Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 5, 1944) is a French actor.
Léaud was born in Paris, France. He made his debut as an actor when he was 15 as Antoine Doinel, an alter ego for French film director François Truffaut, in The 400 Blows.
Léaud starred in four more Truffaut films depicting the life of Doinel, spanning a period of 20 years – beside actress Claude Jade as his girlfriend, and then wife, Christine. Those films are: Antoine and Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed & Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979).
Léaud also acted in films by other influential directors, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci and more recently Olivier Assayas.
Filmography as actor
- The 400 Blows (1959)
- Pierrot le fou (1965)
- Masculin, féminin (1966)
- La Chinoise (1967)
- Weekend (1967)
- Stolen Kisses (1968)
- Porcile (1969)
- Bed & Board (1970)
- Two English Girls (1971)
- Last Tango in Paris (1972)
- The Mother and the Whore (1973)
- La Nuit américaine (1973)
- Love on the Run (1979)
- Détective (1985)
- 36 Fillette (1988)
- I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
- My Man (1996)
- Irma Vep (1996)
- Two Short Films by Francois Truffaut (1999)
- Orphic Trilogy (2000)
- Diary of a Seducer (2001)
- What Time Is It There? (2002)
- The Dreamers (2004)