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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Complete Filmography
No Gods No Masters
2025
as La grand-mère de Laure
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
2019
as Edith
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
2019
as Gabrielle, the grandmother
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
2016
as Sarah
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
2016
as Yvette
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
2016
as Madeleine de Lassay
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
2015
as Madame Delalande
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
2014
as Madame de Bressigny
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
2014
as L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan
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
2014
as Edwige
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
2014
as Henriette
Josephine and Iris, sisters with opposite personalities, have their relationship radically transformed while working on a book.
Ennui Ennui
2013
as La mère de Cléo
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
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
2013
as Self
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
2013
as The choir and the coryphaeus
An homage to Greek tragedy.
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
as Self
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
Clay
2012
as Old Lady
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
2012
as Céline
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
2011
as Claire Blick
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
2011
as Madeleine
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
2011
as Mme Talbot
After murdering her abusive husband, a woman on the run develops a friendship with another widow.
Retour à Mayerling
2011
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
A retired woman and an antique computer, set in the year 2019
Le garçon avec les cheveux dans les yeux
2009
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
2009
as Self
A short documentary about Georges Franju.
You Will Be Mine
2009
as Mademoiselle Lainé
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
2008
as Hélène
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
Didine
2008
as Madame Mirepoix
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
2007
as Lucy Jüst
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
Suzanne
2007
as Mado
After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max, a womanizer, and his daughter Sabine successivel...
Echo
2007
as The caretaker
Komma
2006
as Hélène Brückner
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
2006
as Mathilde
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
2005
as La dame du 223
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
2005
as Mme Chantal
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
2003
as Self
Ever since the goddesses, gorgons and other sirens of ancient mythology, the strangest creatures, sometimes charming, sometimes terrifying, have conti...
That Day
2003
as Leone
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
2003
as Mme Arbesault
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
2002
as Manesquier's Sister
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
2001
as Sylvia
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
2001
as Première femme veillée
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
2001
as Fanette
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
2001
as Mme de Morangias
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
2000
as The widow
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
2000
as Laurence
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
2000
as Mme Weygand - la mère de Claire
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
2000
as Diane
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
1999
as Oriane de Guermantes
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
1999
as La cliente aux taches sur les mains
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
1997
as Mlle Sophie
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
1995
as Edith
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
1994
as Jeanne de Béthune
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
1993
as Madame Toussaint
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
1991
as Etnóloga
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
1991
as Couple in car
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
1991
as Judith
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
1991
as Solange de Boylesve
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.
Radio corbeau
1989
as Mme Michel, la libraire
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
1983
as Charles's wife
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
1983
as Doctor
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
1982
as Madame Bronsky
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
1981
as La voyante
Le Dernier Mélodrame
1979
as Lilette
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
1978
as Mère Angélique 1
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
1977
as La folle
After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
The Acrobat
1976
as Valentine
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
1974
as Marianne
Crossed portraits of three women each living in the aftermath of the events of May 1968.
La tête
1973
as Voices (voice)
The Old Maid
1972
as Edith, Monod's Wife
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
1971
as Sylvie
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
The Milky Way
1969
as Virgin Mary
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
1968
as Actress
Two guys facing problems in relationships and wondering about the living on the capitalist society.
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
1967
as Alice Brent
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
1965
as l'infirmière
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
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
1964
as The woman
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
1963
as Jacqueline Favraux
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
1962
as Anne De La Trave
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
1962
as Marie D'Aubray Boissand
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
1962
as Claude Larmentiel
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
1962
as Jenny
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
1960
as Edith
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
1960
as Christiane Génessier
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
1960
as Pascale
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
1959
as The singing mad
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.