Biography
Nathalie Baye was born on July 6, 1948 in Mainneville, Eure, France. She is an actress, known for Catch Me If You Can (2002), A Pornographic Affair (1999) and Laurence Anyways (2012).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024
as Self - Actress
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godd...

Mother Valley
2023
as Hélène
In 1958, while revolution is rumbling in Beirut, three sisters spend their holidays in an isolated village of Lebanese mountains: rebellious Nada, rom...

Godard Cinema
2023
as Self
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol fo...

Godard by Godard
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic r...

Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste
2023
as Elle-même
Stage actress turned film actress and director, Nicole Garcia has worked with the greatest French directors. Mysterious, singular, elegant, she has be...

Alibi.com 2
2023
as Mme Martin
After closing his agency Alibi.com and promising Flo that he would never lie to her again, Greg's new life became quiet, too quiet... Not for long! Wh...

Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evasions. Her childhood, her parents, her beginnings, ...

Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
as Mme de Montmirail
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a...

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César
2022
as Self

Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022
as Self
Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2...

Haute Couture
2021
as Esther
Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 yea...

Him
2021
as Mother
Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits ...

Sous le soleil de Pialat
2021
as Self
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury t...

Conversation avec Nathalie Baye
2021
as Self

My Best Part
2020
as Bernadette Meyer
Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother...

Soirée Pyjama
2019
as Self - Guest
To celebrate 2019, Barthès & Dedienne are hosting a sleepover with some friends.

Thomas
2018
as Anne Lancrey

The Guardians
2017
as Hortense Sandrail
In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World ...

Médée
2017
as The mother
A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given. It is the mother’s birthday and she wanted to sur...

Alibi.com
2017
as Marlène Martin
Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppa...

It's Only the End of the World
2016
as Martine
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016
as Self
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young C...

Moka
2016
as Marlène
Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings,...

Préjudice
2015
as Mother
A challenging psychological drama where the carefully nurtured harmony of a family is shattered one lovely summer evening. Cédric, who is generally sh...

The Assistant
2015
as Marie-France
With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That ...

SK1
2015
as Frédérique Pons
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014

Lou!
2014
as Jeanne (La grand-mère)
Lou, a creative and dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother in an orange building with tons of little balconies that give access to the r...

Queens of the Ring
2013
as Colette
More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old son who has been placed with a foster family and bla...

Laurence Anyways
2012
as Julienne Alia
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self...

Bon vent Claude Goretta
2011
as Self
Claude Goretta directed “L'invitation” in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like a “travelling companion”, to adapt Serge Daney’s ...

Hitler in Hollywood
2011
as Nathalie Baye
A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller unc...

Small World
2010
as Elisabeth Senn
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big ho...

Beautiful Lies
2010
as Mady
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.

The Great Restaurant
2010
as Une cliente du restaurant
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.

Together Is Too Much
2010
as Marie-France
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what...

Face
2009
as Nathalie
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.

God's Offices
2008
as Anne
A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.

Marie-Octobre
2008
as Marie-Hélène Dumoulin / Marie-Octobre
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...

A French Gigolo
2008
as Judith
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married...

Off and Running
2008
as Irène Montier-Duval
A missed highway exit leads Darry Marzouki, an unemployed magician, to cross paths with Irène Montier Duval, a wealthy woman carrying a Hermès bag ful...

The Price to Pay
2007
as Odile Ménard
Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunc...
Acteur
2007
as Camille
A look at the world of acting: is it possible to go from the shadows to the limelight without losing one's soul?

Michou d'Auber
2007
as Gisèle
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the fac...

Tell No One
2006
as Maître Elysabeth Feldman
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's al...

La Californie
2006
as Maguy
Mirko and Stefan, Serbian refugees, move to the French Riviera. There they meet Maguy who lives in a luxurious mansion up the hill above Cannes with a...

My Son
2006
as Mother / La mère
Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a ...

The Young Lieutenant
2005
as Commandant Vaudieu
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective...

One Stays, the Other Leaves
2005
as Fanny
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his...

François Truffaut, une autobiographie
2004
as Self
A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborators and admirers.

Une vie à t'attendre
2004
as Jeanne
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair w...

France Boutique
2003
as Sofia
Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with ...

Feelings
2003
as Carole
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.

The Flower of Evil
2003
as Anne Charpin-Vasseur
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that rev...

Catch Me If You Can
2002
as Paula Abagnale
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor...
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

Absolutely Fabulous
2001
as Patricia 'Patsy' Laroche
Middle-aged best friends Eddie and Patsy live in an endless haze of drugged, drunken selfishness. The duo leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsat...

Barnie's Minor Annoyances
2001
as Lucie
Barnie lives in Calais but works in London. Everyday, he takes the Eurostar to go to his office. Although he is married to Lucie, Barnie has two lover...

