{{short description|French actress (1932–2018)}} {{Infobox person | name = Stéphane Audran | image = StephaneAudran-StudioHarcourt-1965.png | imagesize = | caption = Stéphane Audran in 1965 (Studio Harcourt) | birth_name = Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1932|11|8}} | birth_place = Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2018|03|27|1932|11|8}} | death_place = Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1955–2013 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Jean-Louis Trintignant|1954|1956|end=div}} * {{marriage|Claude Chabrol<br />|1964|1980|end=div}} }} | children = Thomas Chabrol }} '''Stéphane Audran''' (born '''Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville'''; 8 November 1932 – 27 March 2018)<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/27/stephane-audran-obituary |title=Stéphane Audran obituary |work=The Guardian |date=27 March 2018 |access-date=7 May 2023 |first=Ronald |last=Bergan}}</ref> was a French film actress. She was known for her performances in the films of her husband Claude Chabrol, including ''Les Biches'' (1968) and ''Le Boucher'' (1970), Luis Buñuel's ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' (1972), and Gabriel Axel's ''Babette's Feast'' (1987).<ref name="hollywood">{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stephane-audran-dead-star-babettes-feast-was-85-1097714 |first=Etan |last=Vlessing |title=Stephane Audran, Star of 'Babette's Feast,' Dies at 85 |date=27 March 2018 |access-date=27 March 2018 |work=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref><ref name="bbc">{{cite web|title=French star Stephane Audran dies at 85|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43556926 |website=BBC News |access-date=27 March 2018 |date=27 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="figaro">{{cite web |first=Armelle |last=Héliot |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/2018/03/27/03002-20180327ARTFIG00151-stephane-audran-mort-de-la-muse-de-claude-chabrol.php |title=Mort de Stéphane Audran, la muse de Claude Chabrol |trans-title=Death of Stéphane Audran, the muse of Claude Chabrol |date=27 March 2018 |access-date=27 March 2018 |language=fr |work=Le Figaro}}</ref> The role she was mostly associated with was that of the haughty bourgeois woman.<ref name="guardian" /><ref name="bfi">{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/obituaries/stephane-audran-new-wave-icon-chabrol-muse |title=Stéphane Audran obituary: a new wave icon |website=British Film Institute |first=Ginette |last=Vincendeau |date=18 December 2019 |access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref>

==Biography== Audran was born in Versailles and raised by her mother after her father, a doctor, died when she was six years old.<ref name="figaro" /><ref name="nyt">{{cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |title=Stéphane Audran, Star in Oscar-Winning 'Babette's Feast,' Dies at 85 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/obituaries/stephane-audran-who-starred-in-babettes-feast-dies-at-85.html |access-date=30 March 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=27 March 2018}}</ref> A graduate of the Lycée Lamartine,<ref name="guardian" /> she studied drama at the Ecole de théâtre Charles Dullin in Paris.<ref name="bfi" /> She first appeared on stage, though with little success,<ref name="figaro" /><ref name="nyt" /> and gave her film debut in the 1957 short film ''Le jeu de la nuit''.<ref name="figaro" /> Her first collaboration with director Chabrol was the 1959 ''Les Cousins'', with whom she would make a total of 25 films.<ref name="bbc" /> Having previously been married to actor Jean-Louis Trintignant,<ref name="figaro" /> she married Chabrol in 1964.<ref name="bbc" /><ref name="nyt" /> The couple had one son, actor Thomas Chabrol.<ref name="hollywood" />

Audran's major films with Chabrol include ''Les Biches'', which earned her the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival, ''Le Boucher'', ''Just Before Nightfall'' (1971), and ''Violette Nozière'' (1978), for which she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress.<ref name="hollywood" /><ref name="bbc" /> She also starred in Eric Rohmer's 1959 debut film ''Le Signe du Lion'' (released in 1962), ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'', for which she received the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (together with ''Just Before Nightfall''),<ref name="hollywood" /><ref name="bbc" /> Bertrand Tavernier's 1981 ''Coup de Torchon'', and her internationally best known film, ''Babette's Feast''.<ref name="nyt" /> In addition, Audran had supporting roles in three films directed by Samuel Fuller.<ref name="guardian" /><ref name="figaro" /> On TV, she appeared in productions like ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1981) and ''The Sun Also Rises'' (1984).

