The Choristers, Goodbye children, Men prefer fat ones, My Idole… Since the end of the 1970s, François Berléand has held an indisputable place in French cinema: by turns grumpy, serious or even completely mad, the 70-year-old actor is truly unique. And it should continue this Tuesday, October 11 with the broadcast of the TV movie Dragon’s Breathin which he embodies a former athlete who helps women recover from breast cancer.
But if he is rather ubiquitous in cinema or on television, François Berléand is not the type to tell his private life everywhere! Married to actress Alexia Stresi since 2004, he is the father of four children (Martin and Fanny, 43 and 39 years old, born of a first union, Adèle and Lucie, 14 years old) whom he fiercely protects from any media exposure. And some of his previous romances are also particularly low-keyin particular that lived with Nicole Garcia.
A story that began while he was still married to the mother of his two eldest children, but that he completely accepts. “This gorgeous person, movie value, brilliant, gave me confidence“, he had explained to the World in 2016 about the one he spent twelve years with. “Thanks to her, I did nine months of analysis. And I came out of invisibility, in the cinema as in the subsidized theater, where the star is the director”.
Nicole Garcia, in love with another legendary actor
Director and actress, Nicole Garcia is also very far from being an unknown in the world of cinema and spent twelve years of mad love with François Berléand. But the actor is not the only colleague she frequented: indeed, for several years, she also shared the life of Jean Rochefort, with whom she even had a son, Pierre, now aged 41 years old and also an actor. A young man who now remembers life with his separated parents rather well for “obvious incompatibility of temper“, according to his father himself, who died in 2017.
“I lived with my mother. My father was caught up in a hectic life. I saw him every other weekend“, he said a few years ago in an interview with the JDD. “I also remember spending many months with an English or American nanny who made me do my homework and put me to bed. I didn’t understand at the time but Looking back, I realize that those were great moments of loneliness“.