Françoise Fabian

{{short description|French actress}}

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{{Infobox person

| image = Françoise Fabian Césars 2014 2.jpg

| caption = Fabian in 2014

| name = Françoise Fabian

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1933|5|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Algiers, French Algeria

| birth_name = Michelle Cortès

| death_date =

| death_place =

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1956–present

}}

Michelle Cortès{{Citation |title=Décret du 13 juillet 2019 portant promotion |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000038759132 |work=legifrance.gouv.fr |access-date=2023-10-20}} (born 10 May 1933),{{Cite web |last=Les Gens du cinéma |title=Françoise Fabian |url=http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=fabian&nom_acteur=FABIAN%2520Fran%25E7oise&ident=13500&debut=24&record=24&from=ok |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=lesgensducinema.com}} known professionally as Françoise Fabian ({{IPA|fr|fʁɑ̃swaz fabjɑ̃|lang}}), is a French film actress. She has appeared in more than 100 films since 1956. In 1971, Fabian signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly declaring having had an abortion.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cidem.org/themes/egalite_hommes_femmes/ega_infos/eclairages/ega_k003.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010423084113/http://www.cidem.org/themes/egalite_hommes_femmes/ega_infos/eclairages/ega_k003.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 April 2001|title=manifeste des 343|date=23 April 2001|access-date=27 May 2019}}

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! class="unsortable" | Notes

rowspan=5|1956

| Mémoires d'un flic

| The Countess

| Pierre Foucaud
André Hunebelle

| Debut film

Naughty Girl

| Lili Rocher-Villedieu

| Michel Boisrond

|

Fernandel the Dressmaker

| Sophie

| Jean Boyer

|

Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle

| Esperanza

| Gérard Philipe
Joris Ivens

|

Michel Strogoff

| Natko

| Carmine Gallone

|

rowspan=5|1957

| Burning Fuse

| Lola Wassevitch

| Henri Decoin

|

Ce sacré Amédée

| Elia Tarti / Cigale

| Louis Félix

|

L'aventurière des Champs-Élysées

| Josette Darcanges

| Roger Blanc

|

A Bomb for a Dictator

| Mme. Lambert

| Alex Joffé

|

The Violent

| Evelyne Tiercelin

| Henri Calef

|

rowspan=1|1958

| Every Day Has Its Secret

| Hélène Lezcano

| Claude Boissol

|

rowspan=2|1960

| L'histoire dépasse la fiction

| Catherine de l'Isle Bouchard

| Jean Kerchbron

| TV series (1 episode)

La brune que voilà

| Christine

| Robert Lamoureux

|

rowspan=3|1962

| Una domenica d'estate

|

| Giulio Petroni

|

Sentimental Education

|

| Alexandre Astruc

|

L'inspecteur Leclerc enquête

| Mme Gauthier

| Claude Barma

| TV series (1 episode)

rowspan=2|1963

| The Magnificent Adventurer

| Lucrezia

| Riccardo Freda

|

Maigret Sees Red

| Lily

| Gilles Grangier

|

rowspan=1|1964

| La caméra explore le temps

| Mata Hari

| Guy Lessertisseur

| TV series (1 episode)

rowspan=4|1965

| Version grecque

| Maira

| Jean-Paul Sassy

| TV movie

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

| Évelyne Sommières

| Claude Loursais

| TV series (1 episode)

Morgane ou Le prétendant

| Lady Hamilton

| Alain Boudet

| TV movie

La jeune morte

| The Stepsister

| Claude Faraldo
Roger Pigaut

|

rowspan=1|1966

| Le train bleu s'arrête 13 fois

| Simone

| Serge Friedman

| TV series (1 episode)

rowspan=3|1967

| The Thief of Paris

| Ida

| Louis Malle

|

Belle de Jour

| Charlotte

| Luis Buñuel

|

Marion Delorme

| Marion Delorme

| Jean Kerchbron

| TV movie

rowspan=3|1969

| My Night at Maud's

| Maud

| Éric Rohmer

| Nominated - National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress
Nominated - New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress

Gli specialisti

| Virginia Pollywood

| Sergio Corbucci

|

L'américain

| Women agency

| Marcel Bozzuffi

|

rowspan=2|1970

| The Cop

| Hélène Dassa

| Yves Boisset

|

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| Astrid

| Zbyněk Brynych

|

rowspan=3|1971

| Raphael, or The Debauched One

| Aurore

| Michel Deville

|

Êtes-vous fiancée à un marin grec
ou à un pilote de ligne?

| Marion Blanchard

| Jean Aurel

|

Out 1

| Lucie

| Jacques Rivette
Suzanne Schiffman

|

rowspan=2|1972

| Love in the Afternoon

| Dream Sequence

| Éric Rohmer

|

Black Turin

| Lucia Rao

| Carlo Lizzani

|

rowspan=6|1973

| Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse

| Françoise

| Juan Luis Buñuel

|

Les voraces

| Lara

| Sergio Gobbi

|

Sentimental Education

| Marie Arnoux

| Marcel Cravenne

| TV Mini-Series

La bonne année

| Françoise

| Claude Lelouch

| David di Donatello - For her performance
San Sebastián International Film Festival for Best Actress

