Biography
Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian comedienne, actress and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yolande Moreau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Je ne me laisserai plus faire
2024
as Émilie
Anticipating eviction from her retirement home after the death of her son and sole provider, rebellious septuagenarian Émilie decides to take revenge ...

Into the Wonderwoods
2024
as Mémé (voice)
Angelo is a ten-year-old who dreams of becoming an explorer and a zoologist. When he goes to visit his granny, his parents leave him behind at a rest ...

Party of Fools
2024
as Camomille
Paris, 1894. Who is Fanni, who claims to be voluntarily locked up in a women-only mental institution? Searching for her mother among the multitude of ...

The Jolly Forgers
2023
as Mireille Stockaert
Mireille Stockaert is a lonely and broken woman. In love with painting and poetry, she makes do with her work in the cafeteria of the Beaux-Arts in Na...

The Jolly Forgers
2023
Director, Writer
Mireille Stockaert is a lonely and broken woman. In love with painting and poetry, she makes do with her work in the cafeteria of the Beaux-Arts in Na...

Le Principal
2023
as Estelle
Sabri Lahlali, the assistant principal of a local high school, is ready to do anything to ensure that his son, who is about to take his high school di...

Amélie: The Real Story
2023
as (archive footage)
The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.

Scarlet
2023
as La magicienne
A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter.

Grand ciel
2022
as Colette, the mother

The Voiceless
2022
as Calamity
A small clan lives in the underworld of a rubbish dump. They recycle the waste they find or steal, in order to cobble their home together. Life there ...

En même temps
2022
as Mme Bianca
On the eve of a vote to greenlight the construction of a leisure centre where a primal forest currently stands, an unashamedly right-wing mayor sets o...

Drôles de familles
2022
as Self
When comedians draw on the family to make people laugh, everyone is concerned. This documentary looks at everything that is horrifying or hilarious in...

Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï
2022
as La Commissaire Jeanne Weber
Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to A...

Mum Is Pouring Rain
2022
as Granny Onion (voice)
Jeanne, 8 years old, is a little girl with a strong character. Her mother, on the other hand, is going through a depression; she decides to get some h...

Les enfants de bohème
2021
as Manie
Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the f...

Les Damnés de la Commune
2021
as Victorine (voice)
Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in...

The Grand Restaurant III
2021
as Christine
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” ...

How to Be a Good Wife
2020
as Gilberte Van der Beck
Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage ...

Cleo
2019
as Jet
Six months after a car accident that cost her her parents, Cleo is finally starting to feel the same way before. She lives with her seven-year-old bro...

Rebels
2019
as Nadine Dewulder, fishmonger's employee
Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of...

I Feel Good
2018
as Monique
He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. One-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he know...

The Summer House
2018
as Jacqueline
A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with he...

Raymonde or the Vertical Escape
2018
as Raymonde (voice)
Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity...

Laïka
2018
as La voix
A French staging of Ascanio Celestini's play "Laïka" by himself.

Crash Test Aglae
2017
as Marcelle
Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated...

Two Snails Set Off
2017
as (voice)
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate t...

Do it Right
2017
as Madame Cousin
Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the ...

A Woman's Life
2016
as La baronne Adélaïde Le Perthuis des Vauds
Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She ma...

The Childhood of a Leader
2016
as The Maid
The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Ver...
Nulle part en France
2016
Director, Author

Saint Amour
2016
as Marie (voice)
Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. Thi...

The Brand New Testament
2015
as God's Wife
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand...

Journey Through China
2015
as Liliane
Liliane, a provincial nurse in her peaceful fifties, must cope with the accidental death of her son in China. She decides to fly there in order to rep...

Brèves de comptoir
2014
as Madame Lamelle
A small, old-fashioned cafe in a suburban square, opposite the cemetery, the Hirondelle. Every day at half past six, the customers dance with their st...

Ablations
2014
as Wortz's assistant
Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He w...

Henri
2013
as Tante Michèle
The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a woman who dreams of lo...

Henri
2013
Writer, Director
The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a woman who dreams of lo...
Cinéast(e)s
2013
as Self
Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the...

9 Month Stretch
2013
as Bob's mother
Ariane Felder is pregnant! This is surprising with her being a young hardened judge with strict morals. But what is more surprising is that, accordin...

In the House
2012
as Les jumelles Rosalie et Eugénie
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French te...

Camille Rewinds
2012
as La mère de Camille
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for ...

Cinderella: Once Upon a Time in the West
2012
as Felicity (voice)
Cinderella is transformed for a night at the royal ball, but finds herself battling a band of gorilla pirates who have kidnapped Prince Vladimir and t...

The Big Night
2012
as La mère de la punkette
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Ke...

The Long Falling
2011
as Rose Mayer
After murdering her abusive husband, a woman on the run develops a friendship with another widow.

The Pack
2010
as La Spack
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back fro...

Mammuth
2010
as Catherine Pilardosse
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is d...

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.

Ya basta !
2010
A specialised center is closing its doors. The mentally handicapped inhabitants helped by their educators are taking their destiny in their own hands.

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
2010
as Fréhel
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the...

Micmacs
2009
as Tambouille
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a...

Incognito
2009
as Mme Champenard
Lucas is an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.

The True Story of Puss 'n Boots
2009
as La reine
A free adaptation of Charles Perrault's famous Puss'n Boots, "The True Story of Puss'n Boots" is a story for young and old for the first time on cinem...

The Beaches of Agnès
2008
as Self - racontant un souvenir d'enfance d'Agnès Varda
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with t...

