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Dominique Blanc was born on 25 April 1956 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She is an actress and director, known for Indochine (1992), Queen Margot (1994) and Stand-by (2000).1990 Milou en Mai de Louis Malle
Best French Actress in Supporting Role 1990- Opulent French actress Suzanne Flon, who came from humble beginnings, evolved into a luminous stage and film star whose career lasted five decades. She was born near Paris, the daughter of a railway worker and a seamstress and at school developed an interest in writing poetry. Following high school she worked as an English interpreter at Au Printemps, a large Parisian department store, before finding a position with the famed songbird Édith Piaf as her personal secretary. Ms. Flon's first performance was as a mistress of ceremonies in a musical revue. She continued on stage and eventually developed an association with the noted playwright Jean Anouilh in the early 1940s; she played his heroine Ismene in "Antigone" and played Joan of Arc to great acclaim in "The Lark" in 1953. She also dabbled in avant garde works by Marguerite Duras as well as Shakespeare, Pirandello, Chekhov and Molliere and won a number of stage awards for her efforts. In 1959, she became a member of the Theatre National Populaire and appeared in several plays under the direction of René Clair.
Ms. Flon began in films with Capitaine Blomet (1947) before branching out internationally in the 1950s. She was an elegant standout as a free-spirited couture model who became the object of fascination and desire for the crippled painter Toulouse-Lautrec played by José Ferrer in John Huston's film Moulin Rouge (1952). She also impressed in friend Orson Welles' comedy-thriller Confidential Report (1955) as a listless patrician, and later played Miss Pittl for him in The Trial (1962) [The Trial]. War themes were prominent in her 1960s work. In Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961) [Thou Shalt Not Kill], she won the Venice Film Festival award for her resolute mother whose son resists the World War I draft. In The Train (1964) starring Burt Lancaster, Jeanne Moreau and Paul Scofield she had some excellent scenes as an art curator who becomes a detrimental figure in the Nazi's plans to secretly export masterpieces out of France during the French Resistance.
Awards continued to come her way with a number of stylish and sensitive "grande dame" roles. She won bookend César awards for One Deadly Summer (1983) [One Deadly Summer] as Isabelle Adjani's deaf but highly sensitized aunt, and as the mother of Lambert Wilson in La vouivre (1989) [The Dragon]. Her rich and soothing voice was also used frequently for French narratives in numerous documentaries. Ms. Flon continued to appear on stage, film and TV right up until her death of a stomach ailment at age 87 in 2005.1990 Gaspard et Robinson de Tony Gatlif - Anna Galiena was born on 22 December 1949 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Hairdresser's Husband (1990), Black Angel (2002) and Senza pelle (1994).1990 Le mari de la coiffeuse de Patrice Leconte
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Catherine Jacob was born on 16 December 1956 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Auntie Danielle (1990), Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) and Maintenant ou jamais (1997).1990 Tatie Danielle d'Etienne Chatiliez- Actress
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Odette Laure, an actress and cabaret singer, had been born Odette Roussillon on February 28, 1917, to the owners of the Café des Arts in Belleville. At the age of 4, she already climbed up on the tables of the establishment to sing Damia and Mistinguett's songs, while at school, her fantasy and her fun were a hit. Accustomed to be the star of school revues, she participated in radio contests: on one of these occasions, Saint-Granier, the host of Le Poste Parisien, noticed her and advised her a career as a fancy singer. In spite of her natural disposition, her father refused to allow her to enter the Conservatory. To please her parents, she became a hairdresser and beautician and got married. But her husband turned out to be unfaithful, which led her to divorce him. After the Second World War, now free of all parental and marital influence, she decided to pursue her lifelong passion. Knocking on the door of Suzy Solidor's cabaret proved a right move since she soon became, and for a long time, one of its stars. Exuberant, full of energy, with a cheeky acidulous voice, the show-woman invariably made audiences burst with laughter. In 1954, her greatest commercial success "Ca tourne pas rond dans ma petite tête" written by Francis Blanche, earned her into the bargain the Charles Cros Prize. After such recognition, The singer started appearing on bigger scenes (The Olympia and Bobino music-halls). She also worked for the radio and the French television (Jean Nohain's « C'est arrivé à 36 chandelles »). during the same period she became an actress, playing in more than 50 films and television shows between 1949 and 2001. Her film debut was a bit part opposite Jean Gabin in Carné's 1949 « La Marie du port ». All this buzzing activity came to an abrupt halt - and for a period of a dozen years. Odette Laure's status as a successful singer was indeed swept away by the yé yé wave. In 1961, disoriented, she decided to make an intellectual and metaphysical retreat to Japan. Back in France, things picked up again thanks to Jean-Laurent Cochet. Not only did he invite her to assist him in the new drama class he had just opened (which would train future stars such as Depardieu, Huppert, Giraudeau, or Lucchini) but he also sponsored her theatrical debut in « Boudu sauvé des eaux ». Many plays followed, as well as the operetta « Véronique », after André Messager (1977) and television (TV movies, series and a noted participation in Michel Drucker's TV show « Télé Gabriel » where her volubility once again proved irresistible). Without forgetting the cinema, where she always made'em laugh, especially in "Le Viager" by Pierre Tchernia (1971), "Les nanas" (1984) and "La Dilettante" by Pascal Thomas (1999). Of all the roles of the second half of her career one stands out in particular, that of Jane Birkin's mother (and widow of ... Dirk Bogarde) in Tavernier's moving" Daddy Nostalgie " (1990). She was even nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for it. Having to live with a heart condition, the multi-talented performer was forced to slow down on her activities. She died in her sleep in Paris on June 10, 2004 of a heart attack.1990 Daddy nostalgie de Bertrand Tavernier- Actress
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Danièle Lebrun is a critically acclaimed leading actress of the French stage. It could be said that her career began when her older brother, the philosopher Gérard Lebrun (1930-1999), introduced her to the director Claude Autant-Lara. Lara deemed her as too young to be cast in his film The Immature Grain (1954), but, nonetheless, encouraged her acting ambitions. Lebrun soon made her first theatrical appearance in Arthur Miller 's The Crucible at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt under the direction of Raymond Rouleau. She subsequently studied drama at the Conservatoire, won first prize for acting and then joined the Comédie-Française for two years. In the course of six decades, she has since acted in numerous classic plays by Molière, Pirandello, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and others, collecting a Critics Union Award in 1976 for her role in Madame de Sade and two Molière Awards (1992 and 2006), respectively, for performances in Le Misanthrope and George Bernard Shaw 's Pygmalion. She rejoined the Comédie-Française in 2011.