Audran and Chabrol divorced in 1980, although she continued to appear in supporting roles in his films.<ref name="guardian" /> She remained active as a character actress until the late 2000s. She died on 27 March 2018, aged 85, following a long illness. Her son Thomas reported that his mother had been in hospital for ten days before she returned home, where she died.<ref name="hollywood" /><ref name="figaro" />

==Filmography== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes / English title |- | 1957 | ''Le jeu de la nuit'' | | short film |- | rowspan="2"| 1958 | ''La bonne tisane'' | Aline Monnier | |- | ''Montparnasse 19'' | Girl on the terrace | uncredited |- | 1959 | ''Les Cousins'' | Françoise | |- | rowspan="2"| 1960 | ''Les Bonnes Femmes'' | Ginette | |- | ''Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak'' | Charlotte | short film |- | rowspan="2"| 1961 | ''Wise Guys'' | Xavière, the dancer | |- | ''Saint Tropez Blues'' | Lucie | short film |- | rowspan="2"| 1962 | ''Le Signe du lion'' | Landlady | ''The Sign of Leo'' |- | ''The Third Lover'' | Hélène | also titled ''The Eye of Evil'' |- | 1963 | ''Landru'' | Fernande Segret | ''Bluebeard'' |- | rowspan="2"| 1964 | ''Les Durs à cuire ou Comment supprimer son prochain sans perdre l'appétit'' | Rika Lormond | |- | ''Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche'' | Opera singer | ''Code Name: Tiger'', uncredited |- | rowspan="2"| 1965 | ''Six in Paris'' | Mother | segment "La Muette" |- | ''Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha'' | Olga | ''Blue Panther'' |-

| 1966 | ''Line of Demarcation'' | Wife of Dr. Lafaye | |- | 1967 | ''The Champagne Murders'' | Jacqueline Belling / Lydia | |- | 1968 | ''Les Biches'' | Frédérique | ''The Does'' |- | 1969 | ''The Unfaithful Wife'' | Hélène Desvallées | |- | rowspan="4"| 1970 | ''Le Boucher'' | Hélène | ''The Butcher'' |- | ''Children of Mata Hari'' | Dominique Krestowitz | |- | ''The Breach'' | Hélène Régnier | |- | ''The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun'' | Anita Caldwell | |- | rowspan="3"| 1971 | ''Just Before Nightfall'' | Hélène Masson | |- | ''Sans mobile apparent'' | Hélène Vallée | |- | ''Aussi loin que l'amour'' | Michel's wife | |- | rowspan="2"| 1972 | ''Un meurtre est un meurtre'' | Marie Kastner / Anne | |- | ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' | Alice Sénéchal | |- | 1973 | ''Wedding in Blood'' | Lucienne Delamare | |- | rowspan="4"| 1974 | ''Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard'' | Cécile Malempin | |- | ''Le Cri du cœur'' | Claire, Alexandre's mother | |- | ''And Then There Were None'' | Ilona Morgan | |- | ''Vincent, François, Paul and the Others'' | Catherine, Vincent's wife | |- | rowspan="2"| 1975 | ''Hay que matar a B.'' | Susana | |- | ''The Black Bird'' | Anna Kemidov | |- | rowspan="2"| 1976 | ''Chi dice donna, dice donna'' | Mimì / Chantal | segment "Donne d'affari" |- | ''The Twist'' | Claire Brandels | |- | rowspan="3"| 1977 | ''Silver Bears'' | Shireen Firdausi | |- | ''The Devil's Advocate'' | Anne, Contessa di Sanctis | |- | ''Mort d'un pourri'' | Christiane | |- | rowspan="2"| 1978 | ''Blood Relatives'' | Mrs. Lowery | |- | ''Violette Nozière'' | Germaine Nozière | |- | rowspan="2"| 1979 | ''Eagle's Wing'' | Widow | |- | ''Le Gagnant'' | Hélène Dupré-Granval | |- | rowspan="4"| 1980 | ''Le Soleil en face'' | Geneviève | |- | ''The Big Red One'' | Underground Walloon Fighter at Asylum | |- | ''Le Cœur à l'envers'' | Jeanne | |- | ''La Cage aux folles 2'' | | |- | rowspan="2"| 1981 | ''The Plouffe Family'' | Mme Boucher | |- | ''Coup de torchon'' | Huguette Cordier | |- | rowspan="3"| 1982 | ''Boulevard des assassins'' | Francine | |- | ''Le Choc'' | Jeanne Faulques | ''The Shock'', uncredited |- | ''Paradis pour tous'' | Edith | |- | rowspan="2"| 1983 | ''Deadly Circuit'' | Grey lady | ''Deadly Circuit'' |- | ''La Scarlatine'' | Minon Palazzi | |- | rowspan="3"| 1984 | ''Thieves After Dark'' | Isabelle's mother | |- | ''The Blood of Others'' | Gigi | |- | ''The Bay Boy'' | Blanche | uncredited |- | rowspan="3"| 1985 | ''Cop au Vin'' | Madame Cuno | |- | ''Night Magic'' | Janice | |- | ''La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding'' | Matrimonia | |- | rowspan="2"| 1986 | ''La Gitane'' | Brigitte | |- | ''Suivez mon regard'' | Wife of TV addict | |- | rowspan="4"| 1987 | ''Babette's Feast'' | Babette Hersant | |- | ''Faceless'' | Madame Sherman | |- | ''The Cry of the Owl'' | | |- | ''Cinématon'' episode #926 | | short film |- | rowspan="3"| 1988 | ''Les Saisons du plaisir'' | Bernadette | |- | ''Corps z'a corps'' | Edna Chabert | |- | ''Il Nido del ragno'' | Mrs. Kuhn | |- | 1989 | ''Manika, une vie plus tard'' | Sister Ananda | |- | rowspan="3"| 1990 | ''La Messe en si mineur'' | Marie-Laure Villegrain | |- | ''Quiet Days in Clichy'' | Adrienne | |- | ''Sons'' | Florence | |- | rowspan="2"| 1992 | ''Betty'' | Laure | |- | ''The Turn of the Screw'' | Mrs. Grose | |- | rowspan="2"| 1995 | ''Le Fils de Gascogne'' | Herself | ''Gascogne's Son'' |- | ''Au petit Marguery'' | Joséphine | |- | 1996 | ''Maximum Risk'' | Chantal Moreau | |- | 1997 | ''Arlette'' | Diane | |- | 1998 | ''Madeline'' | Lady Covington | |- | 1999 | ''Belle maman'' | Brigitte | |- | 2000 | ''Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz'' | Lulu Kreutz | |- | 2001 | ''J'ai faim !!!'' | Gaby, Lily's mother | ''I'm Hungry'' |- | 2002 | ''Ma femme s'appelle Maurice'' | Jacqueline Boisdain | ''My Wife's Name Is Maurice'' |- | 2008 | ''The Girl from Monaco'' | Édith Lassalle | |- | 2018 | ''The Other Side of the Wind'' | as herself | filmed 1970–1976 |}

