Biography
Marie-Christine Barrault (born 21 March 1944) is a French actress. She is best known for her performance in Cousin Cousine (1975) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she released her autobiography, titled This Long Way To Get To You. Marie-Christine Barrault was born in Paris, France, the daughter of Martha (née Valmier) and Max-Henri Barrault. Her parents later divorced. Barrault's father, who worked in the theatre, died while she was a teenager. With n...
Known For
Complete Filmography

La maman du bourreau
2025
as Gabrielle de Miremont

The Ties That Bind Us
2025
as La mère de Sandra et Marianne
A young single father trying to find the strength to love. A feminist librarian, single by conviction, who’s decided that she won’t be a mother. A six...

Per il mio bene
2024

Oldies But Goodies
2024
as Mme. Courtillet
As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation ...

Tout sauf l’ennui
2023
as Marie-Christine Barrault

Et doucement rallumer les étoiles
2023
as Geneviève

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
2023
as Komura's Mother (voice)
A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tok...

George et Sarah
2020
as George Sand

Zénon the Rebel
2019
as Self - Narrator
Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux’s film, p...

Deux gouttes d'eau
2018
as Elisabeth Davout
A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé. But he has an identical twin brother. The de...

All About Mothers
2018
as Jacqueline
They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or lo...

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Les brumes du souvenir
2017
as Alice Blondel

Twisting Fate
2016
as Jeanne
17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By ...

Mademoiselle de la Charce
2016

The Easy Way Out
2015
as Nelly
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress ...

Toi que j'aimais tant
2014
as Hélène Maupin

Sleight of Hand
2014
as Sophie Marescot
Arnaud Marescot has a penchant to steal small objects. When his compulsive fixation targets Emilie, and he thinks he's in control over her, it's alrea...

My Name Is Hmmm...
2013
as La grand-mère
Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a "luminous journey" in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous father; h...

Domestic Life
2013
as Nicole
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their f...

The Big Bad Wolf
2013
as La mère
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering a...

Memories of a Disturbed Young Lady
2010
as The Gynecologist
Lola is still a virgin at the age of twenty-five. Her friends decide to stick their noses into it. Memoirs of a Disturbed Young Lady is the story of a...

Making Plans for Lena
2009
as Annie
Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her ...

Trivial
2007
as Mélanie Bérangère
An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is he...
Passés troubles
2006
as Béatrice
A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca ...

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005
as Self
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant ...

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
2005
as Self
Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual...

Parlez-moi d'amour
2004
as Élisa
Elisa, 65, has felt very lonely since her husband passed away 10 years ago. So she decides to rent a room in her residence to Clémentine, a young stud...

Saint-Germain ou La négociation
2003
as Chaterine de Médicis
This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religions wars between catholics and protestants in Fran...

Azzurro
2000
as Elizabeth Broyer
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, ...

La Dilettante
1999
as Thérèse Rambert
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzer...

Le grand Batre
1997
as Thérèse
The story of a family and a tradition that remain the same despite the time going by, in a land that has existed for centuries. In La Camarga, one of ...

Obsession
1997
as Ella Beckmann
Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about...

Un coup de baguette magique
1997
as Jeanne
Jeanne, Achille, and their family belong to the middle class. They have their own house. Their marriage has not always gone smoothly, but they both ma...

Love, Math and Sex
1997
as La prof de maths
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.

Mon père avait raison
1996
as Germaine Bellanger
After being abandoned by his wife, a man raises his son alone for twenty years.
Tendre piège
1996
as Françoise
The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.

Bonsoir
1994
as Marie Wileska
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himse...

Crazy Love
1993
as Louise
A young girl who has been orphaned, meets a man who has recently escaped from an insane asylum. The two pretend to be father and daughter and after fa...
Jenny Marx, la femme du diable
1993
as Jenny Marx

Next Time the Fire
1993
as Elena
The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on ...

Necessary Love
1991
In the 19th century Europe, an aging scheming couple decides to manipulate and seduce a couple of young newlyweds in love, just for the fun of it.
Marie Curie, Une Femme Honorable
1991
Documentary about the tumultuous life of the famous scientist Marie Curie.

Gallant Ladies
1990
as Jacquette de Bourdeille
Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century...

