Stéphane Audran
Acting
Born 1932-11-08
Died 2018-03-27
Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France
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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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Scene of the Crime
Champs-Elysées
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Spécial cinéma
Midi trente
Samedi soir
The Unfaithful Wife
Brideshead Revisited
Mistral's Daughter
Maximum Risk
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Matin Bonheur
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Babette's Feast
The Butcher
Deadly Circuit
The Big Red One
TECX
Le Cœur à l'envers
Bluebeard
The Blue Bicycle
The Other Side of the Wind
The Champagne Murders
And Then There Were None
Madeline
The Spider Labyrinth
La Cage aux Folles II
Eagle's Wing
Without Apparent Motive
The Gypsy
Line of Demarcation
The Shock
The Sun Also Rises
Silver Bears
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
The Twist
Quiet Days in Clichy
Death of a Corrupt Man
Les Biches
Coup de Torchon
The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin
Belle Maman
Violette Nozière
Just Before Nightfall
Thieves After Dark
Les Bonnes Femmes
Orient Express
The Cousins
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
Faceless
La Cage aux Folles 3
Wedding in Blood
The Blood of Others
The Third Lover
Sign of the Lion
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Cry of the Heart
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
The Girl from Monaco
Cop au Vin
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