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Jean-Paul Belmondo, French Actor and Star of ‘Breathless,’ Dies at 88

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lawyer confirmed to the news agency AFP on Monday. He was 88.A cause of death has not been made public. Belmondo skyrocketed to international fame after appearing in Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave French classic, “Breathless,” in 1959 and became one of the country’s biggest stars throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.Born in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, the young Belmondo became an amateur boxer and, in fact, had an undefeated record.

But that calling to fight for a living changed when, as he put it, “I stopped when the face I saw in the mirror began to change.”His interests shifted to acting and spent his later teen years at a private drama school and he started to perform comedy sketches in the provinces.

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