Marie-Christine Barrault
Born: 1944-03-21 in Paris, France
Known For: Acting
Biography
Marie-Christine Barrault (born 21 March 1944) is a French actress. She is best known for her performance in Cousin Cousine (1975) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she released her autobiography, titled This Long Way To Get To You. Marie-Christine Barrault was born in Paris, France, the daughter of Martha (née Valmier) and Max-Henri Barrault. Her parents later divorced. Barrault's father, who worked in the theatre, died while she was a teenager. With no support, her mother was unable to care for her and her brother, Alain. Barrault was raised by her grandmother, Felicite. She was mentored in acting by her aunt and uncle, French performers Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud. They initially did not support her dreams of becoming an actress. She performed in plays in secondary school and then enrolled in an acting conservatory. Barrault got her start on television in L'oeuvre (1967). She made her feature film debut in Éric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's (1969). In 1970 Barrault was featured along with Pierre Richard in the comedy film Le Distrait. In 1975 Barrault starred in Cousin Cousine, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She worked with Rohmer once again in 1978, in the role of Guinevere in Perceval le Gallois and she also has a cameo in his Chloe in the Afternoon. Barrault is not fluent in English and therefore has generally turned down offers to appear in English-language films. However, in 1980 she accepted an offer from Woody Allen to appear in his film Stardust Memories. In 1988 she was nominated for a Genie Award for her performance in No Blame. In 1991 she portrayed Marie Curie in a television mini-series. In her later career, she has preferred acting on the stage in France. In 2015, she came to Los Angeles on tour to perform in the play Les Yeux Ouverts, in which she portrays French author Marguerite Yourcenar. Barrault's first husband was producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, whom she married in 1965. With him, she had two children, David and Ariane. Barrault was married to director Roger Vadim from 1990 until his death from cancer in 2000. She herself is a breast cancer survivor. Source: Article "Marie-Christine Barrault" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2026
- Zodiaque as Hélène Escoffier
- A Woman's Life as Arlette
2025
- The Ties That Bind Us as La mère de Sandra et Marianne
2024
- Fiasco as Huguette Valande
- Oldies But Goodies as Mme. Courtillet
- Per il mio bene as Anna
- La Maman du bourreau as Gabrielle de Miremont
2023
- Alphonse as Eve Bragnier
- Et doucement rallumer les étoiles as Geneviève
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman as Komura's Mother (voice)
- Tout sauf l’ennui as Self
2020
- George et Sarah as George Sand
2019
- Zénon the Rebel as Self - Narrator
2018
- All About Mothers as Jacqueline
- Deux gouttes d'eau as Elisabeth Davout
2017
- À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- Les brumes du souvenir as Alice Blondel
2016
- Twisting Fate as Jeanne
- Mademoiselle de la Charce
2015
- The Easy Way Out as Nelly
2014
- A Family Secret as Nadège
- Toi que j'aimais tant as Hélène Maupin
- Sleight of Hand as Sophie Marescot
2013
- Murders in... as Violette Rivière
- The Big Bad Wolf as La mère
- My Name Is Hmmm... as La grand-mère
- Domestic Life as Nicole
2012
- The Unexpected Getaway as Self
2010
- Memories of a Disturbed Young Lady as The Gynecologist
2009
- Profiling Paris as Catherine Lepage
- Making Plans for Lena as Annie
2007
- Trivial as Mélanie Bérangère
2006
- Passés troubles as Béatrice
- Ange de feu as Janine Cordey
2005
2004
- L'empreinte de l'ange as La mère suprême
- Parlez-moi d'amour as Élisa
2003
- Saint-Germain ou La négociation as Chaterine de Médicis
2000
- Azzurro as Elizabeth Broyer
1999
- La Dilettante as Thérèse Rambert
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
1997
- Le Grand Batre as Thérèse Cabreyrolle d'Azérac
- Obsession as Ella Beckmann
- Love, Math and Sex as La prof de maths
- Le grand Batre as Thérèse
- Un coup de baguette magique as Jeanne
1996
- Tendre piège as Françoise
- Mon père avait raison as Germaine Bellanger
1994
- Studio Gabriel as Self
- Bonsoir as Marie Wileska
1993
- Crazy Love as Louise
- Jenny Marx, la femme du diable as Jenny Marx
- Next Time the Fire as Elena
1991
- Marie Curie, une femme honorable as Marie Curie
- Necessary Love
1990
- Gallant Ladies as Jacquette de Bourdeille
1989
- Stormy Summer as Anne
- The Silent Woman as Marianne
1988
- The Student as Self (uncredited)
- The Abyss as Hilzonde
- Women in Prison as La surveillante chef
- Sanguines as Nedie
- Adieu, je t'aime as Nicole Dupré
- Daniya, the emir's garden as Almodís
- The Lizard King as Beatrice Aumond
- L'Énigme des sables
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self
- Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- Manuela's Loves as Manuela
1986
- L'Été 36 as Lise
- Vaudeville as Madeleine
- The Satin Slipper as La lune
1985
- Victoires de la musique as Self
- Louise... l'insoumise as Mme Royer
- Power Of Evil as Sylvie
- A Better Life as Véronique's mother
- Pianoforte as Andrea
1984
- Swann in Love as Madame Verdurin
1983
- Table for Five as Marie
- A Love in Germany as Maria Wyler
- Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi as Jeanne
- Les Mots pour le dire as Eliane Saint-Jean
- Mir reicht's - ich steig aus as Jane
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
1981
- L'Amour trop fort as Rose-Marie de Boisel
1980
- Petit déjeuner compris as Marie-Louise Leroux
- Stardust Memories as Isobel
- My Dearest as Jeanne Rivière
- To Woody Allen from Europe with Love as Self
- Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme as Eva
1979
- Woman Between Wolf and Dog as Lieve
- Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen as Self
1978
- The Medusa Touch as Patricia
- Histoire vraie as Rose
- Perceval as La Reine Guenevievre
- The Savage State as Laurence Laurençon
1977
- Le Chandelier as Jacqueline
1976
- Henry James Stories as Miss Jessel
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Cousin, Cousine as Marthe
- John Glückstadt as Hanna Hansen
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- La Confession d'un enfant du siècle as Brigitte
- Le Tour d'Écrou as Miss Jessel
1972
- Love in the Afternoon as Dream Sequence
- Menace as Francoise
- An Ideal Husband as Lady Chiltern
- Figaro-ci, Figaro-là as Julie
- Le Sagouin as Léone
1971
- Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000 as Martine Lauzon
- Le Misanthrope as Célimène
- Les Cent livres : À la recherche du temps perdu as The mother
1970
- Les Cent Livres des Hommes as La mère
- Distracted as Lisa Gastier
- Lancelot of the Lake as Reine Guinevere
- « Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur as La sœur
1969
- My Night at Maud's as Françoise