Infrequently on the screen during the 60s, Lebrun had her first leading role at the end of the decade as Grushenka in a French TV version of Les frères Karamazov (1969). Since the 70s, she has become an audience favorite in literary adaptations and period dramas (again on the small screen), notably as Baronness Roxane de Saint-Gély in Marcel Bluwal's series Les nouvelles aventures de Vidocq (1971) and in the title role of Bérénice (1975), queen of Judaea, based on a tragedy by 17th-century playwright Jean Racine. She has also portrayed Empress Josephine, Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife, in the biopic Joséphine ou la comédie des ambitions (1979), and Napoleon's mother Maria-Letizia Bonaparte (also known as "Madame Mère") in the comedy Madame Sans-Gêne (2002). More recently, Lebrun portrayed the wife of Charles de Gaulle, Yvonne, in a two-part miniseries, Madame Cuchet, one of the murder victims of French Bluebeard Landru (2005), and Emilienne, one of a quartet of pensioners trying to recapture the adventures of their youth by masterminding a robbery of their retirement home, in Les vieux calibres (2013) (again directed by her husband Marcel Bluwal).
Danièle Lebrun's first marriage was to the journalist François de Closets. Her second husband was the aforementioned film maker Marcel Bluwal who often directed her on the screen. He died in 2021.1990 Uranus de Claude Berri- This French actress, of a subtle beauty, charms more by her finesse and her sensitivity than by flashy physical appeal. She has appeared in a great number of films, among which unfortunately a large number of TV movies that, never reprogrammed, do not allow us to enjoy as many performances from her as we would like.
Born on May 6, 1949 in Lille, she enrolled in the faculty of literature at the age of twenty, but she was more attracted to acting and decided to attend the Conservatory of Bordeaux. She also joined the Compagnie Dramatique d'Aquitaine in 1970 and started working as a television announcer (as a replacement during the same summer). After graduating, Thérèse moved to Paris where she did a series of small jobs, as an au pair, an employee for a bibliophile, a.s.o. in order to finance her training at the Cours Simon, which she attended in the afternoon. Thérèse was then 21 years old.
She took her first steps on the stage by performing in "La Peur", an adaptation of Alfred Jarry's "La Peur chez l'Amour", and then in a play by Samuel Beckett. The roles began to follow one another, including "The Masked Dagger" in the theater (1974) and "Une ténébreuse affaire" after the novel by Balzac (1975)
Thérèse Liotard then entered the world of cinema thanks to a series of fruitful encounters. Directors such as Agnès Varda, Bertrand Tavernier, Patrice Leconte, Luigi Comencini, Claude Sautet or Yves Robert gave her her most famous roles: Suzanne, one of the two heroines of "One Sings, the Other Doesn't " (1976); Tracey, reporter Harvey Keitel's ex-wife in "Death Watch" (1979); Françoise, Bernard Giraudeau's life companion in "Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine" (1980); the mother of "A Boy from Calabria " (1987); Régine, Dominique Lavanant's formerly leftist sister in "A Few Days with Me" (1988); Aunt Rose in "My Father's Glory " and "My Mother's Castle " (1989), a role she actually coveted more than that of the mother, which she found "funnier", and which finally earned her a nomination for the César for Best Supporting Actress. In 1990, she also played a recurring role in a British police series: "Bergerac". The same year, she played the mother of Judith Godrèche in "The Disenchanted" by Benoît Jacquot. She retired in 2013 after a beautiful role of mother in "Happiness" by Fabrice Grange and has since then given acting lessons. In 2018, closing this rich career, she was awarded the well-deserved "Reconnaissance des cinéphiles (Moviegoers' recognition)" prize.1990 La gloire de mon père d'Yves Robert - Actress
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Jane Birkin was born on 14 December 1946 in London, England, UK. She was an actress and director, known for Evil Under the Sun (1982), Blow-Up (1966) and Death on the Nile (1978). She was married to John Barry. She died on 16 July 2023 in Paris, France.1991 La belle noiseuse de Jacques Rivette- Actress
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Anne Brochet was born on 22 November 1966 in Amiens, Somme, France. She is an actress and director, known for Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Masks (1987) and Du fond du coeur (1994).1991 Tous les matins du monde d'Alain Corneau
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Over the course of a five-decade career, she starred in nearly 150 films. She is a three-time César Award winner (1977, 1996, 2002), a two-time Molière Award winner, a BAFTA nominee, and a recipient of several international prizes including the Volpi Cup (Best actress) at the 1965 Venice Film Festival for Three Rooms in Manhattan.
Born in 1931, she was raised by her single mother, a midwife from Normandy. After studying to become a midwife like her mother, she enrolled at the prestigious Conservatoire de la rue Blanche in Paris. After graduating in 1954 with the "First Prize in Modern and Classical Comedy", she joined the Comédie Française, where she was a resident actor from 1954-57.
In 1955, she began her film career, making her film debut in Treize à table (1955), but it was with theatre that she started to attract the attention of critics. Her performance in Jean Cocteau's play La Machine à écrire in 1956 was admired by the author who called her "The finest dramatic temperament of the Postwar period"
In 1956 she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as best up-and-coming young actress but only with Luchino Visconti's epic Rocco and His Brothers (1960), she was able to draw the public's attention to her. In 1962, she married Italian actor Renato Salvatori. Travelling back and forth between two film careers in France and Italy, Girardot also worked with renown Italian directors, including Marco Ferreri in the scandalous The Ape Woman (1964).
Famously ignored by French New Wave directors (with the exception of Claude Lelouch), Girardot found her glory in popular cinema alongside more established and traditional directors such as Jean Delannoy, Michel Boisrond, André Cayatte, Gilles Grangier, or André Hunebelle.
By the end of the 1960s, she had become a movie star and a box-office magnet in France with such films as Vice and Virtue (1963); Live for Life (1967); Love Is a Funny Thing (1969); and Death of Love (1970), the fact-based tale of a middle-aged teacher whose affair with a much younger student made her the object of bourgeoisie ridicule. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe, and remains Girardot's biggest box office hit in France.
Throughout the 1970s, Girardot came back and forth between drama and comedy, proving herself an adept comedienne in such successful comedies as Claude Zidi's La zizanie (1978), Michel Audiard's _Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)_ and Philippe de Broca's Dear Inspector (1977). She also played the mother of upcoming stars like Isabelle Adjani in the hit teen movie The Slap (1974), and Isabelle Huppert in the drama Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976).
