Bernadette Lafont

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Bernadette Lafont in 2007 at the 60th Cannes Film Festival

Bernadette Lafont (born October 28, 1938 in Nîmes ; † July 25, 2013 there ) was a French theater and film actress . From the end of the 1950s she played in over 170 film and television productions.

Career

Lafont began her career as a dancer before she was discovered with the onset of the Nouvelle Vague for French film. She had numerous appearances, especially under the direction of François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol . She made her debut as a film actress in 1958 together with her husband Gérard Blain in Truffaut's The Outrageous . From the 1970s she worked with Nelly Kaplan (Die Piratenbraut), Jacques Rivette (Out 1), Nadine Trintignant , Marion Vernoux and Luc Béraud, among others . Her appearance in Jean Eustache's film The Mama and the Whore caused a sensation, which initially met bitter resistance in Cannes in 1973, but was then honored with the Grand Jury Prize. In 1986 she won the César for Best Supporting Actress for the film The Naughty Girl by Claude Miller ; she was also nominated for the César in this category for Chabrol's black comedy masks . In 2003 she was awarded an Honorary César for her life's work . From 2009 she was also an officer of the Legion of Honor .

Lafont was married to actor Gérard Blain from 1957 to 1959. From her later marriage to the Hungarian sculptor Diourka Medveczky, the actresses Élisabeth and Pauline Lafont emerged alongside their son David . Pauline, born in 1963, died in a mountain accident in 1988.

Bernadette Lafont died on July 25, 2013 at the age of 74 in a hospital in her native Nîmes in the south of France. Her grave is on private property in Saint-André-de-Valborgne in the Gard department . President François Hollande paid tribute to the deceased.

Her autobiography “La fiancée du cinéma” (The Fiancee of the Cinema) was published in 1999. A hybrid tea rose, which won an award in 2004, bears her name.

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernadette Lafont  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nouvelle Vague star Bernadette Lafont is dead ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 26, 2013
  2. ↑ Star of the Nouvelle Vague: Actress Bernadette Lafont is dead. In: Spiegel Online , July 26, 2013
  3. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Bernadette Lafont
  4. ↑ Décès de Bernadette LAFONT ( Memento of January 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Hybrid tea rose Bernadette Lafont , accessed on July 26, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Lafont, Bernadette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2013
Place of death Nîmes