Jeanne Moreau
French actress, singer, screenwriter and director (1928-2017) · France · Actors · Died at 89
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Something wrong?She moved through the French New Wave like smoke through light - Louis Malle's muse in Elevator to the Gallows, the axis of Jules et Jim, the face Orson Welles called the greatest actress alive.
A life in dates
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson WellesFilm2012Grand Officer of the National Order of MeritAward2008Honorary CésarAward2007
To Each His Own CinemaFilm, The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes")2005Stanislavsky AwardAward
The Accursed KingsSeries, 2005Mahaut d'Artois2003Honorary Palme d'OrAward
Love ActuallyFilm, 2003Taxi Passenger at Marseille Airport (uncredited)2000Golden BearAward1998Donostia AwardAward
Vivement dimancheSeries, 19981997European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward
A Witch's Way of LoveFilm, 1997Eglantine1995Honorary CésarAward1992César Award for Best ActressAwardGolden Lion for Lifetime AchievementAward
The LoverFilm, 1992Narrator (voice)1990
NikitaFilm, Armande1989
Screen OneSeries, Angelique1988Molière Award for Best ActressAwardOfficer of Arts and LettersAward1985
Screen TwoSeries, Lili1979
The AdolescentFilm, Director, Writer1977
Auf los geht's losSeries1974
Spécial cinémaSeries
Going PlacesFilm, 1974Jeanne Pirolle1972
Le Grand ÉchiquierSeries1968
The Bride Wore BlackFilm, Julie Kohler1967BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleAward1964
Diary of a ChambermaidFilm, Céléstine1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSeries
EvaFilm, 1962Eva Olivier1960Cannes Film Festival Award for Best ActressAward1959
The 400 BlowsFilm, La Femme avec le chien1956
CinépanoramaSeries1954
Touchez Pas au GrisbiFilm, Josy1953
The OscarsSeries1928Born23 January 1928Also in Deutsch
Photos 4
Filmography 40
MCMiles Davis: Birth of the Cool
TDThey'll Love Me When I'm DeadMWMagician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
ESEleanor's SecretTCTo Each His Own Cinema
TLTime to Leave
ASAshes and SnowLALove Actually
EVEverAfterALA Witch's Way of Love
BCBeyond the Clouds
ONOne Hundred and One NightsTLThe Lover
UWUntil the End of the WorldNINikita
QUQuerelle
ADA Thousand Billion DollarsTAThe Adolescent
MKMr. Klein
TTThe Last TycoonGPGoing Places
MWMonte WalshTBThe Bride Wore Black
TSThe Immortal Story
CMChimes at Midnight
VMViva Maria!
TTThe TrainDCDiary of a Chambermaid
TRThe Yellow Rolls-Royce
TWThe Fire Within
BABay of Angels
JJJules and Jim
TTThe TrialEVEva
LNLa Notte
AWA Woman Is a WomanTBThe 400 Blows
EGElevator to the Gallows
TLThe LoversTGTouchez Pas au Grisbi232 credits on file
Television 24
TKThe Accursed Kings
LMLes MisérablesVDVivement dimanche
STStars 90SOScreen One
SSSacrée soirée
NANulle part ailleursSTScreen Two
CRCiné regardsALAuf los geht's los
CCCérémonie des César
APApostrophes
LDLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
MPMidi PremièreSCSpécial cinéma
TTThe American Film Institute Salute to ...LÉLe Grand Échiquier
MTMidi trente
TSThe Dick Cavett ShowTCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
DIDiscoramaCICinépanorama
RCReflets de CannesTOThe OscarsAwards
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About this person
Jeanne Moreau made her stage debut in 1947 and rose through the Comédie-Française before film pulled her in. Small parts in 1949 gave way to Elevator to the Gallows in 1958, the role that made her central to a generation of directors. The 1960s belonged to her: Cannes Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights, a BAFTA for Viva Maria!, turns in La Notte, Jules et Jim, and Diary of a Chambermaid that redefined what a woman could be onscreen. She directed starting in 1976 with Lumière and kept acting into her eighties, winning a César for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea in 1992. The awards piled up - a BAFTA Fellowship, Cannes Golden Palm, another César - but the work had already spoken.
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