Jeanne Moreau
French actress, singer, screenwriter and director (1928-2017)
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Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, and director who lived from 1928 to 2017. She matters because she was a prominent and versatile figure in French cinema and the arts during the 20th century.
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- Born
- 1928
- Died
- 2017-07-31
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- La notte
- La Jalousie
- La Jalousie
- La jalousie
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Acting · Paris, France
Jeanne Moreau (January 23, 1928 – July 31, 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, and director. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. She began playing small roles in films in 1949 and eventually achieved prominence as the star of Lift to the Scaffold (UK)/Elevator to the Gallows (USA) (1958), directed…
Known for
- The Life of Mirrors2025
- Belmondo: The Incorrigible2022
- Morceaux de Cannes2021
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool — Self - Actress (archive footage)2019
- André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema — Self - Actress (archive footage)2019
- Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Jeanne Moreau ( French: [ʒan mɔʁo]; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française.
Moreau began playing small roles in films in 1949, later achieving prominence with a starring role in Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows (1958). 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).
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