Jeanne Moreau

{{short description|French actress, singer, screenwriter and director (1928–2017)}}

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| image = Jeanne Moreau 2000 - Genesys.tif

| caption = Moreau in 2000

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|1|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|07|31|1928|1|23|df=y}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| resting_place = Montmartre Cemetery, Paris

| alma_mater = Conservatoire de Paris

| occupation = {{flatlist|

Actress
screenwriter
film director

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| years_active = 1947–2015

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Jean-Louis Richard|1949|1951|end=div}}
{{marriage|William Friedkin|1977|1979|end=div}}

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| children = 1

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Jeanne Moreau ({{IPA|fr|ʒan mɔʁo|lang}}; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Moreau began playing small roles in films in 1949, later achieving prominence with a starring role in Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows (1958). She was most prolific during the 1960s, winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965), with additional prominent roles in La Notte (1961), Jules et Jim (1962), and Le journal d'une femme de chambre (1964).

Moreau worked as a director on several films beginning with 1976's Lumière. She continued to act into the 2010s, winning the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1992) and receiving several lifetime achievement awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, a Cannes Golden Palm in 2003, and another César Award in 2008. Her collaborator and friend Orson Welles called her "the greatest actress in the world".{{cite web|url=http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/12/06/moreau/index2.html|title=People {{!}} Jeanne Moreau|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524104838/http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/12/06/moreau/index2.html|website=Salon|archive-date=24 May 2007|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40774985|title=Jeanne Moreau: French screen icon and star of Jules et Jim, dies at 89|date=31 July 2017|publisher=BBC|access-date=31 July 2017}}{{cite news|last=Gates|first=Anita|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/movies/jeanne-moreau-dead.html|title=Jeanne Moreau, Femme Fatale of French New Wave, Is Dead at 89|work=The New York Times|date=31 July 2017|access-date=31 July 2017}}

Early life and education

Moreau was born in Paris, the daughter of Katherine (née Buckley), a dancer who performed at the Folies Bergère (d. 1990), and Anatole-Désiré Moreau, a restaurateur (d. 1975).{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/40/Jeanne-Moreau.html|title=Jeanne Moreau Biography (1928–)|website=Filmreference.com}} Moreau's father was French; her mother was English, a native of Oldham, Lancashire, England and of part Irish descent.Famous French people of immigrant origin, Eupedia: France Guide{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026005/bio|title=Jeanne Moreau Biography|website=Yahoo! Movies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522132848/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026005/bio|archive-date=22 May 2011|url-status=dead}} Moreau's father was Catholic and her mother, originally a Protestant, converted to Catholicism upon marriage.Stated in interview at Inside the Actors Studio When Jeanne was a young girl, "the family moved south to Vichy, spending vacations at the paternal ancestral village of Mazirat, a town of 30 houses in a valley in the Allier. "It was wonderful there", Moreau said. "Every tombstone in the cemetery was for a Moreau". During World War II, the family was split, and Moreau lived with her mother in Paris. Moreau ultimately lost interest in school and, at age 16, after attending a performance of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, found her calling as an actor. She later studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her parents separated permanently while Moreau was at the conservatory and her mother, "after 24 difficult years in France, returned to England with Jeanne'sFarrell, Barry, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106154431/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839333-4,00.html#ixzz18tO2nf1J "Actresses: Making the Most of Love"], Time cover story pp. 4–5, 5 March 1965. Retrieved 22 December 2010. sister, Michelle."

Career

In 1947, Moreau made her theatrical debut at the Avignon Festival. She debuted at the Comédie-Française in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country and, by her 20s, was already one of the leading actresses in the theatre's troupe. After 1949, she began appearing in films with small parts but continued primarily active in the theatre for several years — a year at the Théâtre National Populaire opposite among others Gérard Philipe and Robert Hirsch, then a breakout two years in dual roles in The Dazzling Hour by Anna Bonacci, then Jean Cocteau's La Machine Infernale and others before another two-year run, this time in Shaw's Pygmalion. From the late 1950s, after appearing in several successful films, she began to work with the emerging generation of French film-makers. Elevator to the Gallows (1958) with first-time director Louis Malle was followed by Malle's The Lovers (Les Amants, 1959).{{cite news|last1=Chapman|first1=Peter|title=Jeanne Moreau, actress, 1928–2017|url=https://www.ft.com/content/9b1a1c2a-75dc-11e7-a3e8-60495fe6ca71|access-date=31 July 2017|work=Financial Times|date=31 July 2017}}

Moreau went on to work with many of the best known New Wave and avant-garde directors. François Truffaut's New Wave film Jules et Jim (1962), her biggest success internationally, is centered on her magnetic starring role. She also worked with a number of other notable directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (La notte and Beyond the Clouds), Orson Welles (The Trial, Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story), Luis Buñuel (Diary of a Chambermaid), Elia Kazan (The Last Tycoon), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Querelle), Wim Wenders (Until the End of the World), Carl Foreman (Champion and The Victors), and Manoel de Oliveira (Gebo et l'Ombre).

