Marie Trintignant ( 21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress. Trintignant was born in Boulogne-Billancourt from actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and French film director, producer, and screenwriter Nadine Marquand. She appeared in over 30 movies during her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France’s film industry, as her father was an actor and her mother was a director, producer, and screenwriter.

She first appeared on screen aged four in My Love, My Love, which was directed by her mother and starred her father. Trintignant’s first critical acclaimed film was Série noire. In 1988, Trintignant worked under French director Claude Chabrol in the film Une Affaire de Femme, in which she played a young prostitute in wartime Vichy France. She worked with Chabrol again in 1991 in film Betty.

In 1990, Trintignant was involved in a serious car accident which she narrowly survived. She starred in 21 films afterwards, including Les Amants du Pont-Neuf in 1991 and Wild Target in 1993. She starred opposite her then-husband François Cluzet in the 1995 film The Apprentices, and White Lies in 1998. Two of Trintignant’s films were released posthumously: Janis et John, a biographical film directed by her estranged husband Samuel Benchetrit, in which Trintignant starred as Janis Joplin, and Colette, une femme libre, a biographical miniseries in which Trintignant played the lead role of French novelist Colette. See full BIO at Wiki

Trintignant stated that she enjoyed portraying marginalized women and tragic heroes on film; she enjoyed playing characters who allowed her to speak “for those who don’t deserve being spoken for.” She performed in both comedies and tragedies.

Murder and Death –

In 2003, Trintignant was filming in Vilnius, Lithuania with her boyfriend, Bertrand Cantat on Colette, une femme libre, a television movie in which Trintignant played the starring role. On July 27, 2003, Trintignant was in a hotel room where she had violent argument with boyfriend Cantat when she took a phone call from her ex-husband.  Boyfriend flew into a jealous rage, and beat Trintignant severely. Her autopsy showed multiple blows to the head. Trintignant had slipped into a deep coma. She was transported to a hospital where she was declared brain-dead at the age of 41 on 1 August 2003.

Birth Chart of Marie Trintignant (born 21 January 1962 at 13:00 (= 1:00 PM ), Place-Boulogne Billancourt, France)