Anecdotes

As he had so much respect for Marlon Brando and was afraid of working with him, all his scenes in Le Dernier Tango à Paris (1972) were shot on Saturdays, when Brando refused to work. Thus, they didn't meet together during the entire shooting.

He played the same part - Antoine Doinel- in five films: as young boy in Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959), as an adolescent in the "Antoine et Colette" segment of the anthology L'amour à vingt ans (1962) and, together with the actress Claude Jade as his girlfriend, and later wife, Christine in Baisers volés (1968), Domicile conjugal (1970) and L'amour en fuite (1979).

His performance as Antoine Doinel in Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) ("The 400 Blows") is ranked #98 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

In 1968, during the military dictatorship government in Brazil, as seen in the documentary Barra 68 - Sem Perder a Ternura (2001), Jean-Pierre Léaud, who was also a political militant, made a speech for hundreds of students at Brasília University, which is in Brazil's capital.

In March 1966, Léaud won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin, féminin.

Son of actress Jacqueline Pierreux and scenarist Pierre Léaud.

He has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette, as well as other notable directors such as Jean Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Aki Kaurismäki.

He was nominated for a César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1988 for Les Keufs and was awarded an Honorary César for lifetime achievement in 2000.

Léaud is one of the most visible and well-known actors to be associated with the French New Wave film movement and, aside from his work with Truffaut, collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard (nine films), Jean Eustache, Jacques Rivette and Agnès Varda.

Born on exactly the same date as Patricia Quinn of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" fame.