Isabelle Renauld
Born: 1966-11-24 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Known For: Acting
Biography
Isabelle Renauld (born 24 November 1966 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French actress. She trained at the Nanterre Amandiers theatre school directed by Patrice Chéreau from 1985 to 1987. She was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010. Born in Saint-Malo to a pharmacist father and a mother who was an IFOP researcher, her parents divorced when she was 5 years old and she grew up with her mother and her sister, who is 3 years her senior. She quickly developed a passion for theatre and at the age of 16 decided to leave Brittany to devote herself to acting in Paris. She was admitted to the "free class" of the Cours Florent in 1984 where she met Pierre Romans who encouraged her to try for the Nanterre Amandiers school which he runs with Patrice Chéreau. She succeeded in the competition when only the top twenty become part of Patrice Chéreau's cast. She learned her trade with Agnes Jaoui, Vincent Pérez, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Bruno Todeschini, Marc Citti. She met Laurent Malet there, who became her companion and the father of her son Théo. In 1990, she landed the role of Isabelle in L'Opération Corned-Beef alongside Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. She rose to prominence in 1996 with the scandalous Parfait Amour! by Catherine Breillat which earned her the Prix Michel-Simon. A year later, in 1997, she met Theo Angelopoulos and acted in Eternity and a Day which received the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1998. She has appeared in three films by François Dupeyron in 1999, 2001 and 2003 (What is life?, Mr. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, and the House of Officers), two by Philippe Lioret in 2006 and 2011 (Don't Worry, I'm fine and All Our Desires), and two by Catherine Breillat. She lives in Paris but often returns to Saint-Malo to "recharge" and to reconnect with her roots. Source: Article "Isabelle Renauld" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2025
- Always Winter as Olga
- Cette nuit-là as Anaïs
2022
- Forever Young as Patrice Chereau’s assistant
2020
- Un mauvais garçon as Cécile Delage
2019
- Kepler(s) as Catherine Hadad
2018
- Death in the Soul as Valérie Lagnier
- Souviens-toi as Fabienne Gaudin
2017
- Un ciel radieux as Madeleine
- Venice: Flamboyant to the End as self (voice)
2015
- Me Against The World as Charriere
2014
- La voyante as Isabelle Perrin
- Toi que j'aimais tant as Cécile
2013
- A Woman and The Revolution as Madame de Valbreuse
- Les Limiers as Madame Guimard
2012
- Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi? as la psy
- Trafics as Hélène Brissan
2011
- Prey as Marie
- All Our Desires as Docteur Hadji
2010
- La Saison des immortelles as Jeanne Charroux
2009
- Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe as Madame Monistrol
2007
- The Last Mistress as L'arrogante
- Le Piano oublié as Marguerite
2006
- Don't Worry, I'm Fine as Isabelle Tellier
2005
- Imposture as Anna
- Let's Be Friends as Sophie
2004
- Les amants du bagne as Claudia Desfeuilles
2003
- Monsieur Ibrahim as Momo's Mother
- L'enfant de l'aube as Madeleine
- La parité as Pascale Saller
2001
- Vidocq as Marine Lafitte
- Des croix sur la mer as Françoise
- The Officers' Ward as Marguerite
2000
- Murderous Maids as Clémence
- The End of an Eternity as Self
1999
- Les Montagnes bleues as Laure
- C'est quoi la vie ? as Maria
- Brigade spéciale as Commandant Lauren Valmont
1998
- Eternity and a Day as Anna
- The Barber of Siberia as Imperatritsa
- Ça ne se refuse pas as Marthe
1997
- Joséphine, Guardian Angel as Isabelle
1996
- Perfect Love as Frédérique
- Farinet, Heroes and Outlaw as Joséphine Pellanda
1995
- La présence des ombres as Madeleine Comte / Soledad
1994
- Couchettes express as Isabelle
1993
- Louis, the Child King as Mme de Beauvais
- Antoine Rives, le juge du terrorisme as Hélène Rives
1991
- L'Opération Corned Beef as Lieutenant Isabelle Fourreau, partenaire du Squale
- Les Dessous de la passion as Axelle
1989
- Les Jupons de la révolution as Charlotte
1987
- Women in Love as Irène
- Hôtel de France as Marie
- Il était une fois dix-neuf acteurs as Self