François Berléand

Actor · Born April 22, 1952 · Paris, France

Highest rated as cast or director

Biography

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

Acted in 198

2020s

2027
5H48, Place des Martyrs
Mr Defiandre
Les jours d'après
Henri
2026
Avis de tempête
Captain
The Man of Signs
Movie
Phoenix
Jean Humbel · 6 episodes
2025
McWalter
Chef Sorkin
49
La Roue de la fortune : Célébrités
TV
Colours of Time
Victor Hugo
76
Angels & Co.
Cupidon
62
The Boy
Le père
2024
Panique au 31
François · 2 episodes
Père Noël à domicile
François
The World Upside Down
Le grand-père
Fêlés
Directeur de l'usine
Girl for a Day
Judge Genoud
2023
Magnificat
Monseigneur Mével
Last Dance
Germain
62
2022
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
49
Par le bout du nez
The Psychiatrist
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Franck
Love (and Trouble) In Paris
Georges · 6 episodes
À mon tour
Jean-Charles de Ponte
2021
Christmas with the Tuches
Pierre Noël
47
Hear Me Out
Francis Samier
Le Remplaçant
Bernard Audoin · 6 episodes
Nine Women
Movie
The Grand Restaurant III
Christian, a client
Je te promets
Alexandre Gallo · 2 episodes
2020
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
How to Be a Good Wife
Robert Van der Beck
60
Lucky
Le commissaire Daran
58
Ramsès II
Jean
L'Esprit de famille
Jacques, le père d'Alexandre

2010s

2019
La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
Professeur Pascal Bernel
Would I Lie to You: The Beginning
Max
Someone, Somewhere
Psy de Rémy
75
Encore un instant
Julien
Disturbing Disappearances
Yves Perez · 1 episode
2018
Je vais mieux
Audibert
57
La Fête du Cinéma
Movie
Alexandra Ehle
Robin Desnoyeux · 1 episode
63
Family Is Family
Alexander, Constance's father
51
2017
Les Chamois
Etienne Leroy · 8 episodes
Stand Up Girl
Fabrice
62
School of Life
Count Louis Fernand de La Fresnaye
62
2016
Moi, moi et François B.
Movie
Du vent dans les branches de sassafras
John Emery Rockefelle
Vicky
Albert Bonhomme
2015
Among Friends
Philippe
50
The Art Dealer
Simon
Peplum
Titus · 1 episode
2014
Deux hommes tout nus
Alain Kramer
La clef des champs
Fred
2013
Closed Circuit
Jean-Claude Dedieu
60 Going On 12
Charles
Quadrille
Philippe de Morannes
Blanche Nuit
La Malice
State Crime
Robert Boulin
Le Débarquement
Movie
Max
Le commissaire de police
53
Le Débarquement
TV
Transporter: The Series
Tarconi · 16 episodes
63
2012
The Stroller Strategy
Jean-Luc Hamory
Dead Man Talking
Karl Raven
Happiness Never Comes Alone
Alain Posche
73
Le Dindon
Vatelin
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Prince of Parma · 2 episodes
Another Woman's Life
Maître Volin
One Day My Father Will Come
Bernard Bleu
2011
Above Suspicion
Pierre Jourdan
56
Escalade
Noe
Au bistro du coin
François
2010
Le Gendre idéal 2
Max
Vieilles canailles
JP
Le pot de colle
Richard Maurand
The Whistler
Armand / Maurice Teillard
48
Sentiments provisoires
Félix

2000s

2009
The Concert
Olivier Morne Duplessis
68
L'Évasion
Colonel Von Deck · 1 episode
Les Associés
Raymond Rosen
La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil
Sylvain
2008
Transporter 3
Inspector Tarconi
55
Le Gendre idéal
Max
L'Arbre de joie
Professeor Lacombe
Tailleur pour dames
Bassinet
Daddy Cool
Albert Einstein
Ca$h
François
58
Le Petit Fût
Prosper Chicot
Batailles
Movie · Comedy
2007
Faisons un rêve
Le mari
A Girl Cut in Two
Charles Denis, dit Saint-Denis
Fragile(s)
Paul
Pur week-end
Commissioner Papan
45
Chez Maupassant
Prosper Chicot · 1 episode
Could This Be Love?
Roland
2006
Tell No One
Eric Levkowitch
80
One Summer
Maurice Lecouvey, farmer and mayor
Le Bureau
Gilles Triquet, Directeur Régional de la Cogirep sur Villepinte · 6 episodes
Aurore
Le Roi
Comedy of Power
Michel Humeau
2005
Edy
Edy Saïovici
55
Transporter 2
Inspector Tarconi
61
Quartier V.I.P.
Bertrand Fussac
The Best Day of My Life
Valentin
2004
Narco
Guy Bennet
61
Me and My Sister
Pierre Demouthy
The Great Role
Benny Schwarz
Eros Therapy
Adam Corbeau
53
Everybody Is a Killer
François, le garagiste
Cash Truck
Bernard
65
The Chorus
Rachin
72
I've Been Waiting So Long
Simon
Les Amateurs
Monsieur Meinau
2003
Hot House
Georges
A Model Employee
François Maurey
Only Girls
Mermot
En territoire indien
Jean-Claude Adam
Remake
François Charles-Leconte
2002
Whatever You Say
jean-Louis Broustal
60
The Transporter
Tarconi
61
The Adversary
Rémi
67
The Young Casanova
Louis XV
Féroce
Inspecteur de police
The Warrior's Brother
Le curé
Alive
Father
L'Héritière
Bordier
2001
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
Don't Make Trouble!
(segment "Cyrano")
2000
The Prince of the Pacific
le commandant Lefèvre
Stardom
Nigel Pope's Associate
Deep in the Woods
Baron Axel de Fersen
Six-Pack
Thomas
Actors
François Nègre
58