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Jeanne Moreau
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Jeanne Moreau in 1958
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Born
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1928-01-23
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23 January 1928
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Died
| 31 July 2017
(2017-07-31)
(aged 89)
Paris, France
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Occupation(s)
| Actress, screenwriter, movie director
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Years active
| 1947?2017
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Spouse(s)
| Jean-Louis Richard (m. 1949?1951,
divorced
) 1 child
Teodoro Rubanis (m. 1966)
William Friedkin
(m. 1977?1979)
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Jeanne Moreau
(23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was 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 Bergeres, 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 "Comedie-Francaise" in 1948, aged only 20, one the youngest ever member of the company. During the same time, she was in small roles in
movies
.
She got her first major break when she met French director
Louis Malle
. He cast her in his movies
L'ascenceur pour l'echafaud
(1957) and
Les amants
(1958), which established her as a movie 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
Francois Truffaut
's iconic movie
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 proces
),
Luis Bunuel
(
The Diary of a Chambermaid
), etc. In the 1970s, she attempted directing with
Lumieres
(1976) and
L'adolescente
(1979) with mixed success.
Moreau received many awards for best actress, including a
Cesar Award
, a
BAFTA
, a prix d'interpretation at the
Cannes Film Festival
. In 1996 she received a
BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award
, a lifetime achievement award.
Moreau died on 31 July 2017 in Paris at the age of 89.
[1]
[2]
- The Illustrated Who's Who of the Cinema
, Lloyd, Weber & Dessler, Portland House, 1987.
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2001-present
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