Jeanne Moreau
Acting • Born 1928-01-23 – Died 2017-07-31
Biography
Jeanne Moreau (January 23, 1928 – July 31, 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.
Filmography
211 credits
Chimes at Midnight
Movie • 1965
Doll Tearsheet
Elevator to the Gallows
Movie • 1958
Florence Carala
Jules and Jim
Movie • 1962
Catherine
The Trial
Movie • 1962
Marika Burstner
The Victors
Movie • 1963
French Woman
A Cursed Monarchy
Movie • 2005
Mahaut d'Artois
The Train
Movie • 1964
Christine
Until the End of the World
Movie • 1991
Edith Farber
Time to Leave
Movie • 2005
Laura
The Lovers
Movie • 1958
Jeanne Tournier
The Fire Within
Movie • 1963
Eva
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Movie • 1982
Madame Benoît-Lambert
Going Places
Movie • 1974
Jeanne Pirolle
Vivement Truffaut
Movie • 1985
Narrator / Self / Catherine
The Bride Wore Black
Movie • 1968
Julie Kohler
Nathalie Granger
Movie • 1973
L'autre femme
Omnibus: François Truffaut
Movie • 1973
Self
Viva Maria!
Movie • 1965
Maria II
One Day You'll Understand
Movie • 2008
Rivka
Beyond the Clouds
Movie • 1995
Friend
Nikita
Movie • 1990
Armande
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Movie • 1954
Josy
La Notte
Movie • 1961
Lidia
Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie • 1964
Céléstine
Map of the Human Heart
Movie • 1993
Sister Banville
Mademoiselle
Movie • 1966
Mademoiselle
Dangerous Love Affairs
Movie • 1959
Juliette Valmont
Bay of Angels
Movie • 1963
Jacqueline 'Jackie' Demaistre
The Last Tycoon
Movie • 1976
Didi
French Provincial
Movie • 1975
Berthe
I Love You, I Love You Not
Movie • 1996
Nana
A Witch's Way of Love
Movie • 1997
Eglantine
Miracle Healing
Movie • 1987
Sabine
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Movie • 1984
Self
Creezy
Movie • 1974
Renee Vibert
Disengagement
Movie • 2007
Françoise
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Movie • 1964
The Marchioness of Frinton
Vagabond Humor
Movie • 1972
Myriam Bingeot
Queen Margot
Movie • 1954
Marguerite de Valois, "La Reine Margot"
Hi-Jack Highway
Movie • 1955
Alice
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Movie • 1995
Self (segment "The Deep") (archive footage)
Julietta
Movie • 1953
Rosie Facibey
Monte Walsh
Movie • 1970
Martine Bernard
Face
Movie • 2009
Jeanne
Seven Days… Seven Nights
Movie • 1960
Anne Desbarèdes
Banana Peel
Movie • 1963
Cathy / Mme Volney
The Trout
Movie • 1982
Lou
The Immortal Story
Movie • 1968
Virginie Ducrot
Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller
Movie • 2009
Self
Eva
Movie • 1962
Eva Olivier
One Hundred and One Nights
Movie • 1995
Mr. Cinéma's First Ex-wife
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea
Movie • 1991
Lady M
Mr. Klein
Movie • 1976
Florence
The Scheming Women
Movie • 1954
Mona Rémi, la femme de Paul
Three Sinners
Movie • 1950
Martine Annequin
Three Days to Live
Movie • 1958
Jeanne Fortin
Back to the Wall
Movie • 1958
Gloria Decrey
Looking for Truffaut
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
The Oldest Profession
Movie • 1967
Mimi Guillotine (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Movie • 1960
Mother Marie of the Incarnation
The Proprietor
Movie • 1996
Adrienne Mark
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Movie • 1993
Lili
A City Runs Through the Festival
Movie • 2007
Self
Gebo and the Shadow
Movie • 2012
Candidinha
Five Branded Women
Movie • 1960
Ljuba
A Foreign Field
Movie • 1993
Angelique
Great Catherine
Movie • 1968
Catherine
Until the Last One
Movie • 1957
Gina
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Movie • 1974
The Singer (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")
Lullaby to my Father
Movie • 2012
Narrator (voice)
A Lady in Paris
Movie • 2012
Frida
Go West
Movie • 2005
Novinar
The World of Jacques Demy
Movie • 1995
Self
Lumière
Movie • 1976
Sarah
Ain't Misbehavin
Movie • 2013
Self
Château en Suède
Movie • 2008
Agathe Falsen
Love & Confusions
Movie • 1997
Libra
Lisa
Movie • 2001
Lisa (old)
Roméo et Juliette
Movie • 2006
Laurence
Mata Hari, Agent H21
Movie • 1964
Mata Hari
Demoniac
Movie • 1957
Agnès Vanaux
Anna Karamazoff
Movie • 1991
Woman
Dear Louise
Movie • 1972
Louise
Joanna Francesa
Movie • 1973
Joana
Heat of Desire
Movie • 1981
Hélène
Not Delivered
Movie • 1958
Jacqueline Tourieu
Autogram
Movie • 2005
Jeanne Moreau
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
Movie • 2000
Self
The Suspended Step of the Stork
Movie • 1991
The Woman
Dr. Schweitzer
Movie • 1952
Marie Winter
Cet amour-là
Movie • 2001
Marguerite Duras
The Prince's Manuscript
Movie • 2000
Alessandra Wolf (Licy)
Eleanor's Secret
Movie • 2009
Aunt Eléonore (voice)
The Wages of Sin
Movie • 1956
Angèle Ribot
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Movie • 1967
Anna
Akoibon
Movie • 2005
Madame Paule
Balzac: A Life of Passion
Movie • 1999
Charlotte-Laure
The 400 Blows
Movie • 1959
Woman with Dog
The Garden That Tilts
Movie • 1975
Maria
La Femme fardée
Movie • 1990
La Doria
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
Movie • 1953
Julie, la serveuse
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur
Movie • 1960
Narrator (voice)
The Deep
