Category

French stage actresses

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Sarah Bernhardt

French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)

Isabelle Adjani

Marion Cotillard

French actress (born 1975)

Juliette Binoche

French actress, artist and dancer (born 1964)

Simone Signoret

French actress (1921-1985)

Vanessa Paradis

French singer, model and actress

Isabelle Huppert

French actress (born 1953)

German-French actress (1938–1982)

French actress (1931-2011)

Emmanuelle Béart

French film actress

French actress and model

French actress (b. 1957)

French actress (1948-2006)

French and American actress and dancer (born 1931)

Emmanuelle Riva

French actress (1927-2017)

Danish-French actress (1940–2019)

French actress (born 1949)

French actress (1948–2026)

actress (1909–2000)

French actress and writer

French actor and writer

Clémence Poésy

French actress and model

Danielle Darrieux

French actress and singer

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

French poet and novelist

French-born Swiss actress

Marie-Christine Barrault

French actress, film director, screenwriter and singer

Ludivine Sagnier

Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat (15 May 1898 – 23 July 1992), known professionally as Arletty, was a French actress, singer, and fashion model. As an actress she is particularly known for classics directed by Marcel Carné, including Hotel du Nord (1938), Le jour se lève (1939) and Children of Paradise (1945). She was found guilty of treason for an affair with a German officer during World War II.

Sylvette Herry (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Miou-Miou (), is a French actress. A ten-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Actress for the 1979 film Memoirs of a French Whore. Her other films include This Sweet Sickness (1977), Entre Nous (1983), May Fools (1990), Germinal (1993), Dry Cleaning (1997) and Arrêtez-moi (2013). In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle.

Delphine Seyrig

French actress and film director (1932–1990)

Valérie Lemercier

French actress, comedian, singer, film director and screenwriter

Emmanuelle Devos

Marguerite Durand

French actress and journalist, editor (1864–1936)

Julie Depardieu

French actress (born 1973)

Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois (5 April 1873 – 5 January 1956), known professionally as Mistinguett (), was a French actress and singer. She was at one time the highest-paid female entertainer in the world. At the time of her unofficial retirement in 1955, Mistinguett had 60 years of experience under her belt. Mistinguett has been credited with performing in 31 movies, 9 shows, and 389 musical works.

Isabelle Carré

Zar Amir-Ebrahimi

Iranian-French actress

Noémie Merlant

French actress and film director

Dominique Blanc

Yvette Guilbert

French cabaret singer

Brigitte Fossey

Gisèle Casadesus

French actress (1914-2017)

French actress and singer

Ariane Ascaride

French actress of Spanish origin (1923-1996)

French actress (1898-1933)

Brigitte Fontaine

French poet and artist

Anaïs Demoustier

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

French actress (1821–1858)

Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is known for her acting in silent films, and rose to fame for roles in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires as Irma Vep and in Judex as Marie Verdier.

French actress and film director

French actress (born 1975)

Céline Sallette

French film actress (1918-2005)

French ballet dancer and singer