Stéphane Audran
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1932-11-08
Day of Death
2018-03-27 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France
Stéphane Audran
Biography
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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Known For
Acting
(2019)
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2018)
The Other Side of the Wind
as Stéphane Audran
(2016)
(2013)
(2012)
Through Babette's Eyes
as Self
(2008)
The Girl from Monaco
as Édith Lassalle
(2006)
(2005)
The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
as Walloon
(2004)
Sissi, the Rebellious Empress
as Sophie
(2001)
J'ai faim !!!
as Gaby
(2000)
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
as Lulu Kreutz
(1999)
Belle Maman
as Brigitte
(1998)
Madeline
as Lady Marie Covington
(1997)
Arlette
as Diane
(1996)
Maximum Risk
as Chantal
(1996)
Petit
as Françoise
(1995)
Son of Gascogne
as Self
(1995)
Au petit Marguery
as Josephine
(1992)
Betty
as Laure
(1992)
The Turn of the Screw
as Mrs. Grose
(1992)
Weep No More, My Lady
as Minna
(1990)
Quiet Days in Clichy
as Adrienne
(1990)
Sons
as Florence Sr.
(1990)
Mass in C Minor
as Marie-Laure Villegrain
(1989)
Champagne Charlie
as Thérèse
(1989)
Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
as Sister Amanda
(1988)
Faceless
as Mrs. Sherman
(1988)
The Spider Labyrinth
as Mrs. Kuhn
(1988)
The Seasons of Pleasure
as Bernadette
(1988)
Corps z'à corps
as Edna Chabert
(1987)
Babette's Feast
as Babette Hersant
(1986)
Follow My Gaze
as The wife of the couch potato
(1986)
The Gypsy
as Brigitte
(1985)
La Cage aux Folles 3
as Matrimonia
(1985)
Cop au Vin
as Madame Cuno
(1985)
Night Magic
as Janice
(1984)
The Blood of Others
as Gigi
(1984)
Thieves After Dark
as Isabelle's mother
(1983)
Deadly Circuit
as Germaine, la dame en gris
(1983)
Elective Affinities
as Charlotte
(1983)
Scarlet Fever
as Minon
(1982)
Paradise for All
as Édith
(1982)
Le Choc
as Jeanne Faulques (uncredited)
(1982)
Boulevard des assassins
as Francine
(1981)
Coup de Torchon
as Huguette Cordier
(1981)
The Plouffe Family
as Mme Boucher
(1981)
Le Beau Monde
as Ariane
(1980)
The Big Red One
as Walloon
(1980)
(1980)
Le Cœur à l'envers
as Jeanne
(1980)
Le Soleil en face
as Geneviève
(1979)
Eagle's Wing
as The Widow
(1979)
The Winner
as Mme Hélène Dupré-Granval
(1978)
Violette Nozière
as Germaine Nozière
(1978)
Blood Relatives
as Mme Lowery
(1977)
Death of a Corrupt Man
as Christiane
(1977)
Silver Bears
as Shireen Firdausi
(1977)
The Devil's Advocate
as Contess Anne Di Sanctis
(1976)
The Twist
as Claire
(1976)
Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Mimì / Chantal
(1975)
B. Must Die
as Susana
(1975)
The Black Bird
as Anna Kemidov
(1974)
And Then There Were None
as Ilona Morgan
(1974)
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
as Catherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
(1974)
Cry of the Heart
as Claire
(1974)
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
as Cécile Malempin
(1973)
Wedding in Blood
as Lucienne Delamare
(1972)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
as Alice Sénéchal
(1972)
A Murder Is a Murder
as Marie Kastner / Anne
(1972)
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
as Dr. Bogdanovich
(1971)
Just Before Nightfall
as Hélène Masson
(1971)
Without Apparent Motive
as Hélène Vallée
(1971)
As Far as Love Can Go
as La femme de Michel
(1970)
The Butcher
as Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
(1970)
The Breach
as Hélène Regnier
(1970)
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
as Anita Caldwell, ancienne amie de Dany
(1970)
Only the Cool
as Dominique
(1969)
The Unfaithful Wife
as Hélène Desvallées
(1968)
Les Biches
as Frédérique
(1967)
The Champagne Murders
as Jacqueline
(1966)
Line of Demarcation
as La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
(1965)
The Blue Panther
as Olga
(1965)
Six in Paris
as The Mother (segment "La Muette")
(1965)
(1964)
Hard Boiled Ones
as Rika Lormond
(1964)
Code Name: Tiger
as La chanteuse d'opéra
(1963)
Bluebeard
as Fernande Segret
(1962)
The Third Lover
as Hélène
(1962)
Sign of the Lion
as La Patronne de l'Hôtel
(1961)
Wise Guys
as Xavière, la danseuse
(1961)
Saint-Tropez Blues
as Lucie
(1960)
The Good Girls
as Ginette
(1959)
The Cousins
as Françoise
(1958)
Secrets of a French Nurse
as Aline Monnier
(1951)
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
as Charlotte (voice)