Jeanne Moreau

She was most prolific during the 1960s, winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days.. Seven Nights (1960) and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965), with additional prominent roles in La Notte (1961), Jules et Jim (1962), La baie des anges (1963), Le journal d'une femme de chambre (1964) and Mademoiselle (1966). Moreau worked as a director on several films beginning with 1976's Lumière. She continued to act into the 2010s, winning the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1992) and receiving several lifetime achievement awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, a Cannes Golden Palm in 2003, and another César Award in 2008. Her collaborator and friend Orson Welles called her "the greatest actress in the world".

Jeanne Moreau studied at Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique. Training under Denis d'Inès is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is film and theatre. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Residence is recorded at Paris. Positions recorded include President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival and President of the Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival. Works named in the authority record are Seven Days. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Donostia Award.

• Born — 23 January 1928 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 31 July 2017 • Place of death — Paris, France • Resting Place — Montmartre Cemetery, Paris • Education — Conservatoire de Paris • Occupation — * Actress • screenwriter • film director • Years Active — 1947–2015 • Children — 1

Moreau was born in Paris, the daughter of Katherine (née Buckley), a dancer who performed at the Folies Bergère (d. 1990), and Anatole-Désiré Moreau, a restaurateur (d. 1975). Moreau's father was French; her mother was English, a native of Oldham, Lancashire, England and of part Irish descent. Moreau's father was Catholic and her mother, originally a Protestant, converted to Catholicism upon marriage. When Jeanne was a young girl, "the family moved south to Vichy, spending vacations at the paternal ancestral village of Mazirat, a town of 30 houses in a valley in the Allier. "It was wonderful there", Moreau said. "Every tombstone in the cemetery was for a Moreau." During World War II, the family was split, and Moreau lived with her mother in Paris. Moreau ultimately lost interest in school and, at age 16, after attending a performance of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, found her calling as an actress. She later studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her parents separated permanently while Moreau was at the conservatory and her mother, "after 24 difficult years in France, returned to England with Jeanne's sister, Michelle."

• Illustration — Moreau in 1952 In 1947, Moreau made her theatrical debut at the Avignon Festival. She debuted at the Comédie-Française in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country and, by her 20s, was already one of the leading actresses in the theatre's troupe. After 1949, she began appearing in films with small parts but continued primarily active in the theatre for several years — a year at the Théâtre National Populaire opposite among others Gérard Philipe and Robert Hirsch, then a breakout two years in dual roles in The Dazzling Hour by Anna Bonacci, then Jean Cocteau's La Machine Infernale and others before another two-year run, this time in Shaw's Pygmalion. From the late 1950s, after appearing in several successful films, she began to work with the emerging generation of French film-makers. Elevator to the Gallows (1958) with first-time director Louis Malle was followed by Malle's The Lovers (Les Amants, 1959). Moreau went on to work with many of the best known New Wave and avant-garde directors. François Truffaut's New Wave film Jules et Jim (1962), her biggest success internationally, is centered on her magnetic starring role. She also worked with a number of other notable directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (La Notte and Beyond the Clouds), Orson Welles (The Trial, Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story), Luis Buñuel (Diary of a Chambermaid), Elia Kazan (The Last Tycoon), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Querelle), Wim Wenders (Until the End of the World), Carl Foreman (Champion and The Victors), and Manoel de Oliveira (Gebo et l'Ombre). In 1983, she was head of the jury at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2005, she was awarded with the Stanislavsky Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. Moreau was also a vocalist. She released several albums and once performed with Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall in 1984. In addition to acting, Moreau worked behind the camera as a writer, director and producer. Her accomplishments were a subject in the film Calling the Shots (1988) by Janis Cole and Holly Dale. She appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's film Fassbinder's Women (2000).

• Illustration — Moreau in 2009 • Illustration — Jeanne Moreau's grave in Montmartre Cemetery Throughout her life, Moreau maintained friendships with prominent writers such as Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Henry Miller and Marguerite Duras (an interview with Moreau is included in Duras's book Outside: Selected Writings). She formerly was married to Jean-Louis Richard (1949–1964, separated in 1951), and then to American film director William Friedkin (1977–1979). She and Richard had a son, Jérôme. Director Tony Richardson left his wife Vanessa Redgrave for her in 1967, but they never married. She also had relationships with directors Louis Malle and François Truffaut, fashion designer Pierre Cardin, and the Greek actor/playboy Theodoros Roubanis. In 1971, Moreau was a signatory of the Manifesto of the 343 which publicly announced that she had obtained an illegal abortion. Moreau was a close friend of Sharon Stone, who presented a 1998 American Academy of Motion Pictures life tribute to Moreau at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, academy headquarters, in Beverly Hills. Orson Welles called Moreau "the greatest actress in the world", and she remained one of France's most accomplished actresses. In 2009, Moreau signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects". Moreau died on 31 July 2017 at her home in Paris at the age of 89. Her body was discovered by her cleaning maid. Shortly before her death, she had said she felt "abandoned" because she could not act anymore.

