Stéphane Audran
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
The Unfaithful Wife
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Babette's Feast
as Babette HersantA French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite...
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Maximum Risk
as ChantalAlain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the...
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
as Alice SénéchalIn Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but...
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The Other Side of the Wind
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Madeline
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Death of a Corrupt Man
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And Then There Were None
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Cop au Vin
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The Butcher
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La Cage aux Folles II
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Faceless
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The Big Red One
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The Cousins
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Eagle's Wing
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Coup de Torchon
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Violette Nozière
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Bluebeard
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Deadly Circuit
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Les Biches
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Le Choc
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The Good Girls
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The Third Lover
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Just Before Nightfall
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Blood Relatives
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The Blood of Others
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Wedding in Blood
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The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
as WalloonA re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer...
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Sign of the Lion
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Without Apparent Motive
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Arlette
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The Blue Panther
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Belle Maman
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The Breach
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Sissi, the Rebellious Empress
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Captive City
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The Seasons of Pleasure
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Thieves After Dark
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Son of Gascogne
as SelfYou're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars,...
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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
as Charlotte (voice)Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a...
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Follow My Gaze
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The Twist
as ClaireClaire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William...
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The Black Bird
as Anna KemidovThe son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with...
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A Murder Is a Murder
as Marie Kastner / AnneMurder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
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J'ai faim !!!
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The Champagne Murders
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Cry of the Heart
as ClaireAlexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally...
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Le Cœur à l'envers
as JeanneLaure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to...
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The Plouffe Family
as Mme BoucherThe lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and...
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Only the Cool
as DominiqueA network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage...
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Wise Guys
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Elective Affinities
as CharlotteOn the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both...
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Hay que matar a B.
as SusanaIn a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have...
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Code Name: Tiger
as La chanteuse d'opéraA Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to...
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Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
as Lulu KreutzJoseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to...
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Weep No More, My Lady
as MinnaWhen demanding actress Leila is found drowned there are numerous suspects but the main suspect...
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Sons
as Florence Sr.A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy...
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Hard Boiled Ones
as Rika LormondA playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
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Scarlet Fever
as MinonIn a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by...
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Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
as Sister AmandaIn this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing...
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The Winner
as Mme Hélène Dupré-GranvalA plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him...
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Le Soleil en face
as GenevièveFamous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his...
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Saint-Tropez Blues
as LucieWith her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her...
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The Devil's Advocate
as Contess Anne Di SanctisA dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime...
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Corps z'à corps
as Edna ChabertA newspaper editor attempts to save a failing girlie magazine.
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Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
as Self - Actress (archive footage)An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite...
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The Turn of the Screw
as Mrs. GroseA young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's...
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Au petit Marguery
as JosephineHippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell -...
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The Gypsy
as BrigitteHubert Durieux is a banker in a small French town who is struggling to keep up with the demands...
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As Far as Love Can Go
as La femme de MichelThe boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of...
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Le Beau Monde
as ArianeJean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random....
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Mimì / ChantalFilm in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who...
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Night Magic
as JaniceNight Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre...
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Champagne Charlie
as ThérèseThis is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America...
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In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
as SelfOn 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition...
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The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
as SelfSpring 2004, a house with a large garden welcomes filmmaker Claude Chabrol. He is about to...
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Secrets of a French Nurse
as Aline MonnierA gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things...
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Through Babette's Eyes
as SelfAn interview with actress Stephane Audran about her role in Gabriel Axel's 1987 film BABETTE'S...
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Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
as SelfA documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
as Dr. BogdanovichA private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on...
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La Muette
as uncreditedA boy buys earplugs to block out the shouting of his constantly quarreling parents, but his...
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Mass in C Minor
as Marie-Laure VillegrainFriends Philippe and Laurent, a violinist and a cello player, frequently team up to play special...
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Scene of the Crime
as StephanieTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Brideshead Revisited
as CaraCharles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family...
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Mistral's Daughter
as Paula DeslandesBeautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model...
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The Blue Bicycle
as Lisa MontpleynetLéa, the daughter of a wealthy Bordeaux family, is spending happy days at the Montillac family...
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Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as Pauline de la RochelleThe true story of Barbara Hutton, who had inherited $40 million by the age of 6. This insight...
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Orient Express
as Maria von PallbergA six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a...
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The Sun Also Rises
as GeorgetteAdaptation of the novel by Ernest Hemingway.
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The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
as CatherineThe Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes,...
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The Condor Mystery
as Louise Bonnier, ancienne employée de la DDASSCondor is a quiet and merry little town in the Gers which actively promotes sports. But things...
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