A Day at the Museum
2008
as Madame Stenthels, African arts
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin,...

Louise-Michel
2008
as Louise Ferrand
In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man t...

Séraphine
2008
as Séraphine Louis, dite Séraphine de Senlis
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painte...

Villa Marguerite
2008
as Adèle Grandclément

Mia and the Migoo
2008
as la sorcière / les tantines
One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mount...

Vous êtes de la police ?
2007
as Christine Léger
A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.

Splendeur et gloire des Deschiens
2007
as Self (archive footage)
The first best of Les Deschiens on DVD. A selection of the best "classic" and "modern" sketches.

The Last Mistress
2007
as La comtesse d'Artelles
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

Call Me Elisabeth
2006
as Rose
A 10-year-old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the ...

Paris Je T'aime
2006
as La mime (Tour Eiffel)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Tour Eiffel
2006
as La mime

Locked Out
2006
as Gina
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...

Bunker Paradise
2006
as Claire
Friendly and broke, Mimmo dreams of being rich and famous, but for now he's a taxi driver. One evening, he meets John Deveau, a wealthy and perverse m...
Les Vacances de Noël
2005
as Yolande Moreau
Two men, fifty years young, seduce younger women at the Cannes Film Festival and are quite successful as long as there are no youngsters among them.

The Ax
2005
as préposée de la Poste
A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

Ze Film
2005
as La femme Kodak
A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets confused wit...

When the Sea Rises
2004
as Irène
An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him...

When the Sea Rises
2004
Writer, Director
An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him...

A Wonderful Spell
2004
as Hélène
Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming fl...

Les Deschiens - série moderne
2003
as Yolande Morel

Body to Body
2003
as l'institutrice
Laura Bartelli is a stripper in a French bar. She retires after a moody landscape architect named Marco Tisserand asks her to abandon her life and sha...

At Home with the Rozes
2003
as Marsanne
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has ...

A Piece of Sky
2002
as Mrs. Pasquier
A woman struggles to acclimate to prison life while her friend organises a labour strike on the outside.

Step by Step
2002
as Inspecteur Chantal Bex
The police are questioning Hubert Verkamen, suspected of murdering an entire family. Although he presents himself as an honest businessman, the cops k...

Les Deschiens - Spécial Coupe du Monde de football
2002

The Milk of Human Kindness
2001
as Babette
A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place.

Her Mother, the Whore
2001
as Annie
After Coralie was found dead in a vacant lot, her mother Catherine - who thinks that her daughter was murdered - conducts her own investigation.

Amélie
2001
as Madeleine Wallace
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a...
First Christmas
2000
as L'institutrice
Little Rafik learns about Santa Claus in School, when he arrives just before Christmas with his Tunisian family to settle down in France in the 1960's...

L'Ami du jardin
1999
as Mme Pogut
An ordinary night in the village of Beugneux. Mademoiselle Tronchet discovers her brother Léon - a notary and a great collector of garden gnomes - han...

The Journey to Paris
1999
as The Baker
Shy and still living with his mother, a highway cashier one day decides to finally live his craziest dream: to visit Paris.

Man's Best Friend
1999
as Marie-Do
This is a light comedy about Amir, a young Pakistani who has been working for Jo for six years. Jo has a ready-to-wear clothes shop in the Sentier are...

Les Deschiens : Qui va m'aimer ?
1999
as Yolande

Let There Be Light!
1998
as Dieu contractuelle
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Full Moon
1998
as Marie Rochat
Fredi M. Murer wrote and directed this Swiss drama about a family with a missing child. The only explanation seems to be kidnapping, but no ransom not...

An Air So Pure
1997
as Laure Surville
In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicte...

Les Précieuses ridicules
1997

Everything Must Disappear
1997
as Irene Millard
Robert Millard has based his industrial kingdom - based on all the noise technologies - thanks to his marriage with the wealthy and cantankerous Irene...

La Belle Verte
1996
as La boulangère
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the o...
Baloche
1996
as Jacqueline Van Bersen

The Three Brothers
1995
as la patronne du PMU
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that ...

Happiness Is in the Field
1995
as Lucette
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only...

The Horseman on the Roof
1995
as Madame Rigoard
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Les Deschiens - C'est magnifique
1994
as Yolande

The Son of the Shark
1993
as L'automobiliste
Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find...

Germinal
1993
as 'La Levaque'
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, ...

Loonies at Large
1993
as Bus driver (uncredited)
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been loc...

Les Deschiens - Les pieds dans l'eau
1993
With their faces of sweet lunatics or lighted beaufs, citizens of the ordinary or pochards between two wines, they interpret, in twos or threes, conve...

Les Deschiens - Lapin chasseur
1989
The life of a "big" restaurant seen as a world unto itself, a world apart with its own inhabitants, rules, intrigues, movements, hierarchy, history an...
Le jour de congé
1989
A girl working in a crisis center has a curious experience after receiving a call for help. Belgian actress and director Yolande Moreau has an unforge...

Vagabond
1985
as Yolande
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her dea...

Seven Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom, for Sale
1984
as La Servante Belge
An unusual visit to a large, empty apartment. But is it empty or not? Maybe a family has lived there or is going to live there. Maybe a young girl is ...
Ma chair et mon sang
N/A
TV film produced for the "petites caméras" collection.
Harmonie
N/A
as Marie
Des femmes comme les autres
N/A
Sale affaire, du sexe et du crime
N/A