Fanny Ardant

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Fanny Ardant at the César Awards (2004)

Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born March 22, 1949 in Saumur , Maine-et-Loire ) is a French theater and film actress . She is one of the most popular actresses on stage and screen in her home country. In the course of her career, she worked with a number of important directors, including her discoverer and partner François Truffaut as well as Alain Resnais , Volker Schlöndorff and Michelangelo Antonioni . Mostly Fanny Ardant plays serious and passionate women types.

Live and act

Childhood and youth

Fanny Ardant was born in Saumur in 1949 as the daughter of a cavalry officer . She spent her childhood and youth in Monaco , where her father served the princely family Grimaldi . Ardant gained his first stage experience at a convent school that Princess Caroline of Monaco also attended. Since her parents wanted a solid education, Ardant first studied political science in Aix-en-Provence . “My parents were clever enough to see that acting is an extremely insecure and risky way of making a living. And they were afraid that my career choice would only be a passing whim, ”recalled Ardant. “Then I picked out the shortest of all courses: Political Science in Aix-en-Provence. I held out well, and - oops! - I was gone. For me, the university degree was like a pass to freedom. ”Then she went back to the theater. She took acting lessons from Jean Périmony and made her professional theatrical debut in 1974 in a performance of Pierre Corneille's drama Polyeucte . Directed by Dominique Leverd, the father of her first daughter Lumir (born April 4, 1975). Other roles in plays by Henry de Montherlant , Jean Racine and Jean Giraudoux followed .

breakthrough

In 1979, the brunette actress received one of the leading roles in the multi-part television series The Ladies from the Coast ( Les Dames de la Côte ) by Nina Companéez . Director François Truffaut saw the series on television and was determined to get to know Ardant. A little later he invited her to lunch with Gérard Depardieu , with whom he was currently shooting the film The Last Metro ( Le Dernier Métro , 1980) and with whom Ardant had already appeared in front of the camera in The Dogs ( Les chiens , 1979) . Truffaut finally cast Depardieu and Ardant as tragic lovers in the film drama The Woman Next Door ( La Femme d'à côté , 1981), with which Ardant achieved her international breakthrough and received her first César nomination for Best Actress . While the film was being made, Ardant Truffaut became Truffaut's last muse and partner. “François gave me a whole new way of looking at life - and thus completely turned my existence as a woman and as an actress,” Ardant said later. In 1983, the black and white comedy film Auf Liebe und Tod (Vivement dimanche!) Was another joint production. In this homage to film noir and Alfred Hitchcock's films, Ardant played the self-confident secretary Barbara Becker, who helps Julien Vercel , who is suspected of murder and portrayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant , to prove his innocence. In the same year Ardants and Truffaut's daughter Josephine (born September 28, 1983) was born. A little over a year later, Truffaut died of a brain tumor, whereupon Ardant fell temporarily into a personal crisis.

After Truffaut's death

In 1984 Ardant starred in Volker Schlöndorff's Proust film Ein Liebe von Swann ( Un amour de Swann ) alongside Jeremy Irons . Also in 1984 she was seen in Love to the Dead ( L'Amour à mort ) by Alain Resnais alongside Sabine Azéma , Pierre Arditi and André Dussollier , with whom she had already worked for Life is a Roman ( La Vie est un roman , 1983 ) and later collaborated again for Mélo (1986). In 1987 Ardant, who speaks fluent Italian, Spanish and English in addition to her mother tongue, played in Ettore Scola's award-winning family saga Die Familie ( La famiglia ), in which, as in The anonymous confession ( Benvenuta , 1983), she was unhappy in the role of a pianist in love with Vittorio Gassman . In Der Tölpel ( Le Paltoquet , 1987) she appeared alongside Jeanne Moreau , Michel Piccoli and Daniel Auteuil as the seductive femme fatale , who spends her time almost exclusively in a hammock in this theater-like literary film adaptation. On April 24, 1990, Ardant gave birth to their third daughter, Baladine, who emerged from a relationship with cameraman Fabio Conversi. The fact that she had three daughters from three different men to whom she was not married often caused controversy in the French press, which, however, did not bother Ardant: “In principle, I have nothing against marriage. I love to watch happy couples in the restaurant - I marvel at them like a work of art. [...] I just didn't fit into the traditional drawers and felt strong enough to raise my children on my own. In my life I never wanted to let myself be absorbed - neither by a political party nor by professional or social obligations. I wanted to be free. ”Then she appeared in a few less successful and rather insignificant films. It was only with the Balzac film The Resurrection of Colonel Chabert ( Le Colonel Chabert , 1994) that she was able to build on her old successes. Her film partner was again Gérard Depardieu, who took on the title role and with whom she also played in 1999 in the European television production Balzac - A life full of passion ( Balzac ).