The 1980s were less kind, as her film career floundered and parts dwindled. However, Girardot had a major comeback on the big screen playing a peasant wife in Claude Lelouch's Les Misérables (1995).1991 Merci la vie de Bertrand Blier- Actress
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Catherine Jacob was born on 16 December 1956 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Auntie Danielle (1990), Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) and Maintenant ou jamais (1997).1991 Merci la vie de Bertrand Blier- Actress
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Valérie Lemercier was born on 9 March 1964 in Dieppe, France. She is an actress and director, known for The Visitors (1993), Aline (2020) and Monte Carlo (2011).1991 Opération corned-beef de Jean-Marie Poiré- Mireille Perrier was born on 14 November 1959 in Blois, France. She is an actress, known for Toto the Hero (1991), Love Without Pity (1989) and Golem, l'esprit de l'exil (1992).1991 J'entends plus la guitare de Philippe Garrel
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Actress Hélène Vincent's second name is far from meaningless since it is also her husband's. And given that her companion's first name is Jean-Pierre you can easily guess what -- among other qualities -- attracted theater enthusiast Hélène to renowned stage director Jean-Pierre. For drama has always been Hélène Vincent's passion. That is the reason why she has -- most of the time -- privileged her career on the stage over the rest of her activities, whether as an actress (for stage directors such as Patrice Chéreau, Bernard Sobel, and of course Jean-Pierre Vincent) or as a stage director (for plays by Strindberg, Ibsen, or Shakespeare). She has found enough time for a substantial television career though but a little less for the cinema where her appearances are erratic. In the latter case, her big break came in 1987 after a pair of undistinguished roles (debuting in two movies by theater/art film director René Allio), when she was chosen by Étienne Chatiliez to interpret her most famous character to date, Marielle Le Quesnois, a preppy, goody-goody, well-to-do catholic mother, in the bitingly hilarious Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988). Her fine performance gained her a César Award the next year and gave a boost to her movie career although debatable choices and the priority given to theater have not made her the star she could have become. All the same she got another César nomination for her role as Evelyne in André Téchiné's dark I Don't Kiss (1991), and was noticeable as Albert Dupontel's unworthy mother in his trash comedy Bernie (1996). One of her best roles lately is that of the manipulative mother in Chris Vander Stappen's little seen but brilliant bittersweet comedy Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune? (2000) Alternately supercilious or daft according to the roles she is given, she will remain Mme Le Quesnoy forever in the heart of film lovers. And how could they forget a line from Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) such as "C'est lundi, c'est raviolis", all the more as these mundane nwords are uttered with suave incongruity by always reliable Hélène Vincent, one of France's best character actresses.1991 J'embrasse pas d'André Téchiné- Actress
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Dominique Blanc was born on 25 April 1956 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She is an actress and director, known for Indochine (1992), Queen Margot (1994) and Stand-by (2000).1992 Indochine de Régis Wargnier
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Zabou Breitman was born on 30 October 1959 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Se souvenir des belles choses (2001), The Swallows of Kabul (2019) and The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984). She was previously married to Fabien Chalon.1992 La crise de Coline Serreau- Actress
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Brigitte Catillon was born on 20 July 1951 in France. She is an actress and writer, known for Tell No One (2006), A Heart in Winter (1992) and Molière (1978).1992 Un cœur en hiver de Claude Sautet- Actress
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Michèle Laroque was born on 15 June 1960 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Ma vie en rose (1997), Brillantissime (2018) and The Closet (2001).1992 La crise de Coline Serreau- Her father was a lawyer. Her mother was an artist, a painter. She had a brother and a sister. At age 18, she married the father of her only child, actress Pascale Ogier. She divorced him two years later. To support herself, she started to work for high fashion designer Coco Chanel.1992 Nord de Xavier Beauvois
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Maria Pacôme was born on 18 July 1923 in Paris, France. She was an actress and writer, known for La crise (1992), Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960) and Si Perrault m'était conté (1966). She was married to Maurice Ronet. She died on 1 December 2018 in Ballainvilliers, Essonne, France.1992 La crise de Coline Serreau- Actress
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Miranda Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, England on March 3, 1958, to Marian Georgina (Townsend) and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive. She has one sister, eight years her senior. Her parents and sister are not involved in the performing arts. At an early age she performed in school plays, having shown a talent and desire to "turn herself into" other people. She has referred to it as "an emotional fusion; you think yourself into them". This mimicry could be of school friends or film stars.
She left school (Southport High School for Girls) at the age of 17, and originally intended becoming a vet. She also considered studying English literature in college, but decided to concentrate on drama and enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (as did many well-known British actors). After three years she graduated and moved into repertory theatre. She became affiliated with the Library Theatre in Manchester in 1979, where she became an assistant stage manager. She obtained her Equity card, and after several regional productions, first appeared on the London stage (Moving at Queens Theatre) in 1981. British television roles soon followed, and then film.
Since then, Miranda has moved into the international arena, and has made films in America, France and Spain. Television work (on both sides of the Atlantic) continues, as does some stage work. Her roles are diverse, but powerful and engaging. She has been quoted as stating "what I basically like is doing things I haven't done before" and this continually comes through in the variety of roles she has played in her career. She is also selective in the roles she takes, being uninterested in performing in the standard Hollywood fare, and preferring more offbeat roles. She was approached to play the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction (1987), but found it "regressive in its attitudes". Her attitude is summed up by a quote from an interview that appeared in the New York Times (Dec 27 1992): "I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. And if that's the choice I have to make, I think I've already made it".
According to "1994 Current Biography Yearbook", she resides in South London with her two Siamese cats, Otis and Waldo. She has now moved to West London. Her hobbies include drawing, walking, gardening, fashion, falconry, and music. She, by her own admission, is a loner and lives rather modestly. An actor who studied with Ms Richardson at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre in the late 1970s described her as "a strong minded, specially gifted, rather pretty young woman who enjoys wearing jewelry. She wore toe rings, which in the late 1970s and especially in England, were a rarity and considered rather racy." He also remarked on her drive, even then, to be an actress of the highest caliber.1992 Fatale de Louis Malle- Actress
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Myriam Boyer was born on 23 May 1948 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She is an actress and director, known for Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008) and La vie devant soi (2010).1993 Un, deux, trois... Soleil de Bertrand Blier- Actress
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Judith Henry was born on 16 May 1968 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Germinal (1993), La discrète (1990) and The Days That Made History (2009).1993 Germinal de Claude Berri- Actress
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Agnès Jaoui was born on 19 October 1964 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and writer, known for The Taste of Others (2000), Look at Me (2004) and Family Resemblances (1996). She was previously married to Jean-Pierre Bacri.1993 Cuisine et dépendances de Philippe Muyl- Actress
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Valérie Lemercier was born on 9 March 1964 in Dieppe, France. She is an actress and director, known for The Visitors (1993), Aline (2020) and Monte Carlo (2011).1993 Les visiteurs de Jean-Marie Poiré
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Descendant of the conservative Spanish politician Antonio Maura, Carmen lead an art gallery and appeared in various roles in night- clubs. With Tigres de papel (1977) she had her first successful appearance on the movie screen and thereafter she worked at the theatre, the movies and in TV productions. Although she played dramatic roles, too, her most important genre has always been the comedy, e.g. Sal gorda (1984), Sé infiel y no mires con quién (1985) or Tata mía (1986). She has worked regularly with the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, from the film Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980) (taking in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) for which she was awarded the European Film Award "Felix" as best actress) to, currently Volver (2006).1993 Louis, enfant roi de Roger Planchon- Actress
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Marie Trintignant died tragically on the 1st of August, 2003 from a cerebral edema in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, France, following a violent fight with her boyfriend, Bertrand Cantat, lead singer in the French rock band, Noir Désir. She was just finishing filming a TV movie about Colette, directed by her mother.
