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