Bernadette Lafont

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Birth Date:
25.10.1938
Death date:
25.07.2013
Length of life:
74
Days since birth:
31203
Years since birth:
85
Days since death:
3901
Years since death:
10
Person's maiden name:
Bernadette Lafont,
Extra names:
Бернадетт Лафон
Categories:
Actor
Nationality:
 french
Cemetery:
Set cemetery

Bernadette Lafont (28 October 1938 – 25 July 2013) was a French actress who appeared in more than 120 films. 

Career

She started very young in the movie industry and became part of the "Nouvelle Vague" in the 60's from her films with François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol.

Lafont won the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for An Impudent Girl (L'Effrontée) in 1985. For her long service to the French motion picture industry, in 2003 she was awarded an Honorary César.

In May 2007, she chaired the jury for the fifth edition of the Award for Education presented at the 60th Cannes Film Festival. She was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor on 14 July 2009.

Private life

She was the mother of actress Pauline Lafont (1963–1988).

Selected filmography

Year Title Role Director 1958 Les Mistons Bernadette Jouve François Truffaut Le Beau Serge Marie Claude Chabrol La Tour, prends garde ! uncredited Georges Lampin 1959 Web of Passion Julie, the waitress Claude Chabrol 1960 Les Bonnes Femmes Jane Claude Chabrol 1961 Wise Guys Ambroisine Claude Chabrol 1962 Un clair de lune à Maubeuge Charlotte Jean Chérasse 1965 Compartiment tueurs Georgette's sister Constantin Costa-Gavras Les Bons Vivants Sophie Georges Lautner Pleins feux sur Stanislas Rosine Lenoble Jean-Charles Dudrumet 1967 Lamiel Pauline Jean Aurel The Thief of Paris Marguerite, the waitress Louis Malle 1968 Le Révélateur the mother Philippe Garrel The Lost Generation Marie András Kovács 1970 Elise, or Real Life Anna Michel Drach 1971 To Catch a Spy Simone Dick Clement Out 1 Sarah Jacques Rivette and Suzanne Schiffman 1972 Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me Camille Bliss François Truffaut Trop jolies pour être honnêtes Bernadette Richard Balducci 1973 The Mother and the Whore Marie Jean Eustache The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot Rosemonde Nina Companeez 1975 A Happy Divorce Jacqueline, the nurse Henning Carlsen 1976 Noroît Giulia Jacques Rivette 1978 Violette Nozière Violetta's cellmate Claude Chabrol Surprise Sock Bernadette Jean-François Davy 1979 Il ladrone Appula Pasquale Festa Campanile La Gueule de l'autre Gisèle Brossard Pierre Tchernia 1983 Cap Canaille Mireille Kebadjan Juliet Berto and Jean-Henri Roger 1984 Canicule Ségolène Yves Boisset The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak the Queen Just Jaeckin 1985 An Impudent Girl Léone Claude Miller 1986 Inspecteur Lavardin Hélène Mons Claude Chabrol 1987 Waiting for the Moon Fernande Olivier Jill Godmilow Masques the masseuse Claude Chabrol 1991 Dingo Angie Cross Rolf de Heer 1996 Le Fils de Gascogne herself Pascal Aubier 1997 Genealogies of a Crime Esther Raoul Ruiz 2006 Prête-moi ta main Geneviève Costa Éric Lartigau 2007 Les Petites vacances Danièle Olivier Peyon 2007 Broken English Madame Grenelle Zoe Cassavetes Nos 18 ans Adèle Frédéric Berthe 2012 Paulette Paulette Jérôme Enrico

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Pauline LafontPauline LafontDaughter06.04.196311.08.1988
        2Gérard BlainGérard BlainHusband23.10.193017.12.2000

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