Jean-Paul Belmondo : Family, Net Worth, Parents, Wife, Children and Cause of Death

Jean-Paul Belmondo was a French actor know all about him in this article as like his Family, Net Worth, Parents, Wife, Children and Cause of Death

  Bio
Name Jean-Paul Belmondo
Birthdate ( Age) 9 April 1933
Place of Birth Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Died  6 September 2021
Nationality French
Marital Status  Married
Spouse/Partner  Natty Tardivel (m. 2002–2008), Elodie Constantin (m. 1952–1968)
Children Paul Belmondo, Stella Eva Angelina, Florence Belmondo, Patricia Belmondo
Parents Name not KNown
Profession French actor
Net Worth  $200 Million
Last Update September 2021

Jean-Paul Belmondo was a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Belmondo’s acting career properly began in 1953, with two performances at the Théâtre de l’Atelier in Paris, Jean Anouilh’s Médée and Georges Neveux’s Zamore. Belmondo began touring the provinces with friends including Annie Girardot and Guy Bedos.

Early Life and Family

Jean-Paul Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine, now Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris. Belmondo’s father, Paul Belmondo, was a Pied-Noir sculptor who was born in Algeria of Italian descent, whose parents were of Sicilian and Piedmontese origin.

As a boy he was more interested in sport than school, developing a particular interest in boxing and soccer.Belmondo made his amateur boxing debut on 10 May 1949 in Paris when he knocked out Rene Desmarais in one round. Belmondo’s boxing career was undefeated, but brief.His last teenage years were spent at a private drama school, and he began performing comedy sketches in the provinces.

Jean-Paul Belmondo Wife

On 4 December 1952, Belmondo married Élodie Constantin,with whom he had three children. Belmondo and Constantin separated in 1965.She filed for divorce in September 1966, and it was finalized on 5 January 1968.

He had relationships with Ursula Andress from 1965 to 1972,Laura Antonelli from 1972 to 1980,Brazilian actress and singer Carlos Sotto Mayor from 1980 to 1987,and Barbara Gandolfi from 2008 to 2012.In 1989, Belmondo was in his mid-50s when he met 24-year-old dancer Natty Tardivel. The couple lived together for over a decade before marrying in 2002.

Jean-Paul Belmondo Net Worth

Jean-Paul Belmondo was a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars who has an estimated Net Worth of $200 Million in 2021.

Professional Career

Belmondo first appeared in the short Moliere (1956). His first film role was a scene with Jean-Pierre Cassel in On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels (1957), which was cut from the final film; however he had a bigger part in the follow up A Dog, a Mouse, and a Sputnik (1958).

Belmondo had a small role in the comedy Be Beautiful But Shut Up (1958) (alongside a young Alain Delon), followed by a role as a gangster in Young Sinners (1958), directed by Marcel Carné.Belmondo supported Bourvil and Arletty in Sunday Encounter (1958). Jean-Luc Godard directed him in a short, Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958), where Belmondo’s voice was dubbed by Godard after Belmondo was conscripted into the army.

Breathless was a major success in France and overseas and launched Belmondo as an international name and the face of the New Wave – even though, as he said “I don’t know what they mean” when people used that term.In the words of the New York Times it led to his having “more acting assignments than he can handle”.

He had his first notable on screen comedy role in the anthology movie Love and the Frenchwoman (1960). Then he made two Italian films: supporting Sophia Loren in Two Women (1961), as a bespectacled country boy then opposite Claudia Cardinale in The Lovemakers (1961).

There were Hollywood offers, but Belmondo turned them down. “He won’t make films outside of France,” said director Mark Robson, who wanted him for Lost Command (1966). “He has scripts stacked up and he doesn’t see why he should jeopardize his great success by speaking English instead of French.”

Inspired by the success Alain Delon had producing his own films, Belmondo formed his own production company, Cerito Films (named after his grandmother, Rosina Cerrito), to develop movies for Belmondo.The first Cerito film was the black comedy Dr. Popaul (1972), with Mia Farrow, the biggest hit to date for director Claude Chabrol.