Cast

François Berléand

Acting

Cast

François Berléand

Known for

Acting

Born

1952-04-22

From

Paris, France

Also known as François Berleand

Biography

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 Wikipedia

François Berléand

François Berléand

Biography

In All Innocence

A Model Employee

The Chorus

The Transporter

Transporter 2

Transporter 3

Colours of Time

Tell No One

Sincerely Charlotte

Sincerely Charlotte

Somnambule

Angels & Co.

Actors

Cash Truck

The Murderous Months of April

Eros Therapy

Marche à l'ombre

The Great Role

Whatever You Say

Hard Off

Aurore

Au Revoir les Enfants

Above Suspicion

Sur la route de la grande vadrouille

Faisons un rêve

Les Talents d’Achille

Romance

Sans rires

Le Dindon

Batailles

Grand Oral

Stardom

Among Friends

Seventh Heaven

How to Be a Good Wife

Recrutement

L'Arbre de joie

Edy

Family Is Family

The Secret Wife

The Adversary

Fred

Last Dance

Narco

Me and My Sister

A Girl Cut in Two

The Whistler

Closed Circuit

La Fête du Cinéma

Ramsès II

5H48, Place des Martyrs

The Screw

Camille Claudel

Père Noël à domicile

The School of Flesh

Max

L'Âge d'or de la pub

School of Life

Lucky

Happiness Never Comes Alone

Le Petit Fût

Sentiments provisoires

Cyrano

Dans la peau de McWalter

Les Amateurs

The Violin Player

Ca$h

Avis de tempête

La fidèle infidèle

Cherche famille désespérément

The Concert

Jeanne, Marie et les autres

McWalter

Someone, Somewhere

Innocent

The Young Casanova

Le pot de colle