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Stéphane Audran

Acting
1932-11-08
Versailles, 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).

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The Breach (1970) subtitle poster
The Breach
1970 Movie
as Hélène Regnier
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Le Choc (1982) subtitle poster
Le Choc
1982 Movie
as Jeanne Faulques (uncredited)
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Eagle's Wing (1979) subtitle poster
Eagle's Wing
1979 Movie
as The Widow
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Deadly Circuit (1983) subtitle poster
Deadly Circuit
1983 Movie
as Germaine, the grey lady
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Arlette (1997) subtitle poster
Arlette
1997 Movie
as Diane
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The Spider Labyrinth (1988) subtitle poster
The Spider Labyrinth
1988 Movie
as Mrs. Kuhn
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Bluebeard (1963) subtitle poster
Bluebeard
1963 Movie
as Fernande Segret
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others (1974) subtitle poster
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
1974 Movie
as Catherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
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Les Biches (1968) subtitle poster
Les Biches
1968 Movie
as Frédérique
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Sons (1990) subtitle poster
Sons
1990 Movie
as Florence Sr.
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Faceless (1988) subtitle poster
Faceless
1988 Movie
as Mrs. Sherman
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Wise Guys (1961) subtitle poster
Wise Guys
1961 Movie
as Xavière, la danseuse
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The Cousins (1959) subtitle poster
The Cousins
1959 Movie
as Françoise
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Line of Demarcation (1966) subtitle poster
Line of Demarcation
1966 Movie
as La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
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Quiet Days in Clichy (1990) subtitle poster
Quiet Days in Clichy
1990 Movie
as Adrienne
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La Cage aux Folles II (1980) subtitle poster
La Cage aux Folles II
1980 Movie
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Belle Maman (1999) subtitle poster
Belle Maman
1999 Movie
as Brigitte
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The Girl from Monaco (2008) subtitle poster
The Girl from Monaco
2008 Movie
as Édith Lassalle
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Violette Nozière (1978) subtitle poster
Violette Nozière
1978 Movie
as Germaine Nozière
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The Black Bird (1975) subtitle poster
The Black Bird
1975 Movie
as Anna Kemidov
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970) subtitle poster
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 Movie
as Anita Caldwell, ancienne amie de Dany
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Champagne Charlie (1989) subtitle poster
Champagne Charlie
1989 Movie
as Thérèse
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Sign of the Lion (1962) subtitle poster
Sign of the Lion
1962 Movie
as La Patronne de l'Hôtel
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The Butcher (1970) subtitle poster
The Butcher
1970 Movie
as Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
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