Michel Piccoli
Gender: Male
Born: 27th December 1925 (currently 86 years old)
Nationality: France
Movies: Atlantic City, Beauty of the Day, Contempt, Diary of a Chambermaid, La Belle Noiseuse, La diagonale du fou, La Grande Bouffe, The War Is Over, Le fantôme de la liberté, "From Time to Time"/"De Temps en Temps", The Young Girls of Rochefort, Themroc, Passion in the Desert, Mon beau-frère a tué ma sœur, Topaz, The Milky Way, Milou en mai, La mort en ce jardin, Mauvais Sang, Is Paris Burning?, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Sleeping Car Murders, La Passante du Sans-Souci, Danger: Diabolik, Seven Deaths by Prescription, Dillinger Is Dead, Genealogies of a Crime, Passion, La Chamade, Le Prix du Danger, Une chambre en ville, Divine Intervention, The Woman in Blue, I'm Going Home, Une étrange affaire, Raining Cats and Frogs, Benjamin, The Things of Life, A Hundred and One Nights, Jardins en automne, Salto nel vuoto, Boxes, The Distant Land, Traveling Companion, La France Romane, Vincent, François, Paul and the Others, Otar Iosseliani, The Whistling Blackbird, La Décade prodigieuse, On War, The Emigrant, Martha and I, Les Creatures, Spoiled Children, La France Romane, One Night Stand, Don't Touch The White Woman!, The Dust of Time, Beyond the Door, Little Lili, Wedding in Blood, Party, Belle Toujours, The Game Is Over, The Duchess of Langeais, Der Preis fürs Überleben, Amazons of Rome, Ernst Thälmann, Masquerade, We Have a Pope, Max and the Junkmen, The Empire in Africa, Boxes, You Haven't Seen Anything Yet, As Linhas de Torres, Party
Michel Piccoli (born 27 December 1925) is a French actor.
He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist.
He has appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster, in more than 170 movies. Piccoli has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani, Nanni Moretti, Jacques Doillon, Mario Bava, Manoel de Oliviera, Raul Ruiz, Theodoros Angelopoulos and Alain Resnais.
He has been married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine Clerc. He has one daughter from his first marriage, Anne-Cordélia.
Piccoli is politically active on the left, and is vocally opposed to the Front National.
He won the Best Actor Award at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival for A Leap in the Dark. In 1982, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Strange Affair.
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