Biography
Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville; November 8, 1932 – March 27, 2018) was a French film and television actress. Best known for her performances in Oscar-winning movies such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987), and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978), she became mostly associated with haughty bourgeois women roles. She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, a...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2019
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
The Other Side of the Wind
2018
as Stéphane Audran
Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts...
In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
2013
as Self
On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Gu...
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
2013
as Self
A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
Through Babette's Eyes
2012
as Self
An interview with actress Stephane Audran about her role in Gabriel Axel's 1987 film BABETTE'S FEAST.
The Girl from Monaco
2008
as Édith Lassalle
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil...
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
2006
as Self
Spring 2004, a house with a large garden welcomes filmmaker Claude Chabrol. He is about to celebrate his 54 films and 74 years of age. Thomas Chabrol,...
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
2005
as Walloon
A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It incl...
Sissi, the Rebellious Empress
2004
as Sophie
The last three days in the life of Elizabeth of Austria before her assassination.
J'ai faim !!!
2001
as Gaby
A chubby forty-ish florist is dumped for a gorgeous young woman. She decides to lose weight and to ruin her rival's life in order to win her handsome ...
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
2000
as Lulu Kreutz
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to hea...
Belle Maman
1999
as Brigitte
At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de ...
Madeline
1998
as Lady Marie Covington
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, maki...
Arlette
1997
as Diane
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover be...
Petit
1996
as Françoise
After a night of drinking on the eve of his wedding, Léo wakes up as a child...
Maximum Risk
1996
as Chantal
Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New ...
Au petit Marguery
1995
as Josephine
Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The re...
Son of Gascogne
1995
as Self
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because t...
Betty
1992
as Laure
A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of ...
The Turn of the Screw
1992
as Mrs. Grose
A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds t...
Weep No More, My Lady
1992
as Minna
When demanding actress Leila is found drowned there are numerous suspects but the main suspect is her husband Ted. Adapted from the novel by Mary Higg...
Quiet Days in Clichy
1990
as Adrienne
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Mass in C Minor
1990
as Marie-Laure Villegrain
Friends Philippe and Laurent, a violinist and a cello player, frequently team up to play special gigs. While performing for a wedding, they meet the h...
Sons
1990
as Florence Sr.
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
1989
as Sister Amanda
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former ...
Champagne Charlie
1989
as Thérèse
This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctan...
The Spider Labyrinth
1988
as Mrs. Kuhn
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
Corps z'à corps
1988
as Edna Chabert
A newspaper editor attempts to save a failing girlie magazine.
The Seasons of Pleasure
1988
as Bernadette
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and...
Faceless
1988
as Mrs. Sherman
A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret involving kidnapped women, blood, and organs.
Babette's Feast
1987
as Babette Hersant
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 1...
Follow My Gaze
1986
as The wife of the couch potato
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. A...
The Gypsy
1986
as Brigitte
Hubert Durieux is a banker in a small French town who is struggling to keep up with the demands of all the women in his life. Just when things couldn’...
Night Magic
1985
as Janice
Night Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre of it all is Michael, a music hall artist, who finds J...
La Cage aux Folles 3
1985
as Matrimonia
Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato's drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distan...
Cop au Vin
1985
as Madame Cuno
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
The Blood of Others
1984
as Gigi
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann...
Thieves After Dark
1984
as Isabelle's mother
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
Scarlet Fever
1983
as Minon
In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and h...
Deadly Circuit
1983
as Germaine, la dame en gris
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
Elective Affinities
1983
as Charlotte
On the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a childh...
Paradise for All
1982
as Édith
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain ...
Le Choc
1982
as Jeanne Faulques (uncredited)
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier know...
Boulevard des assassins
1982
as Francine
After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.
Coup de Torchon
1981
as Huguette Cordier
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
Le Beau Monde
1981
as Ariane
Jean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random. Taken as a jaguar by a rich man, he finds himself invited ...
The Plouffe Family
1981
as Mme Boucher
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
La Cage aux Folles II
1980
In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin ge...
Le Cœur à l'envers
1980
as Jeanne
Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mo...
The Big Red One
1980
as Walloon
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian P...
Le Soleil en face
1980
as Geneviève
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with...
The Winner
1979
as Mme Hélène Dupré-Granval
A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge...
Eagle's Wing
1979
as The Widow
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meetin...
Violette Nozière
1978
as Germaine Nozière
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent ...
Blood Relatives
1978
as Mme Lowery
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
Death of a Corrupt Man
1977
as Christiane
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a rackete...
The Devil's Advocate
1977
as Contess Anne Di Sanctis
A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canoni...
Silver Bears
1977
as Shireen Firdausi
Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he ar...
The Twist
1976
as Claire
Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's pub...
Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976
as Mimì / Chantal
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb a...
The Black Bird
1975
as Anna Kemidov
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop ...
B. Must Die
1975
as Susana
In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the re...
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
1974
as Catherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles...
And Then There Were None
1974
as Ilona Morgan
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the kille...
Cry of the Heart
1974
as Claire
Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, leaving the other paralyzed. Desperate, the boy tr...
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974
as Cécile Malempin
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and i...
Wedding in Blood
1973
as Lucienne Delamare
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been we...
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
1972
as Dr. Bogdanovich
A private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
as Alice Sénéchal
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a v...
A Murder Is a Murder
1972
as Marie Kastner / Anne
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
As Far as Love Can Go
1971
as La femme de Michel
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and...
Without Apparent Motive
1971
as Hélène Vallée
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all thes...
Just Before Nightfall
1971
as Hélène Masson
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970
as Anita Caldwell, ancienne amie de Dany
Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on a...
The Breach
1970
as Hélène Regnier
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
Only the Cool
1970
as Dominique
A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage drama. Dominique is the neglected wife of a spy who tr...
The Butcher
1970
as Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a ...
The Unfaithful Wife
1969
as Hélène Desvallées
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala...
Les Biches
1968
as Frédérique
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local arch...
The Champagne Murders
1967
as Jacqueline
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
Line of Demarcation
1966
as La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel...
The Blue Panther
1965
as Olga
Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus po...
La Muette
1965
A boy buys earplugs to block out the shouting of his constantly quarreling parents, but his innocent act has tragic results.
Six in Paris
1965
as The Mother (segment "La Muette")
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and ...
Code Name: Tiger
1964
as La chanteuse d'opéra
A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediat...
Hard Boiled Ones
1964
as Rika Lormond
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
Bluebeard
1963
as Fernande Segret
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furnit...
Sign of the Lion
1962
as La Patronne de l'Hôtel
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing fi...
The Third Lover
1962
as Hélène
On a work assignment in Germany, failed journalist Albin crosses paths with Andreas, a successful writer, and his wife Hélène, who quickly becomes the...
Saint-Tropez Blues
1961
as Lucie
With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her friend Jean-Paul. They are soon caught up in the Sain...
Wise Guys
1961
as Xavière, la danseuse
In Paris in the early 1960s, Ronald is a son of a good family, with a carefree, pleasure-oriented life. He is one of the leading figures in the small ...
The Good Girls
1960
as Ginette
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.
The Cousins
1959
as Françoise
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the ...
Secrets of a French Nurse
1958
as Aline Monnier
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watc...
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
1951
as Charlotte (voice)
On a snowy day in a Swiss village, Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to spark jealousy. Later, at Charlotte’s home, tensions rise as they d...