Actor
Jeanne Moreau
Biography

Jeanne Moreau (23 January 1928 – 31 July 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 by Louis Malle, and Jules et Jim (1962), directed by François Truffaut. Most prolific during the 1960s, ...

Known For
Acting
2019 -- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019 -- André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema | Self - Actress (archive footage)
2018 -- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self (archive footage)
2018 -- Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit | Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
2014 -- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Actress (archive footage)
2014 -- François Truffaut l'insoumis | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- L'Habit ne fait pas le moine | Madeleine
2013 -- Venice 70: Future Reloaded | Voice
2013 -- Ain't Misbehavin | Self
2012 -- A Lady in Paris | Frida
2012 -- Lullaby to my Father | Narrator (voice)
2012 -- Close Up | Self (archive footage)
2012 -- Gebo and the Shadow | Candidinha
2011 -- A Bad Encounter | Gaby
2011 -- Bouquet final | Marie
2010 -- Dispositif 47 - The Second Death |
2009 -- Eleanor's Secret | Aunt Eléonore (voice)
2009 -- Face | Jeanne
2009 -- Carmel | Narrator
2009 -- Bulles de Vian | Self
2009 -- Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller | Self
2009 -- Looking for Truffaut | Self (archive footage)
2008 -- Château en Suède | Agathe Falsen
2008 -- Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim » | Self (actrice, rôle de Catherine)
2008 -- Sous les vents de Neptune | Josette
2008 -- One Day You'll Understand | Rivka
2007 -- To Each His Own Cinema | The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes")
2007 -- Disengagement | Françoise
2007 -- The Deep | Ruth Warriner
2007 -- A City Runs Through the Festival | Self
2006 -- Roméo et Juliette | Laurence
2005 -- Go West | Novinar
2005 -- A Cursed Monarchy | Mahaut d'Artois
2005 -- The Other Side of Welles | Self
2005 -- Time to Leave | Laura
2005 -- Akoibon | Madame Paule
2005 -- Autogram | Jeanne Moreau
2004 -- François Truffaut, une autobiographie | Self
2003 -- Hot House | Léo
2003 -- Love Actually | Taxi Passenger at Marseille Airport (uncredited)
2001 -- Cet amour-là | Marguerite Duras
2001 -- Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance | Anna Shermann
2001 -- Lisa | Lisa (old)
2000 -- Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote | Self
2000 -- The Prince's Manuscript | Alessandra Wolf (Licy)
1999 -- Balzac: A Life of Passion | Charlotte-Laure
1998 -- EverAfter | Grande Dame
1997 -- A Witch's Way of Love | Eglantine
1997 -- Love & Confusions | Libra
1996 -- The Proprietor | Adrienne Mark
1996 -- I Love You, I Love You Not | Nana
1996 -- Catherine the Great | Elizabeth
1996 -- The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Self (archive footage)
1995 -- Beyond the Clouds | Friend
1995 -- Orson Welles: The One-Man Band | Self (segment "The Deep") (archive footage)
1995 -- The World of Jacques Demy | Self
1995 -- To Make a Film Is to Be Alive | Self (uncredited)
1995 -- One Hundred and One Nights | Mr. Cinéma's First Ex-wife
1993 -- The Summer House | Lili
1993 -- A Foreign Field | Angelique
1993 -- François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits | Self (archive footage)
1993 -- Map of the Human Heart | Sister Banville
1993 -- My Name is Victor | Rose
1993 -- The Absence | Writer's Wife
1992 -- See You Tomorrow | Tete
1992 -- La nuit de l'océan | Hélène Sauveterre
1992 -- The Lover | Narrator
1991 -- The Suspended Step of the Stork | The Woman
1991 -- The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea | Lady M
1991 -- Until the End of the World | Edith Farber
1991 -- Anna Karamazoff | Woman
1991 -- Filming Under Pressure | Self
1990 -- Wim Wenders in Tokyo | Self
1990 -- La Femme fardée | La Doria
1990 -- Alberto Express |
1990 -- Au coeur de Nikita | Self
1990 -- La Femme Nikita | Armande
1990 -- With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film | Self
1989 -- The Architecture of Doom | French narrator (voice)
1988 -- Calling the Shots | Self
1987 -- Miracle Healing | Sabine
