Stéphane Audran

Biography

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. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Stéphane Audran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Scene of the Crime

Champs-Elysées

Spécial cinéma

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Brideshead Revisited

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

The Spider Labyrinth

Mistral's Daughter

All Movies (96)

• Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol2026 · as Self (archive) - actress, subject
• Claude Chabrol, the Maverick2019 · as Self - Actress (archive footage)
• The Other Side of the Wind2018 · as Stéphane Audran
• In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont2013 · as Self
• Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'2013 · as Self
• Through Babette's Eyes2012 · as Self
• The Girl from Monaco2008 · as Édith Lassalle
• The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol2006 · as Self
• The Big Red One: The Reconstruction2005 · as Walloon
• Sissi, the Rebellious Empress2004 · as Sophie
• J'ai faim !!!2001 · as Gaby
• Lulu Kreutz's Picnic2000 · as Lulu Kreutz
• Belle Maman1999 · as Brigitte
• Madeline1998 · as Lady Marie Covington
• Arlette1997 · as Diane
• Petit1996 · as Françoise
• Maximum Risk1996 · as Chantal
• Au petit Marguery1995 · as Josephine
• Son of Gascogne1995 · as Self
• Betty1992 · as Laure
• The Turn of the Screw1992 · as Mrs. Grose
• Weep No More, My Lady1992 · as Minna
• Quiet Days in Clichy1990 · as Adrienne
• Mass in C Minor1990 · as Marie-Laure Villegrain
• Sons1990 · as Florence Sr.
• Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice1989 · as Sister Amanda
• Champagne Charlie1989 · as Thérèse
• The Spider Labyrinth1988 · as Mrs. Kuhn
• Corps z'à corps1988 · as Edna Chabert
• The Seasons of Pleasure1988 · as Bernadette
• Faceless1988 · as Mrs. Sherman
• Babette's Feast1987 · as Babette
• Follow My Gaze1986 · as The wife of the couch potato
• The Gypsy1986 · as Brigitte
• Night Magic1985 · as Janice
• La Cage aux Folles 31985 · as Matrimonia
• Cop au Vin1985 · as Madame Cuno
• The Blood of Others1984 · as Gigi
• Thieves After Dark1984 · as Isabelle's mother
• Scarlet Fever1983 · as Minon
• Deadly Circuit1983 · as Germaine, the grey lady
• Elective Affinities1983 · as Charlotte
• Paradise for All1982 · as Édith
• The Shock1982 · as Jeanne Faulques (uncredited)
• Boulevard des assassins1982 · as Francine
• Coup de Torchon1981 · as Huguette Cordier
• Le Beau Monde1981 · as Ariane
• The Plouffe Family1981 · as Mme Boucher
• La Cage aux Folles II1980
• Le Cœur à l'envers1980 · as Jeanne
• The Big Red One1980 · as Walloon
• Le Soleil en face1980 · as Geneviève
• The Winner1979 · as Mme Hélène Dupré-Granval
• Eagle's Wing1979 · as The Widow
• Violette Nozière1978 · as Germaine Nozière
• Blood Relatives1978 · as Mme Lowery
• Death of a Corrupt Man1977 · as Christiane Dubaye
• The Devil's Advocate1977 · as Contess Anne Di Sanctis
• Silver Bears1977 · as Shireen Firdausi
• The Twist1976 · as Claire
• Chi dice donna, dice donna1976 · as Mimì / Chantal
• The Black Bird1975 · as Anna Kemidov
• B. Must Die1975 · as Susana
• Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others1974 · as Catherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
• And Then There Were None1974 · as Ilona Morgan
• Cry of the Heart1974 · as Claire
• How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby1974 · as Cécile Malempin
• Wedding in Blood1973 · as Lucienne Delamare
• Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street1972 · as Dr. Bogdanovich
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie1972 · as Alice Sénéchal
• A Murder Is a Murder1972 · as Marie Kastner / Anne
• As Far as Love Can Go1971 · as La femme de Michel
• Without Apparent Motive1971 · as Hélène Vallée
• Just Before Nightfall1971 · as Hélène Masson
• The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun1970 · as Anita Caldwell, ancienne amie de Dany
• The Breach1970 · as Hélène Regnier
• Only the Cool1970 · as Dominique
• The Butcher1970 · as Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
• The Unfaithful Wife1969 · as Hélène Desvallées
• Les Biches1968 · as Frédérique
• The Champagne Murders1967 · as Jacqueline
• Line of Demarcation1966 · as La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
• The Blue Panther1965 · as Olga
• La Muette1965
• Six in Paris1965 · as The Mother (segment "La Muette")
• Code Name: Tiger1964 · as La chanteuse d'opéra
• Hard Boiled Ones1964 · as Rika Lormond
• Bluebeard1963 · as Fernande Segret
• Sign of the Lion1962 · as La Patronne de l'Hôtel
• The Third Lover1962 · as Hélène
• Saint-Tropez Blues1961 · as Lucie
• Wise Guys1961 · as Xavière, la danseuse
• Les Bonnes Femmes1960 · as Ginette
• The Cousins1959 · as Françoise
• Secrets of a French Nurse1958 · as Aline Monnier
• Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak1951 · as Charlotte (voice)

All TV Shows (17)

• The Condor Mystery2005 · as Louise Bonnier, ancienne employée de la DDASS
• La Battante2005 · as Edwige Fournier
• The Blue Bicycle2000 · as Lisa Montpleynet
• Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story1989 · as Pauline de la Rochelle
• The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin1988 · as Catherine
• Matin Bonheur1987 · as Self
• The Sun Also Rises1984 · as Georgette
• Mistral's Daughter1984 · as Paula Deslandes
• Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
• Brideshead Revisited1981 · as Cara
• Orient Express1979 · as Maria von Pallberg
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Midi trente1972 · as Self
• Samedi soir1971 · as Self
• Scene of the Crime1970 · as Stephanie
• Visages de Cinéma— · as Soi-méme