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
196 movies · 36 shows
Dans la peau de McWalter
2025·5.0
McWalter
2025·5.1
Colours of Time
2025·7.4
Angels & Co.
2025·6.4
Santé mentale, briser le tabou
2025·6.5
The Boy
2025·7.5
Père Noël à domicile
2024·5.2
Poiret Serrault - Extraits extra
2024·0.0
The World Upside Down
2024·5.3
Fêlés
2024·5.6
Girl for a Day
2024·7.0
93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré : la crème de la crème
2023·8.0
Magnificat
2023·6.0
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023·6.5
Last Dance
2023·5.9
The Grand Restaurant IV
2022·8.0
Tous Inconnus
2022·3.4
Le souffle du dragon
2022·6.5
Two Much for the Job
2022·5.0
Champagne !
2022·5.2
Par le bout du nez
2022·7.2
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
2022·5.1
À mon tour
2022·5.7
Christmas with the Tuches
2021·5.1
Hear Me Out
2021·6.4
Nine Women
2021·0.0
The Grand Restaurant III
2021·5.3
Une heure de tranquillité
2020·6.6
I Love You Coiffure
2020·3.8
Grand Oral
2020·6.0
La troupe à Palmade s'amuse avec...François Berléand
2020·8.0
How to Be a Good Wife
2020·5.7
Lucky
2020·4.7
Ramsès II
2020·7.0
L'Esprit de famille
2020·5.6
La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
2019·6.8
Would I Lie to You: The Beginning
2019·4.9
Someone, Somewhere
2019·6.4
Encore un instant
2019·6.0
Je vais mieux
2018·5.6
La Fête du Cinéma
2018·4.0
Family Is Family
2018·5.8
Stand Up Girl
2017·6.5
School of Life
2017·7.3
Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
2016·7.0
Moi, moi et François B.
2016·6.0
Du vent dans les branches de sassafras
2016·6.0
Vicky
2016·3.5
Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
2015·0.0
Among Friends
2015·5.2
The Art Dealer
2015·3.6
Deux hommes tout nus
2014·7.2
La clef des champs
2014·6.0
Closed Circuit
2013·6.0
60 Going On 12
2013·5.4
Quadrille
2013·6.0
Blanche Nuit
2013·0.0
Le Parc, Prince des stades
2013·8.0
State Crime
2013·4.0
The Okinaway of Life
2013·0.0
Le Débarquement
2013·5.1
Max
2013·5.8
The Stroller Strategy
2012·5.5
Dead Man Talking
2012·6.4
Happiness Never Comes Alone
2012·6.1
Le Dindon
2012·6.8
La Chartreuse de Parme
2012·6.9
Another Woman's Life
2012·6.2
One Day My Father Will Come
2012·5.3
Above Suspicion
2011·5.9
Escalade
2011·4.4
Au bistro du coin
2011·3.6
Main basse sur une île
2011·8.0
Plus si affinités & Friends
2011·0.0
Le Gendre idéal 2
2010·4.6
Vieilles canailles
2010·5.2
Le pot de colle
2010·7.3
The Whistler
2010·4.9
Sentiments provisoires
2010·6.0
The Concert
2009·7.2
Les Associés
2009·5.8
La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil
2009·5.0
Transporter 3
2008·6.2
Le Gendre idéal
2008·3.8
L'Arbre de joie
2008·7.0
Tailleur pour dames
2008·7.0
Daddy Cool
2008·4.7
Ca$h
2008·5.7
Le Petit Fût
2008·0.0
Batailles
2008·0.0
Faisons un rêve
2007·7.2
Tell No One: The B-Side
2007·6.0
A Girl Cut in Two
2007·5.9
Fragile(s)
2007·5.3
Pur week-end
2007·4.7
Could This Be Love?
2007·6.2
Tell No One
2006·7.2
One Summer
2006·5.7
Aurore
2006·6.7
Comedy of Power
2006·6.3
Edy
2005·5.1
Transporter 2
2005·6.3
Quartier V.I.P.
2005·4.5
The Best Day of My Life
2005·5.3
Narco
2004·5.7
Me and My Sister
2004·5.6
The Great Role
2004·5.5
Eros Therapy
2004·4.3
Everybody Is a Killer
2004·4.9
Cash Truck
2004·6.4
The Chorus
2004·7.7
I've Been Waiting So Long
2004·4.7
Les Amateurs
2004·6.3
Hot House
2003·5.0
A Model Employee
2003·5.4
Only Girls
2003·6.3
En territoire indien
2003·5.5
Remake
2003·6.8
Whatever You Say
2002·5.8
The Transporter
2002·6.7
The Adversary
2002·6.6
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002·7.0
The Young Casanova
2002·5.0
Féroce
2002·5.0
The Warrior's Brother
2002·6.2
Alive
2002·5.5
L'Héritière
2002·8.0
Tender Souls
2001·4.3
La fille de son père
2001·10.0
How I Killed My Father
2001·5.8
L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?
2001·8.0
Hors Service
2001·5.0
Recrutement
2001·8.0
Cyrano
2001·0.0
Don't Make Trouble!
2001·6.5
The Prince of the Pacific
2000·4.6
Jeanne, Marie et les autres
2000·9.0
Stardom
2000·5.3
Deep in the Woods
2000·4.0
Six-Pack
2000·5.7
Actors
2000·5.8
One 4 All
1999·4.2
Bad Company
1999·5.3
Man of My Life
1999·10.0
My Little Business
1999·6.1
Innocent
1999·8.0
Le sourire du clown
1999·7.5
Hard Off
1999·3.6
Stop
1999·4.0
The Happiest Place on Earth
1999·3.3
Romance
1999·5.5
Baby Blues
1999·3.5
In All Innocence
1998·5.9
The School of Flesh
1998·5.4
Place Vendôme
1998·6.2
Dormez, je le veux!
1998·8.0
L'Année des Guignols - Y'a paaas de méthode
1998·8.0
La Mort du Chinois
1998·6.3
Un flic presque parfait
1998·7.0
Seventh Heaven
1997·5.0
Le garçon d'orage
1997·7.5
Fred
1997·6.3
Pardaillan
1997·7.0
Captain Conan
1996·6.6
A Self-Made Hero
1996·6.9
Un si joli bouquet
1995·10.0
Runaways
1995·6.5
Les Milles
1995·5.7
Fresh Bait
1995·6.4
La fidèle infidèle
1995·8.5
The Violin Player
1994·9.5
Cherche famille désespérément
1994·7.0
The Goldfish
1994·2.0
The Screw
1993·7.0
Trapped by a Dream
1993·6.0
Feu Adrien Muset
1992·4.5
Papa veut pas que je t'épouse
1992·7.0
Tableau d'honneur
1992·10.0
La Femme de l'amant
1992·9.0
May Fools
1990·6.9
Sans rires
1990·5.2
The Hostage of Europe
1989·7.5
Suivez cet avion
1989·7.5
Camille Claudel
1988·6.8
Poker
1988·7.0
Au Revoir les Enfants
1987·7.5
The Murderous Months of April
1987·7.1
The Secret Wife
1986·7.3
Make It Mine
1986·4.3
Strictement personnel
1985·7.0
Sincerely Charlotte
1985·3.8
Marche à l'ombre
1984·6.4
Stella
1983·7.0
La Balance
1982·6.4
Un étrange voyage
1981·6.8
Martin and Lea
1979·6.0