Jean Pierre Marielle

JeanPierre Marielle is a French actor. He has played in more than a hundred films in which he brought life to a very large diversity of roles, from the banal citizen , to the serial killer , to the World War II hero , to the compromised spy , to the hasbeen actor , acting always with the same excellence whatever the quality of the movie in itself. He is well known for his outspokenness and especially for his warm and cavernous voice which is often imitated by French humorists considering him as the archetype of the French gentleman.

Marielle was born in 1932 in Dijon to an industrialist father and a dressmaker mother. His first experiences of acting date back to his years of high school during which he staged some Chekhovs plays with his comrades. He initially wanted to study literature but one of his teachers encouraged him to become an actor instead, so that he joined the Conservatoire National where became close friends with JeanPaul Belmondo and Jean Rochefort and from where he left with the comedy second prize in 1954.

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