===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1973 | ''Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street'' | Dr. Bogdanovich | episode of ''Tatort'' series |- | 1979 | ''Orient-Express'' | Baroness Maria von Pallberg | segment "Maria" |- | rowspan="3"| 1981 | ''Le Marteau piqueur'' | Marianne Bernejoul | |- | ''Le Beau monde'' | Ariane | TV movie |- | ''Brideshead Revisited'' | Cara | |- | rowspan="2"| 1982 | ''Elective Affinities'' | Charlotte | TV movie |- | ''La Marseillaise'' | Juliette Poussin | TV movie |- | rowspan="2"| 1984 | ''Mistral's Daughter'' | Paula Deslandes | |- | ''The Sun Also Rises'' | Georgette | |- | 1986 | ''Isola, Un'' | Signora Lecoq | |- | 1987 | ''Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story'' | Pauline de la Rochelle | TV movie |- | 1989 | ''Champagne Charlie'' | Thérèse | TV movie |- | 1990 | ''TECX'' | Isabelle Souverain | |- | rowspan="2"| 1992 | ''Weep No More, My Lady'' | Minna | TV movie |- | ''Le Droit à l'oubli'' | | TV movie |- | 1994 | ''L'Évanouie'' | Claire | TV movie |- | 1996 | ''Petit'' | Françoise | TV movie |- | 1997 | ''Un printemps de chien'' | Geneviève | TV movie |- | 2000 | ''La Bicyclette bleue'' | | |- | 2004 | ''Sissi, l'impératrice rebelle'' | Sophie | |- | rowspan="2"| 2005 | ''La Battante'' | Edwige Fournier | |- | ''Trois femmes… un soir d'été'' | Louise Bonnier | |}

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