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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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Known For 108 titles
The Turn of the Screw (1992) subtitle poster
The Turn of the Screw
1992 Movie
as Mrs. Grose
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The Seasons of Pleasure (1988) subtitle poster
The Seasons of Pleasure
1988 Movie
as Bernadette
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Cop au Vin (1985) subtitle poster
Cop au Vin
1985 Movie
as Madame Cuno
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Thieves After Dark (1984) subtitle poster
Thieves After Dark
1984 Movie
as Isabelle's mother
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The Blue Panther (1965) subtitle poster
The Blue Panther
1965 Movie
as Olga
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Just Before Nightfall (1971) subtitle poster
Just Before Nightfall
1971 Movie
as Hélène Masson
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Night Magic (1985) subtitle poster
Night Magic
1985 Movie
as Janice
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Chi dice donna, dice donna (1976) subtitle poster
Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976 Movie
as Mimì / Chantal
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The Devil's Advocate (1977) subtitle poster
The Devil's Advocate
1977 Movie
as Contess Anne Di Sanctis
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Six in Paris (1965) subtitle poster
Six in Paris
1965 Movie
as The Mother (segment "La Muette")
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J'ai faim !!! (2001) subtitle poster
J'ai faim !!!
2001 Movie
as Gaby
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Saint-Tropez Blues (1961) subtitle poster
Saint-Tropez Blues
1961 Movie
as Lucie
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Elective Affinities (1983) subtitle poster
Elective Affinities
1983 Movie
as Charlotte
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Code Name: Tiger (1964) subtitle poster
Code Name: Tiger
1964 Movie
as La chanteuse d'opéra
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Cry of the Heart (1974) subtitle poster
Cry of the Heart
1974 Movie
as Claire
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The Gypsy (1986) subtitle poster
The Gypsy
1986 Movie
as Brigitte
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Mass in C Minor (1990) subtitle poster
Mass in C Minor
1990 Movie
as Marie-Laure Villegrain
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Hard Boiled Ones (1964) subtitle poster
Hard Boiled Ones
1964 Movie
as Rika Lormond
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The Winner (1979) subtitle poster
The Winner
1979 Movie
as Mme Hélène Dupré-Granval
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As Far as Love Can Go (1971) subtitle poster
As Far as Love Can Go
1971 Movie
as La femme de Michel
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972) subtitle poster
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
1972 Movie
as Dr. Bogdanovich
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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1951) subtitle poster
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
1951 Movie
as Charlotte (voice)
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Le Soleil en face (1980) subtitle poster
Le Soleil en face
1980 Movie
as Geneviève
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Weep No More, My Lady (1992) subtitle poster
Weep No More, My Lady
1992 Movie
as Minna
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