Stormy Summer
1989
as Anne
Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arriv...
The Silent Woman
1989
as Marianne
French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.

Women in Prison
1988
as La surveillante chef
Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow m...

The Student
1988
as Self (uncredited)
An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.

L'Énigme des sables
1988
A team of amateur filmmakers sets off, camera in hand, to the south of Morocco. During their stay, one of the members of the group, Fanette, a vulgar ...

Sanguines
1988
as Nedie
A new gardener arrives at the superb property of a French cultural attaché in Portugal. This frail young man does not have the head nor the figure for...

The Abyss
1988
as Hilzonde
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe unde...

Adieu, je t'aime
1988
as Nicole Dupré
A wife struggles with her husband's infidelity with another man and eventually gives herself to both of them.
The Lizard King
1988
as Beatrice Aumond
A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son.
Daniya, the emir's garden
1988
as Almodís
Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the kingd...

Manuela's Loves
1987
as Manuela
The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee.
Vaudeville
1986
as Madeleine
The husband, the wife and the lover. The husband is tired of playing the eternal husband. The wife would like to live a last love story. The lover, se...
L'été 36
1986
as Lise
In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vacation.

The Satin Slipper
1986
as La lune
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. M...

Power Of Evil
1985
as Sylvie
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.

A Better Life
1985
as Véronique's mother
Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and ...

Pianoforte
1985
as La mère de Maria
Maria studies at the university while her boyfriend Paolo is an established journalist. Both are drug addicts. Maria and Paolo try to detox with the h...

Pianoforte
1985
as Andrea
Maria studies at the university while her boyfriend Paolo is an established journalist. Both are drug addicts. Maria and Paolo try to detox with the h...

Louise... l'insoumise
1985
as Mme Royer
While watching the others on her TV screen, Louise becomes a rebellious girl.

Swann in Love
1984
as Madame Verdurin
In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes, i...

A Love in Germany
1983
as Maria Wyler
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what...

Les mots pour le dire
1983
as Eliane Saint-Jean
A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria...

Table for Five
1983
as Marie
J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a fr...

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi
1983
as Jeanne
Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.

Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
1983
as Jane
The intelligent Linda, daughter of Joseph and Jane, takes a critical view of her parents' marriage. Her father's dominant behavior and her mother's in...

L'amour trop fort
1981
as Rose-Marie de Boisel
Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose...

Stardust Memories
1980
as Isobel
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
1980
as Eva

My Dearest
1980
as Jeanne Rivière
Jeanne has been divorced for seven years now and her life is centered around Sarah, her fifteen year-old daughter. They appear to have a perfectly har...

Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979
as Lieve
Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly re...

Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen
1979
as Self
Woody Allen's interview with France Roche.

Perceval
1978
as La Reine Guenevievre
The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes fr...

Histoire vraie
1978
as Rose
A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.

The Savage State
1978
as Laurence Laurençon
L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of bo...

The Medusa Touch
1978
as Patricia
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He re...

Le Chandelier
1977
as Jacqueline
Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André...

Cousin, Cousine
1975
as Marthe
Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to t...
John Glückstadt
1975
as Hanna Hansen
Adapted from the novel Die Döppelgänger by Theodor Storm, this black-and-white drama tells the tragic story of a war veteran who, in 1860, returns to ...

Le tour d'écrou
1974
as Miss Jessel
A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, ...

An Ideal Husband
1972
as Lady Chiltern

Love in the Afternoon
1972
as Dream Sequence
Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In th...

Figaro-ci, Figaro-là
1972
as Julie

Menace
1972
as Francoise
An esteemed surgeon, Charles Bernard, and his family are victims of a violent home invasion. When his young child is held for ransom, Charles must de...

Le sagouin
1972
as Léone
In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a lif...

Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu
1971
as The mother
An evocation, realistic and poetic at the same time, of Proust's work " in which he is locked up as in the room ". Halfway between the audiovisual ada...

Le Misanthrope
1971
as Célimène

Lancelot of the Lake
1970
as Reine Guinevere
This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round...

Distracted
1970
as Lisa Gastier
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
1970
as La sœur

My Night at Maud's
1969
as Françoise
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly ...
L'empreinte de l'ange
N/A
as La mère suprême
La Vie d'une Femme
N/A
The life of Gabrielle, head of surgery in Paris, married, childless