Jacques Perrin: who is his widow, Valentine, whom he married nearly thirty years ago?

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Jacques and Valentine Perrin
“The family has the immense sadness to inform you of the disappearance of the filmmaker Jacques Perrin, who died on Thursday April 21 in Paris. He died peacefully at the age of 80”, can we read in a press release sent at AFP.

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Info of April 21, 2022 – Actor and director Jacques Perrin died at the age of 80 – Exclusive – Véronique Boursier (Festival Director), Jacques Perrin and his wife Valentine Perrin – Closing ceremony of “My first festival 2018 at the Cinéma des Cinéastes in Paris. October 30, 2018
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Jacques and Valentine Perrin
He then leaves behind his wife, Valentine, who loved him all his life. If in 1995 the two lovebirds married, they had known each other for a long time.

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At the controls of the production of the program The 25th hour broadcast on France 2, husband and wife shared this love for television but also for the cinema.

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Indeed, Valentine Perrin has produced many feature films such as The Wolf and the Lion in 2021, Mia and the Lion in 2016 or Modern Love, eight years earlier.

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She will also have three beautiful children: Mathieu Simonet, born from a previous relationship, Maxence Perrin and Lancelot Perrin.

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The three toddlers have also embarked on a film career, like the second, present in the film Les Choristes, alongside his dad.

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Successful director, Jacques Perrin also liked to play certain roles, as he mentioned at Gala in 2008.

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“I played a lot. But that goes back to another time, at the time of Sarah Bernhardt or Mounet-Sully,” he explained.

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But Jacques Perrin admitted without shame that he was then much less in demand as a director.

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Jacques and Valentine Perrin
“I have fewer proposals. People may have thought that, as a producer, I no longer had the desire to play, when that’s not true. I’m just doing something complementary. And I I still have so much attraction, will, dream, I would even say that at times I might miss not being an actor. It’s one of the most beautiful ways of living, all the same!