Born into show business, she made her first screen appearance when she was just four-years-old but her breakthrough came in 1979 with the film "Série noire". In 1990, she had her first leading role in "Une nuit d'été en ville". Her second major role came in 1992 as "Betty", a bourgeois alcoholic. She also did theater work, notably "Le Retour", by Harold Pinter.
Her last film, Janis et John (2003), was completed three months before her death.1993 Les marmottes d'Elie Chouraqui- Actress
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Vivacious, good-natured and friendly, but also fussy, invading and possessive, all these terms can apply to most of the characters played by Marthe Villalonga, one of the busiest comic actresses in France for five decades. Either the quintessential Jewish mother hen (poor Guy Bedos in "Un éléphant ça trompe énormément" and its sequel "Nous irons tous au paradis"!)or the typical voluble caretaker or else the both pampering and annoying wife of Roger Hanin eternally nagging her macho husband, who on earth can resist her fluency, her energy and her sense of comic effects? At least not this writer, even if it can be deplored that the funny lady partly damaged her reputation in appearing in too many a campy French comedy(?) perpetrated by dunces named Philippe Clair, Michel Gérard, Michel Caputo and the like. Add to these qualities her inimitable "pied-noir" accent(characteristic of those French people who had been living in Algeria for generations) and you will find no other actress on a par with her. She was born in Algeria in 1932, a century after it was conquered by the French troops. In the town where she started her life, Fort de l'Eau (now Bordj el Kifan), one of her grandmothers owned a movie theater, which was premonitory indeed, even if chronologically speaking, the cinema came only third in her career, after the theater and television. Marthe, who has Portuguese blue blood in her veins(amazing given the number of proletarian types she played later on!) was soon attracted to the arts. Already treading the boards at the tender age of six, she also learned the piano very young. In addition, she is a good writer, which she proved in 2003 when "Tout simplement", an excitingly moving document about the everyday lives of these French-Algerian nicknamed "pieds-noirs" was published. After leaving school she enrolled in the Algiers Drama Academy and soon found work in Algerian theaters. She had the opportunity to take part (along with Robert Castel and Lucette Sahuquet) in the "Famille Hernandez" adventure. The play, written by the whole company and supervised by Geneviève Baïlac, opened in Algiers in 1957 to packed houses and great acclaim. It managed to cross the Mediterranean Sea and was also a hit in Paris, where it made French people discover who their "cousins" from Algeria actually were. It was all the more important as the "pieds-noirs" would soon become refugees in Metropolitan France, their "fatherland" maybe but to which they were perfect strangers. Marthe, just like the rest of the cast, decided to stay in France. At first, as she thought her accent was a handicap, she decided to get rid of it. Fortunately, René Simon dissuaded her from doing it. A wise decision since Villalonga's future success is attributable precisely to this characteristic. Since then, Marthe Villalonga has worked hard at making us laugh. Of course some of her films are unworthy of her talent but others will not be forgotten such as "Le Coup de Sirocco", the best film about what it was like to have to flee Algeria and to settle in reluctant France, and her three collaborations with André Téchiné ("Les innocents", "Ma saison préférée" and "Alice et Martin") in which she shows she is a sensitive human being not only a comedian.1993 Ma saison préférée d'André Téchiné- Actress
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Dominique Blanc was born on 25 April 1956 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She is an actress and director, known for Indochine (1992), Queen Margot (1994) and Stand-by (2000).1994 La reine Margot de Patrice Chéreau- Actress
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Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery, later known as Arielle Dombasle, was born to French parents in Hartford, Connecticut. After their mother's death in 1964, Dombasle and her brother were raised in Mexico by their maternal grandparents; she attended Lycée Franco-Mexicain, a private school. She decided to pursue a career in acting and singing after attending the Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris.
Dombasle released five singles in the 1980s: "Paris m'a séduit" (1980), "Cantate 78" (1985), "Je te salue mari" (1986), "Nada más" (1988), and "Amour symphonique" (1989). She made her feature film debut in the French-language drama Perceval le Gallois (1978), and has gone on to appear in over 70 movies, most of which are French. Dombasle was nominated for a César Award for her supporting performance in the romantic drama Boredom (1998), but lost to Dominique Blanc for Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998). As well as acting, Dombasle has also directed and penned three films: Chassé-croisé (1982), Les pyramides bleues (1988), and Opium (2013).
During the 1990s, Dombasle was on a break from her music career, but bounced back in the 2000s with six singles: "Liberta" (2000), "Rhum and Coca-Cola" (2004), "C'est si bon" (2006), "Où tu Veux" (2007), and "Extraterrestre" (2009). She has continued to work as a musician into her 60s, having released nine albums since 2000. Dombasle is also an animal rights activist, having campaigned against slaughterhouses.
She is married to French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy, and is stepmother to Lévy's two children.1994 Un indien dans la ville de Hervé Palud- Actress
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Catherine Jacob was born on 16 December 1956 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Auntie Danielle (1990), Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) and Maintenant ou jamais (1997).1994 Neuf mois de Patrick Braoudé- Actress
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Valérie Lemercier was born on 9 March 1964 in Dieppe, France. She is an actress and director, known for The Visitors (1993), Aline (2020) and Monte Carlo (2011).1994 Casque bleu de Gérard Jugnot- Stunning Italian actress Virna Lisi, a brief but lovely Hollywood import in the 1960's, was merely one of a plethora of European movie beauties who proved over the course of their long careers, that they were capable of more than just visual performances.
Born Virna Lisa Pieralisi on November 8, 1936, she began her film career as a 17-year-old teen with a co-starring part with the musical drama ...e Napoli canta! (1953) (Naples Sings!). Cast initially for her photographic beauty, she gained more experience in such early pictures as Lettera napoletana (1954) and La corda d'acciaio (1954) before earning her first top-billed movie lead in Piccola santa (1954) opposite Rosario Borelli. Other late 50's/early 60's films that helped steam up her image included Luna nova (1955), Le diciottenni (1955), La rossa (1955), The Doll That Took the Town (1957), Lost Souls (1959) opposite Jacques Sernas, Don't Tempt the Devil (1963) (Don't Tempt the Devil), Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961) (His Excellency Stayed to Dinner], the Italian-made spectacle, Duel of the Titans (1961) and an innocent role in the French-made Eva (1962) starring the scheming Jeanne Moreau in the title role.
The pert and sexy star later made a decorative dent in late 1960's Hollywood as a tempting blue-eyed blonde opposite the likes of Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife (1965), Frank Sinatra in Assault on a Queen (1966) and Tony Curtis in Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966). Confined once again to the same type of glamour roles (she turned down the title role of "Barbarella"), she returned to Europe within a couple of years but hardly fared better with such nothing special movies as Anyone Can Play (1967), The Girl Who Couldn't Say No (1968), The Christmas Tree (1969), The Statue (1971), Bluebeard (1972) and White Fang (1973) and its sequel Challenge to White Fang (1974).