Movie • 1970
Ruth Warriner
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie • 2019
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Love Actually
Movie • 2003
Taxi Passenger at Marseille Airport (uncredited)
Diane's Body
Movie • 1969
Diane Vallier
Hu-Man
Movie • 1975
Sylvana
Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance
Movie • 2001
Anna Shermann
A Woman Is a Woman
Movie • 1961
Self (uncredited)
The Nonentity
Movie • 1986
Barbesitzerin
My Name is Victor
Movie • 1993
Rose
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Movie • 1981
Lili Marlene
Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim »
Movie • 2008
Self (actrice, rôle de Catherine)
Côté cour, côté champs
Movie • 1971
Lady with Little Dog (uncredited)
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Movie • 1995
Self (uncredited)
Langlois
Movie • 1970
Self
Carmel
Movie • 2009
Narrator
The Strange Mr. Steve
Movie • 1957
Florence
Catherine the Great
Movie • 1996
Elizabeth
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
Movie • 2004
Self
Portrait: Orson Welles
Movie • 1968
Self
Francois Simon the Presence
Movie • 1986
Self
EverAfter
Movie • 1998
Grande Dame
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
Movie • 1990
Self
Countdown to Vengeance
Movie • 1970
Madeleine
L'Intoxe
Movie • 1983
Marie-Pierre
Repeated Absences
Movie • 1972
La voix de la nostalgie (voice)
Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Movie • 1950
La môme Pâquerette
Les Hommes en blanc
Movie • 1955
Marianne Déjazet
La nuit de l'océan
Movie • 1992
Hélène Sauveterre
Last Love
Movie • 1949
Michèle
L'Habit ne fait pas le moine
Movie • 2013
Madeleine
To Each His Own Cinema
Movie • 2007
The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes")
Dispositif 47 - The Second Death
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Alberto Express
Movie • 1990
The Baroness
Bulles de Vian
Movie • 2009
Self
M'sieur la Caille
Movie • 1955
Fernande
Sauve-toi, Lola
Movie • 1986
Marie-Aude Schneider
The Man in My Life
Movie • 1952
Suzanne Dubreuil
Bouquet final
Movie • 2011
Marie
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
Movie • 2019
Self - Actress (archive footage)
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage)
The Architecture of Doom
Movie • 1989
French narrator (voice)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Movie • 2014
Self - Actress (archive footage)
See You Tomorrow
Movie • 1992
Tete
The Absence
Movie • 1993
Writer's Wife
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
Movie • 1990
Self
Hot House
Movie • 2003
Léo
Jeanne raconte Jeanne
Movie • 1970
Self
Querelle
Movie • 1982
Lysiane
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Movie • 2018
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Alex in Wonderland
Movie • 1970
Self
The Other Side of Welles
Movie • 2005
Self
Calling the Shots
Movie • 1988
Self
The Lover
Movie • 1992
Narrator (voice)
The Car That Became a Star
Movie • 1965
The Marchioness of Frinton (archive footage)
Filming Under Pressure
Movie • 1991
Self
Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
Movie • 1972
Self - Host /Interviewer
The Secrets of the Bed
Movie • 1954
Jeanne Plisson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
A Bad Encounter
Movie • 2011
Gaby
Sous les vents de Neptune
Movie • 2008
Josette
Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau
Movie • 1965
Self
Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète
Movie • 1975
Self
The Adolescent
Movie • 1979
La narratrice (voice) (uncredited)
Lillian Gish
Movie • 1984
Self
Vicious Circle
Movie • 1985
Ines
Au coeur de Nikita
Movie • 1990
Self
Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance
Movie • 1986
Madame Exe
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Movie • 2013
(voice)
The Passions of Louis Malle
Movie • 2003
Self - Interviewee
Bride of Trailer Camp
Movie • 2001
(archive footage)
French Beauty
Movie • 2005
Self
The Life of Mirrors
Movie • 2025
The Orson Welles Story
Movie • 1982
Self
Fassbinder's Women
Movie • 2000
Self
Heart of the Festival
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie • 2022
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Les Misérables
TV • 2000
Mère Innocente
Balzac
TV • 1999
Charlotte-Laure
Nulle part ailleurs
TV • 1987
Self
Screen One
TV • 1989
Angelique
Belle Époque
TV • 1995
Récitante
The Accursed Kings
TV • 2005
Mahaut d'Artois
Le Tiroir secret
TV • 1986
Vivi
Scene by Scene
TV • 1997
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
The Countess of Castiglione
TV • 2006
Principessa Sisi Altieri
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Auf los geht's los
TV • 1977
Self
Dim Dam Dom
TV • 1965
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Midi Première
TV • 1975
Self
Apostrophes
TV • 1975
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self - Guest
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Stars 90
TV • 1990
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
TV • 2011
Self
Reflets de Cannes
TV • 1954
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Cérémonie des César
TV • 1976
Self - President