Marie Trintignant would have been 63 years old: what happened to her four sons, Roman, Paul, Jules and Léon, born to four different fathers?

On October 15, 2003, the film was released in theaters Janis and John of . In this comedy, played the singer, a star who left too early, at barely 27 years old. Unfortunately, her daughter had imitated her almost three months earlier, beaten to death by , singer of the rock group Noir Désir, . On his birthday, his admirers and family flocked to him. Among this, Roman Kolinka, Jules Benchetrit, Léon Othnin-Girard and Paul Cluzet, his four sonsthen aged 17, 5, 7 and 10 years respectively. Today, everyone continues on their own path, and often in the artistic field, like their mother Marie and their grandfather, Jean-Louis, who died in 2022.

Let’s start with the eldest of the siblings, Roman Kolinka, 38 years old today. Son of , the drummer of the group Telephone, he continues a dual career as actor and restaurateur. On screens, we could see him for the first time in 1994 in the film Youth dreamer from his grandmother, the director. Feature films followed with Vincent Trintignant (his uncle), Mia Hansen-Løve and Olivier Assayas. In 2023, he was noticed in You didn’t see anything eitherin which Maud Wyler and . And, on October 7, 2024, in the France 2 series Disturbing disappearance.

At the same time, Roman set up the restaurant La Famille on the magnificent Place aux Herbes d’Uzès, in the Gard department, and where Marie owned an old sheepfold. Her “simple and straightforward slate”, as explained on the Gault et Milau website, offers cold meats, Spanish ham, tartare and fried sirloin steaks. Last October 5, guest on the set of the show What an era! on France 2, Roman Kolinka explained the choice of the name of his establishment: “Everyone here knows more or less that I am the grandson of Jean-Louis Trintignant. I knew I was going to be asked the question ‘Are you family?’ seventeen times a day. So we called it The Family. And in the family there is this thing of sharing, we like moments at the table. We like to drink, we like to eat.”

Léon is the most discreet of Marie Trintignant’s children

He shares this passion with his half-brother, 28 years old, son of cinema technician Mathias Othnin-Girard. The most discreet of Marie’s children also works in the restaurant business, as her grandmother, Nadine, briefly revealed during an interview with Gala in January 2022. After working in establishments in Manosque (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), Léon followed a BEP in cooking and is currently divided between Paris and the south of France. A poet in his spare time, he regularly posts texts of his own on Facebook. Selected pieces: “I ask myself questions about existence / This is my penance / I played with kindness here I am on the path to the gallows.” On this network, he also speaks out against police violence and deforestation.

His older half-brother, 31, shares his discretion. The actor’s son was born in Nîmes (Gard) and lived for several years in Australia. In March 2024, he published his first novel, Bobby Nazebroquepublished by Grasset. “Maybe I was too drunk when I was little, asking me if I wanted to be like my dad when I grew up. I think I twisted in a spirit of rebellion. And then it didn’t appeal to me that much. I always preferred to write”, he confided during an interview for the magazine Elle. Jean-Louis Trintignant himself had read a poem by Paul, I sleep in the westduring a recording for Radio France in January 2018.

Let’s end with the second actor of the siblings, son of Samuel. Shortlisted for the 2019 Césars for the film At your fingertipshe has just made a short film and “writes a lot and very well” according to his father. We saw it in television series 9.3 BB et Bardot. Director of At your fingertipsLudovic Bernard estimated, in the columns of Allociné, that Jules “has both a violence that he puts into his interpretation and incredible casualness“. Words that would make Marie happy if she were still here. She had a tattoo at the bottom of her stomach in the shape of a sun with four rays at the end of which were inscribed the four names of her sons. They had “Mom” tattooed. ” or “Marie” on their chest or their shoulder A tribute that they will carry forever.