Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau (; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Moreau began playing small roles in films in 1949, later achieving prominence with starring roles in Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte (1961), and François Truffaut's Jules et Jim (1962). Most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continued to appear in films into her 80s. Orson Welles called her "the greatest actress in the world".
She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965), and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1992). She was also the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, a Cannes Golden Palm in 2003, and another César Award in 2008.
== Early life and education ==
Moreau was born in Paris, the daughter of Katherine (née Buckley), a dancer who performed at the Folies Bergère (d. 1990), and Anatole-Désiré Moreau, a restaurateur (d. 1975). Moreau's father was French; her mother was English, a native of Oldham, Lancashire, England and of part Irish descent.Famous French people of immigrant origin, Eupedia: France Guide Moreau's father was Catholic and her mother, originally a Protestant, converted to Catholicism upon marriage.Stated in interview at Inside the Actors Studio When Jeanne was a young girl, "the family moved south to Vichy, spending vacations at the paternal ancestral village of Mazirat, a town of 30 houses in a valley in the Allier. "It was wonderful there", Moreau said. "Every tombstone in the cemetery was for a Moreau". During World War II, the family was split, and Moreau lived with her mother in Paris. Moreau ultimately lost interest in school and, at age 16, after attending a performance of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, found her calling as an actor. She later studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her parents separated permanently while Moreau was at the conservatory and her mother, "after 24 difficult years in France, returned to England with Jeanne'sFarrell, Barry, "Actresses: Making the Most of Love", Time cover story pp. 4–5, 5 March 1965. Retrieved 22 December 2010. sister, Michelle."
== Career ==
In 1947, Moreau made her theatrical debut at the Avignon Festival. She debuted at the Comédie-Française in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country and, by her 20s, was already one of the leading actresses in the theatre's troupe. After 1949, she began appearing in films with small parts but continued primarily active in the theatre for several years — a year at the Théâtre National Populaire opposite among others Gérard Philipe and Robert Hirsch, then a breakout two years in dual roles in The Dazzling Hour by Anna Bonacci, then Jean Cocteau's La Machine Infernale and others before another two-year run, this time in Shaw's Pygmalion. From the late 1950s, after appearing in several successful films, she began to work with the emerging generation of French film-makers. Elevator to the Gallows (1958) with first-time director Louis Malle was followed by Malle's The Lovers (Les Amants, 1959).
Moreau went on to work with many of the best known New Wave and avant-garde directors. François Truffaut's New Wave film Jules et Jim (1962), her biggest success internationally, is centered on her magnetic starring role. She also worked with a number of other notable directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (La notte and Beyond the Clouds), Orson Welles (The Trial, Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story), Luis Buñuel (Diary of a Chambermaid), Elia Kazan (The Last Tycoon), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Querelle), Wim Wenders (Until the End of the World), Carl Foreman (Champion and The Victors), and Manoel de Oliveira (Gebo et l'Ombre).
In 1983, she was head of the jury at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2005, she was awarded with the Stanislavsky Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.
Moreau was also a vocalist. She released several albums and once performed with Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall in 1984. In addition to acting, Moreau worked behind the camera as a writer, director and producer. Her accomplishments were the subject of the film Calling the Shots (1988) by Janis Cole and Holly Dale. She appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's film Fassbinder's Women (2000).
== Personal life ==
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.needs substantiation She also had relationships with directors Louis Malle and François Truffaut, fashion designer Pierre Cardin, and the Greek actor/playboy Theodoros Roubanis.Roubanis was previously the companion of Henry Plumer McIlhenny. The relationship with McIlhenny was cited in Welsh and Tibbett's The Cinema of Tony Richardson (SUNY Press, 1999). Roubanis later married Lady Sarah Churchill. Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill obituary, The Telegraph, 19 October 2000.
In 1971, Jeanne Moreau was a signatory of the Manifesto of the 343 which publicly announced that she had 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.
In 2009, Moreau signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects."
Moreau died on 31 July 2017 at her home in Paris at the age of 89. Her body was discovered by her cleaning maid and shortly before her death, she said she felt "abandoned" because she could not act anymore..
