:Annie Girardot
{{short description|French actress (1931–2011)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Annie Girardot
| image = Annie Girardot Césars.jpg
| caption = Girardot in 2005
| birth_name = Annie Suzanne Girardot
| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|10|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|02|28|1931|10|25|df=yes}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| resting_place = Père Lachaise Cemetery
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1950–2008
| spouse = {{Marriage|Renato Salvatori|1962|1988|end=died}}
}}
Annie Suzanne Girardot (25 October 1931{{spnd}}28 February 2011) was a French actress.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/movies/02girardot.html?_r=1&src=twrhp | work=The New York Times | first=William | last=Grimes | title=Annie Girardot, Versatile French Actress, Dies at 79 | date=1 March 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://moncinema.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles-et-critiques/chroniqueurs/chronique/14138-mourir-daimer.html |title=Mon Cinéma | Chroniqueurs | Mourir d'aimer |access-date=10 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810140944/http://moncinema.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles-et-critiques/chroniqueurs/chronique/14138-mourir-daimer.html |archive-date=10 August 2011 }} She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women undergoing similar daily struggles.{{cite web|url=http://www.lesinrocks.com/cine/cinema-article/t/60715/date/2011-02-28/article/annie-girardot-1931-2011/ |title=Les Inrocks : Mort de l'antistar Annie Girardot |access-date=10 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508035202/http://www.lesinrocks.com/cine/cinema-article/t/60715/date/2011-02-28/article/annie-girardot-1931-2011/ |archive-date=8 May 2011 }}
Over the course of a five-decade career, she starred in nearly 150 films. She was a three-time César Award winner (1977, 1996, 2002), a two-time Molière Award winner (2002), a David di Donatello Award winner (1977), a BAFTA nominee (1962), and a recipient of several international prizes including the Volpi Cup (Best actress) at the 1965 Venice Film Festival for Three Rooms in Manhattan.
Breakthrough and early career
After graduating from the Conservatoire de la rue Blanche in 1954 with two First Prizes in Modern and Classical Comedy, Girardot joined the Comédie Française, where she was a resident actor from 1954 to 1957.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
She made her film debut in Thirteen at the Table (Treize à table, 1955), but it was with theatre that she was beginning to attract the attention of critics.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} Her performance in a revival of Jean Cocteau's play La Machine à écrire in 1956 was lauded by the author who called her "The finest dramatic temperament of the Postwar period".{{Cite web|url=http://www.20minutes.fr/cinema/678113-cinema-l-actrice-annie-girardot-decedee-lundi|title = L'Actrice Annie Girardot est décédée lundi |website=20 Minutes |language=fr |date=28 February 2011 |access-date=15 December 2021}} In 1958, Luchino Visconti directed her opposite Jean Marais in a French stage adaptation of William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/theatre/2011/02/28/03003-20110228ARTFIG00603-la-belle-carriere-d-annie-girardot-sur-les-planches.php|title=La belle carrière d'Annie Girardot sur les planches|date=28 February 2011 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr |access-date=15 December 2021}}
File:Still-image-Rocco-and-his-brothers.jpg in Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers (1960)]]
In 1956, she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as best up-and-coming young actress, but only with Luchino Visconti's epic Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers, 1960), she was able to draw the public's attention.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} In 1962, she married Italian actor Renato Salvatori. Travelling back and forth between France and Italy, Girardot worked with Italian directors such as Marco Ferreri, appearing in three of his films, including the controversial The Ape Woman (1964) and Dillinger Is Dead (1968). She found success in popular French cinema alongside directors such as Jean Delannoy, Marcel Carné, Michel Boisrond, André Cayatte, Gilles Grangier, or André Hunebelle.{{Cite news|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/annie-girardot-la-gouaille-energique-mais-fragile-du-cinema-francais-28-02-2011-1300739_3.php|title=Annie Girardot, la gouaille énergique mais fragile du cinéma français|newspaper=Le Point|date=28 February 2011 |language=fr |access-date=15 December 2021}} In 1968, she also starred in the French anti-consumerism film Erotissimo (director Gérard Pirès).
