- As he had so much respect for Marlon Brando and was afraid of working with him, all his scenes in Bản Tango Cuối Cùng Ở Paris (1972) were shot on Saturdays, when Brando refused to work. Thus, they didn't meet together during the entire shooting.
- He played the same part - Antoine Doinel- in five films: as young boy in 400 Cú Đấm (1959), as an adolescent in the "Antoine et Colette" segment of the anthology L'amour à vingt ans (1962) and, together with the actress Claude Jade as his girlfriend, and later wife, Christine in Baisers volés (1968), Domicile conjugal (1970) and L'amour en fuite (1979).
- His performance as Antoine Doinel in 400 Cú Đấm (1959) ("The 400 Blows") is ranked #98 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
- In 1968, during the military dictatorship government in Brazil, as seen in the documentary Barra 68 - Sem Perder a Ternura (2001), Jean-Pierre Léaud, who was also a political militant, made a speech for hundreds of students at Brasília University, which is in Brazil's capital.
- Son of actress Jacqueline Pierreux and scenarist Pierre Léaud.
- He has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette, as well as other notable directors such as Jean Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Aki Kaurismäki.
- In March 1966, Léaud won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin, féminin.
- He was nominated for a César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1988 for Les Keufs and was awarded an Honorary César for lifetime achievement in 2000.
- Léaud is one of the most visible and well-known actors to be associated with the French New Wave film movement and, aside from his work with Truffaut, collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard (nine films), Jean Eustache, Jacques Rivette and Agnès Varda.
- Born on exactly the same date as Patricia Quinn of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" fame.
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