Anémone
Acting • Born 1950-08-09 – Died 2019-04-30
Biography
Anne Bourguignon (9 August 1950 - 30 April 2019) known as Anemone, is a French actress and screenwriter. She won the César for best actress in 1988 for the role of Marcelle in Le Grand Chemin. She is the mother of two children; Jacob and Lilly. She spent her childhood at Château Mauras, a family property in Bommes, in Gironde. After primary and secondary studies at the Sainte-Marie-des-Invalides school (today Paul Claudel-d'Hulst), at the Victor-Duruy high school, at the Gaudéchaux course, at the Jaillard course, at the Sévigné college, within the congregation of the canonesses of Saint-Augustin of the Congrégation Notre-Dame (at the Notre-Dame-des-Oiseaux convent in Megève, at the Saint-Pierre Fourier institute in Brunoy) and at the Institut Notre-Dame in Épernay, it pursued higher education at Paris-III University and then at Paris-X1 University. Anemone began her career at the café-théâtre with the Splendid troupe. She takes her pseudonym from the first film in which she shot, Anemone by Philippe Garrel. It was Coluche who offered her her first big role in the cinema in You will not have Alsace and Lorraine in 1977. In 1979, she created on stage the play written by the Splendid troupe, Le Père Noël est une junk . Her role as Thérèse earned her great success with the public, a success confirmed and amplified by the adaptation of the play to the cinema, directed by Jean-Marie Poiré. In the 1980s, she was a very popular actress who starred in many comedies: "Ma Femme S'Appelle Reviens", "Les Babas-Cool", "Pour Cent Briques, T'As Plus Rien"..., "Le Quart d'Heure Américain", and "Le Mariage Du Siècle", for which she wrote most of the screenplay. Michel Deville (Peril in the home, Aux petits bonheurs), then Jean-Loup Hubert offered her more serious roles from 1985. Successful counter-jobs, since she won the César for best actress for "Le Grand Chemin" in 1988. More discreet in the 1990s, Anemone worked with Tonie Marshall ("Pas Très Catholique", "Enfants De Bastard"), Romain Goupil ("Mom") or Christine Pascal, in "Le Petit Prince A Dit". In 1996, she played in the adaptation of Binet's comic strip, "Les Bidochon". In 2010, she returned to the cinema with the film "Les Amours Secrètes" by Franck Phelizon. She then turned to the theater, playing in "L'Avare" for Roger Planchon, "Mademoiselle Werner" at the Théâtre des Variétés or "Les Noeuds Au Mouchoir" at the Palais des Glaces which she announced would be her last play at the end of 2017. In December 2017, she announced that she would definitely end her career at the end of the year, and also took a very critical and disillusioned look in this same interview at what has become of the world in general, and that of show- bizz in particular. Militant like her brother for a return to a more ethical and ecological society, Anemone chooses to live in the countryside in the small village of Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), near Lezay. Anemone died on April 30, 2019 at the age of 68 in Poitiers (Vienne) from lung cancer. She admitted to being an “inveterate smoker”. Her funeral took place on May 9 in Poitiers, where she was cremated.
