François Berléand
Acting
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
Born: April 22, 1952
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Filmography
as Self - Actor
as Chef Sorkin
as Self
as Victor Hugo
as Cupidon
as Le père
as François
as François
as Le grand-père
as Directeur de l'usine
as Self
as Judge Genoud
as Self
as Self
as Monseigneur Mével
as Self (archive footage)
as Germain
as Christian, a client
as ("Les Chasseurs" segment)
as Papi
as M. Picard
as Le Maître de la Confrérie
as The Psychiatrist
as Georges
as Jean-Charles de Ponte
as Pierre Noël
as Francis Samier
as Self - Acteur
as Bernard Audoin
as Christian, a client
as Alexandre Gallo
as Michel
as Liliane and Maud's Father (segment "La Maison de retraite")
as Le président du jury
as Robert Van der Beck
as Le commissaire Daran
as Jean
as Jacques, le père d'Alexandre
as Professeur Pascal Bernel
as Self
as Psy de Rémy
as Julien
as Yves Perez
as Self
as Audibert
as Robin Desnoyeux
as Alexander, Constance's father
as Etienne Leroy
as Fabrice
as Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye
as John Emery Rockefelle
as Albert Bonhomme
as Self
as Philippe
as Simon
as Titus
as Self
as Alain Kramer
as Fred
as Jean-Claude Dedieu
as Self - Contributor
as Charles
as Philippe de Morannes
as La Malice
as François Berléand (voice)
as Robert Boulin
as Narrator
as Le commissaire de police
as Tarconi
as Jean-Luc Hamory
as Self
as Karl Raven
as Alain Posche
as Vatelin
as The Prince of Parma
as The Prince of Parma
as (voice) (uncredited)
as Maître Volin
as Bernard Bleu
as Pierre Jourdan
as Noe
as François
as Self
as Max
as JP
as Richard Maurand
as Armand / Maurice Teillard
as Félix
as Olivier Morne Duplessis
as Colonel Von Deck
as Raymond Rosen
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Inspector Tarconi
as Max
as Professeor Lacombe
as Bassinet
as Albert Einstein
as François
as Prosper Chicot
as Le mari
as Charles Denis, dit Saint-Denis
as Paul
as Commissioner Papan
as Prosper Chicot
as Roland
as Self - Guest
as Eric Levkowitch
as Maurice Lecouvey, farmer and mayor
as Gilles Triquet, Directeur Régional de la Cogirep sur Villepinte
as Le Roi
as Michel Humeau
as Edy Saïovici
as Inspector Tarconi
as Bertrand Fussac
as Valentin
as Guy Bennet
as Pierre Demouthy
as Benny Schwarz
as Adam Corbeau
as François, le garagiste
as Bernard
as Rachin
as Simon
as Monsieur Meinau
as Georges
as François Maurey
as Mermot
as Jean-Claude Adam
as François Charles-Leconte
as jean-Louis Broustal
as Tarconi
as Rémi
as Louis XV
as Inspecteur de police
as Le curé
as Father
as Bordier
as Jacques
as Henri
as un patient
as Louis
as (segment "Cyrano")
as le commandant Lefèvre
as Gédéon
as Nigel Pope's Associate
as Baron Axel de Fersen
as Thomas
as François Nègre
as Le passager désagréable
as René
as Frydman
as Maxime Nassieff
as Jean-René
as Drouot
as Le docteur Nataf
as Laurent's brother
as Brafort
as Robert
as Granier
as Antoine
as Soukaz
as Eric Malivert
as Self
as Inspecteur Chevalot
as Le docteur
as Barrère
as Henry de Montmorency, comte de Damville
as Commander Bouvier
as Monsieur Jo
as Ambassador Delaunay
as Antoine
as Nicolas
as Lt. Boisset
as Insp. Durieux
as Robert
as Charles
as Lansac
as Pharmacist
as Le cousin
as Edgar
as Alain Denizet
as Daniel
as Roger
as Generał Charles Tristan de Montholon
as Combette
as Docteur Michaux
as Lawyer
as Father Michel
as Baumann
as Zaccharia Pasdeloup
as Le beau-frère de Loïc
as Gérard
as postal worker
as Self
as Police inspector receiver
as Captain in the hangar
as Inspecteur de la Mondaine
as Le témoin escroc
as l'inspecteur