Dominique Blanc

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Dominique Blanc at the nomination event for the César 2017

Dominique Blanc (born April 25, 1956 in Lyon ) is a French actress . In addition to a successful stage career, she has appeared in over 60 film and television roles since the early 1980s. She received the Molière twice for her theatrical work , her film roles brought her four Césars and the actor's award at the Venice Film Festival .

biography

Training and theater work

Dominique Blanc (2009)

Dominique Blanc was born in 1956 in Lyon as the daughter of an obstetrician and a nurse. There she grew up in the La Croix-Rousse district and discovered her passion for the theater at an early age. She went to Paris to become an actress , but was rejected by the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD) and the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT). Blanc then took on various jobs in order to be able to finance training at the Cours Florent , where she was accepted into the classe libre in 1979 . At the renowned Paris drama school, Francis Huster and Pierre Romans were her mentors. When Dominique Blanc auditioned for a school performance of a play by Anton Chekhov , she was discovered by the well-known theater director Patrice Chéreau . He gave her a role in his production of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt at the Théâtre National Populaire (TNP) in Villeurbanne , which was later broadcast on French television under Bernard Sobel . Her further studies then took her to the drama school des Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre near Paris, where she met Patrice Chéreau again.

While she was successful on the theater stage - she was awarded the prestigious Arletty Prize in 1989 - her film career began rather muted. In 1982 Blanc received a role in Jean-Luc Godard's Passion , but she had bad experiences with the famous Nouvelle Vague director. The drama with Isabelle Huppert and Hanna Schygulla in the leading roles received critical acclaim and was featured in the competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . Blanc, on the other hand, initially only wanted to devote himself to the theater. She was seen in several television productions as early as 1983, but it was not until 1986 that Régis Wargnier convinced her to take part in his cinema production The Woman of My Life . In the drama, Dominique Blanc plays the alcoholic teenager Sylvia , whose life is changed by the married and also alcoholic Simon (played by Christophe Malavoy ). For this role she was nominated the following year as best young actress for the César , the most important French film award.

Success in supporting roles

Blanc at the César Awards in 1993

In the following years Dominique Blanc recommended herself as a supporting actress for several well-known auteur filmmakers in French cinema. In 1988 she appeared in Claude Sautet's tragic comedy A few days with me and Claude Chabrol's drama Eine Frauensache , in which she acted alongside well-known actors such as Sandrine Bonnaire , Daniel Auteuil and Isabelle Huppert . Blanc was finally able to build on the success of The Woman of My Life with The Castle Belongs to Me (1989), in which she again worked with director Régis Wargniers. In the drama, Blanc plays the single mother Madame Vernet , who is hired by the widower and castle owner Monsieur Bréaud (played by Jean Rochefort ) to take care of the son who sees newcomers as intruders during the holidays. For this role, Dominique Blanc was again nominated as best young actress for the César, but it wasn't until a year later that she would win the most important French film award for the first time - for Louis Malles A Comedy in May (1990). In the comedy about a family reunion in southern France at the time of the 1968 Paris student revolt, Blanc won over audiences and critics alike in the role of the lesbian Claire : she was awarded the prize for best supporting actress.

Dominique Blanc's success remained loyal to the following years and she acted as a versatile actress in both dramas and comedies. In 1992 she slipped into the role of cabaret singer Yvette in the historical melodrama Indochine . The lavish production, costing 40 million DM (approx. 20.45 million euros) - in other roles with Catherine Deneuve , Vincent Perez and Linh Dan Pham - was the third collaboration with Régis Wargnier and is set in Vietnam during the French colonial era. Indochine won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1993 Academy Awards and five Césars in the same year. Dominique Blanc, who won the award for best supporting actress again, was one of the winners. In 1993 she played the title role in Edwin Baily's drama Alle liebe Mathilde , a woman from the provinces who has to come to terms with the sudden death of her husband. For this she was awarded the Actor Award of the International Festival of French-Language Films in Namur .