Come middle age, however, a career renaissance occurred for Virna. She began to be perceived as more than just a tasty dish and was given a wide variety of quality mature performances. As the stature of her films improved, she began winning foreign awards right and left for such European pictures as Beyond Good and Evil (1977), The Cricket (1980), Time for Loving (1983), Buon Natale... Buon anno (1989) and Va' dove ti porta il cuore (1996) (Follow Your Heart). It all culminated in the lifetime role of the malevolent "Caterina de Medici" in Queen Margot (1994) for which she captured both the César and Cannes Film Festival awards, not to mention the Italian Silver Ribbon award.
Virna continued reigning supreme on TV as a character lead and support player into the millennium with parts in such TV movies as the title role in Anna's World (2004) and Donne sbagliate (2007) (Steel Women) as well as Italian TV series work. Starring as the matriarch in the excellent family film drama Il più bel giorno della mia vita (2002), Virna would find her last excellent movie role in the award-winning dramedy Latin Lover (2015). Having passed away on December 14, 2014, at age 78, of lung cancer, the actress received a couple of award nominations posthumously for her work here. Survived by her son Corrado, her longtime husband (from 1960), architect Franco Pesci (1934-2013), died a year earlier.1994 La reine Margot de Patrice Chéreau
Best French Actress in Supporting Role 1994 - Michèle Moretti was born on 15 March 1940 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Wild Reeds (1994), Out 1: Spectre (1972) and Out 1 (1971).1994 Les roseaux sauvages d'André Téchiné
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Line Renaud was born on 2 July 1928 in Nieppe, Nord, France. She is an actress and writer, known for I Can't Sleep (1994), Driving Madeleine (2022) and Welcome to the Sticks (2008). She was previously married to Louis Gasté.1994 J'ai pas sommeil de Claire Denis- Actress
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Stéphane Audran was born on November 8, 1932 in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France as Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville. She was an actress, known for Der diskrete Charme der Bourgeoisie (1972), Babettes Fest (1987) and Der Schlachter (1970). She was married to Claude Chabrol and Jean-Louis Trintignant. She died at the age of 85 on March 27, 2018 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France after an illness.1995 Au petit Marguery de Laurent Bénégui- Actress
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Jacqueline Bisset has been an international film star since the late '60s. She received her first roles mainly because of her stunning beauty, but over time she has become a fine actress respected by fans and critics alike. Bisset has worked with directors John Huston, François Truffaut, George Cukor and Roman Polanski. Her co-stars have included Anthony Quinn, Paul Newman, Nick Nolte, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kenneth Branagh and Marcello Mastroianni.
Her somewhat French-sounding name has led many to assume that she is from France, but she was brought up in England and had to study to learn French. Her mother was French and was an attorney before being married. As a child Jacqueline studied ballet. During her teenage years her father left the family when her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis; Jacqueline worked as a model to support her ailing mother and eventually her parents divorced, an experience she has said she considered character-strengthening. She took an early interest in film, and her modeling career helped pay for acting lessons.
In 1967 Bisset gained her first critical attention in Two for the Road (1967), and that same year appeared in the popular James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), playing Miss Goodthighs. In 1968 her career got a boost when Mia Farrow unexpectedly dropped out of the shooting of The Detective (1968); Farrow's marriage to co-star Frank Sinatra was on the rocks, and her role was eventually given to Bisset, who received special billing in the film's credits. In the following year she earned a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer for The Sweet Ride (1968) and gained even more attention playing opposite Steve McQueen in the popular action film Bullitt (1968). In 1970 she was featured in the star-studded disaster film Airport (1970) and had the main role in The Grasshopper (1970). Then she co-starred with Alan Alda in the well-reviewed but commercially underperforming horror movie, The Mephisto Waltz (1971). In 1973 she became recognized in Europe as a serious actress when she played the lead in Truffaut's Day for Night (1973). However, it would be several years before her talents would be taken seriously in the US. Though she scored another domestic hit with Murder on the Orient Express (1974), her part in it, as had often been the case, was decorative. She did appear to good effect in Believe in Me (1971), Le Magnifique (1973), The Sunday Woman (1975) and St. Ives (1976).
Jacqueline's stunning looks and figure made quite a splash in The Deep (1977). Her underwater swimming scenes in that movie inspired the worldwide wet T-shirt craze, and Newsweek magazine declared her "the most beautiful film actress of all time." The film's producer, Peter Guber, said "That T-shirt made me a rich man." However, she hated the wet T-shirt scenes because she felt exploited. At the time of filming she was not told that the filmmakers would shoot the scenes in such a provocative way, and she felt tricked. On the plus side, the huge success of the picture made Bisset officially bankable. She was next seen in high-profile roles in The Greek Tycoon (1978), a thinly disguised fictionalization of the marriage of Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis, and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Comedy.
In the early '80s, Bisset starred in the box office disasters When Time Ran Out... (1980) and Inchon (1981), but her well-received turn opposite Candice Bergen in Rich and Famous (1981) between those two films helped gain her recognition as a serious actress from American audiences. She rebounded neatly with Class (1983) and Under the Volcano (1984), getting a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress for the latter. She also earned praise for her work in the excellent made-for-cable WWII drama Forbidden (1984), then appeared on network TV in adaptations of Anna Karenina (1985) with Christopher Reeve and Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987) with Armand Assante. In 1989 she co-starred in the raunchy yet witty comedy Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) and the erotic thriller Wild Orchid (1989), neither of which fared too well, but her output remained consistent. As she transitioned seamlessly out of her ingenue years, smaller-scale productions such as CrimeBroker (1993) and Leave of Absence (1994) would provide Bisset with plum roles, even if they went largely unseen.
In 1996 she was nominated for a César Award, the French equivalent of the Oscar, for her performance in Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie (1995). She held roles in period pieces like Dangerous Beauty (1998), as well as the Biblical epics Jesus (1999) and In the Beginning (2000). Other notable credits included the miniseries Joan of Arc (1999) alongside Leelee Sobieski, which gained her an Emmy nomination, and The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), which premiered at Sundance but unfortunately was not picked up for theatrical distribution. In 2005 Jacqueline was back on the big screen, playing Keira Knightley's mother in the Domino Harvey biopic Domino (2005) for Tony Scott. In 2006 she appeared in the fourth season of Nip/Tuck (2003) as the ruthless extortionist "James." Bisset then turned in strong performances in Boaz Yakin's disturbing independent drama Death in Love (2008) and the telepic An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008), garnering accolades for both. In 2013 she appeared in BBC's program Dancing on the Edge (2013), for which she finally won her first Golden Globe. She followed that up with the movies Welcome to New York (2014) with Gérard Depardieu and Miss You Already (2015) with Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette.
