# Béatrice Dalle

Béatrice Dalle (born 19 December 1964) is a French actress and model. She has appeared in over fifty films and is best known internationally for her debut role in the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (also released as Betty Blue). Béatrice Dalle is renowned for her intense and unconventional roles, often portraying characters that are both provocative and transgressive.

## Biography

Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. She grew up in Le Mans with her mother, father, and an older sister. At age 15, Dalle ran away from home to live in Paris. In 1985, she married the painter Jean-François Dalle, whom she divorced in 1988. In 2005, Dalle married an inmate she met while acting in a short film that was being shot in a prison. They divorced in 2015.

## Career

Dalle was working as a model when she met filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix. Beineix cast her in the lead role of the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (released in the UK and USA as Betty Blue) which received BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and made a star of Dalle.
She went on to appear in a series of major roles in French films, including the 1989 film Chimère, which was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
She featured in the 1987 music video for Buster Poindexter's version of "Oh Me Oh My (I'm fool for you Baby)" and in the 1991 music video for "Move to Memphis" by Norwegian band a-ha.
She starred in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth in 1991. In 1997, she was cast in The Blackout, her first film made in the United States.
In 2001, Dalle appeared in the controversial film Trouble Every Day, in which she played a vampire. She starred in the 2007 film À l'intérieur, in which she played a cruel psychopath stalking a pregnant woman.
In 1988, Dalle was interviewed by Clive James in "Postcard from Paris" where she said she was tired of Paris and wanted to move to New York.

### Controversies

Dalle has been arrested on several occasions for shoplifting, drug possession and assault. In January 2005, while making a film about prison life in Brest, Dalle met Guenaël Meziani, serving a 12-year prison sentence for assaulting and raping his ex-girlfriend. She married him after 24 one-hour visits, and spoke on his behalf at hearings for his early release. According to a 2015 profile of Dalle, she said the marriage was "a complete disaster" once Meziani was released from prison, and their divorce was apparently finalised in July 2014.
Interviewed on the French TV programme Divan in 2016, Dalle stated that when she used to work in a morgue with her friends, they sold body parts of corpses, and while on acid, they ate a dead man's ear.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1986 | Betty Blue | Betty | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Nominated - César Award for Best Actress |
| 1986 | On a volé Charlie Spencer ! | The Star | Francis Huster | |
| 1988 | The Witches' Sabbath | Maddalena | Marco Bellocchio | |
| 1989 | Chimère | Alice | Claire Devers | |
| 1989 | Les bois noirs | Violette | Jacques Deray | |
| 1990 | A Woman's Revenge | Suzy | Jacques Doillon | |
| 1991 | Night on Earth | Blind Woman | Jim Jarmusch | |
| 1992 | La Belle Histoire | Odona | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1992 | La Fille de l'air | Brigitte | Maroun Bagdadi | |
| 1994 | I Can't Sleep | Mona | Claire Denis | |
| 1994 | À la folie | Elsa | Diane Kurys | |
| 1996 | Désiré | Madeleine | Bernard Murat | |
| 1996 | Clubbed to Death | Saida | Yolande Zauberman | |
| 1997 | The Blackout | Annie | Abel Ferrara | |
| 1997 | Al límite | Elena | Eduardo Campoy | |
| 1999 | Toni | Marie | Philomène Esposito | |
| 2000 | La vérité vraie | Cathy | Fabrice Cazeneuve | TV movie |
| 2001 | Trouble Every Day | Coré | Claire Denis | |
| 2001 | H Story | The Actress | Nobuhiro Suwa | |
| 2002 | Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard | Cécile Cassard | Christophe Honoré | |
| 2002 | Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space | Tatla | Tol | |
| 2002 | Les oreilles sur le dos | Monica | Xavier Durringer | TV movie |
| 2003 | Time of the Wolf | Lise Brandt | Michael Haneke | |
| 2003 | Vendetta | Alice | Richard Aujard | Short |
| 2004 | Clean | Elena | Olivier Assayas | |
| 2004 | The Gate of Sun | Catherine | Yousry Nasrallah | |
| 2004 | The Intruder | Queen of the north | Claire Denis | |
| 2004 | Process | The Actress | C.S. Leigh | |
| 2005 | Dans tes rêves | Ava | Denis Thybaud | |
| 2006 | Tête d'or | The Princess | Gilles Blanchard | |
| 2007 | Truands | Béatrice | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | |
| 2007 | Inside | The Woman | Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo | Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress Fright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2008 | Les bureaux de Dieu | Milena | Claire Simon | |
| 2008 | New Wave | Anna | Gaël Morel | TV movie |
| 2009 | Domain | Nadia | Patric Chiha | |
| 2011 | Jimmy Rivière | Gina | Teddy Lussi-Modeste | |
| 2011 | De l'encre | Mathilde | Ekoué & Hamé | TV movie |
| 2011 | Notre Paradis | Anna | Gaël Morel | |
| 2011 | Livid | Lucie's mother | Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo | |
| 2012 | Bye Bye Blondie | Gloria | Virginie Despentes | |
| 2012 | L'étoile du jour | Zohra | Sophie Blondy | |
| 2013 | Punk | Teresa | Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire | TV movie |
| 2013 | Le renard jaune | Béatrice | Jean-Pierre Mocky | |
| 2013 | My Sisters | Mildred | Lars Kraume | |
| 2013 | You and the Night | The Commissioner | Yann Gonzalez | |
| 2013 | Myster Mocky présente | Henriette | Jean-Pierre Mocky | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2014 | Among the Living | Jeanne Faucheur | Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo | |
| 2014 | ABCs of Death 2 | The Grandmother | Julien Maury | |
| 2014 | Rosenn | | Yvan Le Moine | |
| 2015 | Malaterra | Suzanne Leroy | Jean-Xavier de Lestrade & Laurent Herbiet | TV Mini-Series |
| 2017 | Chacun sa vie et son intime conviction | | Claude Lelouch | |
| 2018 | The Happy Prince | Café Manager | Rupert Everett | |
| 2019 | Lux Æterna | Béatrice Dalle | Gaspar Noé | |
| 2023 | The Beast in the Jungle | The Physiognomist | Patric Chiha | |
| 2023 | Le bonheur est pour demain | Lucie | Brigitte Sy | |
| 2024 | The Passion According to Béatrice | | Fabrice Du Welz | Docufiction |
| 2024 | Maldoror | | Fabrice Du Welz | |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Author | Director |
| 2014 | Lucrèce Borgia | Victor Hugo | David Bobée |
| 2019 | Elephant Man | Bernard Pomerance | David Bobée |