
Acting
Born November 8, 1932 · Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Stéphane Audran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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2026

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2019

The Other Side of the Wind
2018

In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
2013

Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
2013

Through Babette's Eyes
2012

The Girl from Monaco
2008

The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
2006

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
2005

Sissi, the Rebellious Empress
2004

J'ai faim !!!
2001

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
2000

Belle Maman
1999

Madeline
1998

Arlette
1997

Petit
1996

Maximum Risk
1996

Au petit Marguery
1995

Son of Gascogne
1995

Betty
1992

The Turn of the Screw
1992

Weep No More, My Lady
1992

Quiet Days in Clichy
1990

Mass in C Minor
1990

Sons
1990

Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
1989

Champagne Charlie
1989

The Spider Labyrinth
1988

Corps z'à corps
1988

The Seasons of Pleasure
1988