Édith Scob

Édith Scob

1937-10-21 Paris, France 87 Credits

Biography

Édith Scob (21 October 1937 – 26 June 2019) was a French film and theatre actress, best known for her role as the daughter with a disfigured face in Eyes Without a Face (1960). Scob was born Édith Helena Vladimirovna Scobeltzine, the granddaughter of a Russian Army general and White Russian émigré. Her father was an architect and her mother a journalist. Her elder brother, Michel Scob (1935–1995), was a French cycling champion and Olympian. At age 14, she underwent treatment for anorexia. Her l...

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No Gods No Masters

No Gods No Masters

2025

as La grand-mère de Laure

Acting

The story unfolds in the winter of the year 1215. A mysterious stranger who has escaped from prison arrives in a tiny, remote village in the kingdom o...

Amor maman

Amor maman

2019

as Edith

Acting

Roland is forty years old. Solitary and a bit lunar, he thinks he will discover one morning that he is the hidden son of Arielle Dombasle. He decides ...

Love at Second Sight

Love at Second Sight

2019

as Gabrielle, the grandmother

7.0
Acting

A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

The Dunce

The Dunce

2016

as Sarah

5.8
Acting

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his fathe...

Things to Come

Things to Come

2016

as Yvette

6.5
Acting

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Ma...

Wicked Game

Wicked Game

2016

as Madeleine de Lassay

5.8
Acting

1997 - An old notable French provincial family falls under the spell of a manipulator with no scruples able to make a whole family become paranoid.

Family for Rent

Family for Rent

2015

as Madame Delalande

5.2
Acting

Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is a family...

Gemma Bovery

Gemma Bovery

2014

as Madame de Bressigny

6.1
Acting

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple movi...

Taprobana

Taprobana

2014

as L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan

6.1
Acting

In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, ...

An Eye for Beauty

An Eye for Beauty

2014

as Edwige

3.4
Acting

An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

2014

as Henriette

5.8
Acting

Josephine and Iris, sisters with opposite personalities, have their relationship radically transformed while working on a book.

Ennui Ennui

Ennui Ennui

2013

as La mère de Cléo

5.9
Acting

While the french ambassadress to Afghanistan is in the middle of disarmament negotiations with a Kuchi Nomad tribe, her daughter, Cleo, is Kidnapped b...

The French Trilogy

2013

as Self

Acting

The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous proj...

DRIVE IN Holy Motors

DRIVE IN Holy Motors

2013

as Self

6.0
Acting

A making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches exacting and inspiring moments of the production and add...

Electra, for Instance

Electra, for Instance

2013

as The choir and the coryphaeus

1.0
Acting

An homage to Greek tragedy.

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

2012

as Self

8.0
Acting

Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the 1...

Clara s'en va mourir

2012

as Claras Mutter

Acting
Clay

Clay

2012

as Old Lady

4.0
Acting

Alex is posing. An old lady is sculpting. It would be a normal situation. If the lady was not blind and only had her hands to see.

Holy Motors

Holy Motors

2012

as Céline

7.0
Acting

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwov...

Une vie française

Une vie française

2011

as Claire Blick

6.0
Acting

When Paul Blick, 54, a renowned photographer, returns from a long trip abroad, he learns that his daughter Marie had been interned in a psychiatric ho...

A Butterfly Kiss

A Butterfly Kiss

2011

as Madeleine

5.0
Acting

Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence ...

The Long Falling

The Long Falling

2011

as Mme Talbot

5.4
Acting

After murdering her abusive husband, a woman on the run develops a friendship with another widow.

Retour à Mayerling

Retour à Mayerling

2011

Acting

A film in which the house is itself a fundamental element and in which Vecchiali assumes the role of a recurring character, who responds by diverse na...

Nova Eva

2010

as Eda Baykan

Acting

A retired woman and an antique computer, set in the year 2019

Le garçon avec les cheveux dans les yeux

Le garçon avec les cheveux dans les yeux

2009

2.0
Acting

A woman sitting in front of a screen: we do not know if it is day or night outside. In this place, the light of the screens dominates that of time. Th...

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

2009

as Self

7.0
Acting

A short documentary about Georges Franju.

You Will Be Mine

You Will Be Mine

2009

as Mademoiselle Lainé

5.0
Acting

Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of ...

Summer Hours

Summer Hours

2008

as Hélène

6.5
Acting

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

Didine

Didine

2008

as Madame Mirepoix

6.7
Acting

Alexandrine, 35, who everyone nicknames Didine, peacefully goes with the flow, the opposite of her best friend Muriel. In this way, she one day crosse...

Heartbeat Detector

Heartbeat Detector

2007

as Lucy Jüst

5.6
Acting

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.

Suzanne

Suzanne

2007

as Mado

6.0
Acting

After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max, a womanizer, and his daughter Sabine successivel...

Echo

Echo

2007

as The caretaker

3.0
Acting
Komma

Komma

2006

as Hélène Brückner

5.4
Acting

A man assumes the identity of a dead person and convinces a young amnesiac that he is part of her life.

A Truck Under Repair

A Truck Under Repair

2006

as Mathilde

2.5
Acting

Twenty-year-old Eugène is somewhat aimless and has not been doing well in university. He is staying in a small village for the summer. He awkwardly se...

The Ring Finger

The Ring Finger

2005

as La dame du 223

5.4
Acting

When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar ki...

The Lost Domain

The Lost Domain

2005

as Mme Chantal

5.9
Acting

Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he...

Les vamps fantastiques

Les vamps fantastiques

2003

as Self

Acting

Ever since the goddesses, gorgons and other sirens of ancient mythology, the strangest creatures, sometimes charming, sometimes terrifying, have conti...