2016 saw the long-awaited release of Linda Yellen's comedy The Last Film Festival (2016), where Jacqueline was a riot as a washed-up Italian diva alongside Dennis Hopper in his final role. Since then she's kept busy on the indie circuit, appearing in Backstabbing for Beginners (2018) with Ben Kingsley, Here and Now (2018) with Sarah Jessica Parker, and Asher (2018) with Ron Perlman and Famke Janssen, as well as the Amazon original movie Birds of Paradise (2021) and a title role in Loren & Rose (2022).
Bisset has never married, but has been involved in long-term romantic relationships with Canadian actor Michael Sarrazin, Moroccan entrepreneur Victor Drai, Russian ballet dancer Alexander Godunov, Swiss actor Vincent Perez and Turkish martial arts instructor Emin Boztepe. She continues to make numerous films, and frequently participates in film festivals and award ceremonies around the world.1995 La cérémonie de Claude Chabrol- Actress
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Clotilde Courau was born on 3 April 1969 in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress, known for La Vie En Rose (2007), In the Shadow of Women (2015) and The Little Gangster (1990). She has been married to Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia since 25 September 2003. They have two children.1995 Elisa de Jean Becker- Actress
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Over the course of a five-decade career, she starred in nearly 150 films. She is a three-time César Award winner (1977, 1996, 2002), a two-time Molière Award winner, a BAFTA nominee, and a recipient of several international prizes including the Volpi Cup (Best actress) at the 1965 Venice Film Festival for Three Rooms in Manhattan.
Born in 1931, she was raised by her single mother, a midwife from Normandy. After studying to become a midwife like her mother, she enrolled at the prestigious Conservatoire de la rue Blanche in Paris. After graduating in 1954 with the "First Prize in Modern and Classical Comedy", she joined the Comédie Française, where she was a resident actor from 1954-57.
In 1955, she began her film career, making her film debut in Treize à table (1955), but it was with theatre that she started to attract the attention of critics. Her performance in Jean Cocteau's play La Machine à écrire in 1956 was admired by the author who called her "The finest dramatic temperament of the Postwar period"
In 1956 she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as best up-and-coming young actress but only with Luchino Visconti's epic Rocco and His Brothers (1960), she was able to draw the public's attention to her. In 1962, she married Italian actor Renato Salvatori. Travelling back and forth between two film careers in France and Italy, Girardot also worked with renown Italian directors, including Marco Ferreri in the scandalous The Ape Woman (1964).
Famously ignored by French New Wave directors (with the exception of Claude Lelouch), Girardot found her glory in popular cinema alongside more established and traditional directors such as Jean Delannoy, Michel Boisrond, André Cayatte, Gilles Grangier, or André Hunebelle.
By the end of the 1960s, she had become a movie star and a box-office magnet in France with such films as Vice and Virtue (1963); Live for Life (1967); Love Is a Funny Thing (1969); and Death of Love (1970), the fact-based tale of a middle-aged teacher whose affair with a much younger student made her the object of bourgeoisie ridicule. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe, and remains Girardot's biggest box office hit in France.
Throughout the 1970s, Girardot came back and forth between drama and comedy, proving herself an adept comedienne in such successful comedies as Claude Zidi's La zizanie (1978), Michel Audiard's _Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)_ and Philippe de Broca's Dear Inspector (1977). She also played the mother of upcoming stars like Isabelle Adjani in the hit teen movie The Slap (1974), and Isabelle Huppert in the drama Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976).
The 1980s were less kind, as her film career floundered and parts dwindled. However, Girardot had a major comeback on the big screen playing a peasant wife in Claude Lelouch's Les Misérables (1995).1995 Les misérables de Claude Lelouch
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Judith Henry was born on 16 May 1968 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Germinal (1993), La discrète (1990) and The Days That Made History (2009).1995 Les apprentis de Pierre Salvadori- Actress
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Descendant of the conservative Spanish politician Antonio Maura, Carmen lead an art gallery and appeared in various roles in night- clubs. With Tigres de papel (1977) she had her first successful appearance on the movie screen and thereafter she worked at the theatre, the movies and in TV productions. Although she played dramatic roles, too, her most important genre has always been the comedy, e.g. Sal gorda (1984), Sé infiel y no mires con quién (1985) or Tata mía (1986). She has worked regularly with the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, from the film Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980) (taking in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) for which she was awarded the European Film Award "Felix" as best actress) to, currently Volver (2006).1995 Le bonheur est dans le pré d'Etienne Chatiliez- Actress
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Claire Nadeau was born on 1 June 1945 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995), Same Old Song (1997) and Duelle (1976).1995 Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud de Claude Sautet- Actress
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was born on 16 November 1964 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for Like Crazy (2016), Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (2003) and Human Capital (2013).1996 Mon homme de Bertrand Blier- Actress
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Catherine Frot was born on 1 May 1956 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Marguerite (2015), Le Dîner de Cons (1998) and Family Resemblances (1996). She has been married to Michel Couvelard since 1987. They have one child.1996 Un air de famille de Cédric Klapisch
Best French Actress in Supporting Role 1996- Actress
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Agnès Jaoui was born on 19 October 1964 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and writer, known for The Taste of Others (2000), Look at Me (2004) and Family Resemblances (1996). She was previously married to Jean-Pierre Bacri.1996 Un air de famille de Cédric Klapisch- Actress
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Sandrine Kiberlain was born on 25 February 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and director, known for A Radiant Girl (2021), Alias Betty (2001) and Mademoiselle Chambon (2009). She was previously married to Vincent Lindon.1996 Un héros très discret de Jacques Audiard- Actress
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Michèle Laroque was born on 15 June 1960 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Ma vie en rose (1997), Brillantissime (2018) and The Closet (2001).1996 Pédale douce de Gabriel Aghion- Claire Maurier was born on 27 March 1929 in Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. She is an actress, known for The 400 Blows (1959), Amélie (2001) and A Bad Son (1980).1996 Un air de famille de Cédric Klapisch
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Actress Hélène Vincent's second name is far from meaningless since it is also her husband's. And given that her companion's first name is Jean-Pierre you can easily guess what -- among other qualities -- attracted theater enthusiast Hélène to renowned stage director Jean-Pierre. For drama has always been Hélène Vincent's passion. That is the reason why she has -- most of the time -- privileged her career on the stage over the rest of her activities, whether as an actress (for stage directors such as Patrice Chéreau, Bernard Sobel, and of course Jean-Pierre Vincent) or as a stage director (for plays by Strindberg, Ibsen, or Shakespeare). She has found enough time for a substantial television career though but a little less for the cinema where her appearances are erratic. In the latter case, her big break came in 1987 after a pair of undistinguished roles (debuting in two movies by theater/art film director René Allio), when she was chosen by Étienne Chatiliez to interpret her most famous character to date, Marielle Le Quesnois, a preppy, goody-goody, well-to-do catholic mother, in the bitingly hilarious Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988). Her fine performance gained her a César Award the next year and gave a boost to her movie career although debatable choices and the priority given to theater have not made her the star she could have become. All the same she got another César nomination for her role as Evelyne in André Téchiné's dark I Don't Kiss (1991), and was noticeable as Albert Dupontel's unworthy mother in his trash comedy Bernie (1996). One of her best roles lately is that of the manipulative mother in Chris Vander Stappen's little seen but brilliant bittersweet comedy Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune? (2000) Alternately supercilious or daft according to the roles she is given, she will remain Mme Le Quesnoy forever in the heart of film lovers. And how could they forget a line from Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) such as "C'est lundi, c'est raviolis", all the more as these mundane nwords are uttered with suave incongruity by always reliable Hélène Vincent, one of France's best character actresses.1996 Bernie d'Albert Dupontel- Actress
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Agnès Jaoui was born on 19 October 1964 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and writer, known for The Taste of Others (2000), Look at Me (2004) and Family Resemblances (1996). She was previously married to Jean-Pierre Bacri.1997 On connait la chanson d'Alain Resnais
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Marie-France first came to the fore as an actress of the Nouvelle Vague movement in the 1960's. She had spent her early childhood in French Indochina, where her father was employed as colonial governor, but the family moved to Paris when she was twelve. Just five years later, she was spotted by a casting director, who had been tasked by François Truffaut to discover a 'fresh and cheerful' new face for his 32-minute film Antoine and Colette (1962). While finding her feet in the acting profession, Marie-France attended Paris University, eventually attaining degrees in law and political science. By the time, Truffaut cast her again as Colette in the second of two sequels, Love on the Run (1979), she was involved in the writing process of the screenplay herself. Prior to that, she had also co-written the script for Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), in which she starred herself as an enigmatic governess.
