page_title: Jeanne Moreau
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Jeanne Moreau / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: From Silver Spring M.D. A.F.I. copyright John Mathew Smith
context_page_description: Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights, the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria!, and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea. She was also the recipient of several lifetime awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, Cannes Golden Palm in 2003 and César Award in 2008.
  Moreau made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. She began playing small roles in films in 1949, with impressive performances in the Fernandel vehicle Meurtres? and alongside Jean Gabin as a showgirl/gangster's moll in the film Touchez pas au grisbi. She achieved prominence as the star of Elevator to the Gallows, directed by Louis Malle, and Jules et Jim, directed by François Truffaut. Most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continued to appear in films into her 80s.
context_section_description: Throughout her life, Moreau maintained friendships with prominent writers such as Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Henry Miller and Marguerite Duras, (an interview with Moreau is included in Duras's book Outside: Selected Writings). She formerly was married to Jean-Louis Richard (1949–1964, separated in 1951) and then to American film director William Friedkin (1977–1979). She and Richard had a son, Jérôme. Director Tony Richardson left his wife Vanessa Redgrave for her in 1967, but they never married. She also had affairs with directors Louis Malle and François Truffaut, fashion designer Pierre Cardin and the Greek actor/playboy Theodoros Roubanis. 
  In 1971, she was a signer of the Manifesto of the 343 which publicly announced she obtained an illegal abortion.
  Moreau was a close friend of Sharon Stone, who presented a 1998 American Academy of Motion Pictures life tribute to Moreau at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, academy headquarters in Beverly Hills. Orson Welles called her "the greatest actress in the world", and she remained one of France's most accomplished actresses.
caption: Moreau in 1998
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