Triumph with stand-by

For Dominique Blanc's next film, the historical drama The Bartholomew Night , her former mentor Patrice Chéreau brought her in front of the camera. The large-scale production, which brought together Isabelle Adjani , Daniel Auteuil , Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vincent Perez, the then leading French actors, devoured a sum of 53 million DM (approx. 27 million euros) and became a national event in France . Dominique Blanc was nominated again for the César in 1995 for her role as the noble Henriette von Nevers , confidante of the main actress Isabelle Adjani, but had to admit defeat to her film colleague Virna Lisi , who was honored for her part as the scheming and cold-blooded Katharina von Medici . After her English-language debut in Agnieszka Holland's Total Eclipse - The Affair of Rimbaud and Verlaine (1995) alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and David Thewlis, she worked again three years later with Patrice Chéreau, who gave her a role in his hand-held film Who Loves Me , took the train . The drama about a mourning society's trip to the south of France received critical acclaim and in 1999 Blanc received her third César for Best Supporting Actress for the part of Catherine .

Blanc made the leap to the award-winning leading actress two years later with the demanding lead role in Roch Stéphanik's debut feature film Stand by . In the drama she played the Parisian wife Hélène , who wants to start a new life in Argentina with her husband Gérard . Before starting the trip, however, she was abandoned by the man she loved and was left alone at Paris-Orly airport . Traumatized, she works as a prostitute there. Although Stand-by was not a success at the French box office, Dominique Blanc received her fourth César, the first for Best Actress, and was thus able to set the record of Isabelle Adjani, who was also awarded four Acting Awards (4 × Best Actress) was.

In 2002, Blanc appeared in Vincent Perez's first feature film Peau d'ange - Angels do not cry , which she directed in 1992 on the set of Indochine in the short film L'Échange . Also in 2002 she acted under the direction of the actor Lucas Belvaux 'in the award-winning trilogy Cavale - On the run , A great couple and trilogy: Après la vie - After the life in which a terrorist (played by Belvaux) after fifteen years in prison flees the prison. While Blanc was seen in a supporting role in the first two parts, in the last part After Life, her character of the morphine-addicted policewoman Agnès is expanded into the main role, who offers protection to the hunted. Blanc received renewed critical acclaim for her portrayal of the seductive office worker Edith in Jeanne Labrune's comedy C'est le bouquet! still in the same year. However, she had to leave the supposedly fifth César to Karin Viard ( kiss me if you want ) .

In 2003 Blanc was successfully directed by Patrice Chéreau on the Paris and Bochum stages in the title role of Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre , which was later adapted by Stéphane Metge for French television. For the actress, who is one of the most successful actors in French cinema, followed in 2005 roles in Michel Deville's romantic comedy Un fil à la patte and Fabienne Godet's drama Sauf le respect que je vous dois , before appearing a year later in the television series Le Cri . Four film productions followed from 2006 to 2007, including Philippe Ramons ' adventure film Capitaine Achab , which deals with the life of the character of the same name from Herman Melville's Moby Dick . In 2008 she received the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress for Patrick-Mario Bernards and Pierre Trividic's chamber drama L'Autre at the 65th Venice Film Festival . For her portrait of the lonely Anne-Marie, who separates from her colored lover and increasingly succumbs to schizophrenia , the competition jury around the German director Wim Wenders Blanc preferred well-known actresses such as the South African Oscar winner Charlize Theron ( On Burning Earth ) or the German Nina Hoss (Jerichow) .

In 2008, Blanc worked again with Patrice Chéreau on the production of Marguerite Duras' La Douleur . As a monologue, she presented the autobiographical text in which a woman waits for her husband to return from the concentration camp . With La Douleur , Blanc made guest appearances in Spain, France, Germany and Greece in the following years and in 2010 was awarded her second Molière for Best Actress.