In 1983, she was head of the jury at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1983/04_jury_1983/04_Jury_1983.html |title=Berlinale: 1983 Juries |access-date=14 November 2010 |work=berlinale.de}} In 2005, she was awarded with the Stanislavsky Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2005 |title=27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005) |access-date=13 April 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403124619/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2005 |archive-date= 3 April 2013 }}

Moreau was also a vocalist. She released several albums and once performed with Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall in 1984. In addition to acting, Moreau worked behind the camera as a writer, director and producer. Her accomplishments were the subject of the film Calling the Shots (1988) by Janis Cole and Holly Dale.{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}} She appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's film Fassbinder's Women (2000).

Personal life

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Throughout her life, Moreau maintained friendships with prominent writers such as Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Henry Miller, and Marguerite Duras (an interview with Moreau is included in Duras's book Outside: Selected Writings). She formerly was married to Jean-Louis Richard (1949–1964, separated in 1951), and then to American film director William Friedkin (1977–1979). She and Richard had a son, Jérôme.{{cite magazine|last=Desta|first=Yohana|date=31 July 2017|title=Jeanne Moreau, an Icon of French Cinema, Dies at 89|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/jeanne-moreau-obit|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=27 August 2020}} Director Tony Richardson left his wife Vanessa Redgrave for her in 1967, but they never married.needs substantiation She also had relationships with directors Louis Malle and François Truffaut, fashion designer Pierre Cardin,{{Cite web|title = Jeanne Moreau : bio de Jeanne Moreau|url = http://www.gala.fr/les_stars/leurs_bio/jeanne_moreau|work = Gala.fr|access-date = 17 March 2013|language = fr|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090205035127/http://www.gala.fr/les_stars/leurs_bio/jeanne_moreau|archive-date = 5 February 2009|url-status = dead}} and the Greek actor/playboy Theodoros Roubanis.Roubanis was previously the companion of Henry Plumer McIlhenny. The relationship with McIlhenny was cited in Welsh and Tibbett's The Cinema of Tony Richardson (SUNY Press, 1999). Roubanis later married Lady Sarah Churchill. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1370866/Lady-Sarah-Spencer-Churchill.html Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill obituary], The Telegraph, 19 October 2000.

In 1971, Jeanne Moreau was a signatory of the Manifesto of the 343 which publicly announced that she had obtained an illegal 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=2001-04-23|title=manifeste des 343|date=23 April 2001|access-date=27 May 2019}}

Moreau was a close friend of Sharon Stone, who presented a 1998 American Academy of Motion Pictures life tribute to Moreau at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, academy headquarters, in Beverly Hills. Orson Welles called Moreau "the greatest actress in the world", and she remained one of France's most accomplished actresses.

In 2009, Moreau signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects".{{Cite web |date=2012-06-04 |title=Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski – SACD |url=http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604100742/http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-06-04 |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=archive.ph}}{{cite news |last1=Shoard |first1=Catherine |author2=Agencies |date=September 29, 2009 |title=Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628013652/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |archive-date=June 28, 2019}}

Moreau died on 31 July 2017 at her home in Paris at the age of 89. Her body was discovered by her cleaning maid. Shortly before her death, she had said she felt "abandoned" because she could not act anymore.{{cite news|title=Jeanne Moreau est morte à l'âge de 89 ans|newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=31 July 2017 |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2017/07/31/jeanne-moreau-est-morte-a-l-age-de-89-ans_5166891_3382.html#iHfxrxcG9BHFgD8K.99|publisher=lemonde.fr|accessdate=31 July 2017|language=French}}.{{cite web|language=French|title=Avant sa mort, Jeanne Moreau "se sentait abandonnée"|publisher=Closermag.fr|date=31 July 2017|url=https://www.closermag.fr/people/avant-sa-mort-jeanne-moreau-se-sentait-abandonnee-736556}}