The 1970s
By the end of the 1960s, she had become a movie star and a box-office magnet in France{{says who|date=December 2023}}{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} with such films as Vice and Virtue (1963); Live for Life (1967); Love Is a Funny Thing (1969); and Mourir d'aimer (To die of love, 1971), the fact-based tale of Gabrielle Russier (1937–1969), a thirty year old teacher whose affair with a much younger student made her the object of bourgeoisie ridicule. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe, and remains Girardot's biggest box office hit in France.
Throughout the 1970s, Girardot moved back and forth between drama and comedy, appearing in such successful comedies as Claude Zidi's La Zizanie, Michel Audiard's She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause !, 1970) or Philippe de Broca's Dear Inspector (Tendre poulet, 1977). She starred in the teen movie, The Slap (La Gifle, 1974) as Isabelle Adjani's mother. In 1972, she said in an interview to The New York Times, citing as Exhibit A her role as a sideshow freak in The Ape Woman, "I think I've proven that I'm opposed to typecasting. I believe that the acting of any role — from duchess to kitchen slavey — must be a form of transformation". She won her first César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in the drama Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976). Throughout the 1970s, she was the highest-paid actress in France, and was nicknamed "La Girardot" by the press as her name alone was seen as enough to guarantee the success of a film.Douteau. Caroline. "Annie Girardot, une femme libre", Télé 7 jours no 2650, p. 32 Between the release of Live for Life (1967) and Jupiter's Thigh (1980), 24 of her films have attracted more than one million admissions in France.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbo-boxoffice.com/v3/page000.php3?Xnumitem=110&inc=ficheact.php3&aid=1789|title=ANNIE GIRARDOT (Actrice française) – Fiche Acteur}} On stage she had success with Madame Marguerite,{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} which became her signature role that she reprised on numerous occasions until 2002. That year she was awarded the Molière Award for this role, along with an Honorary Molière Award for her entire stage career.
Girardot became one of the symbols of the 1970s feminist movement in France, as the audience embraced the "everywoman" quality she brought to the strong-minded female characters she regularly played in both dramas and comedies.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} In her 1989 autobiography, Vivre d'aimer, she wrote: "People didn't come to watch a beautiful, vamp-like creature, but simply a woman. [...] I played a judge, a lawyer, a taxi driver, a cop, a surgeon. I was never a glamorous star."Annie Girardot, Vivre d'aimer, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1989, 175 p.
From the 1980s onwards: Fading stardom and comeback
File:Annie Girardot Cannes.jpg
The 1980s were less kind, as her career floundered and parts dwindled. In 1983, she lost a fortune when Revue Et Corrigée, the musical show she put on and starred in at the Casino de Paris, flopped.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/annie-girardot-actress-who-eschewed-glamorous-roles-in-favour-of-portraying-everywoman-2235114.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/annie-girardot-actress-who-eschewed-glamorous-roles-in-favour-of-portraying-everywoman-2235114.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Pierre | last=Perrone | title=Annie Girardot: Actress who eschewed glamorous roles in favour of portraying 'everywoman' | date=8 March 2011}}{{cbignore}} In 1989, she published her autobiography Vivre d'aimer. She suffered from depression but bounced back with several television series in France and Italy. However, Girardot had a major comeback on the big screen playing a peasant wife in Claude Lelouch's Les Misérables (1995). The role won her a second César Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1996. Upon accepting the award, a joyous and tearful Girardot expressed her happiness that she had not been forgotten by the film industry.{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/77206497|title = Annie Girardot, César 1996 de la Meilleure Actrice dans un Second Rôle dans LES MISÉRABLES|date = 18 October 2013}} In 1992, she was the Head of the Jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1992/04_jury_1992/04_Jury_1992.html|title=Berlinale: 1992 Juries|access-date=27 March 2011|work=berlinale.de}}
She was awarded the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Michael Hanekes' The Piano Teacher (2001). She collaborated with Haneke again in Caché (2005).
