Actress and director, born in Paris, France. The daughter of a former dancer with the Tiller Girls, she became a pupil at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique, and made her stage and film debuts in 1948. An association with the directors of the French New Wave brought her recognition as an intense, hypnotic film actress. Her most famous films include Jules et Jim (1961), Journal d'une femme de chambre (1964, Diary of a Chambermaid), La Mariée etait en noir (1967, The Bride Wore Black), and Viva Maria (1965). Occasional English-language ventures met with little acclaim, but she proved herself a formidable director with Lumière (1976) and L'Adolescente (1979). She returned to the screen in the 1990s with Nikita (1990), The Proprietor (1996), Ever After (1998), and Juliette et son amour (2000). In 1998 she was awarded an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in Cinema.
Jeanne Moreau (born 23 January 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress, singer, and director.
In the late 1950s, after making many mainstream films, including several successes, she made Elevator to the Gallows with first-time director Louis Malle.
François Truffaut's explosive New Wave film Jules et Jim (1962) is centered on her magnetic starring role, and is perhaps her most famous film. She has also appeared with a number of other notable directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (La Notte), Jean-Luc Godard (A Woman Is a Woman), Orson Welles (The Immortal Story), Luis Buñuel (Diary of a Chambermaid), and Philippe Agostini (Dialogue des Carmelites).
User Comments Add a comment…