# Sabine Azéma

Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French stage and film actress and director.
Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.

## Career

Her film career began in 1975. Azéma appeared in A Sunday in the Country (1984), for which she won a César Award for Best Actress, and numerous films of Alain Resnais, including Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), L'Amour à mort (1984), Mélo (which won her a second César Award for Best Actress), Smoking/No Smoking (1993), On connaît la chanson (1997), Pas sur la bouche (2003), and Cœurs (2006). She has been nominated a further five times.

## Filmography
### As actress

| Year | Title | Role | Director |
| 1976 | On aura tout vu ("The Bottom Line") | Claude Ferroni | Georges Lautner |
| 1976 | Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's | Geneviève | Claude Vital |
| 1977 | La Dentellière ("The Lacemaker") | Corinne | Claude Goretta |
| 1981 | On n'est pas des anges... elles non plus | Marie-Louise | Michel Lang |
| 1983 | La vie est un roman ("Life Is a Bed of Roses") | Elisabeth | Alain Resnais |
| 1984 | Un dimanche à la campagne ("A Sunday in the Country") | Irène | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 1984 | L'Amour à mort ("Love Unto Death") | Elisabeth | Alain Resnais |
| 1985 | Zone rouge [fr] ("Zone Red") | Claire | Robert Enrico |
| 1986 | Mélo | Romaine | Alain Resnais |
| 1986 | La Puritaine ("The Prude") | Ariane | Jacques Doillon |
| 1989 | La Vie et rien d'autre ("Life and Nothing But") | Irène | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 1989 | Vanille fraise ("Vanilla-Strawberry") | Clarisse | Gérard Oury |
| 1989 | Cinq jours en juin ("Five Days In June") | Yvette | Michel Legrand |
| 1991 | Rossini! Rossini! | Olympe Pélissier | Mario Monicelli |
| 1993 | Smoking/No Smoking | Celia/Sylvie / Irene / Rowena / Josephine | Alain Resnais |
| 1995 | Les Cent et Une Nuits de Simon Cinéma ("A Hundred and One Nights") | Sabine/Irène | Agnès Varda |
| 1995 | Le bonheur est dans le pré ("Happiness Is in the Field") | Nicole | Étienne Chatiliez |
| 1995 | Mon homme ("My Man") | Bérangère | Bertrand Blier |
| 1995 | Noir comme le souvenir ("Black for Remembrance") | Lucy | Jean-Pierre Mocky |
| 1997 | On connaît la chanson ("Same Old Song") | Odile | Alain Resnais |
| 1999 | Le schpountz | Françoise | Gérard Oury |
| 1999 | La Bûche ("Season's Beatings") | Louba | Danièle Thompson |
| 2000 | La Chambre des officiers ("The Officers' Ward") | Anaïs | François Dupeyron |
| 2001 | Tanguy | Edith Guetz | Étienne Chatiliez |
| 2003 | Pas sur la bouche ("Not on the Lips") | Gilberte Valandray | Alain Resnais |
| 2003 | Le Mystère de la chambre jaune ("The Mystery of the Yellow Room") | Mathilde Stangerson | Bruno Podalydès |
| 2005 | The Perfume of the Lady in Black | Mathilde Stangerson | Bruno Podalydès |
| 2005 | Peindre ou faire l'Amour ("To Paint or Make Love") | Madeleine | Arnaud Larrieu et Jean-Marie Larrieu |
| 2005 | Olé ! | Alexandra Veber | Florence Quentin |
| 2006 | Cœurs ("Private Fears in Public Places") | Charlotte | Alain Resnais |
| 2007 | Faut que ça danse ! ("Let's Dance") | Violette | Noémie Lvovsky |
| 2008 | Le Voyage aux Pyrénées ("Journey to the Pyrenees" ) | Aurore Lalu | Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu |
| 2009 | Les Herbes folles | Marguerite Muir | Alain Resnais |
| 2009 | Les Derniers Jours du monde ("Happy End") | the Marquise of Arcangues | Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu |
| 2010 | Donnant Donnant | Jeanne | Isabelle Mergault |
| 2011 | La Fille du puisatier ("The Well-Digger's Daughter") | Madame Mazel | Daniel Auteuil |
| 2012 | Vous n'avez encore rien vu | Eurydice I | Alain Resnais |
| 2013 | Aimer, boire et chanter ("Life of Riley") | Kathryn | Alain Resnais |
| 2014 | Tante Hilda ("Aunt Hilda") | Aunt Hilda | Benoît Chieux, Jacques-Rémy Girerd |
| 2015 | Cosmos | Madame Woytis | Andrzej Żuławski |
| 2016 | Cézanne and I | Elisabeth Cézanne | Danièle Thompson |
| 2016 | Ma famille t'adore déjà | Dahlia | Jérôme Commandeur & Alan Corno |
| 2017 | Raid dingue | Marie-Caroline Dubarry | Dany Boon |
| 2017 | Knock | La Cuq | Lorraine Lévy |
| 2021 | Secret Name | | |

### As director

| Year | Title | Cast | Notes |
| 1992 | Bonjour Monsieur Doisneau | Robert Doisneau as himself | Documentary film |
| 1997 | Quand le chat sourit | Pierre Arditi, Jane Birkin | TV film |

## Decorations

* Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2015)