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