Anémone
Acting · Directing
Born August 9, 1950, Paris, France
Anne Bourguignon (9 August 1950 - 30 April 2019) known as Anemone, is a French actress and screenwriter. She won the César for best actress in 1988 for the role of Marcelle in Le Grand Chemin. She is the mother of two children; Jacob and Lilly. She spent her childhood at Château Mauras, a family property in Bommes, in Gironde. After primary and secondary studies at the Sainte-Marie-des-Invalides school (today Paul Claudel-d'Hulst), at the Victor-Duruy high school, at the Gaudéchaux course, at the Jaillard course, at the Sévigné college, within the congregation of the canonesses of Saint-Augustin of the Congrégation Notre-Dame (at the Notre-Dame-des-Oiseaux convent in Megève, at the Saint-Pierre Fourier institute in Brunoy) and at the Institut Notre-Dame in Épernay, it pursued higher education at Paris-III University and then at Paris-X1 University. Anemone began her career at the café-théâtre with the Splendid troupe. She takes her pseudonym from the first film in which she shot, Anemone by Philippe Garrel. It was Coluche who offered her her first big role in the cinema in You will not have Alsace and Lorraine in 1977. In 1979, she created on stage the play written by the Splendid troupe, Le Père Noël est une junk . Her role as Thérèse earned her great success with the public, a success confirmed and amplified by the adaptation of the play to the cinema, directed by Jean-Marie Poiré. In the 1980s, she was a very popular actress who starred in many comedies: "Ma Femme S'Appelle Reviens", "Les Babas-Cool", "Pour Cent Briques, T'As Plus Rien"..., "Le Quart d'Heure Américain", and "Le Mariage Du Siècle", for which she wrote most of the screenplay. Michel Deville (Peril in the home, Aux petits bonheurs), then Jean-Loup Hubert offered her more serious roles from 1985. Successful counter-jobs, since she won the César for best actress for "Le Grand Chemin" in 1988. More discreet in the 1990s, Anemone worked with Tonie Marshall ("Pas Très Catholique", "Enfants De Bastard"), Romain Goupil ("Mom") or Christine Pascal, in "Le Petit Prince A Dit". In 1996, she played in the adaptation of Binet's comic strip, "Les Bidochon". In 2010, she returned to the cinema with the film "Les Amours Secrètes" by Franck Phelizon. She then turned to the theater, playing in "L'Avare" for Roger Planchon, "Mademoiselle Werner" at the Théâtre des Variétés or "Les Noeuds Au Mouchoir" at the Palais des Glaces which she announced would be her last play at the end of 2017. In December 2017, she announced that she would definitely end her career at the end of the year, and also took a very critical and disillusioned look in this same interview at what has become of the world in general, and that of show- bizz in particular. Militant like her brother for a return to a more ethical and ecological society, Anemone chooses to live in the countryside in the small village of Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), near Lezay. Anemone died on April 30, 2019 at the age of 68 in Poitiers (Vienne) from lung cancer. She admitted to being an “inveterate smoker”. Her funeral took place on May 9 in Poitiers, where she was cremated.
Filmography
- 2018Family Business — Bertille
- 2016Rosalie Blum — Simone Machot
- 2015I'm All Yours — La grand-mère
- 2015The Roommates Party — Madame Abramovitch
- 2014Jacky in the Kingdom of Women — La générale Bubunne XVI
- 2014The Secret of Arkandias — Marion Boucher
- 2014Un si joli mensonge — Louise
- 2013Deadly Summer — Mrs. Spinelli
- 2013Nuts — Dr. Vorov
- 2013That Thing You Love — Mrs. Lesoufache
- 2012Grossesses Nerveuses — Mathilde
- 2012Super 8 mon amour — Narrator (voice)
- 2011The Great Restaurant II — Widow Who Killed Her Husband
- 2010Louise's Diary 1942 — Margot
- 2010Mademoiselle Drot — Mme Chambart-Martin
- 2010Malevil — Mrs. Menou
- 2009Little Nicholas — Miss Navarin
- 2009Myriam's choice — Simone
- Les Bougon — Tata Louise
- Fais pas ci, fais pas ça — Mme Fernet
- 2007La fille de Madame Angot - Opéra de Lausanne — Director
- 2006Bataille Natale — Françoise Darcy
- Sable noir — Marie
- 2006The Jungle — la mère de Mathias
- 2005A Song of Innocence — Léonce
- 2005Unissez-vous, il n'est jamais trop tard !