Girardot is the highest ranked woman in the list of French stars who have appeared in the most movies that have attracted more than one million admissions in France since 1945, with 44 films.
Personal life, illness and death
She married Italian actor Renato Salvatori in 1962. They had a daughter, Giulia, and later separated but never divorced. Salvatori died in 1988.
After going public in the 21 September 2006 issue of Paris Match with the news that she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, she became a symbol of the illness in France. On 28 February 2011, Girardot died in a hospital in Paris, aged 79. She was interred at Père-Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris.[http://www.purepeople.com/article/annie-girardot-la-comedienne-est-morte_a74967/1 "Annie Girardot: la comédienne est morte"]
Legacy
- 17 French municipalities have named streets after her, including the 13th arrondissement of Paris, Toulouse, Angers, etc.As of March 2021: Paris, Toulouse, Angers, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Saint-Nazaire, Colombelles, Herblay-sur-Seine, Bourges, Couëron, Dompierre-sur-Mer, Ergué-Gabéric, Garcelles-Secqueville, Gisors, La Riche, Niort, Rezé, Saint-Priest.
- In October 2012, France's Postal service has issued a collection of stamps dedicated to six major figures of French Post-War cinema, including Annie Girardot.{{Cite web |url=http://timbres.laposte.fr/bpmapp-upload/download/fstore/produits/bl_acteurs_de_cinema_grande.jpg;jsessionid=D0D5CF968FE419A07192CBB49C26623A.node5 |title=Archived copy |access-date=19 November 2012 |archive-date=20 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720123101/http://timbres.laposte.fr/bpmapp-upload/download/fstore/produits/bl_acteurs_de_cinema_grande.jpg;jsessionid=D0D5CF968FE419A07192CBB49C26623A.node5 |url-status=dead }}
- In 2013, the 37th annual César Awards 2012 selected a picture of Annie Girardot from the 1962 film Rocco and His Brothers as the official promotional poster of the ceremony, during which she was paid tribute with a retrospective montage of her most memorable roles in film.{{cite web|url=http://www.academie-cinema.org/evenements/actualites/affiche-37eme-ceremonie-cesar,2012,13.html|title=Actualités - Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma|access-date=25 February 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301035111/http://www.academie-cinema.org/evenements/actualites/affiche-37eme-ceremonie-cesar%2C2012%2C13.html|archive-date=1 March 2012}}
- Sancar Seckiner's book South (Güney), published July 2013, consists of 12 article and essays. One of them, "Girardot's Eyes", highlights broader commentary of Annie Girardot's performances in the cinema of art. {{ISBN|978-605-4579-45-7}}.
Filmography
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Year
! Title ! Role ! Director ! Notes |
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1950
|Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés |Une jeune fille |André Berthomieu | |
1955
|Thirteen at the Table |Véronique Chambon |André Hunebelle | |
rowspan=2|1956
|Le Pays d'où je viens |Minor Role |Marcel Carné |Uncredited |
L'Homme aux clés d'or
|Gisèle Delmar / Lewarden |Léo Joannon | |
rowspan=3|1957
|Viviane |Gilles Grangier | |
Speaking of Murder
|Hélène | |
Love Is at Stake
|Marie-Blanche Fayard |Marc Allégret | |
rowspan=2|1958
|Yvonne Maurin | |
Le Désert de Pigalle
|Josy |Léo Joannon | |
1959
|Bobosse | |Étienne Périer |Uncredited |
rowspan=4|1960
|Cora |Jean-Charles Dudrumet | |
Recours en grâce
|Lilla |László Benedek | |
Rocco and His Brothers
|Nadia | |
Love and the Frenchwoman
|Danielle | |(segment "Divorce, Le") |
rowspan=3|1961
|Anna Kraemmer | |
Le rendez-vous
|Madeleine |Jean Delannoy | |
Famous Love Affairs
|Mademoiselle Duchesnois |Michel Boisrond |(segment "Les Comédiennes") |
rowspan=4|1962
|Fernande Malanpin | |
Le Crime ne paie pas
|Gabrielle Fenayrou |(segment "L'affaire Fenayrou") |
Smog
|Gabriella | |
Pourquoi Paris?
