Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 23, 1928
Place of Birth:
Paris, France
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Jeanne Moreau
Biography
Jeanne Moreau (23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, 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 Lift to the Scaffold (UK)/Elevator to the Gallows (USA) (1958), directed by Louis Malle, and Jules et Jim (1962), directed by François Truffaut. Most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continued to appear in films until her death in 2017, at the age of 89.
Moreau was 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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Self - Actress (archive footage) |
| 2019 | André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema | Self - Actress (archive footage) |
| 2018 | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit | Self / Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 2014 | François Truffaut l'insoumis | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Actress (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Ain't Misbehavin | Self |
| 2013 | L'Habit ne fait pas le moine | Madeleine |
| 2013 | Venice 70: Future Reloaded | Voice |
| 2012 | Close Up | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Gebo and the Shadow | Candidinha |
| 2012 | Lullaby to my Father | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | A Lady in Paris | Frida |
| 2011 | Bouquet final | Marie |
| 2011 | A Bad Encounter | Gaby |
| 2010 | Dispositif 47 - The Second Death | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Face | Jeanne |
| 2009 | Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller | Self |
| 2009 | Looking for Truffaut | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Eleanor's Secret | Aunt Eléonore (voice) |
| 2009 | Carmel | Narrator |
| 2009 | Bulles de Vian | Self |
| 2008 | One Day You'll Understand | Rivka |
| 2008 | Château en Suède | Agathe Falsen |
| 2008 | Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim » | Self (actrice, rôle de Catherine) |
| 2008 | Sous les vents de Neptune | Josette |
| 2007 | Disengagement | Françoise |
| 2007 | A City Runs Through the Festival | Self |
| 2007 | The Deep | Ruth Warriner |
| 2007 | To Each His Own Cinema | The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes") |
| 2006 | Roméo et Juliette | Laurence |
| 2005 | A Cursed Monarchy | Mahaut d'Artois |
| 2005 | Time to Leave | Laura |
| 2005 | Go West | Novinar |
| 2005 | Autogram | Jeanne Moreau |
| 2005 | Akoibon | Madame Paule |
| 2005 | The Other Side of Welles | Self |
| 2004 | François Truffaut, une autobiographie | Self |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Taxi Passenger at Marseille Airport (uncredited) |
| 2003 | Hot House | Léo |
| 2003 | The Passions of Louis Malle | Self - Interviewee |
| 2001 | Lisa | Lisa (old) |
| 2001 | Cet amour-là | Marguerite Duras |
| 2001 | Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance | Anna Shermann |
| 2001 | Bride of Trailer Camp | (Archival) |
| 2000 | Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote | Self |
| 2000 | The Prince's Manuscript | Alessandra Wolf (Licy) |
| 1999 | Balzac: A Life of Passion | Charlotte-Laure |
| 1998 | EverAfter | Grande Dame |
| 1997 | A Witch's Way of Love | Eglantine |
| 1997 | Love & Confusions | Libra |
| 1996 | I Love You, I Love You Not | Nana |
| 1996 | The Proprietor | Adrienne Mark |
| 1996 | Catherine the Great | Elizabeth |
| 1996 | The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Self (archive footage) |
| 1995 | Beyond the Clouds | Friend |
| 1995 | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band | Self (segment "The Deep") (archive footage) |
| 1995 | One Hundred and One Nights | Mr. Cinéma's First Ex-wife |
| 1995 | The World of Jacques Demy | Self |
| 1995 | To Make a Film Is to Be Alive | Self (uncredited) |
| 1993 | Map of the Human Heart | Sister Banville |
| 1993 | The Summer House | Lili |
| 1993 | A Foreign Field | Angelique |
| 1993 | My Name is Victor | Rose |
| 1993 | François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits | Self (archive footage) |
| 1993 | The Absence | Writer's Wife |
| 1992 | La nuit de l'océan | Hélène Sauveterre |
| 1992 | See You Tomorrow | Tete |
| 1992 | The Lover | Narrator |
| 1991 | Until the End of the World | Edith Farber |
| 1991 | The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea | Lady M |
| 1991 | Anna Karamazoff | Woman |
| 1991 | The Suspended Step of the Stork | The Woman |
| 1991 | Filming Under Pressure | Self |
| 1990 | La Femme Nikita | Armande |
| 1990 | La Femme fardée | La Doria |
| 1990 | With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film | Self |
| 1990 | Alberto Express | The Baroness |
| 1990 | Wim Wenders in Tokyo | Self |
| 1990 | Au coeur de Nikita | Self |
| 1989 | The Architecture of Doom | French narrator (voice) |
| 1988 | Calling the Shots | Self |
| 1987 | Miracle Healing | Sabine |
| 1986 | The Nonentity | Barbesitzerin |
| 1986 | Francois Simon the Presence | Self |
| 1986 | Sauve-toi, Lola | Marie-Aude Schneider |
| 1986 | Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance | Madame Exe |
| 1985 | Vivement Truffaut | Narrator / Self / Catherine |
| 1985 | Vicious Circle | Ines |
| 1984 | The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel | Self |
