Stéphane Audran
Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville; November 8, 1932 – March 27, 2018) was a French film and television actress. Best known for her performances in Oscar-winning movies such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987), and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978), she became mostly associated with haughty bourgeois women roles.
She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol (which ended in 1980) is the French actor Thomas Chabrol (born in 1963).
Her first major role was in Chabrol's film Les Cousins (1959). She has since appeared in most of Chabrol's films. Some of the more noteworthy of his films Audran has appeared in are Les Bonnes Femmes (1960), La Femme Infidèle (1968), Les Biches (1968) as a rich lesbian who becomes involved in a ménage à trois (she first gained notice in this), Le Boucher (1970) as a school teacher who falls in love with a murderous butcher, Juste Avant La Nuit (1971), and Violette Nozière (1978). She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in Les Biches at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival.
She also appeared in the first film of Éric Rohmer (Signe du Lion), and in films by Jean Delannoy (La Peau de Torpedo), Gabriel Axel (Babette's Feast, as the mysterious cook, Babette), Bertrand Tavernier (Coup de Torchon, as the wife of the cop turned serial killer) and Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One). The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol films was Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) as Alice Senechal. Also appearing in English-language productions, Audran has appeared in American features like The Black Bird (1975), and in TV serials like Brideshead Revisited (1981), Mistral's Daughter (1984) and The Sun Also Rises (1984).
Audran won a French César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Violette Nozière (1978) and British Film Academy award for Just Before Nightfall (1975).
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She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol (which ended in 1980) is the French actor Thomas Chabrol (born in 1963).
Her first major role was in Chabrol's film Les Cousins (1959). She has since appeared in most of Chabrol's films. Some of the more noteworthy of his films Audran has appeared in are Les Bonnes Femmes (1960), La Femme Infidèle (1968), Les Biches (1968) as a rich lesbian who becomes involved in a ménage à trois (she first gained notice in this), Le Boucher (1970) as a school teacher who falls in love with a murderous butcher, Juste Avant La Nuit (1971), and Violette Nozière (1978). She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in Les Biches at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival.
She also appeared in the first film of Éric Rohmer (Signe du Lion), and in films by Jean Delannoy (La Peau de Torpedo), Gabriel Axel (Babette's Feast, as the mysterious cook, Babette), Bertrand Tavernier (Coup de Torchon, as the wife of the cop turned serial killer) and Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One). The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol films was Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) as Alice Senechal. Also appearing in English-language productions, Audran has appeared in American features like The Black Bird (1975), and in TV serials like Brideshead Revisited (1981), Mistral's Daughter (1984) and The Sun Also Rises (1984).
Audran won a French César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Violette Nozière (1978) and British Film Academy award for Just Before Nightfall (1975).
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Known for
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
The Other Side of the Wind
In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
Through Babette's Eyes
Il était une fois... « Vincent, François, Paul et les autres »
The Girl from Monaco
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
The Condor Mystery
The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
Sissy is the Rebellious Empress
J'ai faim !!!
The Blue Bicycle
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Belle Maman
Madeline
Arlette
Petit
Maximum Risk
Au petit Marguery
Son of Gascogne
Betty
Weep No More, My Lady
Quiet Days in Clichy
Mass in C Minor
Sons
Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Champagne Charlie
The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
The Spider Labyrinth
Faceless
Corps z'à corps
The Seasons of Pleasure
Babette's Feast
Follow My Gaze
The Gypsy
Night Magic
La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
Cop au Vin
The Sun Also Rises
Mistral's Daughter
The Blood of Others
Thieves After Dark
Scarlet Fever
Deadly Circuit
Les Affinités électives
Paradise for All
Le Choc
Boulevard des assassins
Champs-Elysées
Coup de Torchon
Brideshead Revisited
Le Beau Monde
The Plouffe Family
La Cage aux Folles II
Le Cœur à l'envers
The Big Red One
Le Soleil en face
Le Gagnant
Orient Express
Eagle's Wing
Violette Nozière
Blood Relatives
Death of a Corrupt Man
The Devil's Advocate
Silver Bears
The Twist
Chi dice donna, dice donna
The Black Bird
Hay que matar a B.
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Spécial cinéma
And Then There Were None
Cry of the Heart
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Wedding in Blood
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
A Murder Is a Murder
As Far as Love Can Go
Without Apparent Motive
Just Before Nightfall
Scene of the Crime
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
The Breach
Only the Cool
The Butcher
The Unfaithful Wife
Les Biches
The Champagne Murders
Line of Demarcation
The Blue Panther
La Muette
Six in Paris
Code Name: Tiger
Hard Boiled Ones
Bluebeard
Sign of the Lion
The Third Lover
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
Saint-Tropez Blues
Wise Guys
The Good Girls
The Cousins
Secrets of a French Nurse