# Françoise Lebrun

Françoise Lebrun (born 18 August 1944) is a French actress.

## Career

She has appeared in many movies, and is especially known for her role as Veronika in Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (1973).
She has worked with other directors including Paul Vecchiali, Marguerite Duras and Lucas Belvaux, and is the subject of the documentary Françoise Lebrun, les voies singulières (2008). In a Variety review of the Vecchiali film A Vot' Bon Coeur (2004), Lisa Nesselson called her "a supreme master of the sustained monologue."

## Personal life

Her daughter, Clara Le Picard, is a writer and stage director.

## Filmography
### Cinema

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1971 | La ville-bidon | Lolotte | Jacques Baratier | |
| 1972 | Le château de Pointilly | | Adolfo Arrieta | |
| 1973 | The Mother and the Whore | Veronika | Jean Eustache | |
| 1974 | La femme du Gange | Voice | Marguerite Duras | |
| 1975 | India Song | The receptionist | Marguerite Duras | |
| 1975 | French Provincial | Young Augustine | André Téchiné | |
| 1977 | Ben et Bénédict | Ben / Bénédicte | Paula Delsol | |
| 1977 | Mon coeur est rouge | Clara | Michèle Rosier | |
| 1977 | Une sale histoire | | Jean Eustache | Short |
| 1978 | En l'autre bord | The concierge | Jérôme Kanapa | |
| 1980 | Ma chérie | The doctor | Charlotte Dubreuil | |
| 1981 | L'homme fragile | Cécile Delvert | Claire Clouzot | |
| 1982 | Lointains boxeurs | The young woman | Claudine Bories | Short |
| 1983 | Archipel des amours | | Jean-Claude Biette | |
| 1983 | At the Top of the Stairs | Michèle | Paul Vecchiali | |
| 1985 | Trous de mémoire | The woman | Paul Vecchiali | |
| 1988 | La police | | Claire Simon | Short |
| 1988 | Le monologue de la femme rompue | Broken woman | Jacques Doazan | Short |
| 1992 | Fugue en sol mineur | | Paul Vecchiali | Short |
| 1995 | Pullman paradis | Sophie Volland | Michèle Rosier | |
| 1997 | Pour rire! | The nurse | Lucas Belvaux | |
| 1997 | Une nouvelle douceur | | Alejandra Rojo | Short |
| 1998 | On a très peu d'amis | Rose | Sylvain Monod | |
| 2000 | Un possible amour | Fabienne's mother | Christophe Lamotte | Short |
| 2001 | Electroménager | Psychiatrist | Sylvain Monod | |
| 2001 | Malraux, tu m'étonnes! | Yvonne de Gaulle | Michèle Rosier | |
| 2004 | Inguélézi | The mother | François Dupeyron | |
| 2004 | La question de l'étranger | | Hubert Attal | Short |
| 2005 | À vot' bon coeur | Françoise | Paul Vecchiali | |
| 2006 | Et + si @ff | Germaine Sémouly | Paul Vecchiali | |
| 2006 | Fragments sur la grâce | A reader | Vincent Dieutre | |
| 2006 | Point de fuite | | Nicolas Lasnibat | Short |
| 2006 | Voyage à Vézelay | | Pierre Creton | Short |
| 2007 | The Key | Florence Arp | Guillaume Nicloux | |
| 2007 | Il sera une fois... | Mother Muche | Sandrine Veysset | |
| 2007 | ...Et tremble d'être heureux | Hélène Abrège | Paul Vecchiali | |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Madame Bauby | Julian Schnabel | |
| 2008 | Séraphine | Mother Superior | Martin Provost | |
| 2008 | Ea2 | | Vincent Dieutre | Short |
| 2009 | Julie & Julia | Baker's Mother | Nora Ephron | |
| 2009 | Ah! La libido | The elegant woman | Michèle Rosier | |
| 2009 | Tomorrow at Dawn | Claire Guibert | Denis Dercourt | |
| 2009 | Quelque chose à te dire | Jacques's mother | Cécile Telerman | |
| 2009 | La librairie de Schrödinger | The photographer | Christophe Beauvais & Claire Vassé | Short |
| 2010 | Holiday | Marie-Paule | Guillaume Nicloux | |
| 2010 | 63 regards | Third woman | Christophe Pellet | Short |
| 2011 | ID A | Isabelle | Christian E. Christiansen | |
| 2011 | La liberté ou l'amour | The mother | Geoffroi Heissler | Short |
| 2012 | Dead Europe | Leah | Tony Krawitz | |
| 2013 | The Nun | Madame de Moni | Guillaume Nicloux | |
| 2013 | Le temps de l'aventure | Alix's mother | Jérôme Bonnell | |
| 2013 | La nuit | | Adrien Dantou | Short |
| 2013 | Seul le feu | Françoise | Christophe Pellet | Short |
| 2013 | La trilogie française | | Philippe Terrier-Hermann | Short |
| 2013 | À la claire fontaine | The voice | Jacques Richard | Short |
