Jean-Pierre Léaud

Born in Paris in 1944, Léaud's on-screen life was given birth in The 400 Blows (1959), as director François Truffaut's fictional alter ego Antoine Doinel...[a performance that was] defiant, withdrawn, and, at the same time, fragile and exposed. It is for this role and the subsequent films in the Doinel cycle that Léaud remains best known. Doinel, the hapless romantic frustrated by modern life, has become one of the best-loved characters in French cinema. During… (meer)