
Actor
Stéphane Audran
Born November 8, 1932 in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, FranceDied March 27, 201890 films
Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville; November 8, 1932 – March 27, 2018) was a French film and television actress. Best known for her performances in Oscar-winning movies such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987), and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978), she became mostly associated with haughty bourgeois women roles.
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She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol (which ended in 1980) is the French actor Thomas Chabrol (born in 1963).
Her first major role was in Chabrol's film Les Cousins (1959). She has since appeared in most of Chabrol's films. Some of the more noteworthy of his films Audran has appeared in are Les Bonnes Femmes (1960), La Femme Infidèle (1968), Les Biches (1968) as a rich lesbian who becomes involved in a ménage à trois (she first gained notice in this), Le Boucher (1970) as a school teacher who falls in love with a murderous butcher, Juste Avant La Nuit (1971), and Violette Nozière (1978). She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in Les Biches at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival.
She also appeared in the first film of Éric Rohmer (Signe du Lion), and in films by Jean Delannoy (La Peau de Torpedo), Gabriel Axel (Babette's Feast, as the mysterious cook, Babette), Bertrand Tavernier (Coup de Torchon, as the wife of the cop turned serial killer) and Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One). The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol films was Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) as Alice Senechal. Also appearing in English-language productions, Audran has appeared in American features like The Black Bird (1975), and in TV serials like Brideshead Revisited (1981), Mistral's Daughter (1984) and The Sun Also Rises (1984).
Audran won a French César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Violette Nozière (1978) and British Film Academy award for Just Before Nightfall (1975).
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First watchThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie19727.5as Alice SénéchalIn Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both…View filmEssential films
Ranked by acclaim and reachFilmography
90 films as actor- 2018The Other Side of the WindStéphane Audran
- 2008The Girl from MonacoÉdith Lassalle
- 2005The Big Red One: The ReconstructionWalloon
- 2004Sissi, the Rebellious EmpressSophie
- 2001J'ai faim !!!Gaby
- 2000Lulu Kreutz's PicnicLulu Kreutz
- 1999Belle MamanBrigitte
- 1998MadelineLady Marie Covington
- 1997ArletteDiane
- 1996PetitFrançoise
- 1996Maximum RiskChantal
- 1995Au petit MargueryJosephine
- 1992BettyLaure
- 1992The Turn of the ScrewMrs. Grose
- 1992Weep No More, My LadyMinna
- 1990Quiet Days in ClichyAdrienne
- 1990Mass in C MinorMarie-Laure Villegrain
- 1990SonsFlorence Sr.
- 1989Manika, the Girl Who Lived TwiceSister Amanda
- 1989Champagne CharlieThérèse
- 1988The Spider LabyrinthMrs. Kuhn
- 1988Corps z'à corpsEdna Chabert
- 1988The Seasons of PleasureBernadette
- 1988FacelessMrs. Sherman
- 1987The Cry of the Owl
- 1987Babette's FeastBabette
- 1986Follow My GazeThe wife of the couch potato
- 1986The GypsyBrigitte
- 1985Night MagicJanice
- 1985La Cage aux Folles 3Matrimonia
- 1985Cop au VinMadame Cuno
- 1984The Blood of OthersGigi
- 1984Thieves After DarkIsabelle's mother
- 1983Scarlet FeverMinon
- 1983Deadly CircuitGermaine, the grey lady
- 1983Elective AffinitiesCharlotte
- 1982Paradise for AllÉdith
- 1982The ShockJeanne Faulques (uncredited)
- 1982Boulevard des assassinsFrancine
- 1981Coup de TorchonHuguette Cordier
- 1981Le Beau MondeAriane
- 1981The Plouffe FamilyMme Boucher
- 1980La Cage aux Folles II
- 1980Le Cœur à l'enversJeanne
- 1980The Big Red OneWalloon
- 1980Le Soleil en faceGeneviève
- 1979The WinnerMme Hélène Dupré-Granval
- 1979Eagle's WingThe Widow
- 1978Violette NozièreGermaine Nozière
- 1978Blood RelativesMme Lowery
- 1977Death of a Corrupt ManChristiane Dubaye
- 1977The Devil's AdvocateContess Anne Di Sanctis
- 1977Silver BearsShireen Firdausi
- 1976The TwistClaire
- 1976Chi dice donna, dice donnaMimì / Chantal
- 1975The Black BirdAnna Kemidov
- 1975B. Must DieSusana
- 1974Vincent, Francois, Paul and the OthersCatherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
- 1974And Then There Were NoneIlona Morgan
- 1974Cry of the HeartClaire
- 1974How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a CrybabyCécile Malempin
- 1973Wedding in BloodLucienne Delamare
- 1972Dead Pigeon on Beethoven StreetDr. Bogdanovich
- 1972The Discreet Charm of the BourgeoisieAlice Sénéchal
- 1972A Murder Is a MurderMarie Kastner / Anne
- 1971As Far as Love Can GoLa femme de Michel
- 1971Without Apparent MotiveHélène Vallée
- 1971Just Before NightfallHélène Masson
- 1970The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a GunAnita Caldwell, ancienne amie de Dany
- 1970The BreachHélène Regnier
- 1970Only the CoolDominique
- 1970The ButcherHélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
- 1969The Unfaithful WifeHélène Desvallées
- 1968Les BichesFrédérique
- 1967The Champagne MurdersJacqueline
- 1966Line of DemarcationLa femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
- 1965The Blue PantherOlga
- 1965La Muette
- 1965Six in ParisThe Mother (segment "La Muette")
- 1964Code Name: TigerLa chanteuse d'opéra
- 1964Hard Boiled OnesRika Lormond
- 1963BluebeardFernande Segret
- 1962Sign of the LionLa Patronne de l'Hôtel
- 1962The Third LoverHélène
- 1961Saint-Tropez BluesLucie
- 1961Wise GuysXavière, la danseuse
- 1960Les Bonnes FemmesGinette
- 1959The CousinsFrançoise
- 1958Secrets of a French NurseAline Monnier
- 1951Presentation, or Charlotte and Her SteakCharlotte (voice)







