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

Filmography

• 2024Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol — Self (archive) - actress, subject
• 2018The Other Side of the Wind — Stéphane Audran
• 2008The Girl from Monaco — Édith Lassalle
• La Battante — Edwige Fournier
• 2005The Big Red One: The Reconstruction — Walloon
• The Condor Mystery — Louise Bonnier, ancienne employée de la DDASS
• 2004Sissi, the Rebellious Empress — Sophie
• 2001J'ai faim !!! — Gaby
• 2000Lulu Kreutz's Picnic — Lulu Kreutz
• The Blue Bicycle — Lisa Montpleynet
• 1999Belle Maman — Brigitte
• 1998Madeline — Lady Marie Covington
• 1997Arlette — Diane
• 1996Maximum Risk — Chantal
• 1996Petit — Françoise
• 1995Au petit Marguery — Josephine
• 1992Betty — Laure
• 1992The Turn of the Screw — Mrs. Grose
• 1992Weep No More, My Lady — Minna
• 1990Mass in C Minor — Marie-Laure Villegrain
• 1990Quiet Days in Clichy — Adrienne
• 1990Sons — Florence Sr.
• TECX — Isabelle Souverain
• 1989Champagne Charlie — Thérèse
• 1989Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice — Sister Amanda
• Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story — Pauline de la Rochelle
• 1988Corps z'à corps — Edna Chabert
• 1988Faceless — Mrs. Sherman
• 1988The Seasons of Pleasure — Bernadette
• The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin — Catherine
• 1988The Spider Labyrinth — Mrs. Kuhn
• 1987Babette's Feast — Babette
• 1987The Cry of the Owl
• 1986Follow My Gaze — The wife of the couch potato
• 1986The Gypsy — Brigitte
• Un’isola — Signora Lecoq
• 1985Cop au Vin — Madame Cuno
• 1985La Cage aux Folles 3 — Matrimonia
• 1985Night Magic — Janice
• Mistral's Daughter — Paula Deslandes
• 1984The Blood of Others — Gigi
• The Sun Also Rises — Georgette
• 1984Thieves After Dark — Isabelle's mother
• 1983Deadly Circuit — Germaine, the grey lady
• 1983Elective Affinities — Charlotte
• 1983Scarlet Fever — Minon
• 1982Boulevard des assassins — Francine
• 1982Paradise for All — Édith
• 1982The Shock — Jeanne Faulques (uncredited)
• Brideshead Revisited — Cara
• 1981Coup de Torchon — Huguette Cordier
• 1981Le Beau Monde — Ariane
• 1981The Plouffe Family — Mme Boucher
• 1980La Cage aux Folles II
• 1980Le Cœur à l'envers — Jeanne
• 1980Le Soleil en face — Geneviève
• 1980The Big Red One — Walloon
• 1979Eagle's Wing — The Widow
• Orient Express — Maria von Pallberg
• 1979The Winner — Mme Hélène Dupré-Granval
• 1978Blood Relatives — Mme Lowery
• 1978Violette Nozière — Germaine Nozière
• 1977Death of a Corrupt Man — Christiane Dubaye
• 1977Silver Bears — Shireen Firdausi
• 1977The Devil's Advocate — Contess Anne Di Sanctis
• 1976Chi dice donna, dice donna — Mimì / Chantal
• 1976The Twist — Claire
• 1975B. Must Die — Susana
• 1975The Black Bird — Anna Kemidov
• 1974And Then There Were None — Ilona Morgan
• 1974Cry of the Heart — Claire
• 1974How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby — Cécile Malempin
• 1974Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others — Catherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
• 1973Wedding in Blood — Lucienne Delamare
• 1972A Murder Is a Murder — Marie Kastner / Anne
• 1972Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street — Dr. Bogdanovich
• 1972The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — Alice Sénéchal
• 1971As Far as Love Can Go — La femme de Michel
• 1971Just Before Nightfall — Hélène Masson
• 1971Without Apparent Motive — Hélène Vallée
• 1970Only the Cool — Dominique
• Scene of the Crime — Stephanie
• 1970The Breach — Hélène Regnier
• 1970The Butcher — Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
• 1970The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun — Anita Caldwell, ancienne amie de Dany
• 1969The Unfaithful Wife — Hélène Desvallées
• 1968Les Biches — Frédérique
• 1967The Champagne Murders — Jacqueline
• 1966Line of Demarcation — La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
• 1965La Muette
• 1965Six in Paris — The Mother (segment "La Muette")
• 1965The Blue Panther — Olga
• 1964Code Name: Tiger — La chanteuse d'opéra
• 1964Hard Boiled Ones — Rika Lormond
• 1963Bluebeard — Fernande Segret
• 1962Sign of the Lion — La Patronne de l'Hôtel
• 1962The Third Lover — Hélène
• 1961Saint-Tropez Blues — Lucie
• 1961Wise Guys — Xavière, la danseuse
• 1960Les Bonnes Femmes — Ginette
• 1959The Cousins — Françoise
• 1958Secrets of a French Nurse — Aline Monnier
• 1951Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak — Charlotte (voice)
• Visages de Cinéma — Soi-méme

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2019Claude Chabrol, the Maverick — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• 2013In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont — Self
• 2013Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' — Self
• 2012Through Babette's Eyes — Self
• 2006The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol — Self
• 1995Son of Gascogne — Self
• Matin Bonheur — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Samedi soir — Self