Jean-Paul Belmondo was born on April 9, 1933 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. Belmondo's father, Paul Belmondo, was a pied-noir sculptor of Italian descent, born in Algeria to Sicilian and Piedmontese parents. Mother Sarah Reynaud-Richard was a painter. As a boy, he was more interested in sports than school, developing a particular interest in boxing and football.
Belmondo made his amateur boxing debut on 10 May 1949 in Paris when he knocked out René Desmarais in one round. Belmondo's boxing career was undefeated, but brief. He won three straight first-round knockout victories from 1949 to 1950. "I stopped when the face I saw in the mirror began to change", he later said. He did national service in French North Africa, where he shot himself with a rifle strap to end military service.
Belmondo was interested in acting. His youth was spent at a private drama school, and he began performing comedy sketches in the provinces. He studied under Raymond Girard and then studied at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in his twenties. He studied there for three years. He probably would have won the prize for best actor, but participated in a sketch mocking the school, which offended the jury; As a result, he received an honorable mention in August 1956, "which almost caused a riot among his exasperated fellow students," according to one report.
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