Stéphane Audran
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 8, 1932
- Died
- March 27, 2018
- Birthplace
- Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Stéphane Audran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol 2024
as Self (archive) - actress, subject
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick 2019
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Other Side of the Wind 2018
as Stéphane Audran
In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont 2013
as Self
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' 2013
as Self
Through Babette's Eyes 2012
as Self
The Girl from Monaco 2008
as Édith Lassalle
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol 2006
as Self
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction 2005
as Walloon
Sissi, the Rebellious Empress 2004
as Sophie
My Wife's Name Is Maurice 2002
as Jacqueline Boisdain
J'ai faim !!! 2001
as Gaby
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic 2000
as Lulu Kreutz
Belle Maman 1999
as Brigitte
Madeline 1998
as Lady Marie Covington
Arlette 1997
as Diane
Petit 1996
as Françoise
Maximum Risk 1996
as Chantal
Au petit Marguery 1995
as Josephine
Son of Gascogne 1995
as Self
Betty 1992
as Laure
Weep No More, My Lady 1992
as Minna
The Turn of the Screw 1992
as Mrs. Grose
Quiet Days in Clichy 1990
as Adrienne
Mass in C Minor 1990
as Marie-Laure Villegrain
Sons 1990
as Florence Sr.
Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice 1989
as Sister Amanda
Champagne Charlie 1989
as Thérèse
The Spider Labyrinth 1988
as Mrs. Kuhn
Corps z'à corps 1988
as Edna Chabert
The Seasons of Pleasure 1988
as Bernadette
Faceless 1988
as Mrs. Sherman
The Cry of the Owl 1987
Actor
Babette's Feast 1987
as Babette
Follow My Gaze 1986
as The wife of the couch potato
The Gypsy 1986
as Brigitte
Night Magic 1985
as Janice
La Cage aux Folles 3 1985
as Matrimonia
Cop au Vin 1985
as Madame Cuno
The Blood of Others 1984
as Gigi
Thieves After Dark 1984
as Isabelle's mother
Scarlet Fever 1983
as Minon
Deadly Circuit 1983
as Germaine, the grey lady
Elective Affinities 1983
as Charlotte
Paradise for All 1982
as Édith
The Shock 1982
as Jeanne Faulques (uncredited)
Boulevard des assassins 1982
as Francine
Coup de Torchon 1981
as Huguette Cordier
Le Beau Monde 1981
as Ariane
The Plouffe Family 1981
as Mme Boucher
La Cage aux Folles II 1980
Actor
Le Cœur à l'envers 1980
as Jeanne
The Big Red One 1980
as Walloon
Le Soleil en face 1980
as Geneviève
The Winner 1979
as Mme Hélène Dupré-Granval
Eagle's Wing 1979
as The Widow
Violette Nozière 1978
as Germaine Nozière
Blood Relatives 1978
as Mme Lowery
Death of a Corrupt Man 1977
as Christiane Dubaye
The Devil's Advocate 1977
as Contess Anne Di Sanctis
Silver Bears 1977
as Shireen Firdausi
The Twist 1976
as Claire
Chi dice donna, dice donna 1976
as Mimì / Chantal
The Black Bird 1975
as Anna Kemidov
B. Must Die 1975
as Susana
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others 1974
as Catherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
And Then There Were None 1974
as Ilona Morgan
Cry of the Heart 1974
as Claire
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby 1974
as Cécile Malempin
Wedding in Blood 1973
as Lucienne Delamare
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street 1972
as Dr. Bogdanovich
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972
as Alice Sénéchal
A Murder Is a Murder 1972
as Marie Kastner / Anne
As Far as Love Can Go 1971
as La femme de Michel
Without Apparent Motive 1971
as Hélène Vallée
Just Before Nightfall 1971
as Hélène Masson
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun 1970
as Anita Caldwell
The Breach 1970
as Hélène Regnier
Only the Cool 1970
as Dominique
The Butcher 1970
as Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
The Unfaithful Wife 1969
as Hélène Desvallées
Les Biches 1968
as Frédérique
The Champagne Murders 1967
as Jacqueline
Line of Demarcation 1966
as La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
The Blue Panther 1965
as Olga
- La Muette
La Muette 1965
Actor
Six in Paris 1965
as The Mother (segment "La Muette")
Code Name: Tiger 1964
as La chanteuse d'opéra
Hard Boiled Ones 1964
as Rika Lormond
Bluebeard 1963
as Fernande Segret
Sign of the Lion 1962
as La Patronne de l'Hôtel
The Third Lover 1962
as Hélène
Saint-Tropez Blues 1961
as Lucie
Wise Guys 1961
as Xavière, la danseuse
Les Bonnes Femmes 1960
as Ginette
The Cousins 1959
as Françoise
Secrets of a French Nurse 1958
as Aline Monnier
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak 1951
as Charlotte (voice)
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