Edith Scob

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Édith Scob (2013)
Édith Scob (2016)

Edith Scob (* 21st October 1937 in Paris as Edith Helena Vladimirovna Scobeltzine ; † 26 June 2019 ibid) was a French actress .

life and career

She came from a Russian aristocratic family and was the granddaughter of the general of the volunteer army in the Russian Civil War 1918-1920, Vladimir Skobelzyn , who found exile in France. Her brother was the 1960 cyclist and Olympian, Michel Scob (1935-1995).

Scob became known in 1959 through the director Georges Franju , who gave her a role in the film With the head against the walls (La Tête contre les murs) and in the same year in the film Eyes without a face (Les Yeux sans visage) the leading role of Christine Gessenier occupied with her. She later also worked with film directors such as Julien Duvivier and Luis Buñuel ( The Milky Way ).

She later played great roles on television and on stage. She was active in the Atelier Théâtre Et Musique , which her husband Georges Aperghis founded in 1976, and starred in films such as Everyone's Hell (1977), A Murderous Summer (1983) and La Cavale des fous (1993).

In the 1990s, she played character roles such as Oriane de Guermantes in Raúl Ruiz ' Die wiederfinde Zeit (Le Temps retrouvé) or Laurence in his Comédie de l'innocence (2000). She directed the film Jeanne la Pucelle with Jacques Rivette . Between 2002 and 2006 she played the Mother Superior in the television series SoeurThérèse.com .

literature

On July 4, 2019, shortly after Scob's death, Ludovic Mabreuil's "La Cinematique des muses" was published, in which the author portrays twenty film muses on 215 pages, including Geneviève Bujold , Mimsy Farmer , Claude Jade , Elsa Martinelli , Ottavia Piccolo and Marie-France Pisier , Edith Scob , Maria Schneider , Joanna Shimkus and Catherine Spaak . [1]

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Édith Scob  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edith Scob: des yeux saphir et ... un visage, sur Cinécinéma Classic
  2. ^ Sabrina Champenois: L'art de l'éclipse. In: next.liberation.fr. February 24, 2009, accessed October 29, 2017 (French).
  3. ↑ Édith Scob in: Georges Franju: Au-delà du cinéma fantastique , by Kate Ince, L'Harmattan, 2008, page 82
personal data
SURNAME Scob, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scobeltzine, Edith Helena Vladimirovna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2019
Place of death Paris , France