Filmography

= Actress =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! Director ! Notes
1949 \| Last Love \|Michèle \|Jean Stelli \|
rowspan=2\|1950 \| Murders \|Martine Annequin \|{{hs\|Pottier}}Richard Pottier \|
{{ill\|Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés\|fr	cy	italic=yes}} \|La môme Pâquerette \|André Berthomieu \|
rowspan=2\|1952 \|The Man in My Life \|Suzanne Dubreuil \|{{hs\|Lefranc}}Guy Lefranc \|
It Is Midnight, Doctor Schweitzer \|Marie Winter \|André Haguet \|
rowspan=2\|1953 \|{{Lang\|fr\|Dortoir des grandes}} \|Julie \|{{hs\|Decoin}}Henri Decoin \|
Julietta \|Rosie Facibey \|{{hs\|Allégret}}Marc Allégret \|
rowspan=4\|1954 \|Touchez pas au grisbi \|Josy \|{{hs\|Becker}}Jacques Becker \|
Les Intrigantes \|Mona Rémi \|{{hs\|Decoin}}Henri Decoin \|
Secrets d'alcôve \|Jeanne Plisson \|Various directors \|(segment "Billet de logement, Le")
Queen Margot \|Margaret of Valois \|{{hs\|Dréville}}Jean Dréville \|
rowspan=3\|1955 \|Les Hommes en blanc \|Marianne Déjazet \|Ralph Habib \|
{{ill\|M'sieur la Caille\|fr\|italic=yes}} \|Fernande \|André Pergament \|
Gas-Oil \|Alice \|Gilles Grangier \|
1956 \| The Wages of Sin \|Angèle Ribot \|Denys de la Patellière \|
rowspan=4\|1957 \| Until the Last One \|Gina \|Pierre Billon \|
The She-Wolves \|Agnès Vanaux \|Luis Saslavsky \|
{{ill\|L'Étrange Monsieur Steve\|fr	cy\|Auf Schiefer Bahn\|italic=yes}} \|Florence \|{{ill\|Raymond Bailly\|fr}} \|
Three Days to Live \|Jeanne Fortin \|rowspan="2"\|Gilles Grangier \|
rowspan=4\|1958 \| Not Delivered \|Jacqueline Tourieu \|
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud \|Florence Carala \|Louis Malle
{{ill\|Back to the Wall (1958 film)\|lt=Back to the Wall\|ru\|Спиной к стене (фильм, 1958)\|fr\|Le Dos au mur (film, 1958)\|it\|Spalle al muro (film 1958)}} \|Gloria Decrey \|Édouard Molinaro \|
Les amants \|{{hs\|Tournier}}Jeanne Tournier \|Louis Malle \|
rowspan=2\|1959 \|The 400 Blows \|Woman with Dog \|{{hs\|Truffaut}}François Truffaut \|cameo appearance
Les liaisons dangereuses \|Juliette de Merteuil \|{{hs\|Vadim}}Roger Vadim \|
rowspan=3\|1960 \|Five Branded Women \|Ljuba \|Martin Ritt \|
Moderato Cantabile \|Anne Desbarèdes \|{{hs\|Brook}}Peter Brook \| Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Dialogue of the Carmelites \|Mère Marie de l'Incarnation \|{{hs\|Agostini}}Philippe Agostini \|
rowspan=2\|1961 \|La Notte \|Lidia Pontano \|{{hs\|Antonioni}}Michelangelo Antonioni \|
A Woman Is a Woman \|Woman in Bar \|{{hs\|Godard}}Jean-Luc Godard \|Uncredited, discussing Jules et Jim
rowspan=3\|1962 \|Jules et Jim \|Catherine \|{{hs\|Truffaut}}François Truffaut \|
Eva \|Eva Olivier \|{{hs\|Losey}}Joseph Losey \|
The Trial \|Miss Burstner \|{{hs\|Welles}}Orson Welles \|
rowspan=4\|1963 \|Bay of Angels \|Jacqueline "Jackie" Demaistre \|{{hs\|Demy}}Jacques Demy \|
The Fire Within (Le feu follet) \|Eva \|{{hs\|Malle}}Louis Malle \|
Banana Peel (Peau de banane) \|Cathy \|{{hs\|Ophüls}}Marcel Ophüls \|
The Victors \|the French lady \|{{hs\|Foreman}}Carl Foreman \|
rowspan=4\|1964 \|Diary of a Chambermaid \|Célestine \|{{hs\|Buñuel}}Luis Buñuel \|
The Train \|Christine \|{{hs\|Frankenheimer}}John Frankenheimer \|
The Yellow Rolls-Royce \|Eloise, Marchioness of Frinton \|{{hs\|Asquith}}Anthony Asquith \|
Mata Hari, Agent H21 \|Mata Hari \|{{hs\|Richard}}Jean-Louis Richard \|
rowspan=2\|1965 \|Viva Maria! \|Maria I \|{{hs\|Malle}}Louis Malle \|
Chimes at Midnight \|Doll Tearsheet \|{{hs\|Welles}}Orson Welles \|
1966 \|Mademoiselle \|"Mademoiselle" \|{{hs\|Richardson}}Tony Richardson \|