Tomorrow's Another Day
2000
as Sophie
A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.

To Mathieu
2000
as Claire
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory f...

An Affair of Love
1999
as Her
A man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.

Venus Beauty Institute
1999
as Angèle Piana
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliatin...

Beware of My Love
1998
as Muriel
Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursue...

Paparazzi
1998
as Nicole, de l'agence Magma
Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.

Food of Love
1997
as Michele
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.

Enfants de salaud
1996
as Sophie
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have muc...

Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
1996

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child
1996
as Self
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
1996
as Self
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

The Machine
1994
as Marie Lacroix
This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist s...

And the Band Played On
1993
as Dr. Françoise Barre
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

Mensonge
1993
as Emma
Emma has been happily married to Charles, a hardworking journalist, for over ten years. They have a son, and are considering having another child when...

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993
as Self
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk ...

The Voice
1992
as Lorraine
The tale of two lovers spending time in Rome when, suddenly, in a restaurant, the man believes he recognizes the voice of a woman he once loved... rem...
Les contes sauvages
1991
Directed by Gérald Calderon and Jean-Charles Cuttoli
The Man Inside
1990
as Christine
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He...

Every Other Weekend
1990
as Camille Valmont
Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's ...

C'est La Vie
1990
as Lena
A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a ...

Massacre Play
1989
Estranged childhood friends, both passionate filmmakers, find themselves on divergent paths: one an acclaimed Oscar winner, the other struggling in TV...

No Harm Intended
1988
as Catherine Duchêne
When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident. Paul...

Engagements of the Heart
1987
as Alice
Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits ...

Honeymoon
1985
as Cécile Carline
A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender, enters into a marriage of ...

Beethoven's Nephew
1985
as Leonore
The plot centers around old Beethoven's fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a lengthy custody battle against his brother's forme...

Detective
1985
as Françoise Chenal
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both t...

Rive droite, rive gauche
1984
as Sacha Vernakis
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night...

Our Story
1984
as Donatienne Pouget / Marie-Thérèse Chatelard / Geneviève Avranche
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Don...

I Married a Shadow
1983
as Hélène
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

La Balance
1982
as Nicole Danet
A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.

The Return of Martin Guerre
1982
as Bertrande de Rols
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused...

Short Memory
1982
as Judith Mesnil
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She...

Strange Affair
1981
as Nina Coline
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his fa...

The Red Shade
1981
as Anna
The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is t...

Beau Pere
1981
as Charlotte
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion,...

Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
1981
as Self
A televisual journey guided by Jean-Luc Godard inside his film Sauve qui peut (la vie), incorporating filmed conversations between him and Isabelle Hu...

La provinciale
1981
as Christine Delumet
In this drama, a provincial girl goes to Paris in search of her fortune. Although she finds the City of Light to be quite different from what she'd im...

Every Man for Himself
1980
as Denise Rimbaud
A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.

A Week's Vacation
1980
as Laurence Cuers
On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure out her life. She reconnects with friends and famil...

Rat Race
1980
as Brigitte Ozendron
Young dynamic executive, married and father of two children, Jérôme Ozendron dreams of writing and escaping a life he considers mediocre. The meeting ...
Madame Sourdis
1979
as Adèle Sourdis

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors, Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Miou-Miou, who wer...
Mon premier amour
1978
as Fabienne
This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really knew her. When he learns that...

The Green Room
1978
as Cecilia Mandel
A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.

Monsieur Papa
1977
as Janine
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.

The Man Who Loved Women
1977
as Martine Desdoits
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by...

Solemn Communion
1977
as Jeanne Vanderberghe
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families fro...

Mado
1976
as Catherine
A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the tr...

The Honeymoon Trip
1976
as Sophie
Paul and Sarah form a happy couple with no problems. But when Sarah sees Paul wrapped in the arms of a young woman her peaceful happiness collapses. S...

The Last Woman
1976
as la fille aux cerises
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him wit...

Fill 'er Up with Super
1976
as Charlotte
When a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive a big American car to its new owner who lives on the Rivier...
Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous
1975
as Fabienne Veyrier, the young woman

Un jour, la fête
1975
as Julie
Michel returns from a trip. He meets up with his friends from the H.L.M. housing estate. Together, they have set up a meeting place. The developer has...

The Slap
1974
as Christine Abeillé
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

The Mouth Agape
1974
as Nathalie
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son rema...

L'Inconnu
1973
The descent into hell begins for Edouard, a disillusioned marginal, when he loses his job, and his wife leaves with his son. His meeting with a myster...

Day for Night
1973
as Joelle, the Script Girl
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972
as Giselle
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two broth...