Annie Girardot

French actress (1931-2011)

  • Fame57.5
  • Momentum1.0
  • Wikipedia27.4K
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Lived 1931–2011, aged 80France
  • Wikipedia
    53 languages
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  • Era
    1931–2011
    Aged 80
  • Known for
    The Ape Woman
    1964
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

She made a career of playing women the French film industry usually ignored: tough, tired, working hard, often alone. That specificity — the earthiness, the unvarnished daily grind — turned her into something rare: a star ordinary women saw themselves in.

Biography

About

Annie Suzanne Girardot was born on 25 October 1931 and spent five decades on screen, nearly 150 films in all. She won three César Awards across her career — in 1977, 1996, and 2002 — and took home the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1965 Venice Film Festival for Three Rooms in Manhattan, a role that also earned her a BAFTA nomination three years earlier. She added two Molière Awards in 2002 and a David di Donatello in 1977. The through-line was consistency: strong-willed, independent women carrying the weight of real work and real loneliness, roles she inhabited with a groundedness that made…

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Awards

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  • César Award for Best Supporting Actress
  • Molière Award for Best Actress
  • Knight of the Legion of Honour
  • César Award for Best Supporting Actress
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57.5
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Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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  • Wikipedia
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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