- 2005Voisins, voisines — Madame Gonzalés
- 2004The Cop, the Criminal and the Clown — Carlotta Luciani
- 2002My Wife's Name Is Maurice — Claire Trouaballe
- 2001Fortune Tellers and Misfortune — Anémone
- 1999Man of My Life — Solange
- 1998Lautrec — Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec
- 1997Marquise — La Voisin
- 1997The Target — Clara
- 1996Enfants de salaud — Sylvette
- 1996L'Échappée belle — Jeanine, la juge
- 1996Le Cri de la soie — Cécile
- 1996Les Bidochon — Raymonde Bidochon
- 1994Life's Little Treasures — Hélène
- 1994Something Fishy — Maxime Chabrier
- 1993Sunfish — Anne
- 1992And the Little Prince Said — Melanie
- 1992Loulou graffiti — Juliette
- 1992Ma soeur, mon amour — Laura Bécancour
- 1992The Beautiful Story — Mme Desjardins
- 1991Les Enfants volants — Suzanne
- 1990Après après-demain — Isabelle
- 1990Maman — Lulu
- 1989Emergency Kisses — Minouchette
- 1989Twisted Obsession — Marianne
- 1989Zanzibar — Woman in the orange dress at the Césars ceremony
- 1988Envoyez les violons — Isabelle Fournier
- 1988Sans peur et sans reproche — Rose
- 1987La sauteuse (de l'ange) — La Mère
- 1987Poule et frites — Béatrice
- 1987The Grand Highway — Marcelle
- 1986I Love You — Barbara
- 1985Death in a French Garden — Edwige Ledieu
- 1985Marriage of the Century — Princess Charlotte, Writer
- 1985Slices of Life — Cécile / Hélène
- 1985The Chicks — Odile
- 1983A Man of My Measure — Babette
- 1982For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now — Nicole, publiciste pour établissements bancaires
- 1982Ladies' Choice — Bonnie
- 1982Santa Claus Is a Stinker — Thérèse de Monsou dite « Mme S.O.S »
- 1982Singles — Nadine
- 1981Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's — Adrienne
- La Guerre des insectes — Anaïs
- 1981La Gueule du loup — Viviane
- 1981Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe ! — Alexandra
- 1980Certaines nouvelles — Marie-Annick
- 1980Rat Race — Liliane
- 1980Une merveilleuse journée — Deocadie
- 1979French Postcards — Christine
- Les 400 Coups de Virginie — Marie-Ghyslaine
- 1978Sale rêveur — Colette
- 1978Take It from the Top — La scripte
- 1978Thomas Guérin, retraité — Manou
- Les Héritiers — Josée
- 1977The Model Couple — Claudine
- 1977You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine — La cousine Lucienne
- 1976Let's Make a Dirty Movie — Eva
- 1976Pardon Mon Affaire — Concierge
- 1976Run After Me Until I Catch You — L'ouvreuse du cinéma
- 1976The Probability Factor — Secretary
- 1975Incorrigible — Prostitute (uncredited)
- 1973I. You. They. — La deuxième candidate au poste de nounou
- 1970The House
- 1968Anemone — Anémone
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes — Thérèse, Nadine, Lily
Appearances as themselves (12)
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
- On n'est pas couché — Self - Guest
- Village départ — Self
- L'Invité — Self
- Vivement dimanche — Self
- 1995Son of Gascogne — Self
- Nulle part ailleurs — Self
- Sacrée soirée — Self
- Champs-Elysées — Self
- 1981Droit de Réponse — Self
- Ciné regards — Self
- Spécial cinéma — Self