🎬 Jean-Paul Belmondo

About

Jean-Paul Belmondo was a French actor and one of the defining faces of the French New Wave. He rose to international fame playing Michel Poiccard in Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle (1960). In Une femme est une femme (1961) he played Alfred. He later became equally celebrated in popular action films, cementing his status as an icon of 20th-century French cinema.

Born:

9 April 1933 (88 years)

Died:

6 September 2021

Place of birth:

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France