Stéphane Audran obit

Stephane Audran, Star of ‘Babette’s Feast,’ Dies at 85

The French actress had a long creative collaboration with auteur Claude Chabrol, with whom she made 25 films. 

She was not on the list.

Stephane Audran, an icon of French New Wave cinema who starred in movies by auteurs Eric Rohmer, Luis Bunuel and Claude Chabrol, has died. She was 85.

Her son, actor Thomas Chabrol, told the AFP news agency that Audran, who was the second wife of Claude Chabrol for 16 years until 1980, died early Tuesday following a long illness. “She [Audran] had been in hospital for 10 days and she had returned home. She died peacefully at around 2 a.m.,” he said.

Audran’s more memorable film roles include Chabrol’s 1970 film Le Boucher, Bunuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Gabriel Axel’s 1987 art house hit Babette’s Feast, in which she had the starring role of Babette Hersant.

Born Colette Dacheville on Nov. 2, 1932, Audran went on to become a mainstay of European cinema in the late 1960s and ‘70s after getting her start in French theater. In all, she made 25 films with the prolific Chabrol, many classics about murderous intrigue that starred Audran as an adulterous or betrayed wife called Helene, including Les Biches and La Rupture.

“My rapport with Stephane as an actress is more agreeable now than when we were married,” Chabrol said after his divorce from Audran. “When you spend your days and nights with your wife and then you look through the camera and see her again, it’s just too much.”

Her TV roles including a star turn as Lord Marchmain’s mistress Cara in the period drama Brideshead Revisited. Audran won a BAFTA in 1974 for her role in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie after receiving BAFTA nominations for roles in Le Boucher and Babette’s Feast.

Audran also received three Cesar Award nominations in France and picked up a best supporting actress Cesar for her role in the 1978 film Violette Noziere. She also was named best actress in 1989 by the London Critics Circle Film Awards for her leading role in Babette’s Feast.

 

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1974

 

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5.7

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1974

 

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1972

 

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1972

 

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7.0

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1972

1 episode

 

Aussi loin que l'amour (1971)

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6.8

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1971

 

Jean-Louis Trintignant in Without Apparent Motive (1971)

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6.3

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1971

 

Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Anna Douking, and François Périer in Just Before Nightfall (1971)

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7.2

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1971

 

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1970

 

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7.2

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1970

 

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1970

 

The Butcher (1970)

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7.3

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1970

 

Stéphane Audran in The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

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7.4

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1969

 

Stéphane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Jacqueline Sassard in Les Biches (1968)

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6.8

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1968

 

The Champagne Murders (1967)

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7.1

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1966

 

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5.3

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1965

 

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6.7

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1965

 

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1964

 

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6.4

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7.0

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1962

 

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5.6

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1961

 

Wise Guys (1961)

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6.3

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1961

 

The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)

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1960

 

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7.2

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1960

 

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7.2

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1959

 

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7.3

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1958

 

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5.8

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1958

 

Le jeu de la nuit

1957

 

Soundtrack

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5.5

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1999

 

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2013

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2012

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6.9

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2012

1 episode

 

Laurent Ruquier in On n'est pas couché (2006)

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5.3

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2009

1 episode

 

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6.1

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2006

 

Regarding Buñuel (2000)

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7.3

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2000

 

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7.1

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1995

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Matin Bonheur (1987)

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Studio Gabriel (1994)

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6.8

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1995

1 episode

 

The Son of Gascogne (1995)

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6.4

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1995

 

Alexandra David-Néel (1992)

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6.6

Self (voice)

1992

 

Le divan (1987)

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5.6

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1989

1 episode

 

Champs-Elysées (1982)

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6.5

TV Series

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1988

1 episode

 

Mardi cinéma (1982)

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6.7

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7 episodes

 

Cinématon (1972)

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7.0

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8.2

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1986

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6.4

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1986

1 episode

 

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4.2

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1985

1 episode

 

La vie de château (1984)

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1985

1 episode

 

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5.4

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3 episodes

 

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1983

1 episode

 

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4.6

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1981

1 episode

 

Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)

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5.4

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3 episodes

 

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1979

1 episode

 

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7 episodes

 

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1978

1 episode

 

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2 episodes

 

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7.0

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1973

3 episodes

 

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3.5

TV Series

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1973

1 episode

 

Gala de l'union (1959)

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3.6

TV Series

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1973

1 episode

 

Midi Trente (1972)

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6.2

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1973

1 episode

 

Samedi soir (1971)

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Self

1973

1 episode

 

L'hexagone

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1972

1 episode

 

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1971

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1971

1 episode

 

Filmikalenteri

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1971

1 episode

 

Sacha Distel in Sacha show (1963)

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1970

1 episode

 

L'invité du dimanche (1968)

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Self

1969

1 episode

 

Release (1967)

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Self

1969

1 episode

 

47 rue Vieille-du-Temple: Paris After Hours (1960)

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7.5

Short

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1960

 

Archive Footage

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7.3

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2024

 

Jean Yanne, tendre provocateur (2022)

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7.2

TV Movie

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2022

 

La Nouvelle Vague, une bande à part (2022)

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6.9

TV Movie

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2022

 

Rembob'Ina (2018)

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5.8

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2020

1 episode

 

Close Up (1994)

Isabelle Huppert: Message personnel

6.9

TV Movie

Self (archive footage)

2020

 

The Oscars (2019)

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5.5

TV Special

Self - Actress (In Memoriam) (archive footage)

2019

 

Chabrol, l'anticonformiste (2019)

Chabrol, l'anticonformiste

6.7

TV Movie

Self (archive footage)

2019

 

TCM Remembers 2018 (2018)

TCM Remembers 2018

9.8

TV Special

SelfSelf - actress (archive footage)

2018

 

Le monde en face (2009)

Le monde en face

7.0

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2012

1 episode

 

Les 13 vies du chat Lelouch (2002)

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5.6

TV Movie

SelfSelf - Elle-même, actrice dans 'Le jeu de la nuit' (1957) (archive footage)

2002

 

Eddie Constantine: Cet homme est un sentimental...

4.7

TV Movie

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

1999