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Jeanne Moreau

( 1928 Births )

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Jeanne Moreau (; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Moreau began playing small roles in films in 1949, later achieving prominence with a starring role in Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows (1958). She was most prolific during the 1960s, winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965), with additional prominent roles in La Notte (1961), Jules et Jim (1962), La baie des anges (1963), and Le journal d'une femme de chambre (1964).

Moreau worked as a director on several films beginning with 1976's Lumière. She continued to act into the 2010s, winning the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1992) and receiving several lifetime achievement awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, a Cannes Golden Palm in 2003, and another César Award in 2008. Her collaborator and friend Orson Welles called her "the greatest actress in the world".

Early life and education

Moreau was born in Paris, the daughter of Katherine (née Buckley), a dancer who performed at the Folies Bergère (d. 1990), and Anatole-Désiré Moreau, a restaurateur (d. 1975). Moreau's father was French; her mother was English, a native of Oldham, Lancashire, England and of part Irish descent.Famous French people of immigrant origin, Eupedia: France Guide Moreau's father was Catholic and her mother, originally a Protestant, converted to Catholicism upon marriage.Stated in interview at Inside the Actors Studio When Jeanne was a young girl, "the family moved south to Vichy, spending vacations at the paternal ancestral village of Mazirat, a town of 30 houses in a valley in the Allier. "It was wonderful there", Moreau said. "Every tombstone in the cemetery was for a Moreau". During World War II, the family was split, and Moreau lived with her mother in Paris. Moreau ultimately lost interest in school and, at age 16, after attending a performance of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, found her calling as an actor. She later studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her parents separated permanently while Moreau was at the conservatory and her mother, "after 24 difficult years in France, returned to England with Jeanne'sFarrell, Barry, "Actresses: Making the Most of Love", Time cover story pp. 4–5, 5 March 1965. Retrieved 22 December 2010. sister, Michelle."

Career

In 1947, Moreau made her theatrical debut at the Avignon Festival. She debuted at the Comédie-Française in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country and, by her 20s, was already one of the leading actresses in the theatre's troupe. After 1949, she began appearing in films with small parts but continued primarily active in the theatre for several years — a year at the Théâtre National Populaire opposite among others Gérard Philipe and Robert Hirsch, then a breakout two years in dual roles in The Dazzling Hour by Anna Bonacci, then Jean Cocteau's La Machine Infernale and others before another two-year run, this time in Shaw's Pygmalion. From the late 1950s, after appearing in several successful films, 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).

Moreau went on to work with many of the best known New Wave and avant-garde directors. François Truffaut's New Wave film Jules et Jim (1962), her biggest success internationally, is centered on her magnetic starring role. She also worked with a number of other notable directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni ( La Notte and Beyond the Clouds), Orson Welles ( The Trial, Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story), Luis Buñuel ( Diary of a Chambermaid), Elia Kazan ( The Last Tycoon), Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( Querelle), Wim Wenders ( Until the End of the World), Carl Foreman ( Champion and The Victors), and Manoel de Oliveira (Gebo et l'Ombre).

In 1983, she was head of the jury at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2005, she was awarded with the Stanislavsky Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.

Moreau was also a vocalist. She released several albums and once performed with Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall in 1984. In addition to acting, Moreau worked behind the camera as a writer, director and producer. Her accomplishments were a subject in the film Calling the Shots (1988) by Janis Cole and Holly Dale. She appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's film Fassbinder's Women (2000).

Personal life

Throughout her life, Moreau 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 formerly was married to Jean-Louis Richard (1949–1964, separated in 1951), and then to American film director William Friedkin (1977–1979). She and Richard had a son, Jérôme. Director Tony Richardson left his wife Vanessa Redgrave for her in 1967, but they never married.needs substantiation She also had relationships with directors Louis Malle and François Truffaut, fashion designer Pierre Cardin, and the Greek actor/playboy Theodoros Roubanis.Roubanis was previously the companion of Henry Plumer McIlhenny. The relationship with McIlhenny was cited in Welsh and Tibbett's The Cinema of Tony Richardson (SUNY Press, 1999). Roubanis later married Lady Sarah Churchill. Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill obituary, The Telegraph, 19 October 2000.

In 1971, Jeanne Moreau was a signatory of the Manifesto of the 343 which publicly announced that she had obtained an illegal abortion.

