Stéphane Audran

Stéphane Audran born Colette Suzanne Dacheville 8 November 1932 in Versailles Yvelines was a French film and television actress known for her performances in Oscar winning movies such as Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie 1972 and Babettes Feast 1987 and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One 1980 and Violette Nozière 1978 She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964 after a short marriage to the French actor JeanLouis 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 Chabrols film Les Cousins 1959 She has since appeared in most of Chabrols 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 Babettes 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 nonChabrol films was Luis Buñuels Oscarwinning Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie 1972 as Alice Senechal Also appearing in Englishlanguage productions Audran has appeared in American features like The Black Bird 1975 and in TV serials like Brideshead Revisited 1981 Mistrals 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia