François Berléand
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
230
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
Télématin
C à vous
The Lorax
Transporter 3
Salut les Terriens !
Transporter 2
Call My Agent!
The Chorus
The Transporter
Tell No One
Transporter: The Series
Romance
The School of Flesh
Au Revoir les Enfants
McWalter
Dead Man Talking
Christmas with the Tuches
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Happiness Never Comes Alone
Les Cordier, juge et flic
The Art Dealer
Somnanbule
Feu Adrien Muset
Someone, Somewhere
Bad Company
Family Is Family
Don't Make Trouble!
La Chartreuse de Parme
Trapped by a Dream
La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
Ca$h
My Little Business
The Prince of the Pacific
Amanda
Stardom
School of Life
L'Esprit de famille
The World Upside Down
Le Débarquement
Le souffle du dragon
The Great Role
Daddy Cool
La fille de son père
Comedy of Power
Could This Be Love?
How to Be a Good Wife
Six-Pack
I've Been Waiting So Long
Les Milles
Chez Maupassant
Runaways
Stand Up Girl
Alexandra Ehle
Les Associés
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
Colours of Time
Last Dance
Camille Claudel
One Day My Father Will Come
Hot House
The Unexpected Getaway
Champagne !
Mot de Passe
La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil
The Okinaway of Life
Fresh Bait
Magnificat
Un flic presque parfait
Fêlés
Disturbing Disappearances
The Warrior's Brother
La Mort du Chinois
Remake
Vieilles canailles
La Boîte à secrets
Deep in the Woods
L'Année des Guignols - Y'a paaas de méthode
The Concert
Un soir à la tour Eiffel
Make It Mine
Le Débarquement
Cash Truck
La troupe à Palmade s'amuse avec...François Berléand
La Balance
Je te promets
Love (and Trouble) In Paris
Only Girls
Alive
A Self-Made Hero
Strictement personnel
À mon tour
L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?
L'Héritière
The Adversary
Tous Inconnus
Another Woman's Life
Place Vendôme
Angels & Co.
60 Going On 12
The Stroller Strategy
Le garçon d'orage
Blanche Nuit
Un étrange voyage
Au bistro du coin
Le Remplaçant
Les Chamois
Peplum
Encore un instant
Par le bout du nez
Fred
The Boy
Vicky
Jeanne, Marie et les autres
One 4 All
Lucky
Would I Lie to You: The Beginning
Actors
Panique au 31
Captain Conan
The Young Casanova
Girl for a Day
In All Innocence
Marche à l'ombre
Le pot de colle
Murder party au musée
Stop
Among Friends
Sincerely Charlotte
The Secret Wife
A Model Employee
Santé mentale, briser le tabou
Le Dindon
Poker
The Happiest Place on Earth
Le Bureau
Me and My Sister
Bertrand n'a pas sommeil
Génération Alpha
Closed Circuit
A Girl Cut in Two
Max
Le sourire du clown
A Boire et à Manger
Tableau d'honneur
The Hostage of Europe
93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré : la crème de la crème
The Whistler
May Fools
En Bande Organisée
Edy
How I Killed My Father
Père Noël à domicile
Jusqu'ici tout va bien
Cherche famille désespérément
Baby Blues
Madame le Consul
L'Évasion
State Crime
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Man of My Life
Passage des arts
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Le Grand Quiz
Two Much for the Job
Narco
Escalade
Je vais mieux
Hear Me Out
One Summer
I Love You Coiffure
Pardaillan
Pur week-end
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
Martin and Lea
Quadrille
Quartier V.I.P.
Hors Service
Above Suspicion
Batailles
Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
The Violin Player
Aurore
Hard Off
Suivez cet avion
Grand Oral
The Grand Restaurant IV
Whatever You Say
La fidèle infidèle
Dans la peau de McWalter
Cyrano
Un si joli bouquet
The Best Day of My Life
La Fête du Cinéma
The Screw
Le Parc, Prince des stades
La clef des champs
Ramsès II
Everybody Is a Killer
Innocent
The Grand Restaurant III
Une heure de tranquillité
Tell No One: The B-Side
Deux hommes tout nus
Seventh Heaven
Féroce
Les amateurs
Poiret Serrault extraits extra
The Murderous Months of April
Main basse sur une île
Fragile(s)
Le Gendre idéal
Eros Therapy
Dormez, je le veux!
Plus si affinités & Friends
Les jours d'après
Le Poisson rouge
Du vent dans les branches de sassafras
L'Arbre de joie
Stella
Le Petit Fût
Sans rires
Les Talents d’Achille
Le Gendre idéal 2
Sentiments provisoires
Tailleur pour dames
Faisons un rêve
En territoire indien
Tender Souls
Recrutement
