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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Stéphane Audran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Frédérique
Les Biches
Françoise
Les Cousins
Germaine Nozière
Violette Nozière
Fernande Segret
Landru
Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
Le Boucher
Josephine
Au petit Marguery
Alice Sénéchal
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Hélène Regnier
La Rupture
Gigi
The Blood of Others
Ilona Morgan
And Then There Were None
Madame Cuno
Poulet au vinaigre
Anita Caldwell, ancienne amie de Dany
La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil
Thérèse
Champagne Charlie
Babette
Babettes gæstebud
Laure
Betty
Hélène Desvallées
La Femme infidèle
Ginette
Les bonnes femmes
Mrs. Sherman
Faceless
Huguette Cordier
Coup de torchon
Catherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
Vincent, François, Paul… et les autres
Lucienne Delamare
Les Noces rouges
Édith Lassalle
La Fille de Monaco
Diane
Arlette
Germaine, the grey lady
Mortelle randonnée
Walloon
The Big Red One
Édith
Paradis pour tous
Charlotte
Les Affinités électives
La Patronne de l'Hôtel
Le Signe du Lion
Self
Le Fils de Gascogne
Bernadette
Les Saisons du plaisir
Mme Lowery
Les liens de sang
Christiane Dubaye
Mort d'un pourri
Xavière, la danseuse
Les Godelureaux
La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
La Ligne de démarcation
Cécile Malempin
Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard
Gaby
J'ai faim !!!
Olga
Marie Chantal contre Dr. Kha
Jacqueline
Le Scandale
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Chabrol, l'anticonformiste
Anna Kemidov
The Black Bird
Brigitte
Belle Maman
Hélène Masson
Juste avant la nuit
Adrienne
Jours tranquilles à Clichy
Lulu Kreutz
Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz
Hélène
L'Œil du Malin
Claire
Folies bourgeoises
Mrs. Kuhn
Il nido del ragno
Jeanne Faulques (uncredited)
Le Choc
Marie-Laure Villegrain
La Messe en si mineur
The Widow
Eagle's Wing
Mrs. Grose
The Turn of the Screw
Isabelle's mother
Les Voleurs de la nuit
Susana
Hay que matar a B.
Walloon
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
Sister Amanda
Manika, une vie plus tard
Francine
Boulevard des assassins
Mimì / Chantal
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Dominique
La Peau de Torpédo
Sophie
Sissi, l'impératrice rebelle
Marie Kastner / Anne
Un meurtre est un meurtre
Matrimonia
La Cage aux folles 3 - « Elles » se marient
Contess Anne Di Sanctis
Des Teufels Advokat
Dr. Bogdanovich
Tote Taube in der Beethovenstrasse
Stéphane Audran
The Other Side of the Wind
La Cage aux folles II
La Muette
Janice
Night Magic
Françoise
Petit
Edna Chabert
Corps z'à corps
Rika Lormond
Les Durs à cuire (Comment supprimer son prochain sans perdre l'appétit)
Minon
La Scarlatine
Jeanne
Le Cœur à l'envers
Geneviève
Le Soleil en face
La chanteuse d'opéra
Le tigre aime la chair fraîche
Shireen Firdausi
Silver Bears
Brigitte
La Gitane
Lucie
Saint-Tropez Blues
The Mother (segment "La Muette")
Paris vu par…
Mme Hélène Dupré-Granval
Le Gagnant
Minna
Weep No More, My Lady
La femme de Michel
Aussi loin que l'amour
Hélène Vallée
Sans mobile apparent
Lady Marie Covington
Madeline
Florence Sr.
Sons
Self
In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
Self
Le Regard de Babette
Chantal
Maximum Risk
Charlotte (voice)
Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak
Claire
Le cri du cœur
Aline Monnier
La Bonne Tisane
Mme Boucher
Les Plouffe
Self
Grand manège : Qu'est-ce qui fait tourner Claude Chabrol ?
The wife of the couch potato
Suivez mon regard
Self
Il était une fois... Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Ariane
Le Beau Monde
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
95
Gender
Female
Birthday
1932-11-08
Place of Birth
Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France
Also Known As
Colette Dacheville