== Filmography ==
=== Actress ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Director 	Notes
1949 	Last Love 	Michèle 	Jean Stelli 	
1950 	Murders 	Martine Annequin 	Richard Pottier 	
1950 	Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés 	La môme Pâquerette 	André Berthomieu 	
1952 	The Man in My Life 	Suzanne Dubreuil 	Guy Lefranc 	
1952 	It Is Midnight, Doctor Schweitzer 	Marie Winter 	André Haguet 	
1953 	 	Julie 	Henri Decoin 	
1953 	Julietta 	Rosie Facibey 	Marc Allégret 	
1954 	Touchez pas au grisbi 	Josy 	Jacques Becker 	
1954 	Les Intrigantes 	Mona Rémi 	Henri Decoin 	
1954 	Secrets d'alcôve 	Jeanne Plisson 	Various directors 	(segment "Billet de logement, Le")
1954 	Queen Margot 	Margaret of Valois 	Jean Dréville 	
1955 	The DoctorsLes Hommes en blanc 	Marianne Déjazet 	Ralph Habib 	
1955 	M'sieur la Caille 	Fernande 	André Pergament 	
1955 	Gas-Oil 	Alice 	Gilles Grangier 	
1956 	The Wages of Sin 	Angèle Ribot 	Denys de la Patellière 	
1957 	Until the Last One 	Gina 	Pierre Billon 	
1957 	The She-Wolves 	Agnès Vanaux 	Luis Saslavsky 	
1957 	L'étrange Monsieur Steve 	Florence 	Raymond Bailly 	
1957 	Three Days to Live 	Jeanne Fortin 	Gilles Grangier 	
1958 	Not Delivered 	Jacqueline Tourieu 	Gilles Grangier 	
1958 	Ascenseur pour l'échafaud 	Florence Carala 	Louis Malle 	
1958 	Back to the Wall 	Gloria Decrey 	Édouard Molinaro 	
1958 	Les amants 	Jeanne Tournier 	Louis Malle 	
1959 	The 400 Blows 	Woman with Dog 	François Truffaut 	cameo appearance
1959 	Les liaisons dangereuses 	Juliette de Merteuil 	Roger Vadim 	
1960 	Five Branded Women 	Ljuba 	Martin Ritt 	
1960 	Moderato Cantabile 	Anne Desbarèdes 	Peter Brook 	Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
1960 	Dialogue with the Carmelites 	Mère Marie de l'Incarnation 	Philippe Agostini 	
1961 	La Notte 	Lidia Pontano 	Michelangelo Antonioni 	
1961 	A Woman Is a Woman 	Woman in Bar 	Jean-Luc Godard 	Uncredited, discussing Jules et Jim
1962 	Jules et Jim 	Catherine 	François Truffaut 	
1962 	Eva 	Eva Olivier 	Joseph Losey 	
1962 	The Trial 	Miss Burstner 	Orson Welles 	
1963 	Bay of Angels 	Jacqueline "Jackie" Demaistre 	Jacques Demy 	
1963 	The Fire Within (Le feu follet) 	Eva 	Louis Malle 	
1963 	Banana Peel (Peau de banane) 	Cathy 	Marcel Ophüls 	
1963 	The Victors 	the French lady 	Carl Foreman 	
1964 	Diary of a Chambermaid 	Célestine 	Luis Buñuel 	
1964 	The Train 	Christine 	John Frankenheimer 	
1964 	The Yellow Rolls-Royce 	Eloise, Marchioness of Frinton 	Anthony Asquith 	
1964 	Mata Hari, Agent H21 	Mata Hari 	Jean-Louis Richard 	
1965 	Viva Maria! 	Maria I 	Louis Malle 	
1965 	Chimes at Midnight 	Doll Tearsheet 	Orson Welles 	
1966 	Mademoiselle 	"Mademoiselle" 	Tony Richardson 	
1967 	The Oldest Profession (episode "Mademoiselle Mimi") 	Mimi Guillotine 	Philippe de Broca 	(segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
1967 	The Sailor from Gibraltar 	Anna 	Tony Richardson 	
1968 	The Bride Wore Black 	Julie Kohler 	François Truffaut 	
1968 	The Immortal Story 	Virginie Ducrot 	Orson Welles 	TV movie
1968 	Great Catherine 	Catherine 	Gordon Flemyng 	
1969 	Le Corps de Diane 	Diane Vallier 	Jean-Louis Richard 	
1970 	Monte Walsh 	Martine Bernard 	William A. Fraker 	
1970 	The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir 	the singer 	Jean Renoir 	TV movie, (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")
1970 	The Deep 	Ruth Warriner 	Orson Welles 	Filming was unfinished
1970 	Alex in Wonderland 	Herself 	Paul Mazursky 	
1971 	Comptes à rebours 	Madeleine St Rose 	Roger Pigaut 	
1972 	Chère Louise 	Louise 	Philippe de Broca 	
