | * ''Film/IrmaVep'' (1996) |
| 27 | * ''Film/LeHavre'' (2011) |
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