Jacques Perrin
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Perrin at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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| Born |
Jacques André Simonet 13 July 1941 Paris |
| Years active | 1957 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Valentine Perrin (1 December 1995–present) |
Jacques Perrin (born Jacques André Simonet; 13 July 1941) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.
Perrin was born in Paris. His father, Alexandre Simonet, was a theatre director. Perrin was trained as an actor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique.
He was given his first juvenile film roles by Italian director Valerio Zurlini. He also gave over 400 performances of L'Année du bac on the Paris stage.
He played opposite Claudia Cardinale in the romantic comedy La Ragazza con la valigia and played the younger brother in Family Diary with Marcello Mastroianni, both under the direction of Zurlini. He was also the adult Salvatore in the international hit Cinema Paradiso.
He won two Best Actor awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1966 for the Italian film Almost a Man and the Spanish film The Search.
At 27, he created a studio and produced and acted in Z, directed by Costa Gavras and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, and Irene Papas. Z received an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1969.
He collaborated with Costa Gavras again in État de Siège (State of Siege) in 1973 and Section spéciale in 1975. Both films had political themes, and Perrin continued this trend with a documentary on the Algerian uprising (La guerre d'Algérie) and a film on the Chilean presidency of Salvador Allende (La Spirale). In 1973 Perrin produced - and starred alongside Claude Jade as his love interest - the first film of Benoît Lamy, Home Sweet Home. The film acclaimed 14 international awards.
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