Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Dacheville; 8 November 1932 – 27 March 2018) was a French actress. She was known for her performances in award-winning films such as ''

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'' (1972) and ''

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'' (1987), and in critically acclaimed films like ''

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'' (1980) and ''

Violette Nozière ''Violette Nozière'' is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her en ...

'' (1978).

Biography

Audran was raised by her mother after her father, a doctor, died while she was young. In 1964, she married director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol, after a short marriage to the actor

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. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol (which ended in 1980) is the actor

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(born 1963). Her first major role was in Chabrol's film '' Les Cousins'' (1959). She later appeared in most of Chabrol's films. Some of the more noteworthy of his films Audran appeared in were ''

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'' (1960), '' La Femme Infidèle'' (1968), ''

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'' (1968) as a wealthy bisexual who becomes involved in a ménage à trois (she first gained notice in this), '' Le Boucher'' (1970) as a school teacher in rural France, '' Juste Avant La Nuit'' (1971), and ''

'' (1978). She won the

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for her role in ''Les Biches'' at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival. She also appeared in the first film of

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('' Signe du Lion''), and in films by

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(''La Peau de Torpedo''),

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(''

'', as the mysterious cook Babette),

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(''Coup de Torchon'', as the wife of the cop turned serial killer) and Samuel Fuller (''

''). The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol roles was as Alice Senechal in

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's Oscar-winning film ''Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie'' (1972). Also appearing in English-language productions, Audran appeared in American features, including ''The Black Bird'' (1975), and in TV serials, including ''

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'' (1981), ''Mistral's Daughter'' (1984) and ''

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'' (1984). She starred in the 1974 film version of Agatha Christie's mystery ''

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''. Audran won a French

César Award for Best Supporting Actress The César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (French: ''César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle'') is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the ''Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma'' to recognize the outsta ...

for her performance in ''Violette Nozière'' (1978), and a

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award for her part in ''Just Before Nightfall'' (1975).

Death

Audran died around 2 a.m. on 27 March 2018, aged 85, following a long illness. Her son,

, reported that his mother had been in hospital for almost two weeks before she returned home, where she died.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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