Geneviève Fontanel

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Geneviève Paule Clairette Fontanel (born June 27, 1936 in Bordeaux , † March 17, 2018 in Draveil , Essonne ) was a French theater and film actress .

Life

Geneviève Fontanel was born in 1936 in Bordeaux, the daughter of Joan (née Banette) and Jean Fontanel. When she was four months old, the family moved to Casablanca . Fontanel returned to France at the age of 18, where she trained as an actress in Paris at the Center d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche and at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique . After graduating - she had received first prize in each of the Comédie Classique and Comédie Moderne subjects at the Conservatory - she was accepted into the Comédie-Française ensemble in 1958 , to which she belonged until 1962. At the time she was seen on the theater stage in both classic works by Molière and Marivaux as well as in contemporary tabloids.

From 1960 Fontanel stood regularly in front of the film camera. One of her first films was the comedy Ein Affe im Winter (1962) with Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo in the leading roles. From then on, Fontanel was mainly seen in supporting roles, such as in Philippe de Broca's comedy I Was a Male Sex Bomb (1964) and in the literary adaptation Angélique (1964). She had a leading role in 1967 in the television series Vidocq , which retells the life of the French criminalist Eugène François Vidocq in 13 episodes . She also had a bigger role in 1973 in the crime drama The Dominici Affair , based on a true criminal case , where she played Jean Gabin's daughter-in-law alongside Victor Lanoux and Gérard Depardieu .

For her performance as the owner of a lingerie boutique in François Truffaut's The Man Who Loved Women (1977), Fontanel received a nomination for César in the category Best Supporting Actress . However, she was defeated by Marie Dubois . Fontanel then played alongside Simone Signoret in Madame Rosa (1977) and alongside Louis de Funès in Claude Zidi's The Crosshead (1978). Numerous television productions followed in which she participated. In 1984 she was also seen in Bertrand Blier's drama Story of a Smile alongside Alain Delon .

Over the years she has always remained connected to the theater. At the Théâtre Marigny in Paris, she appeared several times in theater productions from 1967 to 1983, which were broadcast on French television as part of the program Au théâtre ce soir . For example, in 1978 she appeared as Countess Ferraud in a stage adaptation of the Balzac story Colonel Chabert , directed by Jean Meyer . In 1999 she was awarded the Molière Theater Prize in the category Best Supporting Actress for a production of Edward Albee's play Sensitive Balance . A year later she was nominated again for the Molière in this very category.

In 2005, Fontanel starred for 19 episodes in the television series Faites comme chez vous , a French adaptation of the hit Spanish sitcom Aquí no hay quien viva . She played her last role in 2015 at the Théâtre Montparnasse alongside Judith Magre , Claire Nadeau and Édith Scob in the play Les Grandes filles , which is about four older women of different origins who look back on their lives and have retained their sense of humor despite all adversities.

Fontanel was married to the actor and painter Jacques Destoop (* 1931) from 1965 until her death in 2018 . Their daughter Isabelle Destoop emerged from the marriage.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1962: A Monkey in Winter (Un singe en hiver)
  • 1964: I was a male sex bomb (Un monsieur de compagnie)
  • 1964: Angélique (Angélique, marquise des Anges)
  • 1966: I'm (not) marrying a millionaire! (Comment ne pas épouser un milliardaire) (TV series)
  • 1967: Vidocq (TV series, twelve episodes)
  • 1969: Three men on a horse (Trois hommes sur un cheval)
  • 1972: Spy in the service of Napoleon (schoolmaster, espion de l'empereur) (TV series, one episode)
  • 1973: The Unknown Beauty (La Femme en bleu)
  • 1973: The Dominici Affair (L'Affaire Dominici)
  • 1976: Run after me so that I can catch you (Cours après moi… que je t'attrape)
  • 1977: The man who loved women (L'Homme qui aimait les femmes)
  • 1977: Madame Rosa (La Vie devant soi)
  • 1978: The Cross Head (La Zizanie)
  • 1980: Cocktail Molotov
  • 1980: Dear Strangers (Chère inconnue)
  • 1980: Attention, customs! (TV series, an episode)
  • 1980: The Sun Horses (Les Chevaux du soleil) (TV series)
  • 1981: The Trojan War does not take place (La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu) (TV movie)
  • 1984: Story of a Smile (Notre histoire)
  • 1985: Série noire - Pitié pour les rats (TV series, one episode)
  • 1985–1991: Maguy (TV series, five episodes)
  • 1989: Maigret - Tempête sur la Manche (TV series, an episode)
  • 1990: Un jeu d'enfant
  • 1991: The beautiful Lili (La Reine blanche)
  • 1992: Le Fils du Mékong
  • 1994: Montparnasse-Pondichéry
  • 1996–1999: Le Refuge (TV series, four episodes)
  • 1999: Une pour toutes
  • 2000: Marie et Tom (TV movie)
  • 2005: Faites comme chez vous (TV series, 19 episodes)
  • 2005: With a Father's Arms (Vérité oblige) (TV series, an episode)
  • 2006: La Reine Sylvie (TV movie)
  • 2010: À 10 minutes de la plage (TV movie)
  • 2011: J'ai peur d'oublier (TV movie)
  • 2012: Boulevard du Palais - Une juste cause (TV series, one episode)

Theater appearances (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. lesgensducinema.com
  2. ^ A b Agence France-Presse : La comédienne Geneviève Fontanel est morte . In: Le Monde , March 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ cf. theatreonline.com
personal data
SURNAME Fontanel, Geneviève
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fontanel, Geneviève Paule Clairette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH 17th March 2018
Place of death Draveil , Essonne