Stéphane Audran

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Stéphane Audran (born November 8, 1932 as Colette Suzanne Dacheville in Versailles , † March 27, 2018 in Paris ) was a French actress .

life and career

Stéphane Audran, which debuted in the fifties at the theater, was mainly through films under the direction of her husband Claude Chabrol known. Their first film together was Scream, If You Can (1959), in which she only had a small role after starring in a leading role in her first film Le jeu de la nuit . She later became a constant protagonist of the Nouvelle Vague director and thus one of the most famous French actresses. Mostly she was cast as a hypothermic, sometimes malicious woman, whose distant appearance often hid a secret.

After a short marriage to Jean-Louis Trintignant , Stéphane Audran was married to Claude Chabrol from 1964 to 1980. The actor Thomas Chabrol emerged from the marriage. Even after their divorce, Audran and Chabrol remained professionally connected; most recently in 1992 in the film Betty , in which she played a leading role under his direction alongside the daughter of her first husband Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie Trintignant . It was their 25th film together.

Another highlight of her filmmaking was the collaboration with the Spanish director Luis Buñuel . Occasionally, she also appeared in English-language films, for example in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie Unknown Accounts or in the comedy film The Black Bird based on Dashiell Hammett .

In the pitch-black thriller comedy The Women Murderer of Paris (1963) by Claude Chabrol, for which Françoise Sagan wrote the script, Audran played Fernande Segret, a near-victim of the woman murderer. The film plot is based on an authentic case, namely that of serial killer Henri Désiré Landru . In the Claude Chabrol film Zwei Freundinnen , a film drama from 1968, Audran played alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jacqueline Sassard the spoiled, rich Parisian Frédérique, who seduces the plaster painter Why and invites them to her villa on the Riviera . When Why falls in love with the architect Paul, a catastrophe looms. For her performance in this film, Audran was honored with the Silver Bear at the 1968 Berlinale . In 1970 Audran played one of the leading roles in the Franco-Italian thriller The Butcher , a dark parable about the butcher Paul Thomas, known as "Popaul" ( Jean Yanne ), who was traumatized in the Indochinese war , and who falls in love with the teacher Hélène Daville played by Audran. Audran won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress for her role .

In the multi-award-winning Franco-Spanish surrealist film comedy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Luis Buñuel , published in 1972, Audran also starred alongside Fernando Rey , Delphine Seyrig and Jean-Pierre Cassel , a British Academy Film Award was her reward . In his 1978 film Violette Nozière , Claude Chabrol shone an authentic fall into the abysses that are often hidden behind bourgeois facades. Audran played Germaine Nozière, the ambitious wife of Baptiste Nozière ( Jean Carmet ), a weak and overly indulgent man who lives with his wife and daughter in a shabby rented apartment in Paris. Germaine tries to raise her daughter Violette, played by Isabelle Huppert , to be a perfect lady, without knowing what the seventeen year old is up to every night. The award of the French César film prize in the category “Best Supporting Actress” was the reward for Audran's work.

In the Danish-Swedish-French coproduction Babettes Fest (1987) based on a novella by Karen Blixen , Audran played the title role of Babette Harsant. The critic Andreas Kilb wrote in Die Zeit zu Audran's performance that throughout the film she had “this fear and unrest of not being at home in her eyes that only very few can play […]”. The film was at the Oscars 1988 in the category "foreign-language Best Picture" with an Oscar award. Audran was also honored as "Best Actress" with the British Academy Film Award and received the Danish Robert Film Award . In addition to numerous other awards, the film was also included in the Vatican 's film list, which includes 45 films that are particularly recommended from the perspective of the Holy See.

From the 1990s, Audran was less likely to appear in front of the camera, most recently in 2008 in Das Mädchen aus Monaco . She died in March 2018 at the age of 85.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L'actrice Stéphane Audran est décédée à l'âge de 85 ans . 20 minutes , March 27, 2018, accessed March 27, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Stéphane Audran is dead. In: Spiegel Online , March 27, 2018. Accessed March 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ Andreas Kilb: Cinema for readers: "Babettes Fest" - The great meal In: Die Zeit , No. 50/1988, December 9, 1988, updated November 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Audran, Stéphane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dacheville, Colette Suzanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2018
Place of death Paris