# Isabelle Sadoyan

Isabelle Sadoyan (12 May 1928 – 10 July 2017) was a French-Armenian actress.

## Career

She made her theater debut in 1950 with the play Bottines et collets montés, based on plays written by Eugène Labiche and Georges Courteline, directed by Roger Planchon. She'll work mostly with Planchon during the 50s.
She received two nominations for the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress : in 2010 for Les Fausses Confidences and in 2014 for L'Origine du monde. She won the second time.
Her filmography includes films by Jeanne Moreau, Claude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, Luc Besson, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri Verneuil, Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Kechichian and Krzysztof Kieślowski.

## Personal life

She was married to actor Jean Bouise until his death in 1989.

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director |
| 1950 | Faust Hamlet | Thomas Kyd & Christopher Marlowe | Roger Planchon |
| 1950-51 | Bottines et collets montés | Eugène Labiche & Georges Courteline | Roger Planchon |
| 1951 | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | Roger Planchon |
| 1952 | Claire | René Char | Roger Planchon |
| 1952 | Life Is a Dream | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | Roger Planchon |
| 1953 | Liliom | Ferenc Molnár | Roger Planchon |
| 1953 | Le Sens de la Marche | Arthur Adamov | Roger Planchon |
| 1953 | La Balade du grand macabre | Michel de Ghelderode | Roger Planchon |
| 1953 | Les Aventures de Rocambole | Lucien Dabril | Roger Planchon |
| 1953-54 | Le Professeur Taranne | Arthur Adamov | Roger Planchon |
| 1954 | Edward II | Christopher Marlowe | Roger Planchon |
| 1954 | The Broken Jug | Heinrich von Kleist | Roger Planchon |
| 1955 | Victor ou les Enfants au pouvoir | Roger Vitrac | Roger Planchon |
| 1955 | Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It | Eugène Ionesco | Roger Planchon |
| 1956 | Aujourd’hui ou les Coréens | Michel Vinaver | Roger Planchon |
| 1957-58 | Paolo Paoli | Arthur Adamov | Roger Planchon |
| 1958 | The Good Person of Szechwan | Bertolt Brecht | Roger Planchon |
| 1958 | George Dandin ou le Mari confondu | Molière | Roger Planchon |
| 1959-60 | La Seconde Surprise de l’amour | Pierre de Marivaux | Roger Planchon |
| 1959-63 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | Roger Planchon |
| 1960 | Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | Roger Planchon |
| 1961 | Edward II | Christopher Marlowe | Roger Planchon |
| 1961-62 | Schweik in the Second World War | Bertolt Brecht | Roger Planchon |
| 1962 | La Remise | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1962 | La Vie imaginaire de l’éboueur Auguste Geai | Armand Gatti | Jacques Rosner |
| 1962-64 | Tartuffe | Molière | Roger Planchon |
| 1963 | O m’man Chicago... | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1964 | Troilus and Cressida | William Shakespeare | Roger Planchon |
| 1964 | Schweik in the Second World War | Bertolt Brecht | Roger Planchon |
| 1964 | La Vie imaginaire de l’éboueur Auguste Geai | Armand Gatti | Jacques Rosner |
| 1965 | Patte blanche | Roger Planchon | Jacques Rosner |
| 1967 | Bleus, blancs, rouges ou les Libertins | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1968 | Le Coup de Trafalgar | Roger Vitrac | Jacques Rosner |