| |Denys de La Patellière | |
rowspan=4|1963
|L'infermiera |Sergio Corbucci | |
Vice and Virtue
|Juliette Morand ("Vice") | |
The Organizer
|Niobe | |
Outlaws of Love
|Margherita |Paolo and Vittorio Taviani and Valentino Orsini | |
rowspan=6|1964
|Marie / Marinette / Maryse / Marie-Paule jeune |Robert Thomas | |
The Ape Woman
|Maria | |
L'autre femme
|Agnès |François Villiers | |
La ragazza in prestito
|Clara | |
Male Companion
|Clara | |
Beautiful Families
|Maria |(segment "Il principe azzurro") |
rowspan=4|1965
|Sandra | |
Una voglia da morire
|Eleonora | |
The Dirty Game
|Suzette / Monique | |
Three Rooms in Manhattan
|Kay Larsi | |
rowspan=3|1967
|Valeria |(segment "Strega Bruciata Viva, La") |
Live for Life
|Catherine Colomb | |
The Journalist
|Herself | |
rowspan=2|1968
|La Bande à Bonnot |Maria la Belge |Philippe Fourastié | |
It Rains in My Village
|Reza | |
rowspan=7|1969
|Sabine | |
Metti una sera a cena
|Giovanna | |
Les Gauloises bleues
|the mother | |
Erotissimo
|Annie | |
Love Is a Funny Thing
|Françoise |Claude Lelouch | |
The Seed of Man
|the unknown woman | |
Life Love Death
|Herself |Claude Lelouch |cameo appearance |
rowspan=4|1970
|Liliana | |
Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause !
|Germaine | |
Les Novices
|Mona Lisa | |
Le clair de terre
|Maria |Guy Gilles | |
1971
|Danièle Guénot | |
rowspan=4|1972
|Muriel Bouchon | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|La Mandarine|fr}}
|Séverine | |
Hearth Fires
|Marie Louise Boursault | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Elle cause plus... elle flingue|fr}}
|Rosemonde du Bois de la Faisanderie | |
rowspan=2|1973
|Hélène Masson | |
There's No Smoke Without Fire
|Sylvie Peyrac | |
rowspan=3|1974
|Ursule et Grelu |Ursule |Serge Korber | |
Juliette and Juliette
|Juliette Vidal | |
La Gifle
|Hélène Douélan | |
rowspan=4|1975
|Teresa |Francesco Maselli | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Il faut vivre dangereusement|fr}}
|Léone |{{Interlanguage link multi|Claude Makovski|fr}} | |
The Gypsy
|Ninie |José Giovanni | |
Il pleut sur Santiago
|Maria Olivares | |
rowspan=3|1976
|Françoise Gailland | |
D'amour et d'eau fraîche
|Mona |Jean-Pierre Blanc | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Cours après moi que je t'attrape|fr}}
|Jacqueline |{{Interlanguage link multi|Robert Pouret|fr}} | |
rowspan=6|1977
|{{Interlanguage link multi|À chacun son enfer|fr}} |Madeleine Girard | |
Jambon d'Ardenne
|La patronne du Beauséjour |Benoît Lamy | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Le Dernier Baiser|fr}}
|Annie |{{Interlanguage link multi|Dolorès Grassian|fr}} | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Tendre Poulet|fr}}
|Lise Tanquerelle |Philippe de Broca | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Focal Point (film)|fr|3=Le Point de mire (film)|lt=Le Point de mire}}
|Danièle Gaur | |
L'affaire
| | | |
rowspan=4|1978
|Bernadette Daubray-Lacaze | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Vas-y maman|fr}}
