Perrette Pradier
Born: 1938-04-17 in Hanoi, Vietnam
Died: 2013-01-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Perrette Pradier (born Perrette Marie Mathilde Chevau; 17 April 1938 – 16 January 2013) was a French actress and dubbing director. She is best known for her work as a voice actress which earned her the nickname of "Queen" or "High Priestess" of dubbing. Pradier was born in Hanoi, French Indochina. Two years after making her film début, in 1961, she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as most promising new actress in France for her performance as "Amenita" in the Sacha Guitry film, "Stop Thief." That year she gained further recognition for her role as "Constance Bonacieux" in two films based on the Three Musketeers. Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in a number of films in her native France, then was contracted for Hollywood productions that included the Fred Zinnemann film Behold a Pale Horse (1964) starring luminaries Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif. She returned to English-language filming in the Universal Studios thriller, House of Cards (1968) with Orson Welles and George Peppard. In her long career, Perrette Pradier has also worked in live theatre, appearing in plays such as La Bonne Addresse as well as the longest running French play ever produced, Boeing Boeing. In 1994, she was the voice of "Sarafina" in the French version of the Walt Disney Studios animated feature film, The Lion King. Pradier died of a heart attack on 16 January 2013, aged 74, in Rueil-Malmaison, France, a month after being operated for an aneurysm. Source: Article "Perrette Pradier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2024
- On a volé ma VF as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Ernest & Celestine as Head Nurse Mouse (voice)
2011
- Pumpkins and Old Lace as Charlotte (voice)
2009
- Totally Spies! The Movie as Madame Scritch (voice)
1997
- The Thousand Wonders of the Universe as Madame Purpur (voice)
1987
- The Big Bang as Una (voice)
1985
- Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea as Massmédia
1984
- Lucky Luke as (voice)
1983
- Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose as (voice)
1980
- Comme une femme as Julie Sotto
1976
- Les Jeux de 20 heures as Self
1974
- Fifteen Year Old Captain as Clara Marlowe (voice) (uncredited)
- The Three Musketeers as Milady
1973
- Le Temps de vivre... Le Temps d'aimer as sylvie
1970
- Céleste as Catherine
- La Brune que voilà as Anne-Marie
1968
- House of Cards as Jeanne-Marie
1967
- Judoka-Secret Agent as Dominique Berg
1966
- At Theatre Tonight as Anne-Marie
- Si Perrault m'était conté as Carabine
1965
- That Man in Istanbul as Elisabeth Furst
- Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures as Corinne
- OSS 117: Mission for a Killer as Consuela Moroni
1964
- Behold a Pale Horse as Maria, Hussy
- Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent as Lisa Lambert
1963
- Blague dans le coin as Betty
- Young Girls of Good Families as Catherine
1962
- La colère
- The Seven Deadly Sins as La Speakerine (segment "La colère")
- The Burning Court as Lucie Desgrez
- Crime Does Not Pay as Hélène
1961
- The Fighting Musketeers as Constance Bonacieux
- Vengeance of the Three Musketeers as Constance Bonacieux
- The Game of Truth as Florence Geder
- Paris Loves as Françoise Morel
1960
- The Wretches as Louise Martin
- The Nabob Affair as Jeannette aka 'Amenita'
1958
- There Is the Brunette as Sonia
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self