| 1968-69 | George Dandin ou le Mari confondu | Molière | Roger Planchon |
| 1969-70 | La mise en pièces | Pierre Corneille | Roger Planchon |
| 1971 | Bleus, blancs, rouges ou les Libertins | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1972 | La Langue au chat | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1972 | The Massacre at Paris | Christopher Marlowe | Patrice Chéreau |
| 1973-74 | Toller | Tankred Dorst | Patrice Chéreau |
| 1973-74 | Le cochon noir | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1973-74 | Par-dessus bord | Michel Vinaver | Roger Planchon |
| 1973-79 | Tartuffe | Molière | Roger Planchon |
| 1974 | Folies bourgeoises | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1975-76 | A.A., Théâtres d’Arthur Adamov | Arthur Adamov | Roger Planchon |
| 1976 | Folies bourgeoises | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon |
| 1978 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | William Shakespeare | Roger Planchon |
| 1979 | Les Fausses Confidences | Pierre de Marivaux | Jacques Lassalle |
| 1980 | À cinquante ans elle découvrait la mer | Denise Chalem | Gabriel Garran |
| 1981-82 | Last Summer in Tchulimsk | Alexander Vampilov | Simone Amouyal |
| 1984-85 | À cinquante ans elle découvrait la mer | Denise Chalem | Gabriel Garran |
| 1988-89 | Tir & Lir | Marie Redonnet | Alain Françon |
| 1990 | Le Chant du départ | Ivane Daoudi | Jean-Pierre Vincent |
| 1992 | État des lieux | Jean-Yves Picq | Jean-Yves Picq |
| 1992 | Women in a River Landscape | Heinrich Böll | Jacques Rosner |
| 1993 | The Pelican | August Strindberg | Alain Milianti |
| 1994 | État des lieux | Jean-Yves Picq | Jean-Yves Picq |
| 1995 | Ariane et Barbe bleue | Maurice Maeterlinck | Jacques Bioulès |
| 1996 | Slavs! | Tony Kushner | Jorge Lavelli |
| 1996 | Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus | Michel Raskine |
| 1997 | The Time of the Doves | Mercè Rodoreda | Kristian Frédric |
| 1997-98 | Le Bonnet du fou | Luigi Pirandello | Laurent Terzieff |
| 1998 | Savannah Bay | Marguerite Duras | Catherine Sermet |
| 1999 | Nicodème | Bruno Bayen | Bruno Bayen |
| 1999-2002 | Trois femmes | Catherine Anne | Catherine Anne |
| 2001 | Gouaches | Jacques Serena | Joël Jouanneau |
| 2002 | Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov | Charles Tordjman |
| 2005-06 | The Father | August Strindberg | Christian Schiaretti |
| 2007 | The Giants of the Mountain | Luigi Pirandello | Laurent Laffargue |
| 2007-11 | Conversations with Mother | Santiago Carlos Oves | Didier Bezace |
| 2008 | Par-dessus bord | Michel Vinaver | Christian Schiaretti |
| 2010 | Les Fausses Confidences | Pierre de Marivaux | Didier Bezace |
| 2011 | Endgame | Samuel Beckett | Alain Françon |
| 2011-12 | Ruy Blas | Victor Hugo | Christian Schiaretti |
| 2012 | Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov | Christian Benedetti |
| 2013 | Endgame | Samuel Beckett | Alain Françon |
| 2013 | L’Origine du monde | Sébastien Thiéry | Jean-Michel Ribes |
| 2013-14 | Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov | Christian Benedetti |
| 2015 | L’Origine du monde | Sébastien Thiéry | Jean-Michel Ribes |
| 2015-16 | Le Retour au désert | Bernard-Marie Koltès | Arnaud Meunier |
| 2016-17 | Avant de s’envoler | Florian Zeller | Ladislas Chollat |
| 2017 | In the Shadow of the Glen | John Millington Synge | Clara Simpson |