Moreau was a close friend of Sharon Stone, who presented a 1998 American Academy of Motion Pictures life tribute to Moreau at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, academy headquarters, in Beverly Hills. Orson Welles called Moreau "the greatest actress in the world", and she remained one of France's most accomplished actresses.

In 2009, Moreau signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects".

Moreau died on 31 July 2017 at her home in Paris at the age of 89. Her body was discovered by her cleaning maid. Shortly before her death, she had said she felt "abandoned" because she could not act anymore..

Filmography

Actress

1949	Last Love	Michèle	Jean Stelli
1950	Murders	Martine Annequin	Richard Pottier
1950		La môme Pâquerette	André Berthomieu
1952	The Man in My Life	Suzanne Dubreuil	Guy Lefranc
1952	It Is Midnight, Doctor Schweitzer	Marie Winter	André Haguet
1953	Dortoir des grandes	Julie	Henri Decoin
1953	Julietta	Rosie Facibey	Marc Allégret
1954	Touchez pas au grisbi	Josy	Jacques Becker
	Les Intrigantes	Mona Rémi	Henri Decoin
	Secrets d'alcôve	Jeanne Plisson	Various directors	(segment "Billet de logement, Le")
	Queen Margot	Margaret of Valois	Jean Dréville
1955	Les Hommes en blanc	Marianne Déjazet	Ralph Habib
		Fernande	André Pergament
	Gas-Oil	Alice	Gilles Grangier
1956	The Wages of Sin	Angèle Ribot	Denys de la Patellière
1957	Until the Last One	Gina	Pierre Billon
	The She-Wolves	Agnès Vanaux	Luis Saslavsky
	The Strange Mr. Steve	Florence
	Three Days to Live	Jeanne Fortin	Gilles Grangier
1958	Not Delivered	Jacqueline Tourieu	Gilles Grangier
	Ascenseur pour l'échafaud	Florence Carala	Louis Malle
		Gloria Decrey	Édouard Molinaro
	Les amants	Jeanne Tournier	Louis Malle
1959	The 400 Blows	Woman with Dog	François Truffaut	cameo appearance
1959	Les liaisons dangereuses	Juliette de Merteuil	Roger Vadim
1960	Five Branded Women	Ljuba	Martin Ritt
	Moderato Cantabile	Anne Desbarèdes	Peter Brook	Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
	Dialogue of the Carmelites	Mère Marie de l'Incarnation	Philippe Agostini
1961	La Notte	Lidia Pontano	Michelangelo Antonioni
1961	A Woman Is a Woman	Woman in Bar	Jean-Luc Godard	Uncredited, discussing Jules et Jim
1962	Jules et Jim	Catherine	François Truffaut
	Eva	Eva Olivier	Joseph Losey
	The Trial	Miss Burstner	Orson Welles
1963	Bay of Angels	Jacqueline "Jackie" Demaistre	Jacques Demy
	The Fire Within ( Le feu follet)	Eva	Louis Malle
	Banana Peel ( Peau de banane)	Cathy	Marcel Ophüls
	The Victors	the French lady	Carl Foreman
1964	Diary of a Chambermaid	Célestine	Luis Buñuel
	The Train	Christine	John Frankenheimer
	The Yellow Rolls-Royce	Eloise, Marchioness of Frinton	Anthony Asquith
	Mata Hari, Agent H21	Mata Hari	Jean-Louis Richard
1965	Viva Maria!	Maria I	Louis Malle
1965	Chimes at Midnight	Doll Tearsheet	Orson Welles
1966	Mademoiselle	"Mademoiselle"	Tony Richardson
1967	The Oldest Profession (episode "Mademoiselle Mimi")	Mimi Guillotine	Philippe de Broca	(segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
1967	The Sailor from Gibraltar	Anna	Tony Richardson
1968	The Bride Wore Black	Julie Kohler	François Truffaut
	The Immortal Story	Virginie Ducrot	Orson Welles	TV movie
	Great Catherine	Catherine	Gordon Flemyng
1969		Diane Vallier	Jean-Louis Richard
1970	Monte Walsh	Martine Bernard	William A. Fraker
	The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir	the singer	Jean Renoir	TV movie, (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")
	The Deep	Ruth Warriner	Orson Welles	Filming was unfinished
	Alex in Wonderland	Herself	Paul Mazursky
