# Nathalie Richard

Nathalie Richard (born 6 January 1963) is a French actress.

## Life and career

Richard was born in Paris, France. As a child, Nathalie Richard practised dance and ice-skating. She spent a year in New York with the Karole Armitage company, returning to join the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique and graduating in 1986. Since then she has worked regularly in both cinema and theatre, her first major role being Viviane in Catherine Corsini's Les Amoureux in 1993.
In 2018, alongside Liza Blanchard she took one of the principal roles in the staging of Anne Théron, created at the TNS of the play À la trace of Alexandra Badea which explores mother-daughter relations. The performance, in dialogue with pre-recorded audio-visual projections, was lauded by the press., breaking down the barriers between theatre and film.
She received the Prix Michel Simon film prize for most promising actress/actor for her role in the 1988 Jacques Rivette film Gang of Four.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1986 | Window Shopping | La coiffeuse #6 | |
| 1987 | Le Panorama | | |
| 1988 | La bande des quatre | Cécile | Michel-Simon Prize 1989 (for Most Promising Actress) |
| 1989 | Winter's Child | Leni | |
| 1989 | La Jalousie | | short |
| 1989 | Constance | | short |
| 1990 | Monsieur | L'hôtesse d'accueil | |
| 1990 | Les dernières heures du millénaire | | |
| 1991 | Cendrillon 90 | | short |
| 1991 | Bar des rails | Monique, the waitress | |
| 1992 | Riens du tout | Claire | |
| 1992 | Interdit d'amour | Mme Brémont | television film |
| 1992 | Weep No More, My Lady | Alicia | |
| 1992 | C'est trop con! | Jeanne | short |
| 1993 | Grand bonheur | Charly | |
| 1993 | Légendes de la forêt viennoise | | |
| 1993 | Le linge sale | | short |
| 1994 | Les amoureux | Viviane | |
| 1994 | Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons | Catherine de la Rochelle | Cut version did not include her scene |
| 1994 | Comme un dimanche | | short |
| 1995 | Up, Down, Fragile (Haut bas fragile) | Ninon | third film for Rivette |
| 1995 | Le Soleil a promis de se lever demain | | short |
| 1995 | Lumière and Company (Lumière et compagnie) | Ninon | section directed by Rivette |
| 1996 | Irma Vep | Zoé | |
| 1996 | L'éducatrice | Louise | |
| 1996 | 51 raisons | | short |
| 1996 | Youth Without God (Jeunesse sans Dieu) | | |
| 1997 | La vie en face | Claire | television film |
| 1997 | Eau douce | Marianne | |
| 1998 | Les Enfants de Scarlett | Kate | |
| 1998 | Late August, Early September (Fin août, début septembre) | Maryelle | |
| 1998 | A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries | Mademoiselle Fournier | |
| 1998 | Stolen Life (Voleur de vie) | Yann's wife | |
| 1999 | Afraid of Everything | Anne | |
| 1999 | Bruno n'a pas d'agent | | short |
| 1999 | Le pourboire (ou la pitié) | Béatrice | short |
| 2000 | Confusion of Genders (La Confusion des genres) | Laurence Albertini | |
| 2000 | 30 Years | Barbara | |
| 2000 | Pretend I'm Not Here (Faites comme si je n'étais pas là) | Carole | |
| 2000 | Modern Comforts (Confort moderne) | Irène | |
| 2000 | Code Unknown (Code inconnu) | Mathilde | |
| 2000 | La famille médicament | La mère | short |
| 2001 | Imago | Marianne | |
| 2001 | Mon meilleur amour | Corinne | short |
| 2001 | L'hiver sera rude | Solange | |
| 2001 | They Call This... Spring (On appelle ça... le printemps) | A naiad | |
| 2002 | Merci Docteur Rey | Radio Interviewer | |
| 2002 | Froid comme l'été | Claire | television film |
| 2002 | Nearest to Heaven (Au plus près du paradis) | Brigitte | |
| 2002 | Novo | Sabine | |
| 2002 | Étrangère | La serveuse | |
| 2002 | Maintenant | Else | short |
| 2003 | Les visages | | short |
| 2003 | Le Divorce | Charlotte de Persand | |
| 2003 | La chaîne du froid | Client | short |
| 2003 | Le ventre de Juliette | Fafa | |
| 2005 | The Passenger | Suzanne | |
| 2005 | Belhorizon | Isabelle | |
| 2005 | Zim and Co. | Zim's mother | |
| 2005 | Caché | Mathilde | |
| 2005 | Les enfants | Hélène | |
| 2006 | Le Pressentiment | Gabrielle Charmes-Aicquart | |
| 2007 | Parc | Hélène Clou | |
| 2008 | Le Plaisir de chant | Noémie | |
| 2009 | Une petite zone de turbulences | Psychiatrist | |
| 2010 | Never Let Me Go | Madame | |
| 2012 | Les Fraises des bois | The mother of Violette | |
| 2013 | Jeune and Jolie | Véronique | |
| 2013 | Violette | Hermine | |
| 2015 | The Great Game (Le Grand Jeu) | Pauline | |
| 2017 | Ma vie avec James Dean | Sylvia van den Rood | third film for Choisy |
| 2017 | Les Garçons sauvages | Teacher | |
| 2017 | Happy End | Estate agent | third film for Haneke |
| 2020 | After Love | Geneviève | |
| 2022 | Neneh Superstar | Jeanne-Marie Meursault | |
| 2023 | She Is Conann | Conann (Age 55) | |
| 2023 | Doppelgänger | Helga Steiner | |
| 2023 | A Place to Fight For (Une zone à défendre) | Séverine | |
| 2023 | The Animal Kingdom | Professor Valérie Beaudoin | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2000 | Scénario sur la drogue | La mère | "Famille médicament, La" |
| 2005 | 3 femmes... un soir d'été | Isabelle | |
| 2022 | Irma Vep | Ondine | Episode 3 'Dead Man's Escape' (fourth film for Assayas) |