Projection privée

| Marthe / Eva

| François Leterrier

|

Hail the Artist

| Peggy

| Yves Robert

|

rowspan=3|1974

| Out 1: Spectre

| Lucie

| Jacques Rivette

|

City Under Siege

| Cristina Cournier

| Romolo Guerrieri

|

To Love Ophelia

| Federica

| Flavio Mogherini

|

rowspan=2|1975

| How to Kill a Judge

| Antonia Traini

| Damiano Damiani

|

Down the Ancient Staircase

| Anna Bersani

| Mauro Bolognini

|

rowspan=3|1976

| Al piacere di rivederla

| Viviana Bonfigli

| Marco Leto

|

Natale in casa d'appuntamento

| Nira

| Armando Nannuzzi

|

Chi dice donna, dice donna

| Bella / Lulù

| Tonino Cervi

|

rowspan=2|1977

| The French Woman

| Madame Claude

| Just Jaeckin

|

The Blue Ferns

| Monika Berthier

| Françoise Sagan

|

rowspan=2|1979

| Cinéma 16

| Hélène

| Nina Companeez

| TV series (1 episode)

Les dames de la côte

| Clara Decourt

| Nina Companeez

| TV movie

rowspan=1|1980

| Le mandarin

| Sylvie Chaput

| Patrick Jamain

| TV movie

rowspan=1|1981

| Tovaritch

| Tatiana Ouratief

| Jeannette Hubert

| TV movie

rowspan=2|1982

| Un fait d'hiver

| Lisa

| Jean Chapot

| TV movie

Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ

| Laetitia

| Jean Yanne

|

rowspan=6|1983

| Archipel des amours

| The Friend

| Jean-Claude Guiguet

|

La veuve rouge

| Marie Reinart

| Édouard Molinaro

| TV movie

Bon anniversaire Juliette

| Elsa

| Marcel Bozzuffi

| TV movie

Le cercle des passions

| Renata Strauss

| Claude d'Anna

|

Benvenuta

| Jeanne

| André Delvaux

|

L'ami de Vincent

| Dominique

| Pierre Granier-Deferre

|

rowspan=2|1985

| Quo Vadis?

| Pomponia

| Franco Rossi

| TV Mini-Series

Partir, revenir

| Sarah Lerner

| Claude Lelouch

|

rowspan=1|1986

| Faubourg St Martin

| The Marquise

| Jean-Claude Guiguet

|

rowspan=2|1988

| Les clients

| Marie-France

| Yannick Andréi

| TV movie

Trois places pour le 26

| Marie-Hélène de Lambert

| Jacques Demy

| Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actress

rowspan=4|1989

| Haute tension

| The Black

| Jacques Ertaud

| TV series (1 episode)

Reunion

| Countess von Lohenburg

| Jerry Schatzberg

|

Disperatamente Giulia

|

| Enrico Maria Salerno

| TV movie

Renseignements généraux

| Monette

| Claude Barma

| TV series (1 episode)

rowspan=2|1991

| Plaisir d'amour

| Do

| Nelly Kaplan

|

Reflections in a Dark Sky

| Valeria

| Salvatore Maira

|

rowspan=1|1992

| Pour une fille en rouge

| Rose

| Marianne Lamour

|

rowspan=2|1993

| Un commissario a Roma

| Renata Amidei

| Luca Manfredi
Ignazio Agosta
Roberto Giannarelli

| TV series (10 episodes)

Donne in un giorno di festa

| Francesca

| Salvatore Maira

|

rowspan=2|1996

| Un chantage en or

| Florence Valette

| Hugues de Laugardière

| TV movie

La comète

| Agathe

| Claude Santelli

| TV movie

rowspan=1|1998

| Top Secret

| Geneviève

| Jacques Rivette

|

rowspan=2|1999

| The Letter

| Mme de Chartres

| Manoel de Oliveira

|

Season's Beatings

| Yvette

| Danièle Thompson

|

2000

| Champollion, un scribe pour l'Égypte

| Voice-over

| Jean-Claude Lubtchansky

| Documentary film

rowspan=1|2002

| La chanson du maçon

| Elena

| Nina Companeez

| TV movie

rowspan=1|2003

| Le nouveau testament

| Lucie Marcelin

| Yves Di Tullio
Bernard Murat

| TV movie

rowspan=1|2004

| 5x2

| Monique

| François Ozon

|

rowspan=1|2005

| La femme coquelicot

| Marthe

| Jérôme Foulon

| TV movie

rowspan=1|2006

| Mademoiselle Gigi

| Aunt Alicia

| Caroline Huppert

| TV movie

rowspan=2|2008

| Made in Italy

| Rosa

| Stéphane Giusti

|

LOL (Laughing Out Loud)

| Anne's mother

| Lisa Azuelos

|

rowspan=2|2009

| A Man and His Dog

| Achab's wife

| Francis Huster

|

Rapt

| Marjorie

| Lucas Belvaux

|

rowspan=3|2010

| L'Arbre et la forêt

| Marianne Muller

| Olivier Ducastel
Jacques Martineau

|

Small World

| Elvira Senn

| Bruno Chiche

|

Comme les cinq doigts de la main

| Suzie Hayoun

| Alexandre Arcady

|

rowspan=1|2011

| Le grand restaurant II

| The mother of the heterosexual

| Gérard Pullicino

| TV movie

rowspan=1|2012

| What's in a Name?

| Françoise

| Alexandre de La Patellière
Matthieu Delaporte

|

rowspan=2|2013

| Me, Myself and Mum

| Babou

| Guillaume Gallienne

| Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actress

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie

| Alexina Laurence

| Marc Angelo

| TV series (1 episode)

rowspan=1|2014

| Post partum

| Carmen

| Delphine Noels

|

rowspan=1|2015

| Call My Agent!

| Herself

| Antoine Garceau

| TV series (1 episode)

rowspan=1|2018

| Brillantissime

| Doctor Steinman

| Michèle Laroque

|

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