
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Acting
Born 1944-05-28 · Paris, France
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 28, 1944) is a French actor, best known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959). He also worked with Aki Kaurismäki, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jacques Rivette, and Tsai Ming-liang. He is a significant figure of the French New Wave, having appeared in eight films by Jean-Luc Godard and seven by François Truffaut.
Known for

Last Tango in Paris
1972 · Movie

The Dreamers
2003 · Movie

The 400 Blows
1959 · Movie

Elizabeth
1998 · Movie

Pierrot le Fou
1965 · Movie

Mersonne ne m'aime
1982 · Movie

Love at Twenty
1962 · Movie

Alphaville
1965 · Movie

Day for Night
1973 · Movie

Irma Vep
1996 · Movie

Masculin Féminin
1966 · Movie

Stolen Kisses
1968 · Movie

Léaud et les Bas
2026 · Movie

Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
2019 · Movie

What Time Is It There?
2001 · Movie

Love on the Run
1979 · Movie

Léaud l'unique
2001 · Movie

Testament of Orpheus
1960 · Movie

The Mother and the Whore
1973 · Movie

Bed and Board
1970 · Movie

Weekend
1967 · Movie

La Chinoise
1967 · Movie

Le Havre
2011 · Movie

Concentration
1968 · Movie

Pigsty
1969 · Movie

La Vie de Bohème
1992 · Movie

Out 1
1990 · Movie

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024 · Movie

The Pornographer
2001 · Movie

Antoine and Colette
1962 · Movie

Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988 · Movie

Innocent
1999 · Movie

The Chalk Circle Man
2009 · Movie

Love at Sea
1965 · Movie

Vivement Truffaut
1985 · Movie

Les secrets de François Truffaut
2020 · Movie

In the Darkness of Time
2002 · Movie

Boran - Zeit zum Zielen
1987 · Movie

I Hired a Contract Killer
1990 · Movie

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
2004 · Movie

Two English Girls
1971 · Movie

Camille Rewinds
2012 · Movie

The Lion Sleeps Tonight
2018 · Movie

One Hundred and One Nights
1995 · Movie

Help Me Dream
1981 · Movie

L'Herbe rouge
1985 · Movie

Visage
2009 · Movie

My Man
1996 · Movie

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
1966 · Movie

Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
1965 · Movie

The Death of Louis XIV
2016 · Movie

Just for Laughs
1997 · Movie

M
2017 · Movie

Made in U.S.A
1967 · Movie

The Ministries of Art
1989 · Movie

Out 1: Spectre
1973 · Movie

36 Fillette
1988 · Movie

King on Horseback
1958 · Movie

The Departure
1967 · Movie

Treasure Island
1986 · Movie