<br>By Benoit Van Overstraeten<br> <br>PARIS, Фильмнар June 17 (Reuters) – French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, whose career was launched at the same time as Brigitte Bardot with the 1956 film “And God Created Woman” died Friday at the age of 91, his ex-wife Nadine Trintignant said.<br> <br>”He was somebody special,” she told BFM TV.<br> <br>Trintignant received the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Festival for the Costa Gavras film “Z” and a Cesar Award for Best Actor in 2013 for the Michael Haneke movie “Amour”.<br> <br>Along with Jean-Pierre Léaud and the late Jean-Paul Belmondo, Trintignant was one of the leading actors of the French “New Wave” movement.<br> <br>He played in more than 130 films, including the 1966 Cannes Palme d’Or winner “A Man and a Woman”, a film by Claude Lelouch, also famous for its musical score by Francis Lai.<br> <br>He suffered personal tragedy in 2003 after his daughter Marie Trintignant, who was also a critically-acclaimed actress, died aged 41 after she was fatally beaten by her boyfriend Bertrand Cantat, leader of the French rockband Noir Désir.<br> <br>Cantat was convicted of manslaughter and released from jail in 2007.

(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten Editing by Frances Kerry)<br>