| 1984 | Lillian Gish | Self |
| 1983 | L'Intoxe | Marie-Pierre |
| 1982 | A Thousand Billion Dollars | Madame Benoît-Lambert |
| 1982 | The Trout | Lou |
| 1982 | Querelle | Lysiane |
| 1981 | Heat of Desire | Hélène |
| 1981 | Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid | Lili Marlene |
| 1979 | The Adolescent | La narratrice (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1976 | The Last Tycoon | Didi |
| 1976 | Mr. Klein | Florence Klein |
| 1976 | Lumière | Sarah |
| 1975 | French Provincial | Berthe |
| 1975 | The Garden That Tilts | Maria |
| 1975 | Hu-Man | Sylvana |
| 1975 | Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète | Self |
| 1974 | Going Places | Jeanne Pirolle |
| 1974 | Creezy | Renee Vibert |
| 1974 | The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir | The Singer (segment "Quand l'amour meurt") |
| 1973 | Nathalie Granger | L'autre femme |
| 1973 | Omnibus: François Truffaut | Self |
| 1973 | Joanna Francesa | Joana |
| 1972 | Vagabond Humor | Myriam Bingeot |
| 1972 | Dear Louise | Louise |
| 1972 | Repeated Absences | La voix de la nostalgie (voice) |
| 1972 | Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! | Self - Host /Interviewer |
| 1971 | Côté cour, côté champs | Lady with Little Dog (uncredited) |
| 1970 | Monte Walsh | Martine Bernard |
| 1970 | Langlois | Self |
| 1970 | Countdown to Vengeance | Madeleine |
| 1970 | Jeanne raconte Jeanne | Self |
| 1970 | Alex in Wonderland | Self |
| 1969 | Diane's Body | Diane Vallier |
| 1968 | The Bride Wore Black | Julie Kohler |
| 1968 | The Immortal Story | Virginie Ducrot |
| 1968 | Great Catherine | Catherine |
| 1968 | Portrait: Orson Welles | Self |
| 1967 | The Oldest Profession | Mimi Guillotine (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") |
| 1967 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Anna |
| 1966 | Mademoiselle | Mademoiselle |
| 1965 | Chimes at Midnight | Doll Tearsheet |
| 1965 | Viva Maria! | Maria II |
| 1965 | The Car That Became a Star | The Marchioness of Frinton (archive footage) |
| 1965 | Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau | Self |
| 1964 | The Train | Christine |
| 1964 | Diary of a Chambermaid | Céléstine |
| 1964 | The Yellow Rolls-Royce | The Marchioness of Frinton |
| 1964 | Mata Hari, Agent H21 | Mata Hari |
| 1963 | The Victors | French Woman |
| 1963 | The Fire Within | Eva |
| 1963 | Bay of Angels | Jacqueline 'Jackie' Demaistre |
| 1963 | Banana Peel | Cathy / Mme Volney |
| 1962 | Jules and Jim | Catherine |
| 1962 | The Trial | Marika Burstner |
| 1962 | Eva | Eva Olivier |
| 1961 | La Notte | Lidia |
| 1961 | A Woman Is a Woman | Self (uncredited) |
| 1960 | Seven Days… Seven Nights | Anne Desbarèdes |
| 1960 | The Dialogue of the Carmelites | Mother Marie of the Incarnation |
| 1960 | Five Branded Women | Ljuba |
| 1960 | Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur | Narrator (voice) |
| 1959 | Dangerous Love Affairs | Juliette Valmont |
| 1959 | The 400 Blows | Woman with Dog |
| 1958 | Elevator to the Gallows | Florence Carala |
| 1958 | The Lovers | Jeanne Tournier |
| 1958 | Three Days to Live | Jeanne Fortin |
| 1958 | Back to the Wall | Gloria Decrey |
| 1958 | Not Delivered | Jacqueline Tourieu |
| 1957 | Until the Last One | Gina |
| 1957 | Demoniac | Agnès Vanaux |
| 1957 | The Strange Mr. Steve | Florence |
| 1956 | The Wages of Sin | Angèle Ribot |
| 1955 | Hi-Jack Highway | Alice |
| 1955 | Les Hommes en blanc | Marianne Déjazet |
| 1955 | M'sieur la Caille | Fernande |
| 1954 | Touchez Pas au Grisbi | Josy |
| 1954 | Queen Margot | Marguerite de Valois, "La Reine Margot" |
| 1954 | The Scheming Women | Mona Rémi, la femme de Paul |
| 1954 | The Secrets of the Bed | Jeanne Plisson (segment "Billet de logement, Le") |
| 1953 | Julietta | Rosie Facibey |
| 1953 | Inside a Girls' Dormitory | Julie, la serveuse |
| 1952 | Dr. Schweitzer | Marie Winter |
| 1952 | The Man in My Life | Suzanne Dubreuil |
| 1950 | Three Sinners | Martine Annequin |
| 1950 | Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés | La môme Pâquerette |
| 1949 | Last Love | Michèle |
| Trois minutes |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Agnès Varda: From Here to There | Self |
| 2006 | The Countess of Castiglione | Principessa Sisi Altieri |
| 2005 | The Accursed Kings | Mahaut d'Artois |
| 2000 | Les Misérables | Mère Innocente |
| 1999 | Balzac | Charlotte-Laure |
| 1998 | Vivement dimanche | Self |
| 1997 | Scene by Scene | Self |
| 1995 | Belle Époque | Récitante |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1990 | Stars 90 | Self |
| 1989 | Screen One | Angelique |
| 1987 | Nulle part ailleurs | Self |
| 1987 | Sacrée soirée | Self |
| 1986 | Le Tiroir secret | Vivi |
| 1977 | Auf los geht's los | Self |
| 1975 | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self |
| 1975 | Midi Première | Self |
| 1975 | Apostrophes | Self |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self |
| 1973 | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Self |
| 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self |
| 1972 | Midi trente | Self |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1965 | Dim Dam Dom | Self |
| 1959 | Discorama | Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1954 | Reflets de Cannes | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |