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  • NAME: Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
  • BIRTH DATE: April 09, 1933 (Age: 78)
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
  • ZODIAC SIGN: Aries

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Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French film star, unconventionally handsome, he became the antihero of the French New Wave cinema movement.

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Jean-Paul Belmondo is the unconventionally handsome French film star who became the leading antihero of the French New Wave movement. He earned international fame in Godard's 1960 film Breathless. By 1965, he had acted in 25 films. He continued with portrayals in Pierrot le Fou, Mississippi Mermaid and Les Miserables (1995). Suffering a stroke in 2001,

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he did not return to the screen until 2008.

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(born April 9, 1933, Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France) French film actor. After studying in Paris and performing with provincial stage companies, he appeared in minor film roles before achieving international fame in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960). Though not conventionally handsome, he became the leading antihero of New Wave cinema, acting in 25 films by 1963, and then went on to appear in such acclaimed films as Pierrot le Fou (1965), Mississippi Mermaid (1969), and Les Misérables (1995). In 2001 Belmondo suffered a stroke and did not return to the screen until 2008 when he starred in Un Homme et son chien (A Man and His Dog).

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