Stéphane Audran

Known for ActingBorn 1932-11-08Died 2018-03-27Versailles, 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 WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

Mass in C Minor

Corps z'à corps

As Far as Love Can Go

Spécial cinéma

The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin

The Condor Mystery

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

Scarlet Fever

Orient Express

La Battante

Brideshead Revisited

Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice

The Sun Also Rises

Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol

Le Beau Monde

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Devil's Advocate

Babette's Feast

Petit

The Other Side of the Wind

The Butcher

Coup de Torchon

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street

Sign of the Lion

The Plouffe Family

Champs-Elysées

The Unfaithful Wife

The Big Red One

Violette Nozière

The Cousins

Betty

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

Night Magic

Death of a Corrupt Man

Six in Paris

Just Before Nightfall

Au petit Marguery

The Spider Labyrinth

Sons

Boulevard des assassins

Madeline

The Blue Bicycle

Le Cœur à l'envers

Wedding in Blood

Follow My Gaze

Chi dice donna, dice donna

Bluebeard