| 2013 | J'aurais voulu que tu sois là | The mother | Geoffroi Heissler | Short |
| 2014 | The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq | Françoise | Guillaume Nicloux | |
| 2015 | Fever | Sarah | Raphaël Neal | |
| 2015 | À 14 ans | Jade's grandmother | Hélène Zimmer | |
| 2015 | My Golden Days | Rose | Arnaud Desplechin | |
| 2015 | La fille et le fleuve | Mileva Marić | Aurélia Georges | |
| 2015 | Mémoires Sélectives | Alice | Pauline Étienne & Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts | Short |
| 2015 | Take Me to the Water | Her | Nelson Bourrec Carter | Short |
| 2016 | Le Cancre | Valentine | Paul Vecchiali | |
| 2016 | Looking for Her | Renée Lefèvre | Ounie Lecomte | |
| 2016 | The Girl Without Hands | The mother | Sébastien Laudenbach | |
| 2017 | Porto | Mother | Gabe Klinger | |
| 2017 | The Sower | Blanche | Marine Francen | |
| 2017 | Thirst Street | Landlady | Nathan Silver | |
| 2017 | Cinq nuits | Claude | Guillaume Orignac | Short |
| 2017 | Rappelle-moi | The mother | Marie-Hélène Copti | Short |
| 2017 | Sept mille années | | Christophe Cognet | Short |
| 2018 | Ma vie avec James Dean | Géraud's mother | Dominique Choisy | |
| 2018 | Rages | The grand-mother | Scott Noblet | Short |
| 2018 | Love u Hiroshima | Madame Pierrot | Jules-César Bréchet | Short |
| 2018 | Histoire de Stefano | The voice | Chiara Malta | Short |
| 2019 | Thalasso | Herself | Guillaume Nicloux | |
| 2019 | L'amour debout | Herself | Michaël Dacheux | |
| 2019 | Les grands squelettes | | Philippe Ramos | |
| 2020 | Douze mille | Anouk | Nadège Trebal | |
| 2020 | Avant Tim | Denise | Alexis Diop | Short |
| 2022 | Vortex | The Mother | Gaspar Noé | |
| 2022 | Petite fleur | Agnès | Santiago Mitre | |
| 2022 | Le mur des morts | The grand-mother | Eugène Green | Short |
| 2022 | Presque l'automne | Cécile | Margot Pouppeville | Short |
| 2023 | A Prince | The mother | Pierre Creton | |
| 2023 | The Book of Solutions | Denise Becker | Michel Gondry | |
| 2024 | Paternel | Rozenn | Ronan Tronchot | |
| 2024 | Filmlovers! | | Arnaud Desplechin | |
| 2024 | Double foyer | Catherine | Claire Vassé | |
| 2024 | Rien ni personne | Monique | Gallien Guibert | |
| 2024 | Dans la peau de Blanche Houellebecq | Françoise | Guillaume Nicloux | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1978 | Aurélien | Bérénice | Michel Favart | TV series (3 episodes) |
| 1992 | L'impure | Lady Witney | Paul Vecchiali | TV movie |
| 2000 | Mère en fuite | Lisbeth | Christophe Lamotte | TV movie |
| 2001 | Dérives | Marguerite | Christophe Lamotte | TV movie |
| 2011 | La fille de l'autre | Françoise | Harry Cleven | TV movie |
| 2012 | L'affaire Gordji, histoire d'une cohabitation | | Guillaume Nicloux | TV movie |
| 2018 | Black Earth Rising | Madame Patenaude | Hugo Blick | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2019 | La part du soupçon | Gladys Durieux Jelosse | Christophe Lamotte | TV movie |
| 2019 | Mythomaniac | The ghost | Fabrice Gobert | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 2022 | Un homme abîmé | Francine Sorrente | Philippe Triboit | TV movie |

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director |
| 1976 | Le Défi | Jean-Claude Perrin | Jean-Claude Perrin & Maurice Bénichou |
| 1978 | Remagen | Anna Seghers | Jacques Lassalle |
| 1978 | Dissident, il va sans dire | Michel Vinaver | Jacques Lassalle |
| 1983 | Œil pour œil | Jacques Audiard & Louis-Charles Sirjacq | Louis-Charles Sirjacq |
| 1994 | Com’e adesso | Daniele Del Giudice | Jean Lacornerie |
| 1995–96 | Lulu | Frank Wedekind | Jean-Luc Lagarce |
| 1999 | La Fuite en Égypte | Bruno Bayen | Bruno Bayen |
| 2003–2005 | Life Is a Dream | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | Guillaume Delaveau |
| 2004 | Le Couloir | Philippe Minyana | Frédéric Maragnani |
| 2007 | Le Lien | Laurent Mauvignier | Laurence de La Fuente |
| 2012 | Le Peuple d’Icare | Dan Artus | Dan Artus |
| 2015–2017 | All Bovarys | Clara Le Picard | Clara Le Picard |
| 2022 | Cerveau | Clara Le Picard | Clara Le Picard |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result |
| 2023 | Lumières Award for Best Actress | Vortex | Nominated |