Jeanne Moreau
Born: 1928-01-23 in Paris, France
Died: 2017-07-31
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jeanne Moreau (January 23, 1928 – July 31, 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, Moreau continued to appear in films until her death in 2017, at the age of 89. Moreau was the recipient of a César Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for individual performances, and several lifetime awards.
Filmography
2025
- Bardot as archive footage
- The Life of Mirrors
2021
2019
- Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2018
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self (archive footage)
- Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
2016
- Baden Baden ... (Thanks)
2014
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- François Truffaut l'insoumis as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Ain't Misbehavin as Self
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded as (voice)
- Salvo ... (Thanks)
- L'Habit ne fait pas le moine as Madeleine
2012
- Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- The Bardot mystery
- Gebo and the Shadow as Candidinha
- A Lady in Paris as Frida
- Lullaby to my Father as Narrator (voice)
2011
- Agnès Varda: From Here to There as Self
- Bouquet final as Marie
- A Bad Encounter as Gaby
2010
- Dispositif 47 - The Second Death as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Eleanor's Secret as Aunt Eléonore (voice)
- Visage as Jeanne
- Carmel as Narrator
- Bulles de Vian as Self
- Looking for Truffaut as Self (archive footage)
- Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller as Self
2008
- Sous les vents de Neptune as Josette
- Château en Suède as Agathe Falsen
- One Day You'll Understand as Rivka
- Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim » as Self (actrice, rôle de Catherine)
2007
- Disengagement as Françoise
- To Each His Own Cinema as The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes")
- The Deep as Ruth Warriner
- A City Runs Through the Festival as Self
2006
- The Countess of Castiglione as Principessa Sisi Altieri
- Roméo et Juliette as Laurence
2005
- The Accursed Kings as Mahaut d'Artois
- Time to Leave as Laura
- Ashes and Snow as French Narrator (voice)
- French Beauty as Self
- Go West as Novinar
- The Other Side of Welles as Self
- Akoibon as Madame Paule
- A Cursed Monarchy as Mahaut d'Artois
- Autogram as Jeanne Moreau
2004
2003
- Love Actually as Taxi Passenger at Marseille Airport (uncredited)
- The Birch-Tree Meadow ... (Writer)
- The Passions of Louis Malle as Self - Interviewee
- Hot House as Léo
2002
- Heart of the Festival as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Lisa as Lisa (old)
- Cet amour-là as Marguerite Duras
- Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance as Anna Shermann
- Bride of Trailer Camp as (archive footage)
2000
- Les Misérables as Mère Innocente
- Fassbinder's Women as Self
- The Prince's Manuscript as Alessandra Wolf (Licy)
- Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote as Self
1999
- Balzac as Charlotte-Laure
- Balzac: A Life of Passion as Charlotte-Laure
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- EverAfter as Grande Dame
1997
- Scene by Scene as Self
- A Witch's Way of Love as Eglantine
- Love & Confusions as Libra
1996
- Catherine the Great as Elizabeth
- The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
- I Love You, I Love You Not as Nana
- The Proprietor as Adrienne Mark
1995
- One Hundred and One Nights as Mr. Cinéma's First Ex-wife
- Beyond the Clouds as Friend
- Belle Époque as Récitante
- The World of Jacques Demy as Self
- To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
- Orson Welles: The One-Man Band as Self (segment "The Deep") (archive footage)
1994
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self - Guest
1993
- The Absence as Writer's Wife
- François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits as Self (archive footage)
- Map of the Human Heart as Sister Banville
- The Clothes in the Wardrobe as Lili
- A Foreign Field as Angelique
- My Name is Victor as Rose
1992
- The Lover as Narrator (voice)
- La nuit de l'océan as Hélène Sauveterre
- See You Tomorrow as Tete
1991
- Until the End of the World as Edith Farber
- Anna Karamazoff as Woman
- The Suspended Step of the Stork as The Woman
- The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea as Lady M
- Filming Under Pressure as Self
1990
- Stars 90 as Self
- Nikita as Armande
- Alberto Express as The Baroness
- La Femme fardée as La Doria
- With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film as Self
- Wim Wenders in Tokyo as Self
- Au coeur de Nikita as Self
1989
- Screen One as Angelique
- The Architecture of Doom as French narrator (voice)
1988
- Calling the Shots as Self
