François Berléand
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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Cast
Could This Be Love?
Roland
Au Revoir les Enfants
Father Michel
Tableau d'honneur
Alain Denizet
Me and My Sister
Pierre Demouthy
Martin and Lea
l'inspecteur
Tell No One
Eric Levkowitch
A Girl Cut in Two
Charles Denis, dit Saint-Denis
Deep in the Woods
Baron Axel de Fersen
Cherche famille désespérément
Unknown
Whatever You Say
jean-Louis Broustal
The Concert
Olivier Morne Duplessis
Transporter 2
Inspector Tarconi
Comedy of Power
Michel Humeau
Place Vendôme
Eric Malivert
Transporter 3
Inspector Tarconi
Everybody Is a Killer
François, le garagiste
One Summer
Maurice Lecouvey, farmer and mayor
How I Killed My Father
un patient
The Whistler
Armand / Maurice Teillard
Strictement personnel
Gérard
Le sourire du clown
Drouot
Captain Conan
Commander Bouvier
My Little Business
Maxime Nassieff
À mon tour
Jean-Charles de Ponte
A Self-Made Hero
Monsieur Jo
The Warrior's Brother
Le curé
The Best Day of My Life
Valentin
Champagne !
Le Maître de la Confrérie
The Prince of the Pacific
le commandant Lefèvre
La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil
Sylvain
Les amateurs
Monsieur Meinau
Marche à l'ombre
Police inspector receiver
Pur week-end
Commissioner Papan
The Murderous Months of April
Baumann
The Great Role
Benny Schwarz
I've Been Waiting So Long
Simon
A Model Employee
François Maurey
The School of Flesh
Soukaz
En territoire indien
Jean-Claude Adam
Les Associés
Raymond Rosen
Quartier V.I.P.
Bertrand Fussac
One Day My Father Will Come
Bernard Bleu
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
Self
La fille de son père
Henri
Happiness Never Comes Alone
Alain Posche
Dead Man Talking
Karl Raven
The Stroller Strategy
Jean-Luc Hamory
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Franck
Féroce
Inspecteur de police
Another Woman's Life
Maître Volin
Magnificat
Monseigneur Mével
The Young Casanova
Louis XV
The Hostage of Europe
Generał Charles Tristan de Montholon
Max
Le commissaire de police
Un étrange voyage
Le témoin escroc
Par le bout du nez
The Psychiatrist
Sincerely Charlotte
postal worker
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
La Mort du Chinois
Inspector Chevalot
La Balance
Inspecteur de la Mondaine
Un flic presque parfait
Génaro
93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré : la crème de la crème
Self
Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
Self
Girl for a Day
Judge Genoud
La Chartreuse de Parme
The Prince of Parma
Deux hommes tout nus
Alain Kramer
Tous Inconnus
("Les Chasseurs" segment)
Dormez, je le veux!
Paul, the uncle / Raymond, the father
Above Suspicion
Pierre Jourdan
Stella
Captain in the hangar
The Grand Restaurant IV
Christian, a client
Two Much for the Job
M. Picard
Père Noël à domicile
François
Les Talents d’Achille
Unknown
Jeanne, Marie et les autres
Gédéon
Remake
François Charles-Leconte
Le Parc, Prince des stades
Self - Narrator (voice)
Colours of Time
Victor Hugo
Fêlés
Directeur de l'usine
The World Upside Down
Le grand-père
Le pot de colle
Richard Maurand
School of Life
Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye
Le Petit Fût
Prosper Chicot
Family Is Family
Alexander, Constance's father
Make It Mine
Le beau-frère de Loïc
Du vent dans les branches de sassafras
John Emery Rockefelle
Recrutement
Corbi, the recruiter
Quadrille
Philippe de Morannes
L'Arbre de joie
Professeor Lacombe
Le garçon d'orage
Le boiteux
Main basse sur une île
"Der Engel"
The Secret Wife
Zaccharia Pasdeloup
Someone, Somewhere
Psy de Rémy
Would I Lie to You: The Beginning
Max
Daddy Cool
Albert Einstein
L'Esprit de famille
Jacques, le père d'Alexandre
Closed Circuit
Jean-Claude Dedieu
How to Be a Good Wife
Robert Van der Beck
Lucky
Le commissaire Daran
Un si joli bouquet
Antoine
Tell No One: The B-Side
Self
Christmas with the Tuches
Pierre Noël
Stardom
Nigel Pope's Associate
La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
Professeur Pascal Bernel
Sentiments provisoires
Félix
Don't Make Trouble!
(segment "Cyrano")
Plus si affinités & Friends
Self
I Love You Coiffure
Liliane and Maud's Father (segment "La Maison de retraite")
La troupe à Palmade s'amuse avec...François Berléand
Self
Une heure de tranquillité
Michel
L'Année des Guignols - Y'a paaas de méthode
(voice)
The Grand Restaurant III
Christian, a client
The Okinaway of Life
Narrator
Hear Me Out
Francis Samier
Le Poisson rouge
Pharmacist
Trapped by a Dream
Le cousin
One 4 All
Le passager désagréable
L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?
(voice)
Tailleur pour dames
Bassinet
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
Pardaillan
Henry de Montmorency, comte de Damville
The Happiest Place on Earth
Brafort
Au bistro du coin
François
Poiret Serrault extraits extra
Self
Grand Oral
Le président du jury
Santé mentale, briser le tabou
Self
Camille Claudel
Docteur Michaux
Dans la peau de McWalter
Self - Actor
Papa veut pas que je t'épouse
Unknown