Filmography
100 credits
The House
Movie • 1970
Marquise
Movie • 1997
La Voisin
Little Nicholas
Movie • 2009
Miss Navarin
Death in a French Garden
Movie • 1985
Edwige Ledieu
Poule et frites
Movie • 1987
Béatrice
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Movie • 1982
Thérèse de Monsou dite « Mme S.O.S »
The Grand Highway
Movie • 1987
Marcelle
The Beautiful Story
Movie • 1992
Mme Desjardins
A Song of Innocence
Movie • 2005
Léonce
Son of Gascogne
Movie • 1995
Self
Take It from the Top
Movie • 1978
La scripte
Zanzibar
Movie • 1989
Woman in the orange dress at the Césars ceremony
Emergency Kisses
Movie • 1989
Minouchette
The Model Couple
Movie • 1977
Claudine
Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
Movie • 1981
Adrienne
Marriage of the Century
Movie • 1985
Princess Charlotte
Droit de Réponse
Movie • 1981
Self
Ladies' Choice
Movie • 1982
Bonnie
Rat Race
Movie • 1980
Liliane
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Movie • 1981
Alexandra
The Cop, the Criminal and the Clown
Movie • 2004
Carlotta Luciani
Life's Little Treasures
Movie • 1994
Hélène
For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now
Movie • 1982
Nicole, publiciste pour établissements bancaires
The Probability Factor
Movie • 1976
Secretary
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Movie • 1977
La cousine Lucienne
Enfants de salaud
Movie • 1996
Sylvette
Fortune Tellers and Misfortune
Movie • 2001
Anémone
Singles
Movie • 1982
Nadine
Le Cri de la soie
Movie • 1996
Cécile
Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Movie • 1976
Eva
Twisted Obsession
Movie • 1989
Marianne
Louise's Diary 1942
Movie • 2010
Margot
La Gueule du loup
Movie • 1981
Viviane
Mademoiselle Drot
Movie • 2010
Mme Chambart-Martin
Lautrec
Movie • 1998
Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Movie • 1985
Thérèse
And the Little Prince Said
Movie • 1992
Melanie
Après après-demain
Movie • 1990
Isabelle
Les Enfants volants
Movie • 1991
Suzanne
Nuts
Movie • 2013
Dr. Vorov
I Love You
Movie • 1986
Barbara
My Wife's Name Is Maurice
Movie • 2002
Claire Trouaballe
That Thing You Love
Movie • 2013
Mrs. Lesoufache
Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
Movie • 2014
La générale Bubunne XVI
Les Bidochon
Movie • 1996
Raymonde Bidochon
Deadly Summer
Movie • 2013
Mrs. Spinelli
Incorrigible
Movie • 1975
Prostitute (uncredited)
The Jungle
Movie • 2006
la mère de Mathias
Myriam's choice
Movie • 2009
Simone
Malevil
Movie • 2010
Mrs. Menou
Slices of Life
Movie • 1985
Cécile / Hélène
The Secret of Arkandias
Movie • 2014
Marion Boucher
I. You. They.
Movie • 1973
La deuxième candidate au poste de nounou
Certaines nouvelles
Movie • 1980
Marie-Annick
Un si joli mensonge
Movie • 2014
Louise
A Man of My Measure
Movie • 1983
Babette
Something Fishy
Movie • 1994
Maxime Chabrier
I'm All Yours
Movie • 2015
La grand-mère
The Great Restaurant II
Movie • 2011
Widow Who Killed Her Husband
The Target
Movie • 1997
Clara
Envoyez les violons
Movie • 1988
Isabelle Fournier
The Chicks
Movie • 1985
Odile
Une merveilleuse journée
Movie • 1980
Deocadie
Rosalie Blum
Movie • 2016
Simone Machot
Family Business
Movie • 2018
Bertille
Loulou graffiti
Movie • 1992
Juliette
Sans peur et sans reproche
Movie • 1988
Rose
Voisins, voisines
Movie • 2005
Madame Gonzalés
The Roommates Party
Movie • 2015
Madame Abramovitch
Grossesses Nerveuses
Movie • 2012
Mathilde
Anemone
Movie • 1968
Anémone
Bataille Natale
Movie • 2006
Françoise Darcy
Maman
Movie • 1990
Lulu
Sale rêveur
Movie • 1978
Colette
Sunfish
Movie • 1993
Anne
Pardon Mon Affaire
Movie • 1976
Concierge
Ma soeur, mon amour
Movie • 1992
Laura Bécancour
French Postcards
Movie • 1979
Christine
Super 8 mon amour
Movie • 2012
Narrator (voice)
L'Échappée belle
Movie • 1996
Jeanine, la juge
Man of My Life
Movie • 1999
Solange
Unissez-vous, il n'est jamais trop tard !
Movie • 2005
Village départ
TV • 2005
Self
Nulle part ailleurs
TV • 1987
Self
Les 400 Coups de Virginie
TV • 1979
Marie-Ghyslaine
Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
TV • 2007
Mme Fernet
Sable noir
TV • 2006
Marie
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV • 2022
Self (archive footage)
La Guerre des insectes
TV • 1981
Anaïs
Les Héritiers
TV • 1977
Josée
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
TV • 1958
Thérèse
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
TV • 1958
Nadine
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
L'Invité
TV • 2002
Self
Les Bougon
TV • 2008
Tata Louise
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
TV • 1958
Lily
On n'est pas couché
TV • 2006
Self - Guest