François Berléand
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article François Berléand, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Somnambule
Avis de tempête
Commandant de bord
Dans la peau de McWalter
Self - Actor
McWalter
Chef Sorkin
Colours of Time
Victor Hugo
Angels & Co.
Cupidon
Santé mentale, briser le tabou
Self
The Boy
Le père
Père Noël à domicile
François
Poiret Serrault extraits extra
Self
The World Upside Down
Le grand-père
Fêlés
Directeur de l'usine
Girl for a Day
Judge Genoud
93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré : la crème de la crème
Self
Magnificat
Monseigneur Mével
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
Last Dance
Germain
The Grand Restaurant IV
Christian, a client
Tous Inconnus
("Les Chasseurs" segment)
Le souffle du dragon
Papi
Two Much for the Job
M. Picard
Champagne !
Le Maître de la Confrérie
Par le bout du nez
The Psychiatrist
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Franck
À mon tour
Jean-Charles de Ponte
Christmas with the Tuches
Pierre Noël
Hear Me Out
Francis Samier
Nine Women
The Grand Restaurant III
Christian, a client
Une heure de tranquillité
Michel
I Love You Coiffure
Liliane and Maud's Father (segment "La Maison de retraite")
Grand Oral
Le président du jury
La troupe à Palmade s'amuse avec...François Berléand
Self
How to Be a Good Wife
Robert Van der Beck
Lucky
Le commissaire Daran
Ramsès II
Jean
L'Esprit de famille
Jacques, le père d'Alexandre
La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
Professeur Pascal Bernel
Would I Lie to You: The Beginning
Max
Someone, Somewhere
Psy de Rémy
Encore un instant
Julien
Je vais mieux
Audibert
La Fête du Cinéma
Family Is Family
Alexander, Constance's father
Stand Up Girl
Fabrice
School of Life
Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
Self
Du vent dans les branches de sassafras
John Emery Rockefelle
Vicky
Albert Bonhomme
Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
Self
Among Friends
Philippe
The Art Dealer
Simon
Deux hommes tout nus
Alain Kramer
La clef des champs
Fred
Closed Circuit
Jean-Claude Dedieu
60 Going On 12
Charles
Quadrille
Philippe de Morannes
Blanche Nuit
La Malice
Le Parc, Prince des stades
Self - Narrator (voice)
State Crime
Robert Boulin
The Okinaway of Life
Narrator
Max
Le commissaire de police
Le Débarquement
The Stroller Strategy
Jean-Luc Hamory
Dead Man Talking
Karl Raven
Happiness Never Comes Alone
Alain Posche
Le Dindon
Vatelin
La Chartreuse de Parme
The Prince of Parma
Another Woman's Life
Maître Volin
One Day My Father Will Come
Bernard Bleu
Above Suspicion
Pierre Jourdan
Escalade
Noe
Au bistro du coin
François
Main basse sur une île
"Der Engel"
Plus si affinités & Friends
Self
Le Gendre idéal 2
Max
Vieilles canailles
JP
Le pot de colle
Richard Maurand
The Whistler
Armand / Maurice Teillard
Sentiments provisoires
Félix
The Concert
Olivier Morne Duplessis
Les Associés
Raymond Rosen
La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil
Sylvain
Transporter 3
Inspector Tarconi
Le Gendre idéal
Max
L'Arbre de joie
Professeor Lacombe
Tailleur pour dames
Bassinet
Daddy Cool
Albert Einstein
Ca$h
François
Le Petit Fût
Prosper Chicot
Batailles
Faisons un rêve
Le mari
Tell No One: The B-Side
Self
A Girl Cut in Two
Charles Denis, dit Saint-Denis
Fragile(s)
Paul
Pur week-end
Commissioner Papan
Could This Be Love?
Roland
Tell No One
Eric Levkowitch
One Summer
Maurice Lecouvey, farmer and mayor
Aurore
Le Roi
Comedy of Power
Michel Humeau
Edy
Edy Saïovici
Transporter 2
Inspector Tarconi
Quartier V.I.P.
Bertrand Fussac
The Best Day of My Life
Valentin
Narco
Guy Bennet
Me and My Sister
Pierre Demouthy
The Great Role
Benny Schwarz
Eros Therapy
Adam Corbeau
Everybody Is a Killer
François, le garagiste
Cash Truck
Bernard
The Chorus
Rachin
I've Been Waiting So Long
Simon
Les amateurs
Monsieur Meinau
Hot House
Georges
A Model Employee
François Maurey
Only Girls
Mermot
En territoire indien
Jean-Claude Adam
Remake
François Charles-Leconte
Whatever You Say
jean-Louis Broustal
The Transporter
Tarconi
The Adversary
Rémi
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
The Young Casanova
Louis XV
Féroce
Inspecteur de police
The Warrior's Brother
Le curé
Alive
Father
L'Héritière
Bordier
Tender Souls
Jacques
La fille de son père
Henri
How I Killed My Father
un patient
L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?
(voice)
Hors Service
Louis
Recrutement
Corbi, the recruiter
Don't Make Trouble!
(segment "Cyrano")
Cyrano
The Prince of the Pacific
le commandant Lefèvre
Jeanne, Marie et les autres
Gédéon
Stardom
Nigel Pope's Associate
Deep in the Woods
Baron Axel de Fersen
Six-Pack
Thomas
Actors
François Nègre
One 4 All
Le passager désagréable
Bad Company
René
Man of My Life
Frydman
My Little Business
Maxime Nassieff
Innocent
Jean-René
Le sourire du clown
Drouot
Hard Off
Le docteur Nataf
Stop
Laurent's brother
The Happiest Place on Earth
Brafort
Romance
Robert
Baby Blues
Granier
In All Innocence
Antoine
The School of Flesh
Soukaz
Place Vendôme
Eric Malivert
Dormez, je le veux!
Paul, the uncle / Raymond, the father
L'Année des Guignols - Y'a paaas de méthode
(voice)
La Mort du Chinois
Inspector Chevalot
Un flic presque parfait
Génaro
Seventh Heaven
Le docteur
Le garçon d'orage
Le boiteux
Fred
Barrère
Pardaillan
Henry de Montmorency, comte de Damville
Captain Conan
Commander Bouvier
A Self-Made Hero
Monsieur Jo
Un si joli bouquet
Antoine
Runaways
Nicolas
Les Milles
Lt. Boisset
Fresh Bait
Insp. Durieux
La fidèle infidèle
Robert
The Violin Player
Charles
Cherche famille désespérément
The Goldfish
Pharmacist
The Screw
Un vendeur
Trapped by a Dream
Le cousin
Feu Adrien Muset
Edgar
Papa veut pas que je t'épouse
Tableau d'honneur
Alain Denizet
La Femme de l'amant
Marc
May Fools
Daniel
Sans rires
Roger
The Hostage of Europe
Generał Charles Tristan de Montholon
Suivez cet avion
Combette
Camille Claudel
Docteur Michaux
Poker
Lawyer
Au Revoir les Enfants
Father Michel
The Murderous Months of April
Baumann
The Secret Wife
Zaccharia Pasdeloup
Make It Mine
Le beau-frère de Loïc
Strictement personnel
Gérard
Sincerely Charlotte
postal worker
Marche à l'ombre
Police inspector receiver
Stella
Captain in the hangar
La Balance
Inspecteur de la Mondaine
Un étrange voyage
Le témoin escroc
Martin and Lea
l'inspecteur