rowspan=2\|1967 \|The Oldest Profession (episode "Mademoiselle Mimi") \|Mimi Guillotine \|{{hs\|de Broca}}Philippe de Broca \|(segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
The Sailor from Gibraltar \|Anna \|{{hs\|Richardson}}Tony Richardson \|
rowspan=3\|1968 \|The Bride Wore Black \|Julie Kohler \|{{hs\|Truffaut}}François Truffaut \|
The Immortal Story \|Virginie Ducrot \|{{hs\|Welles}}Orson Welles \|TV movie
Great Catherine \|Catherine \|{{hs\|Flemyng}}Gordon Flemyng \|
1969 \|{{ill\|Le Corps de Diane\|fr\|italic=yes}} \|Diane Vallier \|Jean-Louis Richard \|
rowspan=4\|1970 \|Monte Walsh \|Martine Bernard \|{{hs\|Fraker}}William A. Fraker \|
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir \|the singer \|{{hs\|Renoir}}Jean Renoir \|TV movie, (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")
The Deep \|Ruth Warriner \|Orson Welles \|Filming was unfinished
Alex in Wonderland \|Herself \|{{hs\|Morrison}}Paul Mazursky \|
1971 \|{{ill\|Countdown to Vengeance\|fr\|Comptes à rebours\|it\|Conto alla rovescia (film 1971)\|italic=yes}} \|Madeleine St Rose \|Roger Pigaut \|
rowspan=4\|1972 \|Chère Louise \|Louise \|{{hs\|de Broca}}Philippe de Broca \|
{{ill\|L'humeur vagabonde\|fr\|italic=yes}} \|Myriam Bingeot \|Édouard Luntz \|
Nathalie Granger \|"the other woman" \|{{hs\|Duras}}Marguerite Duras \|
Repeated Absences \|nostalgie \|Guy Gilles \|Voice
1973 \|Joanna Francesa \|Joana \|Cacá Diegues \|
rowspan=3\|1974 \|{{ill\|I Love You (1974 film)\|qid=Q65563101\|short=yes\|italic=yes}} \|Elisa Boussac \|Pierre Duceppe \|
Les Valseuses \|Jeanne Pirolle \|{{hs\|Blier}}Bertrand Blier \|
Creezy \|Renee Vibert \|Pierre Granier-Deferre \|
rowspan=2\|1975 \|The Garden That Tilts \|Maria \|Guy Gilles \|
Hu-Man \|Sylvana \|{{hs\|Laperousaz}}Jérôme Laperrousaz \|
rowspan=3\|1976 \|Lumière \|Sarah Dedieu \|Jeanne Moreau \|
Monsieur Klein \|Florence \|{{hs\|Losey}}Joseph Losey \|
The Last Tycoon \|Didi \|{{hs\|Kazan}}Elia Kazan \|
1979 \|The Adolescent \|La narratrice \|Jeanne Moreau \|Voice, Uncredited
rowspan=2\|1981 \|{{ill\|Heat of Desire\|fr\|Plein sud (film, 1981)\|italic=yes}} \|Hélène, la mère de Caroline \|Luc Béraud \|
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid \|Lili Marlene \|George Kaczender \|
rowspan=3\|1982 \|A Thousand Billion Dollars \|Mme Benoît-Lambert \|Henri Verneuil \|
Querelle \|Lysiane \|{{hs\|Fassbinder}}Rainer Werner Fassbinder \|
La Truite \|Lou Rambert \|{{hs\|Losey}}Joseph Losey \|
1985 \| Vicious Circle \| Ines \| TV play
rowspan=2\|1986 \|{{ill\|The Paltoquet\|de\|Der Tölpel\|fr\|Le Paltoquet\|italic=yes}} \|The Brothel-Keeper \|Michel Deville \|
{{ill\|Sauve-toi, Lola\|fr\|italic=yes}} \|Marie-Aude Schneider \|Michel Drach \|
1986–1987 \|Le Tiroir secret \|Vivi \|(different directors) \|2 episodes
rowspan=2\|1987 \|The Miracle \|Sabine \|{{hs\|Mocky}}Jean-Pierre Mocky \|
{{ill\|Remake (1987 film)\|lt=Remake\|fr\|Remake (film, 1987)\|italic=yes}} \|Herself \|Ansano Giannarelli \|
1989 \|{{ill\|Jour après jour (1989 film)\|fr\|Jour après jour (film, 1989)\|italic=yes}} \|Janine Weisman \|Alain Attal \|
rowspan=3\|1990 \|La Femme Nikita \|Amande \|{{hs\|Besson}}Luc Besson \|
Alberto Express \|the Baroness \|{{hs\|Joffé}}Arthur Joffé \|
{{ill\|La Femme fardée\|fr\|italic=yes}} \|Le Doria \|José Pinheiro \|
rowspan=4\|1991 \|Anna Karamazoff \|the Lady \|{{hs\|Khamdamov}}Rustam Khamdamov \|
To meteoro vima tou pelargou \|the Lady \|{{hs\|Angelopoulos}}Theo Angelopoulos \|
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea \|Lady M \|{{hs\|Heynemann}}Laurent Heynemann \|
Until the End of the World \|Edith Farber \|{{hs\|Wenders}}Wim Wenders \|
rowspan=5\|1992 \|The Lover \|Narrator \|Jean-Jacques Annaud \|Voice
Map of the Human Heart \|Sister Banville \|Vincent Ward \|
{{ill\|La Nuit de l'océan\|fr\|italic=yes}} \|Hélène Sauveterre \|Antoine Perset \|
The Absence \|the writer's wife \|{{hs\|Handke}}Peter Handke \|
{{ill\|À demain\|fr\|italic=yes}} \|Tete \|Didier Martiny \|
rowspan=3\|1993 \|The Clothes in the Wardrobe \|Lili \|{{hs\|Hussein}}Waris Hussein \|Titled The Summer House in the U.S.
{{ill\|Je m'appelle Victor\|fr\|italic=yes}} \|Rose \|Guy Jacques \|
A Foreign Field \|Angelique \|{{hs\|Sturridge}}Charles Sturridge \|Series 5, episode 2 of Screen One
rowspan=3\|1995 \|One Hundred and One Nights \|La première ex-épouse de M. Cinéma \|Agnès Varda \|
Catherine the Great \|Empress Elizabeth Petrovna \|{{hs\|Chomsky}}Marvin J. Chomsky \|
Beyond the Clouds \|a Lady \|{{hs\|Antonioni}}Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders \|
rowspan=2\|1996 \|I Love You, I Love You Not \|Nana \|{{hs\|Hopkins}}Billy Hopkins \|
The Proprietor \|Adrienne Mark \|{{hs\|Merchant}}Ismail Merchant \|
rowspan=2\|1997 \|Amour et confusions \|Libra \|Patrick Braoudé \|
Witch Way Love \|Eglantine \|{{hs\|Manzor}}René Manzor \|
1998 \|Ever After \|{{ill\|Grande Dame\|de}} \|{{hs\|Tennant}}Andy Tennant \|
1999 \|{{Interlanguage link multi\|Balzac (TV miniseries)\|fr\|3=Balzac (mini-série)\|lt=Balzac}} \|Charlotte-Laure de Balzac \|{{hs\|Dayan}}Josée Dayan \|TV movie
rowspan=2\|2000 \|The Prince's Manuscript \|Alessandra Wolf (Licy) \|Roberto Andò \|
Les Misérables \|Mere Innocente \|{{hs\|Dayan}}Josée Dayan \|4 episodes
rowspan=2\|2001 \|Lisa \|Lisa (old) \|Pierre Grimblat \|
That Love \|Marguerite Duras \|{{hs\|Dayan}}Josée Dayan \|
rowspan=2\|2003 \|Love Actually \|Lady at Marseilles Airport \|{{hs\|Curtis}}Richard Curtis \|Uncredited
{{Interlanguage link multi\|Les Parents terribles (2003 film)\|fr\|3=Les Parents terribles (téléfilm)\|lt=Les Parents terribles}} \|Tante Leo \|{{hs\|Dayan}}Josée Dayan \|
rowspan=4\|2005 \|{{ill\|Akoibon\|fr\|italic=yes}} \|Madame Paule \|Édouard Baer \|
Time to Leave \|Laura \|{{hs\|Ozon}}François Ozon \|
Go West \|Novinar \|Ahmed Imamović \|
{{Interlanguage link multi\|Les Rois maudits (miniseries)\|fr\|3=Les Rois maudits (mini-série, 2005)\|lt=Les Rois maudits}} \|Mahaut, Countess of Artois \|{{hs\|Dayan}}Josée Dayan \|5 episodes
2006 \|Roméo et Juliette \|Laurence \|{{hs\|Desgagnés}}Yves Desgagnés \|
rowspan=2\|2007 \|Chacun son cinéma \|The old woman / Herself \|Various directors \|(segment "Trois Minutes")
Désengagement \|Françoise \|{{hs\|Gitai}}Amos Gitai \|
rowspan=2\|2008 \|One Day You'll Understand \|Rivka \|Amos Gitai \|
Everywhere at Once \|Narrator \|{{plainlist\| {{ill\|Holly Fisher\|qid=Q19802488\|short=yes}} Peter Lindbergh }} \|
rowspan=4\|2009 \|{{ill\|Carmel (2009 film)\|lt=Carmel\|it\|Carmel (film 2009)}} \| \|Amos Gitai \|Voice
Face \|Jeanne \|{{hs\|Tsai}}Ming-liang Tsai \|
La guerre des fils de la lumière contre les fils des ténèbres \| \|Amos Gitai \|
Kérity, la maison des contes \|Aunt Eleanor \|Dominique Monfery \|Voice
rowspan=2\|2012 \|{{Interlanguage link multi\|Une estonienne à Paris\|fr}} \|Frida \|{{hs\|Raag}}Ilmar Raag \|
Gebo et l'Ombre \|Candidinha \|{{hs\|de Oliveira}}Manoel de Oliveira \|
2015 \|{{ill\|Thanks To My Friends\|fr\|Le talent de mes amis\|italic=yes}} \|La grand-mère de Thibault \|Alex Lutz \|(final film role)