Elisabeth Gouslan's 2016 book Truffaut et les femmes is dedicated to Truffaut's relationships with his wife Madeleine, Françoise Dorléac , Claude Jade , Catherine Deneuve and Fanny Ardant.

comeback

The 1.74-meter-tall actress made her real comeback in 1996 when she appeared in the gay comedy Men Like It Hot! ( Pédale douce ), the most successful French film of the year, and won the César for Best Actress for her uncharacteristically comical role as disco host. She was able to achieve another great success in 1996 as the influential Madame de Blayac at the court of Louis XVI. in Patrice Leconte's historical film from the ridiculousness of appearances - Ridicule ( Ridicule won), who was also very popular with the public, the César for Best Film won and for the Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film nomination. She then took on the role of Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's play Master Class, directed by Roman Polański at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin . The piece was a big hit on New York's Broadway , which is why Polański and Ardant tried a French version. The reviews were indeed rather mixed, but Ardant received for her performance, after all, nominated for the theater award Molière as Best Actress .

Fanny Ardant at the Cannes Film Festival (2009)

In 2000 she starred alongside Vincent Perez , Michel Serrault and Josiane Balasko in the frivolous historical film Liebeslust und Freiheit ( Le Libertin ) again in a comedy by Gabriel Aghion , who had already staged Men Like It Hot with her . However, the costume film was unable to match the immense success of the gay comedy of 1996. In 2002, Ardant played the vicious Pierrette in the star ensemble of the critically and commercially very successful crime comedy 8 Women ( 8 Femmes ) by François Ozon . Together with Catherine Deneuve , Isabelle Huppert , Danielle Darrieux , Emmanuelle Béart , Virginie Ledoyen , Ludivine Sagnier and Firmine Richard , she won both the Silver Bear and the European Film Prize for 8 women . In the same year she also played Callas on the screen in Franco Zeffirelli's film homage Callas Forever , which partly fictionally retells the last year of the opera diva's life. In the erotic drama Nathalie ( Nathalie… , 2003) and in the comedy film Hello Goodbye - a decision made out of love ( Hello Goodbye , 2008) Ardant stood in front of the camera several times with Depardieu.

In 2009 she made her directorial debut with the archaic retaliatory drama Cendres et Sang (in English: Ashes and Blood ), which was presented at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival . In 2011 and 2012 she worked again with Josée Dayan for the two television films Raspoutine and Nos retrouvailles , under whose direction she had already played in 1999 in Balzac - A life full of passion . In Raspoutine , Depardieu was her film partner again. In her last directorial work Le divan de Staline , Depardieu plays the role of the Soviet dictator.

Directorial work

Filmography

Plays (selection)

Fanny Ardant in music hall by Jean-Luc Lagarce at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris

Awards

Fanny Ardant at the Cannes Film Festival (2005)

César

Nominated:

  • 1982: Best Actress for The Woman Next Door
  • 1984: Best Actress for Auf Liebe und Tod
  • 2003: Best leading actress for 8 women
  • 2014: Best Actress for The Beautiful Days

Won:

  • 1997: Best leading actress for Men like it hot too
  • 2020: Best supporting actress for The most beautiful time of our life

European film award

Nominated:

Won:

  • 2002: Best actress (together with the ensemble) for 8 women

Molière

Nominated:

  • 1993: Best Actress for L'Aide-mémoire
  • 1997: Best Actress for Master Class

Further

German dubbing voices

The actresses who voiced Fanny Ardant in the German dubbed versions include:

  • Gisela Fritsch ( Everyone will receive their wages ... , The woman next door , To love and death , Mélo )
  • Viktoria Brams ( A Love from Swann , Honorable Crooks , The Family , Longing for Australia , 101 Nights - The Dreams of M. Cinéma , Love and Freedom , Nathalie )
  • Dagmar Heller ( The Resurrection of Colonel Chabert )
  • Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif ( Beyond the Clouds , Ridicule - On the ridiculousness of appearances )
  • Traudel Haas ( Men like it hot too , Paris, je t'aime , Hello Goodbye - decision made out of love )
  • Hannelore Elsner ( 8 women )

Web links

Commons : Fanny Ardant  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Fanny Ardant , Cinema
  2. ↑ a b c In conversation: Fanny Ardant Are men afraid of you, Madame? , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 21, 2009
  3. ↑ Cinemagazine online ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on cinegiornalisti.com (ital.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cinegiornalisti.com
  4. ↑ synchronkartei.de
personal data
SURNAME Ardant, Fanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ardant, Fanny Marguerite Judith (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Saumur , Maine-et-Loire department, France