Barrault

American  

[ba-roh] / baˈroʊ /

noun

1. Jean-Louis 1910–1994, French actor and director.

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Barrault British  

/ baro /

noun

1. Jean-Louis (ʒɑ̃lwi). 1910–94, French actor and director, noted particularly as a mime

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Example Sentences

He continued his education in Paris, where he studied with the actor Jean-Louis Barrault and the mime Etienne Decroux.

From New York Times

It’s worth recalling that in 1976, the year of Bergman and Wertmüller, no fewer than three non-English-language performances received acting nominations: Marie-Christine Barrault for “Cousin, Cousine,” Liv Ullman for “Face to Face” and Giancarlo Giannini for “Seven Beauties.”

From Los Angeles Times

“So proud with all this team has achieved,” said Damien Barrault, 27, who , like many, had made the journey from the Paris suburbs to experience a “historic” night.

From The Guardian

Barrault thought the problem with “L’ État de siège” stemmed from the confusion over whether the plague was political or metaphysical.

From Los Angeles Times

Bentley praised the director for lifting the play from abstract argument into theatrical life: “Barrault brought to Camus’s only semidramatized idea his sense of color and visual form, of sound and rhythm, of actors as individual bodies and as bodies in groups, and made of it a musical-choreographic work.”

From Los Angeles Times