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! Notes

1949

| Last Love

|Michèle

|Jean Stelli

rowspan=2|1950

| Murders

|Martine Annequin

|{{hs|Pottier}}Richard Pottier

{{ill|Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés|fr

italic=yes}}

|La môme Pâquerette

|André Berthomieu

rowspan=2|1952

|The Man in My Life

|Suzanne Dubreuil

|{{hs|Lefranc}}Guy Lefranc

It Is Midnight, Doctor Schweitzer

|Marie Winter

|André Haguet

rowspan=2|1953

|{{Lang|fr|Dortoir des grandes}}

|Julie

|{{hs|Decoin}}Henri Decoin

Julietta

|Rosie Facibey

|{{hs|Allégret}}Marc Allégret

rowspan=4|1954

|Touchez pas au grisbi

|Josy

|{{hs|Becker}}Jacques Becker

Les Intrigantes

|Mona Rémi

|{{hs|Decoin}}Henri Decoin

Secrets d'alcôve

|Jeanne Plisson

|Various directors

|(segment "Billet de logement, Le")

Queen Margot

|Margaret of Valois

|{{hs|Dréville}}Jean Dréville

rowspan=3|1955

|Les Hommes en blanc

|Marianne Déjazet

|Ralph Habib

|Fernande

|André Pergament

Gas-Oil

|Alice

|Gilles Grangier

1956

| The Wages of Sin

|Angèle Ribot

|Denys de la Patellière

rowspan=4|1957

| Until the Last One

|Gina

|Pierre Billon

The She-Wolves

|Agnès Vanaux

|Luis Saslavsky

{{ill|L'Étrange Monsieur Steve|fr

cy|Auf Schiefer Bahn|italic=yes}}

|Florence

|{{ill|Raymond Bailly|fr}}

Three Days to Live

|Jeanne Fortin

|rowspan="2"|Gilles Grangier

rowspan=4|1958

| Not Delivered

|Jacqueline Tourieu

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

|Florence Carala

|Louis Malle

{{ill|Back to the Wall (1958 film)|lt=Back to the Wall|ru|Спиной к стене (фильм, 1958)|fr|Le Dos au mur (film, 1958)|it|Spalle al muro (film 1958)}}

|Gloria Decrey

|Édouard Molinaro

Les amants

|{{hs|Tournier}}Jeanne Tournier

|Louis Malle

rowspan=2|1959

|The 400 Blows

|Woman with Dog

|{{hs|Truffaut}}François Truffaut

|cameo appearance

Les liaisons dangereuses

|Juliette de Merteuil

|{{hs|Vadim}}Roger Vadim

rowspan=3|1960

|Five Branded Women

|Ljuba

|Martin Ritt

Moderato Cantabile

|Anne Desbarèdes

|{{hs|Brook}}Peter Brook

| Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress

Dialogue of the Carmelites

|Mère Marie de l'Incarnation

|{{hs|Agostini}}Philippe Agostini

rowspan=2|1961

|La Notte

|Lidia Pontano

|{{hs|Antonioni}}Michelangelo Antonioni

A Woman Is a Woman

|Woman in Bar

|{{hs|Godard}}Jean-Luc Godard

|Uncredited, discussing Jules et Jim

rowspan=3|1962

|Jules et Jim

|Catherine

|{{hs|Truffaut}}François Truffaut

Eva

|Eva Olivier

|{{hs|Losey}}Joseph Losey

The Trial

|Miss Burstner

|{{hs|Welles}}Orson Welles

rowspan=4|1963

|Bay of Angels

|Jacqueline "Jackie" Demaistre

|{{hs|Demy}}Jacques Demy

The Fire Within (Le feu follet)

|Eva

|{{hs|Malle}}Louis Malle

Banana Peel (Peau de banane)

|Cathy

|{{hs|Ophüls}}Marcel Ophüls

The Victors

|the French lady

|{{hs|Foreman}}Carl Foreman

rowspan=4|1964

|Diary of a Chambermaid

|Célestine

|{{hs|Buñuel}}Luis Buñuel

The Train

|Christine

|{{hs|Frankenheimer}}John Frankenheimer

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

|Eloise, Marchioness of Frinton

|{{hs|Asquith}}Anthony Asquith

Mata Hari, Agent H21

|Mata Hari

|{{hs|Richard}}Jean-Louis Richard

rowspan=2|1965

|Viva Maria!

|Maria I

|{{hs|Malle}}Louis Malle

Chimes at Midnight

|Doll Tearsheet

|{{hs|Welles}}Orson Welles

1966

|Mademoiselle

|"Mademoiselle"

|{{hs|Richardson}}Tony Richardson

rowspan=2|1967

|The Oldest Profession (episode "Mademoiselle Mimi")

|Mimi Guillotine

|{{hs|de Broca}}Philippe de Broca

|(segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")

The Sailor from Gibraltar

|Anna

|{{hs|Richardson}}Tony Richardson

rowspan=3|1968

|The Bride Wore Black

|Julie Kohler

|{{hs|Truffaut}}François Truffaut

The Immortal Story

|Virginie Ducrot

|{{hs|Welles}}Orson Welles

|TV movie

Great Catherine

|Catherine

|{{hs|Flemyng}}Gordon Flemyng

1969

|{{ill|Le Corps de Diane|fr|italic=yes}}

|Diane Vallier

|Jean-Louis Richard

rowspan=4|1970

|Monte Walsh

|Martine Bernard

|{{hs|Fraker}}William A. Fraker

The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

|the singer

|{{hs|Renoir}}Jean Renoir

|TV movie, (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")

The Deep

|Ruth Warriner

|Orson Welles

|Filming was unfinished

Alex in Wonderland

|Herself

|{{hs|Morrison}}Paul Mazursky

1971

|{{ill|Countdown to Vengeance|fr|Comptes à rebours|it|Conto alla rovescia (film 1971)|italic=yes}}

|Madeleine St Rose

|Roger Pigaut

rowspan=4|1972

|Chère Louise

|Louise

|{{hs|de Broca}}Philippe de Broca

|Myriam Bingeot

|Édouard Luntz

Nathalie Granger

|"the other woman"

|{{hs|Duras}}Marguerite Duras

Repeated Absences

|nostalgie

|Guy Gilles

|Voice

1973

|Joanna Francesa

|Joana

|Cacá Diegues

rowspan=3|1974

|{{ill|I Love You (1974 film)|qid=Q65563101|short=yes|italic=yes}}

|Elisa Boussac

|Pierre Duceppe

Les Valseuses

|Jeanne Pirolle

|{{hs|Blier}}Bertrand Blier

Creezy

|Renee Vibert

|Pierre Granier-Deferre

rowspan=2|1975

|The Garden That Tilts

|Maria

|Guy Gilles

Hu-Man

|Sylvana

|{{hs|Laperousaz}}Jérôme Laperrousaz

rowspan=3|1976

|Lumière

|Sarah Dedieu

|Jeanne Moreau

Monsieur Klein

|Florence

|{{hs|Losey}}Joseph Losey

The Last Tycoon

|Didi

|{{hs|Kazan}}Elia Kazan

1979

|The Adolescent

|La narratrice

|Jeanne Moreau

|Voice, Uncredited

rowspan=2|1981

|{{ill|Heat of Desire|fr|Plein sud (film, 1981)|italic=yes}}

|Hélène, la mère de Caroline

|Luc Béraud

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

|Lili Marlene

|George Kaczender

rowspan=3|1982

|A Thousand Billion Dollars

|Mme Benoît-Lambert

|Henri Verneuil

Querelle

|Lysiane

|{{hs|Fassbinder}}Rainer Werner Fassbinder

La Truite

|Lou Rambert

|{{hs|Losey}}Joseph Losey

1985

| Vicious Circle

| Ines

| TV play

rowspan=2|1986

|{{ill|The Paltoquet|de|Der Tölpel|fr|Le Paltoquet|italic=yes}}

|The Brothel-Keeper

|Michel Deville

|Marie-Aude Schneider

|Michel Drach

1986–1987

|Le Tiroir secret

|Vivi

|(different directors)

|2 episodes

rowspan=2|1987

|The Miracle

|Sabine

|{{hs|Mocky}}Jean-Pierre Mocky

{{ill|Remake (1987 film)|lt=Remake|fr|Remake (film, 1987)|italic=yes}}

|Herself

|Ansano Giannarelli

1989

|{{ill|Jour après jour (1989 film)|fr|Jour après jour (film, 1989)|italic=yes}}

|Janine Weisman

|Alain Attal

rowspan=3|1990

|La Femme Nikita

|Amande

|{{hs|Besson}}Luc Besson

Alberto Express

|the Baroness

|{{hs|Joffé}}Arthur Joffé

|Le Doria

|José Pinheiro

rowspan=4|1991

|Anna Karamazoff

|the Lady

|{{hs|Khamdamov}}Rustam Khamdamov

To meteoro vima tou pelargou

|the Lady

|{{hs|Angelopoulos}}Theo Angelopoulos

The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea

|Lady M

|{{hs|Heynemann}}Laurent Heynemann

Until the End of the World

|Edith Farber

|{{hs|Wenders}}Wim Wenders

rowspan=5|1992

|The Lover

|Narrator

|Jean-Jacques Annaud

|Voice

Map of the Human Heart

|Sister Banville

|Vincent Ward

|Hélène Sauveterre

|Antoine Perset

The Absence

|the writer's wife

|{{hs|Handke}}Peter Handke

|Tete

|Didier Martiny

rowspan=3|1993

|The Clothes in the Wardrobe

|Lili

|{{hs|Hussein}}Waris Hussein

|Titled The Summer House in the U.S.

|Rose

|Guy Jacques

A Foreign Field

|Angelique

|{{hs|Sturridge}}Charles Sturridge

|Series 5, episode 2 of Screen One

rowspan=3|1995

|One Hundred and One Nights

|La première ex-épouse de M. Cinéma

|Agnès Varda

Catherine the Great

|Empress Elizabeth Petrovna

|{{hs|Chomsky}}Marvin J. Chomsky

Beyond the Clouds

|a Lady

|{{hs|Antonioni}}Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders

rowspan=2|1996

|I Love You, I Love You Not

|Nana

|{{hs|Hopkins}}Billy Hopkins

The Proprietor

|Adrienne Mark

|{{hs|Merchant}}Ismail Merchant

rowspan=2|1997

|Amour et confusions

|Libra

|Patrick Braoudé

Witch Way Love

|Eglantine

|{{hs|Manzor}}René Manzor

1998

|Ever After

|{{ill|Grande Dame|de}}

|{{hs|Tennant}}Andy Tennant

1999

|{{Interlanguage link multi|Balzac (TV miniseries)|fr|3=Balzac (mini-série)|lt=Balzac}}

|Charlotte-Laure de Balzac

|{{hs|Dayan}}Josée Dayan

|TV movie

rowspan=2|2000

|The Prince's Manuscript

|Alessandra Wolf (Licy)

|Roberto Andò

Les Misérables

|Mere Innocente

|{{hs|Dayan}}Josée Dayan

|4 episodes

rowspan=2|2001

|Lisa

|Lisa (old)

