Jacques Perrin is a French actor and director. He was given his first film roles by Italian director Valerio Zurlini. He also gave over 400 performances of L'Année du bac on the Paris stage. He won two Best Actor awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1966 for the Italian film Almost a Man and the Spanish film The Search. At 27, he created a studio and produced and acted in Z, directed by Costa Gavras.