François Berléand
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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-04-22
Place of birth
Paris, France
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Cast
Could This Be Love?
2007
6.30
May Fools
1990
6.85
Au Revoir les Enfants
1987
7.51
Tableau d'honneur
1992
0.00
Me and My Sister
2004
5.60
The Transporter
2002
6.72
Martin and Lea
1979
5.60
Tell No One
2006
7.23
Narco
2004
5.70
The Chorus
2004
7.73
A Girl Cut in Two
2007
5.91
Six-Pack
2000
5.66
Deep in the Woods
2000
3.81
Cash Truck
2004
6.32
Cherche famille désespérément
1994
0.00
Whatever You Say
2002
5.67
The Concert
2009
7.20
Romance
1999
5.50
Transporter 2
2005
6.32
Comedy of Power
2006
6.29
Place Vendôme
1998
6.20
Transporter 3
2008
6.16
Ca$h
2008
5.74
Everybody Is a Killer
2004
4.20
Edy
2005
5.17
One Summer
2006
5.60
How I Killed My Father
2001
5.76
The Whistler
2010
4.90
Strictement personnel
1985
5.00
Le sourire du clown
1999
5.00
Captain Conan
1996
6.60
Innocent
1999
0.00
My Little Business
1999
6.10
À mon tour
2022
5.70
Fragile(s)
2007
5.30
Actors
2000
5.74
A Self-Made Hero
1996
6.80
The Warrior's Brother
2002
6.04
The Best Day of My Life
2005
5.20
Hard Off
1999
2.89
Eros Therapy
2004
4.00
Champagne !
2022
5.20
Poker
1988
6.50
The Prince of the Pacific
2000
4.53
Hors Service
2001
4.60
Only Girls
2003
6.20
Faisons un rêve
2007
7.20
The Adversary
2002
6.62
Les amateurs
2004
4.50
In All Innocence
1998
5.69
Alive
2002
5.00
Marche à l'ombre
1984
6.46
Le Débarquement
2013
5.10
Pur week-end
2007
4.60
The Murderous Months of April
1987
6.90
The Great Role
2004
5.20
I've Been Waiting So Long
2004
4.50
A Model Employee
2003
5.20
The School of Flesh
1998
5.21
En territoire indien
2003
5.19
Les Associés
2009
5.80
Last Dance
2023
5.91
Quartier V.I.P.
2005
4.30
Seventh Heaven
1997
4.64
One Day My Father Will Come
2012
5.20
La fille de son père
2001
0.00
Bad Company
1999
5.12
Happiness Never Comes Alone
2012
6.10
Dead Man Talking
2012
6.40
Ramsès II
2020
7.50
The Screw
1993
6.60
Escalade
2011
4.40
The Stroller Strategy
2012
5.47
Vieilles canailles
2010
5.20
Féroce
2002
4.50
Another Woman's Life
2012
6.20
Magnificat
2023
6.00
The Young Casanova
2002
4.30
The Hostage of Europe
1989
6.00
Max
2013
5.78
Blanche Nuit
2013
0.00
La fidèle infidèle
1995
7.00
Suivez cet avion
1989
7.20
60 Going On 12
2013
5.40
The Violin Player
1994
10.00
Tender Souls
2001
3.00
La Fête du Cinéma
2018
0.00
Un étrange voyage
1981
6.70
Par le bout du nez
2022
7.20
Sincerely Charlotte
1985
3.10
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
6.50
La Mort du Chinois
1998
6.00
Fred
1997
6.30
Le souffle du dragon
2022
6.50
La Balance
1982
6.30
Un flic presque parfait
1998
0.00
Girl for a Day
2024
7.00
La Chartreuse de Parme
2012
6.90
Deux hommes tout nus
2014
7.20
Tous Inconnus
2022
3.40
Among Friends
2015
5.23
Dormez, je le veux!
1998
0.00
State Crime
2013
4.00
La clef des champs
2014
6.00
Above Suspicion
2011
5.91
Stella
1983
6.83
The Grand Restaurant IV
2022
8.00
Two Much for the Job
2022
5.00
Père Noël à domicile
2024
5.20
Jeanne, Marie et les autres
2000
0.00
Remake
2003
6.70
Vicky
2016
3.50
Angels & Co.
2025
6.36
Le Parc, Prince des stades
2013
8.00
The Boy
2025
7.50
Aurore
2006
6.20
Stand Up Girl
2017
6.49
Colours of Time
2025
7.58
Fêlés
2024
5.50
Le Gendre idéal
2008
3.81
Le Gendre idéal 2
2010
4.60
The World Upside Down
2024
5.13
Sans rires
1990
5.00
The Art Dealer
2015
3.60
Le Dindon
2012
6.80
McWalter
2025
5.03
Cyrano
2001
0.00
Le pot de colle
2010
7.30
Baby Blues
1999
2.00
School of Life
2017
7.34
Le Petit Fût
2008
0.00
Family Is Family
2018
5.80
Make It Mine
1986
3.91
Recrutement
2001
7.00
Je vais mieux
2018
5.60
Quadrille
2013
6.00
L'Arbre de joie
2008
7.00
Le garçon d'orage
1997
7.00
Main basse sur une île
2011
8.00
Les Milles
1995
5.40
The Secret Wife
1986
6.50
Runaways
1995
5.80
Someone, Somewhere
2019
6.40
Daddy Cool
2008
4.72
L'Esprit de famille
2020
5.56
Closed Circuit
2013
6.00
How to Be a Good Wife
2020
5.70
Lucky
2020
4.70
Encore un instant
2019
6.00
Hot House
2003
4.00
Un si joli bouquet
1995
0.00
Fresh Bait
1995
6.42
Tell No One: The B-Side
2007
6.00
Christmas with the Tuches
2021
5.10
Batailles
2008
0.00
Stardom
2000
5.23
Sentiments provisoires
2010
6.00
Don't Make Trouble!
2001
6.00
Plus si affinités & Friends
2011
0.00
L'Héritière
2002
7.00
I Love You Coiffure
2020
3.80
Une heure de tranquillité
2020
6.60
Stop
1999
2.00
The Grand Restaurant III
2021
5.30
The Okinaway of Life
2013
0.00
Hear Me Out
2021
6.30
Feu Adrien Muset
1992
2.00
Le Poisson rouge
1994
2.00
Trapped by a Dream
1993
4.00
One 4 All
1999
3.90
Tailleur pour dames
2008
7.00
Pardaillan
1997
7.00
Man of My Life
1999
0.00
The Happiest Place on Earth
1999
1.00
Au bistro du coin
2011
3.80
Poiret Serrault extraits extra
2024
0.00
Grand Oral
2020
2.00
Santé mentale, briser le tabou
2025
6.50
Somnanbule
2027
0.00
Camille Claudel
1988
6.76
Dans la peau de McWalter
2025
0.00
Nine Women
2021
0.00
Avis de tempête
2026
0.00
Papa veut pas que je t'épouse
1992
0.00