1972 	L'humeur vagabonde 	Myriam Bingeot 	Édouard Luntz 	
1972 	Nathalie Granger 	"the other woman" 	Marguerite Duras 	
1972 	Repeated Absences 	nostalgie 	Guy Gilles 	Voice
1973 	Joanna Francesa 	Joana 	Cacá Diegues 	
1974 	Je t'aime 	Elisa Boussac 	Pierre Duceppe 	
1974 	Les Valseuses 	Jeanne Pirolle 	Bertrand Blier 	
1974 	Creezy 	Renee Vibert 	Pierre Granier-Deferre 	
1975 	The Garden That Tilts 	Maria 	Guy Gilles 	
1975 	Hu-Man 	Sylvana 	Jérôme Laperrousaz 	
1976 	Lumière 	Sarah Dedieu 	Jeanne Moreau 	
1976 	Monsieur Klein 	Florence 	Joseph Losey 	
1976 	The Last Tycoon 	Didi 	Elia Kazan 	
1979 	The Adolescent 	La narratrice 	Jeanne Moreau 	Voice, Uncredited
1981 	Plein sud 	Hélène, la mère de Caroline 	Luc Béraud 	
1981 	Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid 	Lili Marlene 	George Kaczender 	
1982 	A Thousand Billion Dollars 	Mme Benoît-Lambert 	Henri Verneuil 	
1982 	Querelle 	Lysiane 	Rainer Werner Fassbinder 	
1982 	La Truite 	Lou Rambert 	Joseph Losey 	
1985 	Vicious Circle 	Ines 	TV play 	
1986 	Le paltoquet 	The Brothel-Keeper 	Michel Deville 	
1986 	Sauve-toi, Lola 	Marie-Aude Schneider 	Michel Drach 	
1986–1987	Le Tiroir secret 	Vivi 	(different directors) 	2 episodes
1987 	The Miracle 	Sabine 	Jean-Pierre Mocky 	
1987 	Remake 	Herself 	Ansano Giannarelli 	
1989 	Jour après jour 	Janine Weisman 	Alain Attal 	
1990 	La Femme Nikita 	Amande 	Luc Besson 	
1990 	Alberto Express 	the Baroness 	Arthur Joffé 	
1990 	La Femme fardée 	Le Doria 	José Pinheiro 	
1991 	Anna Karamazoff 	the Lady 	Rustam Khamdamov 	
1991 	To meteoro vima tou pelargou 	the Lady 	Theo Angelopoulos 	
1991 	The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea 	Lady M 	Laurent Heynemann 	
1991 	Until the End of the World 	Edith Farber 	Wim Wenders 	
1992 	The Lover 	Narrator 	Jean-Jacques Annaud 	Voice
1992 	Map of the Human Heart 	Sister Banville 	Vincent Ward 	
1992 	La nuit de l'océan 	Hélène Sauveterre 	Antoine Perset 	
1992 	The Absence 	the writer's wife 	Peter Handke 	
1992 	À demain 	Tete 	Didier Martiny 	
1993 	Screen Two 	Lili 	Waris Hussein 	Episode: "The Clothes in the Wardrobe"
1993 	Je m'appelle Victor 	Rose 	Guy Jacques 	
1993 	Screen One 	Angelique 	Charles Sturridge 	Episode: "A Foreign Field"
1995 	One Hundred and One Nights 	La première ex-épouse de M. Cinéma	Agnès Varda 	
1995 	Catherine the Great 	Empress Elizabeth Petrovna 	Marvin J. Chomsky 	
1995 	Beyond the Clouds 	a Lady 	Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders	
1996 	I Love You, I Love You Not 	Nana 	Billy Hopkins 	
1996 	The Proprietor 	Adrienne Mark 	Ismail Merchant 	
1997 	Amour et confusions 	Libra 	Patrick Braoudé 	
1997 	Witch Way Love 	Eglantine 	René Manzor 	
1998 	Ever After 	Grande Dame 	Andy Tennant 	
1999 	 	Charlotte-Laure de Balzac 	Josée Dayan 	TV movie
2000 	The Prince's Manuscript 	Alessandra Wolf (Licy) 	Roberto Andò 	
2000 	Les Misérables 	Mere Innocente 	Josée Dayan 	4 episodes
2001 	Lisa 	Lisa (old) 	Pierre Grimblat 	
2001 	 	Marguerite Duras 	Josée Dayan 	
2003 	Love Actually 	Lady at Marseilles Airport 	Richard Curtis 	Uncredited
2003 	 	Tante Leo 	Josée Dayan 	
2005 	Akoibon 	Madame Paule 	Édouard Baer 	
2005 	Time to Leave 	Laura 	François Ozon 	
2005 	Go West 	Novinar 	Ahmed Imamović 	
2005 	 	Mahaut, Countess of Artois 	Josée Dayan 	5 episodes
2006 	Roméo et Juliette 	Laurence 	Yves Desgagnés 	
2007 	Chacun son cinéma 	The old woman / Herself 	Various directors 	(segment "Trois Minutes")
2007 	Désengagement 	Françoise 	Amos Gitai 	
2008 	One Day You'll Understand 	Rivka 	Amos Gitai 	
