French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo died on the 6th local time at the age of 88.
Jean-Paul Belmondo died peacefully at his paris home. He has been in poor health in recent years and has rarely appeared in public.
Belmondo was born in 1933 in Paris to an art family whose father was the famous sculptor Paul Belmondo and whose mother was a painter.
As he grew older, he became increasingly interested in the arts and was admitted to a musical theatre school for specialized studies.
After graduating from the school with honors in 1956, he toured various places with local amateur theater troupes.
In 1960, Jean-Paul Belmondo starred in the French New Wave director Jean Luc Godard's masterpiece Exhausted.
In the film, he played a gangster who stole cars, shot policemen, and chased young girls, and became famous in the French film industry.
Since then, he has starred in about 80 films, including "Exhausted", "Women Are Women", "Piero the Madman", "Father Leon Mohan", "Thief of Thieves", "Paris War", "Heirs", "King of Kings" and so on.
In 1989, Jean-Paul Belmondo won the French César Award for Best Actor for "The Lion Sam", the Palme d'Or of Lifetime Achievement at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2016.
His acting career is regarded as "a microcosm of French cinema" and has been called "the ugliest beautiful man in France".
French film star Alain Deron, who was active in the same era, expressed "shock" and "heartbreak" at the death of Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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Source: Thoughtful