Françoise Christophe

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Françoise Christophe (born February 3, 1923 in Paris ; † January 8, 2012 there ) was a French actress .

She began her acting training at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique under the direction of René Simon , which she continued with Lucien Nat at the Théâtre Montparnasse . In 1941 she joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique . She completed her training there with a second prize for theater acting.

After minor roles at Henri Decoin , she had her first major role in Fantômas in 1947 as Princess Daniloff, murdered by the title hero Marcel Herrand . Almost twenty years later, she played Lady McRashley, Fantôma's secret lover, in Fantomas . Françoise Christophe not only played a noblewoman in these roles; in Bernard Borderie's two-parter The Three Musketeers she was Queen Anna of Austria and in Abel Gances Marie Tudor the heroine Mary Tudor . After her aristocratic roles, she played the role of a bourgeois, historically guaranteed figure, Anne Duplessis, the mother of the revolutionary Lucile Desmoulins in La passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins (1978).

In addition to her work for film and television (including guest roles in Allô Police , Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret ), Françoise Christophe was also frequently seen at the theater. She has played in plays by Molière , Alfred de Musset , Jean Giraudoux , Jacques Deval , Marcel Aymé , Françoise Sagan , Eugene O'Neill and William Shakespeare in her more than 40-year theater career ; most of them at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1947: Fantômas
  • 1947: On the Edge of the Abyss (Carrefour du crime)
  • 1951: La Belle Image
  • 1951: Victor
  • 1952: Nez de cuir
  • 1953: Love ends at dawn (Les amours finissent à l'aube)
  • 1954: Una donna libera
  • 1955: The street of the painted lips (La rue des bouches peintes)
  • 1956: The Adventures of Capitaine Steve (L'Odyssée du capitaine Steve)
  • 1958: The big families (Les Grandes Familles)
  • 1961: The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires)
  • 1966: Marie Tudor (TV movie)
  • 1966: King of Hearts (Le Roi de cœur)
  • 1967: Fantomas threatens the world (Fantômas contre Scotland Yard)
  • 1967: Allô Police (TV series, episode 22: La Vendeuse )
  • 1968: Caroline Chérie (Beautiful as Sin) (Caroline Chérie)
  • 1970: Borsalino
  • 1970: As far as love goes (Aussi loin que l'amour)
  • 1973: Seven Dead in the Cat's Eyes (La morte negli occhi del gatto)
  • 1978: La passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins (TV movie)
  • 1981: The wings of the pigeon (Les Ailes de la colombe)
  • 1988: Les Pyramides bleues
  • 1989: Lost Years (Retour à Malaveil)
  • 1994: Desperately wanted family (Cherche famille désespérément)
  • 1995: Fiesta
  • 1995: Belle Époque (three-part TV series)
  • 2008: Hello Goodbye - Decision made out of love (Hello Goodbye)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Françoise Christophe. In: IMDb . Retrieved September 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Françoise Christophe nous a quittés. In: Gala. January 9, 2012, accessed September 1, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ Françoise CHRISTOPHE (promo 1944) - Décès. In: www.rueduconservatoire.fr. Association des élèves et des anciens élèves du Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique, January 10, 2012, accessed on September 1, 2016 (French).

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personal data
SURNAME Christophe, Françoise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2012
Place of death Paris