2008 	Everywhere at Once 	Narrator 	Holly Fisher 	
2009 	Carmel 	 	Amos Gitai 	Voice
2009 	Face 	Jeanne 	Ming-liang Tsai 	
2009 	La guerre des fils de la lumière contre les fils des ténèbres	 	Amos Gitai 	
2009 	Kérity, la maison des contes 	Aunt Eleanor 	Dominique Monfery 	Voice
2012 	 	Frida 	Ilmar Raag 	
2012 	Gebo et l'Ombre 	Candidinha 	Manoel de Oliveira 	
2015 	Le talent de mes amis 	La grand-mère de Thibault 	Alex Lutz 	(final film role)
=== Director ===
* Lumière (1976)
* L'Adolescente (1979)
* Lillian Gish (1983, TV documentary)
== Awards and nominations ==
=== Films ===
Year	Group 	Award 	Film 	Result
2008	César Awards 	Honorary César 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
2005	Moscow International Film Festival 	Stanislavsky Award 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
2003	Cannes Film Festival 	Honorary Golden Palm 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
2003	Taormina International Film Festival 	Taormina Arte Award 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
2001	Pusan International Film Festival 	Hand Printing (tribute) 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
2000	Berlin International Film Festival 	Honorary Golden Bear 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1999	Hamptons International Film Festival 	Distinguished Achievement Award 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1999	Créteil International Women's Film Festival	Homage 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1998	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Tribute 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1997	European Film Awards 	Life Achievement Award 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1997	San Sebastián International Film Festival 	Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1996	BAFTA Awards 	Academy Fellowship 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1995	César Awards 	Honorary César 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1994	Women in Film Crystal Award 	International Award 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1992	Venice Film Festival 	Career Golden Lion 	Lifetime achievement 	Won
1992	César Awards 	Best Actress 	The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea 	Won
1988	César Awards 	Best Actress 	Le Miraculé 	Nominated
1987	César Awards 	Best Supporting Actress 	Le Paltoquet 	Nominated
1984	Razzie Awards 	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song	Querelle – song: "Young and Joyful Bandit"	Nominated
1979	Berlin International Film Festival 	Golden Bear 	L'adolescente 	Nominated
1979	Chicago International Film Festival 	Gold Hugo 	L'adolescente 	Nominated
1976	Chicago International Film Festival 	Gold Hugo 	Lumière 	Nominated
1976	Taormina International Film Festival 	Golden Charybdis 	Lumière 	Nominated
1967	BAFTA Awards 	Best Foreign Actress 	Viva Maria! 	Won
1964	Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 	Best Actress 	Diary of a Chambermaid 	Won
1963	BAFTA Awards 	Best Foreign Actress 	Jules et Jim 	Nominated
1962	Jussi Awards 	Diploma of Merit – Foreign Actress 	La notte 	Won
1961	Fotogramas de Plata 	Best Foreign Performer 	Le dialogue des Carmélites 	Won
1960	Cannes Film Festival 	Best Actress 	Moderato cantabile 	Won
1958	Venice Film Festival 	Best Actress 	Les amants 	Won
=== Theater ===
Year	Group 	Award 	Play 	Result
1988	Molière Awards	Best Actress	Le Récit de la servante Zerline	Won
== References ==
== External links ==
* Jeanne Moreau at New Wave Film
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