Name
Stéphane Audran
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1932-11-08
Deathday
2018-03-27 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France
Biography
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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- 1968 Les Biches as Frédérique
- 1959 The Cousins as Françoise
- 1978 Violette Nozière as Germaine Nozière
- 1963 Bluebeard as Fernande Segret
- 1970 The Butcher as Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
- 1995 Au petit Marguery as Josephine
- 1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie as Alice Sénéchal
- 1970 The Breach as Hélène Regnier
- 1984 The Blood of Others as Gigi
- 1974 And Then There Were None as Ilona Morgan
- 1985 Cop au Vin as Madame Cuno
- 1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun as Anita Caldwell, ancienne amie de Dany
- 1989 Champagne Charlie as Thérèse
- 1987 Babette's Feast as Babette
- 1992 Betty as Laure
- 1969 The Unfaithful Wife as Hélène Desvallées
- 1960 Les Bonnes Femmes as Ginette
- 1988 Faceless as Mrs. Sherman
- 1981 Coup de Torchon as Huguette Cordier
- 1974 Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others as Catherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
- 1973 Wedding in Blood as Lucienne Delamare
- 2008 The Girl from Monaco as Édith Lassalle
- 1997 Arlette as Diane
- 1983 Deadly Circuit as Germaine, the grey lady
- 1980 The Big Red One as Walloon
- 1982 Paradise for All as Édith
- 1983 Elective Affinities as Charlotte
- 1962 Sign of the Lion as La Patronne de l'Hôtel
- 1995 Son of Gascogne as Self
- 1988 The Seasons of Pleasure as Bernadette
- 1978 Blood Relatives as Mme Lowery
- 1977 Death of a Corrupt Man as Christiane Dubaye
- 1961 Wise Guys as Xavière, la danseuse
- 1966 Line of Demarcation as La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
- 1974 How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby as Cécile Malempin
- 2001 J'ai faim !!! as Gaby
- 1965 The Blue Panther as Olga
- 1967 The Champagne Murders as Jacqueline
- 2019 Claude Chabrol, the Maverick as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 1975 The Black Bird as Anna Kemidov
- 1999 Belle Maman as Brigitte
- 1971 Just Before Nightfall as Hélène Masson
- 1990 Quiet Days in Clichy as Adrienne
- 2000 Lulu Kreutz's Picnic as Lulu Kreutz
- 1962 The Third Lover as Hélène
- 1976 The Twist as Claire
- 1988 The Spider Labyrinth as Mrs. Kuhn
- 1982 The Shock as Jeanne Faulques (uncredited)
- 1990 Mass in C Minor as Marie-Laure Villegrain
- 1979 Eagle's Wing as The Widow
- 1992 The Turn of the Screw as Mrs. Grose
- 1984 Thieves After Dark as Isabelle's mother
- 1975 B. Must Die as Susana
- 2005 The Big Red One: The Reconstruction as Walloon
- 1989 Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice as Sister Amanda
- 1982 Boulevard des assassins as Francine
- 1976 Chi dice donna, dice donna as Mimì / Chantal
- 1970 Only the Cool as Dominique
- 2004 Sissi, the Rebellious Empress as Sophie
- 1972 A Murder Is a Murder as Marie Kastner / Anne
- 1985 La Cage aux Folles 3 as Matrimonia
- 1977 The Devil's Advocate as Contess Anne Di Sanctis
- 1972 Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street as Dr. Bogdanovich
- 2018 The Other Side of the Wind as Stéphane Audran
- 1980 La Cage aux Folles II
- 1965 La Muette
- 1985 Night Magic as Janice
- 1996 Petit as Françoise
- 1988 Corps z'à corps as Edna Chabert
- 1964 Hard Boiled Ones as Rika Lormond
- 1983 Scarlet Fever as Minon
- 1980 Le Cœur à l'envers as Jeanne
- 1980 Le Soleil en face as Geneviève
- 1964 Code Name: Tiger as La chanteuse d'opéra
- 1977 Silver Bears as Shireen Firdausi
- 1986 The Gypsy as Brigitte
- 1961 Saint-Tropez Blues as Lucie
- 1965 Six in Paris as The Mother (segment "La Muette")
- 1979 The Winner as Mme Hélène Dupré-Granval
- 1992 Weep No More, My Lady as Minna
- 1971 As Far as Love Can Go as La femme de Michel
- 1971 Without Apparent Motive as Hélène Vallée
- 1998 Madeline as Lady Marie Covington
- 1990 Sons as Florence Sr.
- 2013 In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont as Self
- 2012 Through Babette's Eyes as Self
- 1996 Maximum Risk as Chantal
- 1951 Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak as Charlotte (voice)
- 1974 Cry of the Heart as Claire
- 1958 Secrets of a French Nurse as Aline Monnier
- 1981 The Plouffe Family as Mme Boucher
- 2006 The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol as Self
- 1986 Follow My Gaze as The wife of the couch potato
- 2013 Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' as Self
- 1981 Le Beau Monde as Ariane
- 2024 Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol as Self (archive) - actress, subject
- 1987 The Cry of the Owl
- 2002 My Wife's Name Is Maurice as Jacqueline Boisdain
- 1981 Brideshead Revisited ( 2 episodes ) as Cara
- 2005 The Condor Mystery ( 4 episodes ) as Louise Bonnier, ancienne employée de la DDASS
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Stephanie
- 1989 Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story ( 6 episodes ) as Pauline de la Rochelle
- 2000 The Blue Bicycle ( 3 episodes ) as Lisa Montpleynet
- 1984 The Sun Also Rises ( 2 episodes ) as Georgette
- 1984 Mistral's Daughter ( 8 episodes ) as Paula Deslandes
- 1979 Orient Express ( 1 episode ) as Maria von Pallberg
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1988 The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin ( 1 episode ) as Catherine
- 1972 Midi trente ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1982 Champs-Elysées ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1987 Matin Bonheur ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1971 Samedi soir ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2005 La Battante ( 4 episodes ) as Edwige Fournier
- Soon Visages de Cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Soi-méme
- 1990 TECX ( 13 episodes ) as Isabelle Souverain
- 1986 Un’isola ( 2 episodes ) as Signora Lecoq
