| Jeanne Moreau | |
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 at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (2006) |
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| Born | 23 January 1928
Paris, France |
| Occupation | Actress, screenwriter, film director |
| Years active | 1947–present |
| Spouse(s) | Jean-Louis Richard (1949–1951) Teodoro Rubanis (m.1966) William Friedkin (1977–1979) |
Jeanne Moreau (French pronunciation: [ʒan mɔˈʁo]; born 23 January 1928) is a French actress, screenwriter and director.
She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. She began playing small roles in films in 1949 and eventually achieved prominence as the star of Elevator to the Gallows (1958), directed by Louis Malle and Jules et Jim (1962), directed by François Truffaut. Most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continues to appear in films to the present day.
Moreau is the recipient of a César Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for individual performances, and several lifetime awards.
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Moreau was born in Paris, the daughter of Katherine (née Buckley), a dancer who performed at the Folies Bergère, and Anatole-Désiré Moreau, a restaurateur.[1][2] Moreau's father was French and her mother was English, a native of Lancashire, England and of part Irish descent.[2][3][4] Moreau's father was Catholic and her mother, originally a Protestant , converted to Catholicism upon marriage.[2] Moreau studied at the Conservatoire de Paris.
In 1947, she made her theatrical debut at the Avignon Festival. By her twenties, Moreau was already one of leading stage actresses at the Comédie-Française.[2] After 1949, she began appearing in films with small parts. From the late 1950s, after appearing in several successes, she began to work with the emerging generation of French film-makers. Elevator to the Gallows (1958) with first-time director Louis Malle was followed by Malle's The Lovers (Les Amants, 1959). The latter film, controversial in its day, led the media to tag her 'The New Bardot'.
Largely thanks to those films, she went on to work with many of the best known New Wave and avant-garde directors.[2] François Truffaut's New Wave film Jules et Jim (1962), her biggest success internationally, is centred on her magnetic starring role.[2] She has also worked with a number of other notable directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (La notte and Beyond the Clouds), Orson Welles (Chimes at Midnight), Luis Buñuel (Diary of a Chambermaid), Elia Kazan (The Last Tycoon), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Querelle), Wim Wenders (Until the End of the World), and by Carl Foreman (Champion).
Moreau has enjoyed success as a vocalist. She has released several albums and once performed with Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall.[2] In addition to acting, Moreau has also worked behind the camera, as a writer, director and producer.[2] Her blended accomplishments were the subject of a 1988 film profile, Calling The Shots, by Janis Cole and Holly Dale.
Throughout her life, she has maintained friendships with prominent writers such as Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Henry Miller, and Marguerite Duras (an interview with Moreau is included in Duras's book Outside: Selected Writings).
She has been married twice, to Jean-Louis Richard (1949-1951) and American film director William Friedkin (1977-1979). Director Tony Richardson left his wife, Vanessa Redgrave, for her in 1967, but they never married. She has also dated directors Louis Malle and François Truffaut, fashion designer Pierre Cardin[5], and Theodoros Roubanis, a Greek actor/playboy.[6]
She is a close friend of Sharon Stone, who presented a 1998 American Academy of Motion Pictures life tribute to Moreau. Orson Welles called her "the greatest actress in the world",[7] and to this day she remains one of France's most accomplished actresses.
| Year | Group | Award | Film | Result |
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| 1992 | César Awards | Best Actress | The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea | Won |
| Year | Group | Award | Film | Result |
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| 1987 | César Awards | Best Actress | Le Paltoquet | Nominated |
| 1988 | César Awards | Best Actress | Le Miraculé | Nominated |
| Year | Group | Award | Film | Result |
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| 1988 | Molière Awards | Best Actress | Le Récit de la servante Zerline | Won |
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Jeanne Moreau (born January 23, 1928, in Paris, France) is a French actress.
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File:San Sebastian Film Festival Jeanne Moureau crop at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (2006) | |
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23 January 1928 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Actress, screenwriter, film director |
| Years active | 1947–present |
| Spouse |
Jean-Louis Richard (1949–1951) (divorced) 1 child Teodoro Rubanis (m.1966) William Friedkin (1977–1979) |
Jeanne Moreau (born January 23, 1928) is a French actress particularly associated with the French "new wave" cinema.
Moreau was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an English mother, a dancer at the Folies Bergères, and a French father, a restaurateur. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris.
She began her career as a stage actress and joined the celebrated "Comédie-Française" in 1948, aged only 20, one the youngest ever member of the company. During the same time, she began appearing in small roles in films.
She got her first major break when she met French director Louis Malle, who cast her in his films L'ascenceur pour l'échafaud (1957) and Les amants (1958), which established her as a film star in France.
She also appeared in Roger Vadim's Les liaisons dangereuses (1959) and Peter Brooks's Moderato cantabile (1960), but it is with François Truffaut's iconic film Jules et Jim (1961) that she became an international star.
She then went on to work with directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (La Notte), Orson Welles (Le procès), Luis Bunuel (The Diary of a Chambermaid), etc.
In the 1970s, she attempted directing with Lumières (1976) and L'adolescente (1979) with mixed success.
Moreau has received many awards for best actress, including a César Award, a BAFTA, a prix d'interprétation at the Cannes Film Festival.
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