Jacques Perrin

Jacques Perrin; actually Jacques Simonet ( born July 13, 1941 in Paris) is a French actor, director and producer.

Life

The late 1950s and become a sought-after young actors early 1960s, Jacques Perrin made ​​a name in the art cinema. In the late 1960s he founded his own production company, Galatée film. Background of the foundation was the rotation of Constantin Costa -Gavras ' political thriller Z, which was based on the true circumstances of a military coup in Greece. Since no production company of the explosive substance were to assume Perrin founded as one of the main characters of the film further ado, the production company, which turned a lot of political and socially critical films later. As an actor and producer, he worked in Home Sweet Home.

In his later work is his most successful film Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore.

Well known also became his animal film Winged Migration - The Secret of migratory birds (2001), for the three years he watched wild birds, and the film The The Chorus from 2004 in which he participated as a producer and performer.

Jacques Perrin is married to Valentine Perrin, with whom he has two sons: Maxence Perrin (* 1995) and Lancelot Perrin. His son from a previous relationship, Mathieu Simonet, is also an actor and director. His sister Eva Simonet and their son Christophe Barratier working in the film industry.

Filmography (selection)

Legend: D - Actor, B - Directed, P - Production, R - Director

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