• Year — Title — Role — Director — Notes • 1949 — Last Love — Michèle — Jean Stelli • 1950 — Murders — Martine Annequin — PottierRichard Pottier • Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés — La môme Pâquerette — André Berthomieu • 1952 — The Man in My Life — Suzanne Dubreuil — LefrancGuy Lefranc • It Is Midnight, Doctor Schweitzer — Marie Winter — André Haguet • 1953 — Dortoir des grandes — Julie — DecoinHenri Decoin • Julietta — Rosie Facibey — AllégretMarc Allégret • 1954 — Touchez pas au grisbi — Josy — BeckerJacques Becker • Les Intrigantes — Mona Rémi — DecoinHenri Decoin • Secrets d'alcôve — Jeanne Plisson — Various directors — (segment "Billet de logement, Le") • Queen Margot — Margaret of Valois — DrévilleJean Dréville • 1955 — Les Hommes en blanc — Marianne Déjazet — Ralph Habib • M'sieur la Caille — Fernande — André Pergament • Gas-Oil — Alice — Gilles Grangier • 1956 — The Wages of Sin — Angèle Ribot — Denys de la Patellière • 1957 — Until the Last One — Gina — Pierre Billon • The She-Wolves — Agnès Vanaux — Luis Saslavsky • The Strange Mr. Steve — Florence — Raymond Bailly • Three Days to Live — Jeanne Fortin — Gilles Grangier • 1958 — Not Delivered — Jacqueline Tourieu • Ascenseur pour l'échafaud — Florence Carala — Louis Malle • Back to the Wall — Gloria Decrey — Édouard Molinaro • Les amants — TournierJeanne Tournier — Louis Malle • 1959 — The 400 Blows — Woman with Dog — TruffautFrançois Truffaut — cameo appearance • Les liaisons dangereuses — Juliette de Merteuil — VadimRoger Vadim • 1960 — Five Branded Women — Ljuba — Martin Ritt • Moderato Cantabile — Anne Desbarèdes — BrookPeter Brook — Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress • Dialogue of the Carmelites — Mère Marie de l'Incarnation — AgostiniPhilippe Agostini • 1961 — La Notte — Lidia Pontano — AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni • A Woman Is a Woman — Woman in Bar — GodardJean-Luc Godard — Uncredited, discussing Jules et Jim • 1962 — Jules et Jim — Catherine — TruffautFrançois Truffaut • Eva — Eva Olivier — LoseyJoseph Losey • The Trial — Miss Burstner — WellesOrson Welles • 1963 — Bay of Angels — Jacqueline "Jackie" Demaistre — DemyJacques Demy • The Fire Within (Le feu follet) — Eva — MalleLouis Malle • Banana Peel (Peau de banane) — Cathy — Marcel Ophüls • The Victors — the French lady — ForemanCarl Foreman • 1964 — Diary of a Chambermaid — Célestine — Luis Buñuel • The Train — Christine — FrankenheimerJohn Frankenheimer • The Yellow Rolls-Royce — Eloise, Marchioness of Frinton — AsquithAnthony Asquith • Mata Hari, Agent H21 — Mata Hari — RichardJean-Louis Richard • 1965 — Viva Maria! — Maria I — MalleLouis Malle • Chimes at Midnight — Doll Tearsheet — WellesOrson Welles • 1966 — Mademoiselle — "Mademoiselle" — RichardsonTony Richardson • 1967 — The Oldest Profession — Mimi Guillotine — de BrocaPhilippe de Broca — (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") • The Sailor from Gibraltar — Anna — RichardsonTony Richardson • 1968 — The Bride Wore Black — Julie Kohler — TruffautFrançois Truffaut • The Immortal Story — Virginie Ducrot — WellesOrson Welles — TV movie • Great Catherine — Catherine — FlemyngGordon Flemyng • 1969 — Le Corps de Diane — Diane Vallier — Jean-Louis Richard • 1970 — Monte Walsh — Martine Bernard — FrakerWilliam A. Fraker • The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir — the singer — RenoirJean Renoir — TV movie, (segment "Quand l'amour meurt") • The Deep — Ruth Warriner — Orson Welles — Filming was unfinished • Alex in Wonderland — Herself — MorrisonPaul Mazursky • 1971 — Countdown to Vengeance — Madeleine St Rose — Roger Pigaut • 1972 — Chère Louise — Louise — de BrocaPhilippe de Broca • L'humeur vagabonde — Myriam Bingeot — Édouard Luntz • Nathalie Granger — "the other woman" — DurasMarguerite Duras • Repeated Absences — nostalgie — Guy Gilles — Voice • 1973 — Joanna Francesa — Joana — Cacá Diegues • 1974 — I Love You (1974 film) — Elisa Boussac — Pierre Duceppe • Les Valseuses — Jeanne Pirolle — BlierBertrand Blier • Creezy — Renee Vibert — Pierre Granier-Deferre • 1975 — The Garden That Tilts — Maria — Guy Gilles • Hu-Man — Sylvana — LaperousazJérôme Laperrousaz • 1976 — Lumière — Sarah Dedieu — Jeanne Moreau • Monsieur Klein — Florence — LoseyJoseph Losey • The Last Tycoon — Didi — KazanElia Kazan • 1979 — The Adolescent — La narratrice — Jeanne Moreau — Voice, Uncredited • 1981 — Heat of Desire — Hélène, la mère de Caroline — Luc Béraud • Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid — Lili Marlene — George Kaczender • 1982 — A Thousand Billion Dollars — Mme Benoît-Lambert — Henri Verneuil • Querelle — Lysiane — FassbinderRainer Werner Fassbinder • La Truite — Lou Rambert — LoseyJoseph Losey • 1985 — Vicious Circle — Ines — TV play • 1986 — The Paltoquet — The Brothel-Keeper — Michel Deville • Sauve-toi, Lola — Marie-Aude Schneider — Michel Drach • 1986–1987 — Le Tiroir secret — Vivi — (different directors) — 2 episodes • 1987 — The Miracle — Sabine — MockyJean-Pierre Mocky • Remake (1987 film) — Herself — Ansano Giannarelli • 1989 — Jour après jour (1989 film) — Janine Weisman — Alain Attal • 1990 — La Femme Nikita — Amande — BessonLuc Besson • Alberto Express — the Baroness — JofféArthur Joffé • La Femme fardée — Le Doria — José Pinheiro • 1991 — Anna Karamazoff — the Lady — KhamdamovRustam Khamdamov • To meteoro vima tou pelargou — the Lady — AngelopoulosTheo Angelopoulos • The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea — Lady M — HeynemannLaurent Heynemann • Until the End of the World — Edith Farber — WendersWim Wenders • 1992 — The Lover — Narrator — Jean-Jacques Annaud — Voice • Map of the Human Heart — Sister Banville — Vincent Ward • La Nuit de l'océan — Hélène Sauveterre — Antoine Perset • The Absence — the writer's wife — HandkePeter Handke • À demain — Tete — Didier Martiny • 1993 — The Clothes in the Wardrobe — Lili — HusseinWaris Hussein — Titled The Summer House in the U.S. • Je m'appelle Victor — Rose — Guy Jacques • Screen One — Angelique — SturridgeCharles Sturridge — Episode: A Foreign Field • 1995 — One Hundred and One Nights — La première ex-épouse de M. Cinéma — Agnès Varda • Catherine the Great — Empress Elizabeth Petrovna — ChomskyMarvin J. Chomsky • Beyond the Clouds — a Lady — AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders • 1996 — I Love You, I Love You Not — Nana — HopkinsBilly Hopkins • The Proprietor — Adrienne Mark — MerchantIsmail Merchant • 1997 — Amour et confusions — Libra — Patrick Braoudé • Witch Way Love — Eglantine — ManzorRené Manzor • 1998 — Ever After — Grande Dame — TennantAndy Tennant • 1999 — Balzac (TV miniseries) — Charlotte-Laure de Balzac — DayanJosée Dayan — TV movie • 2000 — The Prince's Manuscript — Alessandra Wolf (Licy) — Roberto Andò • Les Misérables — Mere Innocente — DayanJosée Dayan — 4 episodes • 2001 — Lisa — Lisa (old) — Pierre Grimblat • That Love — Marguerite Duras — DayanJosée Dayan • 2003 — Love Actually — Lady at Marseilles Airport — CurtisRichard Curtis — Uncredited • Les Parents terribles (2003 film) — Tante Leo — DayanJosée Dayan • 2005 — Akoibon — Madame Paule — Édouard Baer • Time to Leave — Laura — OzonFrançois Ozon • Go West — Novinar — Ahmed Imamović • Les Rois maudits (miniseries) — Mahaut, Countess of Artois — DayanJosée Dayan — 5 episodes • 2006 — Roméo et Juliette — Laurence — DesgagnésYves Desgagnés • 2007 — Chacun son cinéma — The old woman / Herself — Various directors — (segment "Trois Minutes") • Désengagement — Françoise — GitaiAmos Gitai • 2008 — One Day You'll Understand — Rivka — Amos Gitai • Everywhere at Once — Narrator — * Holly Fisher * Peter Lindbergh • 2009 — Carmel (2009 film) — Amos Gitai — Voice • Face — Jeanne — TsaiMing-liang Tsai • La guerre des fils de la lumière contre les fils des ténèbres — Amos Gitai • Kérity, la maison des contes — Aunt Eleanor — Dominique Monfery — Voice • 2012 — Une estonienne à Paris — Frida — RaagIlmar Raag • Gebo et l'Ombre — Candidinha — de OliveiraManoel de Oliveira • 2015 — Thanks To My Friends — La grand-mère de Thibault — Alex Lutz — (final film role)

• Lumière (1976) • L'Adolescente (1979) • Lillian Gish (1983, TV documentary)

style="font-size: 90%;" • Year — Group — Award — Play — Result • 1988 — Molière Awards — Best Actress — Le Récit de la servante Zerline — Won

Jeanne Moreau worked in film and theatre. Recorded positions include President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival and President of the Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival. She belonged to Académie des beaux-arts. She worked at France and Paris.

Jeanne Moreau is recorded as actress, film director, singer, screenwriter and film producer.