In her private life, she held strong socio/political convictions, outspoken on women's rights and legal abortion, and taking part in student demonstrations in Paris in 1968. On screen, she displayed poise, style and femininity in abundance. She was often well cast as a seductive temptress or as women of mysterious background. She was excellent as Agathe in Surreal Estate (1976), and in the part that won her the prestigious Cesar and led to her brief sojourn in Hollywood as Karine in Cousin, Cousine (1975). Her experience in America did not prove a happy one, though she lent an undeniable touch of glamour to her roles as high fashion designers in the otherwise mediocre miniseries Scruples (1980) and (in the title role) of Chanel Solitaire (1981). More at home in the cinema of her native France, she had a few more worthy roles come her way, notably as Madame Verdurin in Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999). She also directed two films, the first of which, Le bal du gouverneur (1990), was based on her own novel about childhood experiences in New Caledonia.
Marie-France died tragically as the result of accidental drowning at her villa at Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, near Toulon, at the age of 66.1997 Marion de Manuel Poirier- Pascale Roberts was born on 21 October 1930 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She was an actress, known for Marius and Jeannette (1997), Au théâtre ce soir (1966) and The Blonde from Peking (1967). She was married to Pierre Mondy, Pierre Rey and Michel Le Royer. She died on 26 October 2019 in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, France.1997 Marius et Jeannette de Robert Guédiguian
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Mathilde Seigner was born on 17 January 1968 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for With a Friend Like Harry... (2000), Alias Betty (2001) and The Girl from Paris (2001).1997 Nettoyage à sec d'Anne Fontaine- Actress
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Marie Trintignant died tragically on the 1st of August, 2003 from a cerebral edema in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, France, following a violent fight with her boyfriend, Bertrand Cantat, lead singer in the French rock band, Noir Désir. She was just finishing filming a TV movie about Colette, directed by her mother.
Born into show business, she made her first screen appearance when she was just four-years-old but her breakthrough came in 1979 with the film "Série noire". In 1990, she had her first leading role in "Une nuit d'été en ville". Her second major role came in 1992 as "Betty", a bourgeois alcoholic. She also did theater work, notably "Le Retour", by Harold Pinter.
Her last film, Janis et John (2003), was completed three months before her death.1997 Le cousin d'Alain Corneau- Actress
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Karin Viard was born on 24 January 1966 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Polisse (2011), The Bélier Family (2014) and Paris (2008).1997 Les randonneurs de Philippe Harel- Actress
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Actress Hélène Vincent's second name is far from meaningless since it is also her husband's. And given that her companion's first name is Jean-Pierre you can easily guess what -- among other qualities -- attracted theater enthusiast Hélène to renowned stage director Jean-Pierre. For drama has always been Hélène Vincent's passion. That is the reason why she has -- most of the time -- privileged her career on the stage over the rest of her activities, whether as an actress (for stage directors such as Patrice Chéreau, Bernard Sobel, and of course Jean-Pierre Vincent) or as a stage director (for plays by Strindberg, Ibsen, or Shakespeare). She has found enough time for a substantial television career though but a little less for the cinema where her appearances are erratic. In the latter case, her big break came in 1987 after a pair of undistinguished roles (debuting in two movies by theater/art film director René Allio), when she was chosen by Étienne Chatiliez to interpret her most famous character to date, Marielle Le Quesnois, a preppy, goody-goody, well-to-do catholic mother, in the bitingly hilarious Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988). Her fine performance gained her a César Award the next year and gave a boost to her movie career although debatable choices and the priority given to theater have not made her the star she could have become. All the same she got another César nomination for her role as Evelyne in André Téchiné's dark I Don't Kiss (1991), and was noticeable as Albert Dupontel's unworthy mother in his trash comedy Bernie (1996). One of her best roles lately is that of the manipulative mother in Chris Vander Stappen's little seen but brilliant bittersweet comedy Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune? (2000) Alternately supercilious or daft according to the roles she is given, she will remain Mme Le Quesnoy forever in the heart of film lovers. And how could they forget a line from Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) such as "C'est lundi, c'est raviolis", all the more as these mundane nwords are uttered with suave incongruity by always reliable Hélène Vincent, one of France's best character actresses.1997 Ma vie en rose d'Alain Berliner- Actress
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Anémone was born on 9 August 1950 in Paris, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Lautrec (1998), The Grand Highway (1987) and Death in a French Garden (1985). She was married to Philippe Galland and X. She died on 30 April 2019 in Poitiers, Vienne, France.1998 Lautrec de Roger Planchon- Actress
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When she was a child, Jeanne Balibar wanted to be a dancer. She was already attracted by the stage and the show and admired great opera singers like Maria Callas. As she was going to take the last exam for becoming a lecturer, she decided not to go to the exam but to take an exam to become a stage actress. She went to the French academy for young actors, in Paris (like The Actors Studio, as if acting isn't taught in the same way) and she passed the very difficult exam without having previously acted in any play nor movie. When she finished her studies for acting, she started to work for La Comédie Française, a world-known French company which only produces French classics. She played the part of Elvire, from Molière's "Don Juan" in the biggest French stage festival: the festival of Avignon. She was really acclaimed by the French critics and public. She started to play in French cinema with directors such as Arnaud Desplechin ("My sexual like or how I get into an argument") or Olivier Assayas ("Last August, Early September" for which she earned a best actress award in the Spanish movie festival of San Sebastian). As though, these parts were dramatic, she was also wonderful in comedies such as "Ca ira mieux demain" (Jeanne Labrune) which made her more famous. She was really acclaimed for these movies but not very popular, as these films weren't blockbusters. The film which really made her famous is Rivette's "Who Knows" where she played the lead role of Camille, a French stage actress and created a very impressionating and innovative way of acting. She replaced Emmanuelle Béart for this part and became a very respected actress. She started to sing in 2003 and she did a record called "Paramour" with songs such as "Johnny Guitar" (from the Nicholas Ray's movie), "Pearl" (from "The Night of the Hunter") or even "Hélas" (a duet with Maggie Cheung who acted with her in "Clean", by Olivier Assayas). She is still a stage actress and started an international career with Winterbottom's "Code 46" (she played the part of Tim Robbin's girlfriend). As if she is not the most popular French actress, she is one of the most talented and her talents seem to have no limit: stage and movie acting, singing and soon dancing in Berliner's "Fred Astaire".1998 Dieu seul me voit de Bruno Podalydès- Actress
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Dominique Blanc was born on 25 April 1956 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She is an actress and director, known for Indochine (1992), Queen Margot (1994) and Stand-by (2000).1998 Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train de Patrice Chéreau
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Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery, later known as Arielle Dombasle, was born to French parents in Hartford, Connecticut. After their mother's death in 1964, Dombasle and her brother were raised in Mexico by their maternal grandparents; she attended Lycée Franco-Mexicain, a private school. She decided to pursue a career in acting and singing after attending the Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris.
Dombasle released five singles in the 1980s: "Paris m'a séduit" (1980), "Cantate 78" (1985), "Je te salue mari" (1986), "Nada más" (1988), and "Amour symphonique" (1989). She made her feature film debut in the French-language drama Perceval le Gallois (1978), and has gone on to appear in over 70 movies, most of which are French. Dombasle was nominated for a César Award for her supporting performance in the romantic drama Boredom (1998), but lost to Dominique Blanc for Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998). As well as acting, Dombasle has also directed and penned three films: Chassé-croisé (1982), Les pyramides bleues (1988), and Opium (2013).
During the 1990s, Dombasle was on a break from her music career, but bounced back in the 2000s with six singles: "Liberta" (2000), "Rhum and Coca-Cola" (2004), "C'est si bon" (2006), "Où tu Veux" (2007), and "Extraterrestre" (2009). She has continued to work as a musician into her 60s, having released nine albums since 2000. Dombasle is also an animal rights activist, having campaigned against slaughterhouses.
She is married to French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy, and is stepmother to Lévy's two children.1998 L'ennui de Cédric Kahn- Actress
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Catherine Frot was born on 1 May 1956 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Marguerite (2015), Le Dîner de Cons (1998) and Family Resemblances (1996). She has been married to Michel Couvelard since 1987. They have one child.1998 Le diner de cons de Francis Veber- Actress
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Emmanuelle Seigner is the daughter of a well known photographer and her mother is a journalist. She was born in Paris, France on June 22, 1966. Her grandfather was Louis Seigner, chairman of the Comédie Française and who also appeared in several movies. Emmanuelle was raised at a convent school . At age fourteen she became a model. Her mysterious beauty made her an international cover-model. Jean-Luc Godard gave her a part in his crime movie Detective (1985), starring Johnny Hallyday and Nathalie Baye. In 1986 Emmanuelle played the part of Zanon a young girl in the movie Cours privé (1986) (by Pierre Granier-Deferre). She met Roman Polanski and married him. He gave her a part in the thriller Frantic (1988) with Harrison Ford. Four years later Polanski gave her the leading part in the movie Bitter Moon (1992).1998 Place Vendôme de Nicole Garcia- Actress
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Elsa Zylberstein was born on 16 October 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and producer, known for I've Loved You So Long (2008), Un + Une (2015) and Van Gogh (1991).1998 L'homme est une femme comme les autres de Jean-Jacques Zilbermann- Actress
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Françoise Fabian was born on 10 May 1933 in Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]. She is an actress and writer, known for My Night at Maud's (1969), Belle de Jour (1967) and Me, Myself and Mum (2013). She was previously married to Marcel Bozzuffi and Jacques Becker.1999 La bûche de Danièle Thompson- Actress
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Charlotte Gainsbourg was born in London, England in 1971. She is an Anglo-French actress and singer. The daughter of English singer and actress Jane Birkin and French songwriter, singer and actor Serge Gainsbourg, she was raised in Paris. Charlotte made her motion picture debut in 1984. In 1986, Charlotte won a César Award for "Most Promising Actress", and, in 2000, she won "Best Supporting Actress" for the film The Log (1999). In 1993, Charlotte made her English speaking debut in The Cement Garden (1993), written and directed by her uncle, Andrew Birkin. She made her stage debut in 1994 in David Mamet's Oleanna at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse. In 1996, Charlotte starred as the title character in Jane Eyre (1996), a film adaption of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel. In 2006, Charlotte appeared alongside Gael García Bernal in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep (2006). In 2007, she appeared as Claire in the Todd Haynes directed Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There (2007), also contributing a cover of the Dylan song "Just Like a Woman" to the film soundtrack. In 2009, she won the award for Best Actress at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for the film Antichrist (2009). Charlotte starred in the French/Australian production, The Tree (2010), released in 2010, and in Lars von Trier's science fiction disaster film, Melancholia (2011).1999 La bûche de Danièle Thompson- Catherine Mouchet was born on 21 August 1959 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress, known for Thérèse (1986), The Monk (2011) and Jalna (1994).1999 Ma petite entreprise de Pierre Jolivet
- Her father was a lawyer. Her mother was an artist, a painter. She had a brother and a sister. At age 18, she married the father of her only child, actress Pascale Ogier. She divorced him two years later. To support herself, she started to work for high fashion designer Coco Chanel.1999 Vénus Beauté (Institut) de Tonie Marshall
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Line Renaud was born on 2 July 1928 in Nieppe, Nord, France. She is an actress and writer, known for I Can't Sleep (1994), Driving Madeleine (2022) and Welcome to the Sticks (2008). She was previously married to Louis Gasté.1999 Belle-maman de Gabriel Aghion- Isabelle Renauld was born on 24 November 1966 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. She is an actress, known for Perfect Love (1996), Eternity and a Day (1998) and Vidocq (2001).1999 C'est quoi la vie ? de François Dupeyron
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Mathilde Seigner was born on 17 January 1968 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for With a Friend Like Harry... (2000), Alias Betty (2001) and The Girl from Paris (2001).1999 Vénus Beauté (Institut) de Tonie Marshall