Known for:	The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis
Birthday:	5 May 1944,Paris, France

He played the same part -Antoine Doinel- in five films: as young boy in The 400 Blows, as an adolescent in the "Antoine et Colette" segment of the anthology Love at Twenty and, together with the actress Claude Jade as his girlfriend, and later wife, Christine in Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run. Son of actress Jacqueline Pierreux and scenarist Pierre Léaud. In 1968, during the military dictatorship government in Brazil, as seen in the documentary Barra 68 - Sem Perder a Ternura, Jean-Pierre Léaud, who was also a political militant, made a speech for hundreds of students at Brasilia University, which is in Brazil's capitol. His performance as Antoine Doinel in "The 400 Blows" (1959) is ranked #98 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. As he had so much respect for Marlon Brando and was afraid of working with him, all his scenes in Last Tango in Paris were shot on Saturdays, when Brando refused to work. Thus, they didn't meet together during the entire shooting.

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