Josiane Stoléru is a French film, television and theatre

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. Stoléru was born and raised in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, France. Her cousin was the late French politician Lionel Stoléru. She is married to fellow actor

Patrick Chesnais Patrick Chesnais (born 18 March 1947) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Life and career Patrick Chesnais was born in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. He was educated at the '' Lycée Pierre Corneille'' in Rouen. In 1989 ...

, and their daughter Émilie Chesnais is also an actress.

Selected filmography

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Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( , ; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th ce ...

'' (1990), as the Duenna *''

Something Fishy ''Something Fishy'' is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 18 January 1957 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 28 January 1957 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title ''The Butl ...

'' (1994) *'' A Piece of Sky'' (2002), as Mme. Picri *'' Wild Side'' (2004), as the mother *'' Bicycling with Molière'' (2013), as Raphaelle La Puisaye *'' The Mystery of Henri Pick'' (2019), as Madeleine Pick

References

Living people Actresses from Lyon French film actresses French television actresses French stage actresses French people of Romanian descent 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses Year of birth missing (living people) {{France-stage-actor-stub