Dominique Blanc has two children (* 1991 and 1996). In 1999 she was a member of the competition jury of the Cannes Film Festival with David Cronenberg , Doris Dörrie and Holly Hunter, among others . In 2001, together with Fatih Akın and Héctor Babenco , she chose the Berlinale's winning film . At the beginning of 2012, Blanc was elevated to the rank of Knight of the French Legion of Honor by the French government .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1986: The woman of my life (La femme de ma vie)
  • 1987: The vast country
  • 1988: A few days with me (Quelques jours avec moi)
  • 1988: A woman's affair (Une affaire de femmes)
  • 1989: The castle is mine (Je suis le seigneur du château)
  • 1990: A Comedy in May (Milou en mai)
  • 1992: Indochine
  • 1992: L'échange (short film)
  • 1993: Everyone loves Mathilde (Faut-il aimer Mathilde?)
  • 1994: The Bartholomew Night (La rein Margot)
  • 1994: Train de nuit (short film)
  • 1995: Total Eclipse - The Rimbaud and Verlaine Affair (Total Eclipse)
  • 1997: Voilà - A beautiful family (Alors voilà)
  • 1998: If you love me, take the train (Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train)
  • 1998: A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
  • 1999: The thief of Saint Lubin (La voleuse de Saint-Lubin)
  • 2000: Les acteurs
  • 2000: Retired (Sur quel pied danser?)
  • 2000: With all my love (Avec tout mon amour)
  • 2000: Stand by (Stand-by)
  • 2001: The black beach (La plage noire)
  • 2001: Milk of tenderness (Le lait de la tendresse humaine)
  • 2001: The Pornographer (Le pornographe)
  • 2002: Peau d'ange - Angels don't cry (Peau d'ange)
  • 2002: Cavale (Cavale)
  • 2002: Un couple épatant
  • 2002: Trilogy: Après la vie - After life (Après la vie)
  • 2002: C'est le bouquet!
  • 2003: Phèdre (TV)
  • 2005: Un fil à la patte
  • 2005: Drink le respect que je vous dois
  • 2006: Monsieur Max (TV feature film)
  • 2006: Le cri (TV mini-series)
  • 2006: Les amitiés maléfiques
  • 2007: The hanged man (Le pendu) (TV)
  • 2007: Captain Ahab (Capitaine Achab)
  • 2008: Later you will understand (Plus tard tu me comprendras)
  • 2008: Par suite d'un arrêt de travail
  • 2008: L'autre
  • 2009: Un homme d'honneur (TV)
  • 2010: L'autre Dumas
  • 2011: In search of lost time (À la recherche du temps perdu) (TV)
  • 2012: My journey to the roof of the world (Alexandra David-Néel - J'irai au pays des neiges) (TV)
  • 2016: Repairing the living (Réparer les vivants)
  • 2016: Better to Live (Patients)

Awards

César

  • 1987: Nominated as Best Young Actress for The Woman of My Life
  • 1990: nominated as best young actress for The Castle is mine
  • 1991: Best Supporting Actress for A Comedy In May
  • 1993: Best Supporting Actress for Indochine
  • 1995: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Bartholomew Night
  • 1999: Best Supporting Actress for Who Loves Me Takes the Train
  • 2001: Best leading actress for stand-by
  • 2003: Nominated as Best Supporting Actress for C'est le bouquet!
  • 2010 : Nominated for Best Actress for L'Autre

Molière

  • 1998: Best Actress for Une maison de poupée
  • 2003: nominated as Best Actress for Phèdre
  • 2010: Best Actress for La Douleur

Further

Cairo International Film Festival

  • 2000: Best actress for stand-by

Locarno International Film Festival

International Festival of French-Language Films

  • 1993: Best actress for everyone loves Mathilde

Venice International Film Festival

Web links

Commons : Dominique Blanc  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile at allocine.fr
  2. ↑ Marthe Keller promue chevalier de la Légion d'honneur at letemps.ch, January 2, 2012 (accessed January 3, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Blanc, Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon , France