Famous French actresses have always impressed the Soviet and then the Russian audience with their talent and charm. Who is this? Of course, we are talking about Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardan Isabelle Adjani.
Catherine Deneuve. Full name is Catherine Fabien Dorleac. Born in Paris in 1943 in an acting family. Maiden name of the mother - Deneuve, she began to use to avoid confusion. The older sister Catherine - Francoise Dorleac was at that time a very famous actress. Debut Deneuve had a role in the film "The College Disciples" (1954), and in 1962 the film directed by Roger Vadim "Vice and Virtue" was the first step to the brilliant career of the actress. Jacques Demi's "Cherbourg umbrellas", with the genius music of Michel Legrand, received the main prize of the Cannes Film Festival. The second picture Demi - "Girls from Rochefort" - also had a huge success.
These films brought Deneuve world fame, which allowed to start receiving invitations from Italian filmmakers, and from Hollywood. In 1965, Deneuve played the main role in the psychological thriller of Roman Polanski's "Revulsion" - this was the first English-language film by the famous director. Then followed the work with no less eminent directors - Francois Truffaut, Marco Ferreri, Reggie Varnier, Nicole Garcia, etc. The top was the work with Luis Buñuel in the films "Day Beauty" and "Tristan". Other French actresses have always envied the charm and talent of Deneuve, who easily coped with the roles.
Success continued to accompany Deneuve and in subsequent years. "Indochina" (1992), was awarded the "Oscar", as the best foreign film. Deneuve was not frightened of the offers of filming in the projects of avant-garde directors. In 1983, Deneuve was invited to shoot with David Bowie from the debutant, at that time, in Hollywood, the British director Tony Scott, in the movie about the vampires "Hunger." The sensation was shooting Denev naked at age 56 in Leo Carax in the film "Paul X", and participating in the film of the famous Danish director Lars von Trier "Dancing in the Dark." Catherine Deneuve has two children: Christian - the son of the director Roger Vadim and Chiara - the daughter of the actor Marcello Mastroianni.
Isabel Huppert is also on our list of "famous actresses." She was born in Paris on March 16, 1955. She was the youngest child in the family of a large industrialist. She graduated from the University of Paris and the Higher National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. Isabel began to withdraw from age 16, and, after participating in the filming of films "Faustina and Hot Summer" and "Cesar and Rosalie," began to take acting lessons. Already in the film "Alois" Huppert acted as a professional actress.
The first serious work of the actress was shooting with venerable French actors Philippe Noire and Michel Halabrew in the film "The judge and the murderer." After getting to know Claude Chabrol, she played some of her best roles in his films, winning many international film festivals for them. And especially for Isabel, Chabrol was making a film of Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary. Yupper, in general, works with French directors who shoot "author's cinema", and almost does not participate in the filming of entertaining films. Heroines, played by Jupper, admire and terrify. Almost all of them are mysterious, fatal, but closed women. This is also Alphosine Plessis from the movie "The True Story of a Lady with Camellias" (M. Belonini's adaptation of the novel by A. Dumas-son) and Anne Bronte ("Sisters of Bronte" A. Teschine), and Eric Kohut ("The Pianist" M. Haneke). For the performance of the role in "The pianist, Isabelle Huppert received the" Golden Palm Branch "in Cannes. Yupper lives, like most of the heroines she played, closed and reserved. She is silent about her personal life, does not like to give interviews, and does not talk about her plans for the future.
Fanny Ardan. Full name is Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardan. She was born in Saumur, in the valley of the river Loire (France), on March 22, 1949, in the family of a cavalry officer. She graduated from the Catholic Lyceum and received an education in political science at the University of Provence. Even while studying at the university, she began attending acting courses, and her first performance on the stage was in 1974. And Ardan's first film was the movie "The Dogs" in 1979. In the film "Neighbor" by François Truffaut she co-starred with Gerard Depardieu, and for this role she received her first César film award.
The second was awarded to Ardan in 1997. For her film career, she managed to appear in more than 60 films of various genres: dramas, comedies, adventures. She received invitations to take pictures from the most famous directors of the world. Thanks to her excellent knowledge of English, she was invited to appear in Hollywood. For the performance of the role of singer Maria Callas in the film "Callas Forever" by Franco Zeffirelli, she, in 2003, was awarded the Stanislavsky prize, presented at the 25th Moscow Film Festival for special acting achievements. Fanny Ardan has three daughters from different fathers: Lumir, Josephine and Baladin, but she never married officially.
Isabel Adjani. The full name is Isabel Yasmin Adjani. She was born on June 27, 1955. Isabel liked to appear before the public since she was a child, at 12 she won a lyceum reading competition for classics, and on holidays she took part in performances of amateur theater. The roles were very small, but the beautiful girl was noticed. Director Bernard Tublanc-Michel invited Ajani to play a major role in the film "The Little Coal". Isabel did not take seriously her stage career, she dreamed of becoming a psychologist, and after the Lyceum she entered the university. But the career, it seemed, was already predetermined.
Isabelle played at the People's Theater of Rheims with Robert Hossein, she was continued to receive proposals for filming in the cinema, and then Isabelle was invited to the leading French theater "Comedie Francaise". From such proposals it was impossible to refuse. For the role in the historical picture "The Story of Adele G.", François Truffaut, Isabel was nominated for an Oscar. Her other films include Andre Teschine's film The Sisters of Bronte, where she played the role of writer Emily Bronte; "Underground" by Luc Besson and "Queen Margot" Patrice Schero. In addition to his stage career, Ajani is also engaged in music. In 1983, she, with the help of Serge Gainsbourg, releases her first CD, and the video for Isabel was shot by Luc Besson himself on one of the songs.
These are they, French actresses, who conquered the whole world, who still care about their talents with millions of movie fans.