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self
- Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- Miracle Healing as Sabine
1986
- Le Tiroir secret as Vivi
- The Nonentity as Barbesitzerin
- Sauve-toi, Lola as Marie-Aude Schneider
- Francois Simon the Presence as Self
- Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance as Madame Exe
1985
- Screen Two as Lili
- Vicious Circle as Ines
- Vivement Truffaut as Narrator / Self / Catherine
1984
- Lillian Gish as Self
- The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel as Self
1983
- L'Intoxe as Marie-Pierre
1982
- Querelle as Lysiane
- A Thousand Billion Dollars as Madame Benoît-Lambert
- The Trout as Lou
- The Orson Welles Story as Self
1981
- Heat of Desire as Hélène
- Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid as Lili Marlene
1979
- The Adolescent as La narratrice (voice) (uncredited)
1978
- Ciné regards as Self
1977
- Auf los geht's los as Self
1976
- Cérémonie des César as Self - President
- Mr. Klein as Florence
- The Last Tycoon as Didi
- Lumière as Sarah
1975
- Apostrophes as Self
- Midi Première as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- The Garden That Tilts as Maria
- Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète as Self
- Hu-Man as Sylvana
- French Provincial as Berthe
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Going Places as Jeanne Pirolle
- Creezy as Renee Vibert
- The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir as The Singer (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Nathalie Granger as L'autre femme
- Omnibus: François Truffaut as Self
- Joanna Francesa as Joana
1972
- Midi trente as Self
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Repeated Absences as La voix de la nostalgie (voice)
- Dear Louise as Louise
- Vagabond Humor as Myriam Bingeot
- Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! as Self - Host /Interviewer
1971
- Côté cour, côté champs as Lady with Little Dog (uncredited)
1970
- Alex in Wonderland as Self
- Monte Walsh as Martine Bernard
- Countdown to Vengeance as Madeleine
- Langlois as Self
- Jeanne raconte Jeanne as Self
1969
- Diane's Body as Diane Vallier
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Bride Wore Black as Julie Kohler
- The Immortal Story as Virginie Ducrot
- Great Catherine as Catherine
- Portrait: Orson Welles as Self
1967
- The Oldest Profession as Mimi Guillotine (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
- The Sailor from Gibraltar as Anna
1966
- Mademoiselle as Mademoiselle
1965
- Dim Dam Dom as Self
- Viva Maria! as Maria II
- Chimes at Midnight as Doll Tearsheet
- Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau as Self
- The Car That Became a Star as The Marchioness of Frinton (archive footage)
1964
- The Train as Christine
- Diary of a Chambermaid as Céléstine
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce as The Marchioness of Frinton
- Mata Hari, Agent H21 as Mata Hari
1963
- The Fire Within as Eva
- Bay of Angels as Jacqueline 'Jackie' Demaistre
- The Victors as French Woman
- Banana Peel as Cathy / Mme Volney
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Trial as Marika Burstner
- Jules and Jim as Catherine
- Eva as Eva Olivier
1961
- La Notte as Lidia
- A Woman Is a Woman as Self (uncredited)
1960
- Five Branded Women as Ljuba
- Seven Days… Seven Nights as Anne Desbarèdes
- The Dialogue of the Carmelites as Mother Marie of the Incarnation
- Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur as Narrator (voice)
1959
- Discorama as Self
- The 400 Blows as La Femme avec le chien
- Dangerous Love Affairs as Juliette Valmont
1958
- Elevator to the Gallows as Florence Carala
- The Lovers as Jeanne Tournier
- Not Delivered as Jacqueline Tourieu
- Three Days to Live as Jeanne Fortin
- Back to the Wall as Gloria Decrey
1957
- Until the Last One as Gina
- Demoniac as Agnès Vanaux
- The Strange Mr. Steve as Florence
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- The Wages of Sin as Angèle Ribot
1955
- Hi-Jack Highway as Alice
- Les Hommes en blanc as Marianne Déjazet
- M'sieur la Caille as Fernande
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- Touchez Pas au Grisbi as Josy
- Queen Margot as Marguerite de Valois, "La Reine Margot"
- The Secrets of the Bed as Jeanne Plisson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
- The Scheming Women as Mona Rémi, la femme de Paul
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Inside a Girls' Dormitory as Julie, la serveuse
- Julietta as Rosie Facibey
1952
- La Joie de vivre as Marianne
- Dr. Schweitzer as Marie Winter
- The Man in My Life as Suzanne Dubreuil
1950
- Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés as La môme Pâquerette
- Three Sinners as Martine Annequin
1949
- Last Love as Michèle