## Filmography
### Cinema

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1970 | The Things of Life | nurse | Claude Sautet | |
| 1971 | The Wedding Ring | Hélène | Christian de Chalonge | |
| 1972 | Les camisards | Madame Villeneuve | René Allio | |
| 1976 | Monsieur Klein | consultation woman | Joseph Losey | |
| 1977 | That Obscure Object of Desire | Jadiner | Luis Buñuel | |
| 1979 | The Adolescent | Louise | Jeanne Moreau | |
| 1980 | The Lady Banker | Sister Hermance | Francis Girod | |
| 1981 | L'homme fragile | Luguette | Claire Clouzot | |
| 1982 | The Passerby | | Jacques Rouffio | |
| 1982 | The Hatter's Ghost | Alice Kachoudas | Claude Chabrol | |
| 1982 | The Return of Martin Guerre | Catherine Boëre | Daniel Vigne | |
| 1983 | Itinéraire bis | Madame Panoux | Christian Drillaud | |
| 1983 | La bête noire | Madame Guyot | Patrick Chaput | |
| 1984 | L'air du crime | Yvette | Alain Klarer | |
| 1985 | Subway | prefect's wife | Luc Besson | |
| 1985 | Partir, revenir | Anna | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1985 | Tristesse et beauté | Mathilde | Joy Fleury | |
| 1985 | Sans odeur | | Yann Legargeant | Short |
| 1986 | Flagrant désir | Angelina | Claude Faraldo | |
| 1986 | A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later | baker | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1987 | Châteauroux district | Manou | Philippe Charigot | |
| 1987 | Keep Your Right Up | grandmother | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 1989 | Embrasse-moi | Gaby | Michèle Rosier | |
| 1989 | Après la guerre | La Crochue | Jean-Loup Hubert | |
| 1991 | Mayrig | Anna | Henri Verneuil | |
| 1991 | In the Eye of the Snake | grandmother | Max Reid | |
| 1992 | 588 rue paradis | Anna | Henri Verneuil | |
| 1993 | Three Colours: Blue | servant | Krzysztof Kieślowski | |
| 1994 | Carences | Madame Martin | David Rozenberg | |
| 1995 | The Bait | Eric's grandmother | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 1995 | Le petit garçon | Cécile | Pierre Granier-Deferre | |
| 1995 | Les Misérables | Madame Magloire | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1995 | Péché véniel... péché mortel... | Grandma Lola | Pomme Meffre | |
| 1996 | The Eighth Day | Georges' Mother | Jaco Van Dormael | |
| 1997 | La Sicilia | fortune teller | Luc Pien | |
| 1999 | The Children of the Marshland | | Jean Becker | |
| 2001 | Origine contrôlée | Aunt | Ahmed Bouchaala & Zakia Tahri | |
| 2002 | Aram | Aunt Anouche | Robert Kechichian | |
| 2006 | Le passager de l'été | Prudence | Florence Moncorgé-Gabin | |
| 2008 | Didine | Roberte | Vincent Dietschy | |
| 2008 | Summer Hours | Éloïse | Olivier Assayas | |
| 2008 | Les murs porteurs | Madame Mouchet | Cyril Gelblat | |
| 2010 | Des filles en noir | Sonia | Jean-Paul Civeyrac | |
| 2011 | Un baiser papillon | hairdresser client | Karine Silla | |
| 2012 | Thérèse Desqueyroux | Aunt Clara | Claude Miller | |
| 2013 | Vandal | Grandma | Hélier Cisterne | |
| 2015 | Heat Wave | Odette | Raphaël Jacoulot | |
| 2016 | Irreplaceable | Werner's mother | Thomas Lilti | |
| 2017 | Ismael's Ghosts | Rose | Arnaud Desplechin | |
| 2017 | 3 visages | Claire | Christophe Loizillon | Short |
| 2018 | Le doudou | Marie-Luce Gramont | Julien Hervé & Philippe Mechelen | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1970 | Le chien qui a vu Dieu | Maria | Paul Paviot | TV movie |
| 1974 | Madame Bovary | The farmer | Pierre Cardinal | TV movie |
| 1974 | Un jeune homme seul | Madame Lièvre | Jean Mailland | TV movie |
| 1980 | Aéroport | The president | Pierre Lary | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1980 | Médecins de nuit | Madame Gillot | Pierre Lary | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1982 | Mérette | Madame Magnoux | Jean-Jacques Lagrange | TV movie |
| 1983 | Incertain Léo ou L'amour flou | The mother | Michel Favart | TV movie |
| 1991 | Cycle Simenon | Maria | Jacques Fansten | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1993 | Point d'orgue | Véronique's mother | Paul Vecchiali | TV movie |
| 1993 | Mayrig | Anna | Henri Verneuil | TV mini-series |
| 1993 | Une femme sous tension | Suzanne | Agnès Delarive | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1995 | Le malingot | Marie | Michel Sibra | TV movie |
| 1996 | Docteur Sylvestre | Éliane | Dominique Tabuteau | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1998 | Le goût des fraises | Mamiouchka | Frank Cassenti | TV movie |
| 1999 | Justice | Madame Ziegler | Gérard Marx | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2006 | Louis la brocante | Rose | Michel Favart | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2007 | Aller-retour dans la journée | Mélanie | Pierre Sisser | TV movie |
| 2008 | Elles et Moi | Madame Bonel | Bernard Stora | TV movie |
| 2009 | L'affaire Salengro | Salengro's mother | Yves Boisset | TV movie |
| 2010 | Les châtaigniers du désert | Sarah | Caroline Huppert | TV mini-series |
| 2014 | La clef des champs | Suzanne | Bertrand Van Effenterre | TV movie |
| 2015 | The Returned | Madame Fournet | Fabrice Gobert & Frédéric Goupil | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2016 | Dans la tête d'un juré | Colette Ferriol | Emmanuel Bourdieu | TV movie |
| 2016 | Un village français | Mamé | Jean-Philippe Amar | TV series (4 episodes) |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result |
| 2010 | Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress | Les Fausses Confidences | Nominated |
| 2014 | Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress | L'Origine du monde | Won |