1971		Madeleine St Rose	Roger Pigaut
1972	Chère Louise	Louise	Philippe de Broca
		Myriam Bingeot	Édouard Luntz
	Nathalie Granger	"the other woman"	Marguerite Duras
	Repeated Absences	nostalgie	Guy Gilles	Voice
1973	Joanna Francesa	Joana	Cacá Diegues
1974		Elisa Boussac	Pierre Duceppe
	Les Valseuses	Jeanne Pirolle	Bertrand Blier
	Creezy	Renee Vibert	Pierre Granier-Deferre
1975	The Garden That Tilts	Maria	Guy Gilles
1975	Hu-Man	Sylvana	Jérôme Laperrousaz
1976	Lumière	Sarah Dedieu	Jeanne Moreau
	Monsieur Klein	Florence	Joseph Losey
	The Last Tycoon	Didi	Elia Kazan
1979	The Adolescent	La narratrice	Jeanne Moreau	Voice, Uncredited
1981		Hélène, la mère de Caroline	Luc Béraud
1981	Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid	Lili Marlene	George Kaczender
1982	A Thousand Billion Dollars	Mme Benoît-Lambert	Henri Verneuil
	Querelle	Lysiane	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
	La Truite	Lou Rambert	Joseph Losey
1985	Vicious Circle	Ines	TV play
1986		The Brothel-Keeper	Michel Deville
1986		Marie-Aude Schneider	Michel Drach
1986–1987	Le Tiroir secret	Vivi	(different directors)	2 episodes
1987	The Miracle	Sabine	Jean-Pierre Mocky
1987		Herself	Ansano Giannarelli
1989		Janine Weisman	Alain Attal
1990	La Femme Nikita	Amande	Luc Besson
	Alberto Express	the Baroness	Arthur Joffé
		Le Doria	José Pinheiro
1991	Anna Karamazoff	the Lady	Rustam Khamdamov
	To meteoro vima tou pelargou	the Lady	Theo Angelopoulos
	The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea	Lady M	Laurent Heynemann
	Until the End of the World	Edith Farber	Wim Wenders
1992	The Lover	Narrator	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Voice
	Map of the Human Heart	Sister Banville	Vincent Ward
		Hélène Sauveterre	Antoine Perset
	The Absence	the writer's wife	Peter Handke
		Tete	Didier Martiny
1993	The Clothes in the Wardrobe	Lili	Waris Hussein	Titled The Summer House in the U.S.
		Rose	Guy Jacques
	A Foreign Field	Angelique	Charles Sturridge	Series 5, episode 2 of Screen One
1995	One Hundred and One Nights	La première ex-épouse de M. Cinéma	Agnès Varda
	Catherine the Great	Empress Elizabeth Petrovna	Marvin J. Chomsky
	Beyond the Clouds	a Lady	Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders
1996	I Love You, I Love You Not	Nana	Billy Hopkins
1996	The Proprietor	Adrienne Mark	Ismail Merchant
1997	Amour et confusions	Libra	Patrick Braoudé
1997	Witch Way Love	Eglantine	René Manzor
1998	Ever After		Andy Tennant
1999		Charlotte-Laure de Balzac	Josée Dayan	TV movie
2000	The Prince's Manuscript	Alessandra Wolf (Licy)	Roberto Andò
2000	Les Misérables	Mere Innocente	Josée Dayan	4 episodes
2001	Lisa	Lisa (old)	Pierre Grimblat
2001	That Love	Marguerite Duras	Josée Dayan
2003	Love Actually	Lady at Marseilles Airport	Richard Curtis	Uncredited
2003		Tante Leo	Josée Dayan
2005		Madame Paule	Édouard Baer
	Time to Leave	Laura	François Ozon
	Go West	Novinar	Ahmed Imamović
		Mahaut, Countess of Artois	Josée Dayan	5 episodes
2006	Roméo et Juliette	Laurence	Yves Desgagnés
2007	Chacun son cinéma	The old woman / Herself	Various directors	(segment "Trois Minutes")
2007	Désengagement	Françoise	Amos Gitai
2008	One Day You'll Understand	Rivka	Amos Gitai
2008	Everywhere at Once	Narrator
2009			Amos Gitai	Voice
	Face	Jeanne	Ming-liang Tsai
	La guerre des fils de la lumière contre les fils des ténèbres		Amos Gitai
	Kérity, la maison des contes	Aunt Eleanor	Dominique Monfery	Voice
2012		Frida	Ilmar Raag
2012	Gebo et l'Ombre	Candidinha	Manoel de Oliveira
2015		La grand-mère de Thibault	Alex Lutz	(final film role)