That Day

That Day

2003

as Leone

5.6
Acting

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the a...

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage

2003

as Mme Arbesault

6.3
Acting

On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impa...

Man on the Train

Man on the Train

2002

as Manesquier's Sister

6.7
Acting

A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetr...

Vidocq

Vidocq

2001

as Sylvia

5.9
Acting

Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a ...

Savage Souls

Savage Souls

2001

as Première femme veillée

4.5
Acting

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when sh...

Du côté des filles

Du côté des filles

2001

as Fanette

2.0
Acting

A suburban pavilion, garden gnomes, a bloody scene. Break between Fred and Liza. As happiness never comes alone, Carole, emerges, announces to Liza th...

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Brotherhood of the Wolf

2001

as Mme de Morangias

6.7
Acting

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the ...

The Dark Room

The Dark Room

2000

as The widow

4.2
Acting

In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her ...

Comedy of Innocence

Comedy of Innocence

2000

as Laurence

6.1
Acting

Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat ...

Of Woman and Magic

Of Woman and Magic

2000

as Mme Weygand - la mère de Claire

5.5
Acting

Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and wors...

Fidelity

Fidelity

2000

as Diane

5.9
Acting

A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric childr...

Time Regained

Time Regained

1999

as Oriane de Guermantes

6.3
Acting

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have ...

Venus Beauty Institute

Venus Beauty Institute

1999

as La cliente aux taches sur les mains

5.8
Acting

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

An Air So Pure

An Air So Pure

1997

as Mlle Sophie

5.7
Acting

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...

Casa de Lava

Casa de Lava

1995

as Edith

6.9
Acting

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The ...

Joan the Maid II: The Prisons

Joan the Maid II: The Prisons

1994

as Jeanne de Béthune

6.9
Acting

Jeanne d'Arc has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed att...

Loonies at Large

Loonies at Large

1993

as Madame Toussaint

6.0
Acting

This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been loc...

La fable des continents

La fable des continents

1991

as Etnóloga

Acting

Initiatory journey of a soprano and an ethnologist in Africa, Asia and South America, in search of music from other cultures.

The Lovers on the Bridge

The Lovers on the Bridge

1991

as Couple in car

7.4
Acting

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would ...

Rue du Bac

Rue du Bac

1991

as Judith

4.7
Acting

Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Si...

One Can Always Dream

One Can Always Dream

1991

as Solange de Boylesve

5.6
Acting

A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.

Radio corbeau

Radio corbeau

1989

as Mme Michel, la libraire

5.6
Acting

This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was pro...

Casting

Casting

1983

as Charles's wife

Acting

A famous director wants to make a film about true love, the kind his grandparents experienced when they lived together for 60 years. For this project,...

One Deadly Summer

One Deadly Summer

1983

as Doctor

6.9
Acting

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone no...

A Thousand Billion Dollars

A Thousand Billion Dollars

1982

as Madame Bronsky

6.9
Acting

A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determ...

Le Sang des Atrides

Le Sang des Atrides

1981

as La voyante

Acting
Le Dernier Mélodrame

Le Dernier Mélodrame

1979

as Lilette

Acting

A travelling company makes its way round the small villages of France. Shot for the program Cinéma 16 broadcast by the French channel FR3, where Franj...

The Suspended Vocation

The Suspended Vocation

1978

as Mère Angélique 1

6.0
Acting

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with vario...

To Each His Hell

To Each His Hell

1977

as La folle

6.0
Acting

After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."

The Acrobat

The Acrobat

1976

as Valentine

6.5
Acting

Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and pretty p...

Erica Minor

Erica Minor

1974

as Marianne

4.8
Acting

Crossed portraits of three women each living in the aftermath of the events of May 1968.

La tête

La tête

1973

as Voices (voice)

Acting
The Old Maid

The Old Maid

1972

as Edith, Monod's Wife

5.8
Acting

Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a...

Love Me Strangely

Love Me Strangely

1971

as Sylvie

4.5
Acting

Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws ...

La Mort de Danton

1970

as Lucile Desmoulins

Acting
The Milky Way

The Milky Way

1969

as Virgin Mary

7.0
Acting

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some trucu...

Haschisch

Haschisch

1968

as Actress

7.5
Acting

Two guys facing problems in relationships and wondering about the living on the capitalist society.

An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

1967

as Alice Brent

Acting

Adapted from Pierre Decourcelle's version of the William Gillette play. Jacques François plays a very mannered Holmes, almost effeminate, who is in l...

Thomas the Impostor

Thomas the Impostor

1965

as l'infirmière

6.3
Acting

In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacua...

Le Passage

1965

Acting

A woman comes home from a long illness (read: a long absence). The city hasn't changed, the man she's returning to has. She will have to learn how to ...

Fantasmagorie

Fantasmagorie

1964

as The woman

7.3
Acting

In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless ni...

Judex

Judex

1963

as Jacqueline Favraux

6.8
Acting

Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plo...

Therese

Therese

1962

as Anne De La Trave

6.7
Acting

Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and proper...

The Burning Court

The Burning Court

1962

as Marie D'Aubray Boissand

5.0
Acting

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start...

Emile's Boat

Emile's Boat

1962

as Claude Larmentiel

6.4
Acting

Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been dr...

Assassin in the Phonebook

Assassin in the Phonebook

1962

as Jenny

6.0
Acting

Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a...

Le Bel Âge

Le Bel Âge

1960

as Edith

5.3
Acting

Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging fiel...

Eyes Without a Face

Eyes Without a Face

1960

as Christiane Génessier

7.6
Acting

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders...

Line of Sight

Line of Sight

1960

as Pascale

5.2
Acting

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro wan...

Head Against the Wall

Head Against the Wall

1959

as The singing mad

6.8
Acting

An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.