François Berléand
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
234
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-04-22 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
François Berléand
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
Known For
Du vent dans les branches de sassafras
Would I Lie to You: The Beginning
Vivement dimanche
How I Killed My Father
Happiness Never Comes Alone
Transporter: The Series
The Chorus
Two Much for the Job
The World Upside Down
The Transporter
La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
C à vous
Call My Agent!
La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil
Transporter 2
Télématin
Transporter 3
Salut les Terriens !
Champagne !
Romance
La troupe à Palmade s'amuse avec...François Berléand
One 4 All
Les Cordier, juge et flic
Les Milles
Camille Claudel
Someone, Somewhere
Six-Pack
A Self-Made Hero
Captain Conan
The Art Dealer
93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré : la crème de la crème
La Chartreuse de Parme
Fresh Bait
Au Revoir les Enfants
Runaways
Alive
La Balance
The Whistler
Remake
I've Been Waiting So Long
Cash Truck
Tous Inconnus
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
The Concert
Tell No One
Amanda
Magnificat
La fille de son père
Papa veut pas que je t'épouse
Stand Up Girl
The Adversary
Somnanbule
Vieilles canailles
Narco
School of Life
The Unexpected Getaway
Only Girls
Hear Me Out
Strictement personnel
Place Vendôme
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Pardaillan
Christmas with the Tuches
Hard Off
Actors
Family Is Family
The Boy
L'Esprit de famille
L'Héritière
Le Dindon
Colours of Time
Stardom
Fêlés
A Girl Cut in Two
How to Be a Good Wife
Le Gendre idéal 2
Could This Be Love?
Mot de Passe
Last Dance
Another Woman's Life
Alexandra Ehle
À mon tour
Au bistro du coin
Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
Chez Maupassant
Les Associés
McWalter
The School of Flesh
Dead Man Talking
Sincerely Charlotte
The Prince of the Pacific
The Great Role
Poker
Je te promets
In All Innocence
Fred
Daddy Cool
La Mort du Chinois
Comedy of Power
Vicky
Stop
Edy
Girl for a Day
Disturbing Disappearances
The Warrior's Brother
Le Parc, Prince des stades
The Stroller Strategy
Deep in the Woods
Among Friends
The Happiest Place on Earth
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Hors Service
May Fools
Whatever You Say
Trapped by a Dream
The Young Casanova
The Best Day of My Life
Le Débarquement
Le garçon d'orage
Le souffle du dragon
Me and My Sister
Peplum
Lucky
Ca$h
One Day My Father Will Come
The Okinaway of Life
La Boîte à secrets
Par le bout du nez
Quartier V.I.P.
Un étrange voyage
Encore un instant
Don't Make Trouble!
Above Suspicion
Angels & Co.
My Little Business
One Summer
Père Noël à domicile
Marche à l'ombre
Bad Company
Max
Make It Mine
The Hostage of Europe
L'Année des Guignols - Y'a paaas de méthode
Blanche Nuit
Un soir à la tour Eiffel
Pur week-end
Tableau d'honneur
The Secret Wife
A Model Employee
Le Remplaçant
Grand Oral
Les jours d'après
The Grand Restaurant III
Feu Adrien Muset
60 Going On 12
Martin and Lea
Love (and Trouble) In Paris
State Crime
Passage des arts
La fidèle infidèle
Hot House
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Seventh Heaven
Jeanne, Marie et les autres
Un flic presque parfait
Le Bureau
Murder party au musée
Le sourire du clown
I Love You Coiffure
Panique au 31
Madame le Consul
Les Chamois
Everybody Is a Killer
L'Évasion
Dans la peau de McWalter
Avis de tempête
Je vais mieux
Le pot de colle
Aurore
La clef des champs
Féroce
Main basse sur une île
Le Grand Quiz
Baby Blues
Un si joli bouquet
The Grand Restaurant IV
Stella
Cherche famille désespérément
Le Poisson rouge
Bertrand n'a pas sommeil
Le Débarquement
Tailleur pour dames
La Fête du Cinéma
Tell No One: The B-Side
Une heure de tranquillité
Les Talents d’Achille
Le Gendre idéal
The Charterhouse of Parma
Closed Circuit
A Boire et à Manger
Eros Therapy
Innocent
Quadrille
Génération Alpha
Jusqu'ici tout va bien
Ramsès II
La roue de la fortune : Célébrités
Les amateurs
Nine Women
En Bande Organisée
Escalade
En territoire indien
Fragile(s)
L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?
Santé mentale, briser le tabou
Dormez, je le veux!
The Screw
Le Petit Fût
The Violin Player
Suivez cet avion
Man of My Life
Batailles
Poiret Serrault extraits extra
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
Faisons un rêve
Plus si affinités & Friends
Tender Souls
The Murderous Months of April
Sans rires
L'Arbre de joie
Sentiments provisoires
Recrutement
Deux hommes tout nus
Cyrano