1986 -- Francois Simon the Presence | Self
1986 -- Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance | Madame Exe
1986 -- Sauve-toi, Lola | Marie-Aude Schneider
1986 -- The Nonentity | Barbesitzerin
1985 -- Vivement Truffaut | Narrator / Self / Catherine
1985 -- Vicious Circle | Ines
1984 -- The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel | Self
1983 -- L'Intoxe | Marie-Pierre
1983 -- Lillian Gish | Herself
1982 -- The Trout | Lou
1982 -- Querelle | Lysiane
1982 -- A Thousand Billion Dollars | Madame Benoît-Lambert
1981 -- Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid | Lili Marlene
1981 -- Heat of Desire | Hélène
1979 -- The Adolescent | La narratrice (voice) (uncredited)
1976 -- The Last Tycoon | Didi
1976 -- Mr. Klein | Florence Klein
1976 -- Lumière | Sarah
1975 -- Hu-Man | Sylvana
1975 -- French Provincial | Berthe
1975 -- Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète |
1975 -- The Garden That Tilts | Maria
1974 -- The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir | The Singer (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")
1974 -- Creezy | Renee Vibert
1974 -- Going Places | Jeanne Pirolle
1973 -- Joanna Francesa |
1973 -- Omnibus: François Truffaut | Self
1973 -- Nathalie Granger | L'autre femme
1972 -- Repeated Absences | La voix de la nostalgie (voice)
1972 -- Dear Louise |
1972 -- Vagabond Humor | Myriam Bingeot
1972 -- Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! |
1971 -- Côté cour, côté champs |
1970 -- Alex in Wonderland | Herself
1970 -- Monte Walsh | Martine Bernard
1970 -- Langlois | Self
1970 -- Countdown to Vengeance | Madeleine
1970 -- Jeanne raconte Jeanne | Herself
1969 -- Diane's Body | Diane Vallier
1968 -- Great Catherine | Catherine
1968 -- Portrait: Orson Welles | Self
1968 -- The Immortal Story | Virginie Ducrot
1968 -- The Bride Wore Black | Julie Kohler
1967 -- The Oldest Profession | Mimi Guillotine (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
1967 -- The Sailor from Gibraltar | Anna
1966 -- Mademoiselle | Mademoiselle
1965 -- Chimes at Midnight | Doll Tearsheet
1965 -- Viva Maria! | Maria II
1965 -- Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau | Self
1965 -- The Car That Became a Star | The Marchioness of Frinton (archiveFootage)
1964 -- The Yellow Rolls-Royce | The Marchioness of Frinton
1964 -- The Train | Christine
1964 -- Diary of a Chambermaid | Céléstine
1964 -- Mata Hari, Agent H21 | Mata Hari
1963 -- The Victors | French Woman
1963 -- The Fire Within | Eva
1963 -- Bay of Angels | Jacqueline 'Jackie' Demaistre
1963 -- Banana Peel | Cathy / Mme Volney
1962 -- Cinépanorama: Jeanne Moreau, 1962 | Self
1962 -- The Trial | Marika Burstner
1962 -- Eva | Eva Olivier
1962 -- Jules and Jim | Catherine
1961 -- A Woman Is a Woman | Woman in Bar (uncredited)
1961 -- La Notte | Lidia
1960 -- The Dialogue of the Carmelites | Mère Marie de l'Incarnation
1960 -- Seven Days… Seven Nights | Anne Desbarèdes
1960 -- Five Branded Women | Ljuba
1960 -- Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur | Narrator (voice)
1959 -- Dangerous Love Affairs | Juliette Valmont
1959 -- The 400 Blows | Woman with Dog
1958 -- The Lovers | Jeanne Tournier
1958 -- Three Days to Live | Jeanne Fortin
1958 -- Back to the Wall | Gloria Decrey
1958 -- Elevator to the Gallows | Florence Carala
1958 -- Not Delivered | Jacqueline Tourieu
1957 -- The Strange Mr. Steve | Florence
1957 -- Demoniac | Agnès Vanaux
1957 -- Until the Last One | Gina
1956 -- The Wages of Sin | Angèle Ribot
1955 -- Hi-Jack Highway | Alice
1955 -- M'sieur la Caille | Fernande
1955 -- Les Hommes en blanc | Marianne Déjazet
1954 -- Queen Margot | Marguerite de Valois, "La Reine Margot"
1954 -- The Secrets of the Bed | Jeanne Plisson
1954 -- The Scheming Women | Mona Rémi, la femme de Paul
1954 -- Touchez Pas au Grisbi | Josy
1953 -- Inside a Girls' Dormitory | Julie, la serveuse
1953 -- Julietta | Rosie Facibey
1952 -- Dr. Schweitzer | Marie Winter
1952 -- The Man in My Life | Suzanne Dubreuil
1950 -- Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés | La môme Pâquerette
1950 -- Three Sinners | Martine Annequin
1949 -- Last Love | Michèle
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