Tsilla Chelton

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Tsilla Chelton (born June 21, 1919 in Jerusalem - † July 15, 2012 in Brussels ) was a French actress .

Life

Tsilla Chelton is the daughter of a French woman and a father of Ottoman origin. She was born in Jerusalem while her parents were traveling.

She spent her childhood in Antwerp, where the family settled. She lost her mother at the age of six. Her father enrolled her at the Montessori School in Brussels, where she was a boarding school student until the age of 12. During the Second World War, she followed her father and left Belgium for Switzerland.

Tsilla Chelton was the wife of the set designer Jacques Noël, with whom she had four children - including the actors Nani Noël, Philippe Noël and Serge Noël. She began her theater career in Paris in 1948 with Marcel Marceau's troupe . The theater director Jacques Mauclair often made her the leading actress in his productions, especially some plays by Eugène Ionesco ( The King dies , The Chairs ).

Tsilla Chelton started her film career late. In 1962 she made her debut in a tiny role in Yves Roberts' War of the Buttons . Robert gave her a slightly larger role in Alexandre with Philippe Noiret in 1967 , before Pierre Richard gave her a small part in The Scattered . That same year she had a concise and amusing supporting role as a magician alongside Claude Jade in Sheherazade . In 1969 she had one of the leading roles as Mme Martin, at the side of Jean Richard in "Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret ", 8th episode, "L'ombre chinoise", based on the novel of the same name by Georges Simenon . Short appearances followed in the 70s and 80s (including a major role in the crime series Kommissar Moulin ) until Étienne Chatiliez entrusted her with the title role in the film Tante Daniele in 1990 , in which she plays a lonely old and not least hateful woman who drives her housekeeper to death and the family to the edge of madness. For this performance Tsilla Chelton in 1991 for the French film award César as Best Actress nomination. Three years later she received for her performance in Eugène Ionesco's Les chaises French theater prize Molière as best actress awarded. Chelton also appeared in international cinema from time to time. After the part of Mrs. Barton in William Castle's American horror film Shanks (1974) and a small supporting role in Peter Hyams ' historical film The Musketeer (2001), the 90-year-old actress was again successful with Yeşim Ustaoğlu's Turkish family drama Pandora's Box . The role of an old woman suffering from Alzheimer's who disappears without a trace from her home village on the Black Sea won her the award for best actress at the Spanish Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián in 2008 together with the American Melissa Leo ( Frozen River ) a.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magazine Le Point July 16, 2012
  2. ↑ cf. "Golden Shell" for the Turkish family drama Pandora's Box at derstandard.at, September 27, 2008 (accessed on September 28, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Chelton, Tsilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2012
Place of death Brussels