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Stéphane Audran
Known for: ActingStéphane 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 40
Maximum Risk
as Chantal 
Mistral's Daughter
as Paula Deslandes 
The Unfaithful Wife
as Hélène Desvallées 
Death of a Corrupt Man
as Christiane Dubaye 
Bluebeard
as Fernande Segret 
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
as Alice Sénéchal 
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as Pauline de la Rochelle 
The Big Red One
as Walloon 
Faceless
as Mrs. Sherman 
Babette's Feast
as Babette 
And Then There Were None
as Ilona Morgan 
Eagle's Wing
as The Widow 
The Blue Bicycle
as Lisa Montpleynet 
Madeline
as Lady Marie Covington 
The Butcher
as Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène' 
Deadly Circuit
as Germaine, the grey lady 
Coup de Torchon
as Huguette Cordier 
La Cage aux Folles 3
as Matrimonia 
Blood Relatives
as Mme Lowery 
Without Apparent Motive
as Hélène Vallée 
Quiet Days in Clichy
as Adrienne 
Betty
as Laure 
The Girl from Monaco
as Édith Lassalle 
The Spider Labyrinth
as Mrs. Kuhn 
The Cousins
as Françoise 
Sign of the Lion
as La Patronne de l'Hôtel 
The Twist
as Claire 
Line of Demarcation
as La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife 
Silver Bears
as Shireen Firdausi 
Wedding in Blood
as Lucienne Delamare 
The Gypsy
as Brigitte 
My Wife's Name Is Maurice
as Jacqueline Boisdain 
The Seasons of Pleasure
as Bernadette 
Cop au Vin
as Madame Cuno 
The Third Lover
as Hélène 
The Blue Panther
as Olga 
Six in Paris
as The Mother (segment "La Muette") 
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
as Self - Actress (archive footage) 
Champagne Charlie
as Thérèse 
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
as Charlotte (voice)