|Annie Larcher | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|L'Amour en question|fr|3=L'Amour en question (film)|lt=L'Amour en question}}
|Suzanne Corbier | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|La Clé sur la porte (film)|fr|3=La Clé sur la porte|lt=La Clé sur la porte}}
|Marie Arnault | |
rowspan=4|1979
|Irène | |
Le Cavaleur
|Lucienne |Philippe de Broca | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses!|fr}}
|Christine Clément |Édouard Molinaro | |
Bobo Jacco
|Magda |Walter Bal | |
rowspan=2|1980
|Lise Tanquerelle |Philippe de Broca | |
Le coeur à l'envers
|Laure / Mother |Franck Appréderis | |
rowspan=4|1981
|{{Interlanguage link multi|Une robe noire pour un tueur|fr}} |Florence Nat | |
All Night Long
|French teacher | |
La vie continue
|Jeanne |Moshé Mizrahi | |
La revanche
|Jeanne Jouvert |Pierre Lary | |
rowspan=2|1984
|{{Interlanguage link multi|Liste noire (1984 film)|fr|3=Liste noire (film, 1984)|lt=Liste noire}} |Jeanne Dufour |{{Interlanguage link multi|Alain Bonnot|fr}} | |
Souvenirs, souvenirs
|Emma Boccara | |
rowspan=3|1985
|Colette |{{Interlanguage link multi|Bob Decout|fr}} | |
Partir, revenir
|Hélène Rivière |Claude Lelouch | |
Mussolini and I
|Rachele Mussolini |TV Mini-Series, 4 episodes |
1988
|Prisonnières |Marthe |Charlotte Silvera | |
rowspan=4|1989
|Cinq jours en juin |Marcelle |Michel Legrand | |
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
|Gertrude Stein |José María Sánchez | |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Comédie d'amour|fr}}
|Le Fléau |{{Interlanguage link multi|Jean-Pierre Rawson|fr}} | |
Ruf
| |Valeri Akhadov | |
rowspan=2|1990
|Il y a des jours... et des lunes |the lone woman |Claude Lelouch | |
Faccia di lepre
|Marlene |Liliana Ginanneschi | |
rowspan=2|1991
|Évangeline Pelleveau | |
Toujours seuls
|Mme Chevillard |Gérard Mordillat | |
1992
|Alibi perfetto |Countess | | |
1993
|Portagli i miei saluti... avanzi di galera |Laura Albani | | |
1994
|Cécile's mother | |
1995
|Madame Thénardier (1942) |Claude Lelouch | |
1996
|Les Bidochon |La mère Bidochon |Serge Korber | |
1997
|Mme. Tissaud |TV movie |
rowspan=2|1998
|Préférence |Blanche |Gregoire Delacourt | |
When I Will Be Gone (L'Âge de braise)
|Caroline Bonhomme | |
2000
|T'aime |Emma |Patrick Sébastien | |
rowspan=2|2001
|Mother | |
Ceci est mon corps
|Mamie |Rodolphe Marconi | |
2002
|{{ill|Epstein's Night|de|Epsteins Nacht}} |Hannah Liebermann |Urs Egger | |
2003
|L'éléphante |Jacques-Rémy Girerd |Voice |
rowspan=2|2005
|Madame Mendelbaum |Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | |
Hidden
|Mother of Georges |Michael Haneke | |
rowspan=2|2006
|Le Temps des porte-plumes |Alphonsine |Daniel Duval | |
A City Is Beautiful at Night
|The Grandmother | |
rowspan=2|2007
|Joséphine |Jane Birkin | |
Christian
|Odile |Elisabeth Löchen |(final film role) |
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|320760|Annie Girardot}}
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/movies/02girardot.html?src=twrhp New York Times obituary]
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