Karen Blanguernon

Karen Blanguernon (born October 24, 1935 in Paris , † November 22, 1996 in New York City , United States ) was a French actress and novelist .

Live and act

Karen Blanguernon married actor and comedian Guy Bedos in 1956 . In 1957, their daughter Leslie Bedos was born, who has made a name for herself in France as a journalist and columnist .

After the child had outgrown the baby, Blanguernon made contact with the film industry and received her first small film role from Claude Chabrol in the fall of 1959 . After another small role in a Chabrol film, she received an offer from Germany in 1961 for the female lead in the film adaptation of Heinrich Böll's story Das Bread of the Early Years . She played Hedwig Muller, Walter Fendrich's childhood friend, played by Christian Doermer . Two years later she appeared in another German film: The Boss Doesn't Want Witnesses was the extremely rare attempt at a German science fiction film in which she (alongside Maria Perschy ) played the second female lead. Despite these promising beginnings, Blanguernon's career took off and silted up in the early 1970s.

In 1981, with the ultimate end of her film and television career, she concentrated on writing and published a total of four novels in the following ten years: La Vie volle (1981), Coups bas (1982), Léa s'en va (1989 ) and Ne pas dépasser la dose prescrite (1991).

Karen Blanguernon, who took her own life in New York in 1996, was a second marriage to the Dutch-French director Dirk Sanders . Sanders had given her the female lead in his film Tu seras terriblement gentille in 1968 and staged a television musical with her in 1978/79. The couple have a daughter named Tessa.

Filmography

• 1960: The unsatisfied ( Les bonnes femmes )
• 1960: Menu of love ( Les Godelureaux )
• 1961: The bread of the early years
• 1963: Le Tout pour le tout
• 1963: The boss doesn't want any witnesses
• 1964: Le match (TV series)
• 1965: Chambre à louer (TV series)
• 1967: Far from Vietnam ( Loin du Vietnam )
• 1968: Tu seras terriblement gentille
• 1968: The castle in the Ardennes ( Castle Keep )
• 1969: Morire for free
• 1969: Le Voleur de crimes
• 1969: The Clan of Sicilians ( Le Clan des Siciliens )
• 1971: Le Portrait de Marianne
• 1971: Léa l'hiver
• 1971: The house under the trees ( La Maison sous les arbres )
• 1977: Où vont les poissons rouges?
• 1979: Café follies: Avec Marcel Amont (co-director with Dirk Sanders)
• 1981: Oxalá

Web links

• Karen Blanguernon in the Internet Movie Database (English)