Suzy Falk

Suzy Falk (born November 23, 1922 in Düsseldorf ; † July 6, 2015 in Brussels ) was a German-Belgian actress.

Life

Suzy Falk was born in Düsseldorf in 1922 as the daughter of German Jews. In 1934, at the age of 12, she and her parents fled to Belgium from the Nazi regime. The family considered fleeing to the United States, but when her father died of a heart attack, she stayed with her mother while her brothers went to live with uncles and aunts in the UK. She had to wear the yellow star while working at the Jewish Hospital in Ixelles and taking private acting lessons. Suzy Falk and her mother survived the persecution of the Jews in hiding in the cellar.

In 1945 she began her theater career with plays by Jean Giraudoux , Bertolt Brecht , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Anton Chekhov and Iwan Turgenew . She played her first major film role in 1968 as a German travel member - and wife of the sergeant played by Paul Esser - in So Reisen und So liebe wir . Small roles followed, according to Stéphane Audran's neighbor at the beginning of Claude Chabrol's Der Riss (1970), small parts in Alberto De Martino's A Man Goes All Out and Early Maturity Seducers . In Jacques Faber's Le choix (1976) she was again in a larger film role than Simone, one of the members of the troupe of the antihero Jean-Pierre. On television, she had guest roles in series such as With Rose and Revolver (1975). One of her greatest successes was the nanny Gram Stoker at the side of Louise Fletcher and Maria Schneider in the horror comedy Mama Dracula (1980). Her last film role was Mamie's in Carine Tardieu's La tête de maman in 2007 , followed by a short film ( Emma , 2014). Suzy Falk played her last theater role in 2011 as Madeleine, known as the old woman, in René Bizac's Rue des Jonquilles . From 2011 to 2015 she played Suzy raconte in her own program .

Suzy Falk received the Belgian theater prize Ève du Théâtre in 1990 for her role in Ni chair ni poisson and in 2001 the Belgian Prix du Théâtre for her role in Véronique Olmis Chaos debout .

Filmography (selection)

• 1969: That's how we travel and that's how we love
• 1975: Le choix

Web links

• Suzy Falk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Theater roles of the actress Suzy Falk