Marie Trintignant died on August 1, 2003, 19 years ago today, Monday August 1, 2022. Behind her, the actress who died under the blows of her companion Bertrand Cantat left his four sons, fruits of different love stories. Among them, Jules Benchetrit, the son that the actress had with Samuel Benchetrit. At 24, the young man looks more and more like his late mom. Like her, he chose to become an actor.
His grandmother Nadine Trintignant made some confidences about her four grandsons in the columns of Gala, last January. “jules is an actor. He will soon play Sami Frey in the film that Danièle Thompson is making on Brigitte Bardot“, she said about the son of Marie Trintignant and Samuel Benchetrit. When the actress was found dead in a hotel room in Lithuania that day, she had sent a message to her former companion, Samuel Benchetrit, father of Jules, who raised him alone with his little sister Saul Benchetrit, daughter that the actor had with Anna Mouglalis. “It was he who taught me to behave well, to dress well, to create a good image. Education is essential for him“, had moreover confided Jules Benchetrit to Galain 2019. “My father raised me alone, he was very young (30, editor’s note), it was a bit of a mess. He did very well, but people don’t know what our troubles have been“, he delivered.
A beautiful tribute to his mother
Having become the half-brother by marriage of Jack and Lily-Rose Depp, he was chosen to be in the casting of the mini-series devoted to Brigitte Bardot. It is Julia de Nunez who will lend her features to the BB icon, and he will camp Sami Frey there. The youngest son of the tragically deceased actress – when he was only 5 years old – he was marked by this terrible tragedy. On Instagram, last May, Jules Benchetrit posted a beautiful tribute to Marie Trintignant: a superb photo of her in black and white which testifies to the resemblance between the mother and her son. On the career side, Jules Benchetrit is not in his first role, he already has nearly five feature films to his credit. He is not the only one of Marie Trintignant’s four sons to have chosen to be in the spotlight since Roman is an actor. As for the discreet Paul – born of the union between the actress and François Cluzet – he is a writer, and Léon, born of the latter’s relationship with Mathias Othnin-Girard, works in the restaurant business.