|Pierre Grimblat

That Love

|Marguerite Duras

|{{hs|Dayan}}Josée Dayan

rowspan=2|2003

|Love Actually

|Lady at Marseilles Airport

|{{hs|Curtis}}Richard Curtis

|Uncredited

{{Interlanguage link multi|Les Parents terribles (2003 film)|fr|3=Les Parents terribles (téléfilm)|lt=Les Parents terribles}}

|Tante Leo

|{{hs|Dayan}}Josée Dayan

rowspan=4|2005

|{{ill|Akoibon|fr|italic=yes}}

|Madame Paule

|Édouard Baer

Time to Leave

|Laura

|{{hs|Ozon}}François Ozon

Go West

|Novinar

|Ahmed Imamović

{{Interlanguage link multi|Les Rois maudits (miniseries)|fr|3=Les Rois maudits (mini-série, 2005)|lt=Les Rois maudits}}

|Mahaut, Countess of Artois

|{{hs|Dayan}}Josée Dayan

|5 episodes

2006

|Roméo et Juliette

|Laurence

|{{hs|Desgagnés}}Yves Desgagnés

rowspan=2|2007

|Chacun son cinéma

|The old woman / Herself

|Various directors

|(segment "Trois Minutes")

Désengagement

|Françoise

|{{hs|Gitai}}Amos Gitai

rowspan=2|2008

|One Day You'll Understand

|Rivka

|Amos Gitai

Everywhere at Once

|Narrator

|{{plainlist|

{{ill|Holly Fisher|qid=Q19802488|short=yes}}
Peter Lindbergh

}}

rowspan=4|2009

|{{ill|Carmel (2009 film)|lt=Carmel|it|Carmel (film 2009)}}

|Amos Gitai

|Voice

Face

|Jeanne

|{{hs|Tsai}}Ming-liang Tsai

La guerre des fils de la lumière contre les fils des ténèbres

|Amos Gitai

Kérity, la maison des contes

|Aunt Eleanor

|Dominique Monfery

|Voice

rowspan=2|2012

|{{Interlanguage link multi|Une estonienne à Paris|fr}}

|Frida

|{{hs|Raag}}Ilmar Raag

Gebo et l'Ombre

|Candidinha

|{{hs|de Oliveira}}Manoel de Oliveira

2015

|{{ill|Thanks To My Friends|fr|Le talent de mes amis|italic=yes}}

|La grand-mère de Thibault

|Alex Lutz

|(final film role)

= Director =

Lumière (1976)
L'Adolescente (1979)
Lillian Gish (1983, TV documentary)

Awards and nominations

= Films =

Year	Group	Award	Film	Result
class="wikitable"
2008	César Awards	Honorary César	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
2005	Moscow International Film Festival	Stanislavsky Award	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
2003	Cannes Film Festival	Honorary Golden Palm	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
2003	Taormina International Film Festival	Taormina Arte Award	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
2001	Pusan International Film Festival	Hand Printing (tribute)	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
2000	Berlin International Film Festival	Honorary Golden Bear	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1999	Hamptons International Film Festival	Distinguished Achievement Award	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1999	Créteil International Women's Film Festival	Homage	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1998	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Tribute	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1997	European Film Awards	Life Achievement Award	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1997	San Sebastián International Film Festival	Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1996	BAFTA Awards	Academy Fellowship	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1995	César Awards	Honorary César	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1994	Women in Film Crystal Award	International Award	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1992	Venice Film Festival	Career Golden Lion	Lifetime achievement	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1992	César Awards	Best Actress	The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1988	César Awards	Best Actress	Le Miraculé	style="background:#fdd;"\| Nominated
1987	César Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Le Paltoquet	style="background:#fdd;"\| Nominated
1984	Razzie Awards	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song	Querelle – song: "Young and Joyful Bandit"	style="background:#fdd;"\| Nominated
1979	Berlin International Film Festival	Golden Bear	L'adolescente	style="background:#fdd;"\| Nominated
1979	Chicago International Film Festival	Gold Hugo	L'adolescente	style="background:#fdd;"\| Nominated
1976	Chicago International Film Festival	Gold Hugo	Lumière	style="background:#fdd;"\| Nominated
1976	Taormina International Film Festival	Golden Charybdis	Lumière	style="background:#fdd;"\| Nominated
1967	BAFTA Awards	Best Foreign Actress	Viva Maria!	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1964	Karlovy Vary International Film Festival	Best Actress	Diary of a Chambermaid	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1963	BAFTA Awards	Best Foreign Actress	Jules et Jim	style="background:#fdd;"\| Nominated
1962	Jussi Awards	Diploma of Merit – Foreign Actress	La notte	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1961	Fotogramas de Plata	Best Foreign Performer	Le dialogue des Carmélites	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1960	Cannes Film Festival	Best Actress	Moderato cantabile	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won
1958	Venice Film Festival	Best Actress	Les amants	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won

= Theater =

Year	Group	Award	Play	Result
style="font-size: 90%;" class="wikitable"
1988	Molière Awards	Best Actress	{{ill\|Le Récit de la servante Zerline\|it\|Il racconto della serva Zerlina\|italic=yes}}	style="background:#dfd;"\| Won