Marie Trintignant

Marie Trintignant ( born January 21, 1962 in Paris; † August 1, 2003 in Neuilly -sur- Seine) was a French actress.

Life and work

Marie Trintignant grew up as the daughter of filmmakers. Her father was the actor Jean -Louis Trintignant, her mother, the writer and director Nadine Trintignant. Marie Trintignant had two siblings. When she was 14 years old, her parents divorced. She had four sons by four fathers, and was married to the father of her youngest child, the French writer, actor, screenwriter and director Samuel Benchetrit. My son Roman Kolinka, son of film composer Richard Kolinka is also active as an actor.

Even as a child she was in 1971 in the opening credits of the film That always happens just the other along with Benoît Ferreux front of the camera. The film theme of a child death of Marie's sister; Directed by her mother, who turned a total of 12 films with her. She also appeared with her father, including La Terrazza (1980 ) by Ettore Scola. In her well-known movies she played somber female roles, as in the films of Claude Chabrol Story of Women (1988 ) alongside Isabelle Huppert and Betty (1992 ) alongside Stéphane Audran, the first wife of her father.

In July 2003 she held for filming of a TV movie about the life of writer Colette in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Her mother led thereby directing. Also present was her boyfriend Bertrand Cantat, lead singer of the French band Noir Désir. On the night of 26 July 27, 2003, he gave her during a dispute jealousy blows that caused severe head injuries. Cantat cried for hours no ambulance. Marie lay in a coma for several days, was transferred on 31 July 2003 in the Hartmann clinic in Neuilly, near Paris, and died a day later. The autopsy revealed that she had died of a traumatic brain injury, which was caused by blows to the face. On 6 August 2003, she was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Her mother Nadine Trintignant has the two -part TV movie Colette turned to her daughter to end in memory. She has published in France in early October 2003, the book Ma Fille, Marie, in which they called Bertrand Cantat as a murderer. This was sentenced on 29 March 2004 by a criminal court in Vilnius to eight years in prison for manslaughter and failure to assist and released in October 2007 after less than four years for good behavior on probation.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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