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