Michel Piccoli
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Michel Piccoli at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli 27 December 1925 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter, director, musician, singer |
| Years active | 1945 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Eléonore Hirt (1954–?) Juliette Gréco (1966–1977) Ludivine Clerc (1980–present) |
Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (born 27 December 1925) is a French actor and filmmaker of Italian descent. He has one of the longest careers in french cinema, and is regarded worldwide as a symbol of France's film history, more specifically of the '60s and the 70's.
He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist.
He has appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster to Pope, in more than 170 movies. Piccoli has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani, Nanni Moretti, Jacques Doillon, Mario Bava, Manoel de Oliviera, Claude Faraldo, Raúl Ruiz, Theodoros Angelopoulos and Alain Resnais.
He has been married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine Clerc. He has one daughter from his first marriage, Anne-Cordélia.
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