Marie-Christine Barrault

Marie-Christine Barrault

Marie-Christine Barrault (born 21 March 1944) is a French actress. She is best known for her performance in Cousin Cousine (1975) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she released her autobiography, titled This Long Way To Get To You. Marie-Christine Barrault was born in Paris, France, the daughter of Martha (née Valmier) and Max-Henri Barrault. Her parents later divorced. Barrault's father, who worked in the theatre, died while she was a teenager. With no support, her mother was unable to care for her and her brother, Alain. Barrault was raised by her grandmother, Felicite. She was mentored in acting by her aunt and uncle, French performers Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud. They initially did not support her dreams of becoming an actress. She performed in plays in secondary school and then enrolled in an acting conservatory. Barrault got her start on television in L'oeuvre (1967). She made her feature film debut in Éric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's (1969). In 1970 Barrault was featured along with Pierre Richard in the comedy film Le Distrait. In 1975 Barrault starred in Cousin Cousine, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She worked with Rohmer once again in 1978, in the role of Guinevere in Perceval le Gallois and she also has a cameo in his Chloe in the Afternoon. Barrault is not fluent in English and therefore has generally turned down offers to appear in English-language films. However, in 1980 she accepted an offer from Woody Allen to appear in his film Stardust Memories. In 1988 she was nominated for a Genie Award for her performance in No Blame. In 1991 she portrayed Marie Curie in a television mini-series. In her later career, she has preferred acting on the stage in France. In 2015, she came to Los Angeles on tour to perform in the play Les Yeux Ouverts, in which she portrays French author Marguerite Yourcenar. Barrault's first husband was producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, whom she married in 1965. With him, she had two children, David and Ariane. Barrault was married to director Roger Vadim from 1990 until his death from cancer in 2000. She herself is a breast cancer survivor. Source: Article "Marie-Christine Barrault" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Paris, France, 1944-03-21

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	My Night at Maud's	Françoise	77
2	1970	« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur	La sœur	0
3	1970	Distracted	Lisa Gastier	60
4	1970	Lancelot of the Lake	Reine Guinevere	0
5	1971	Le Misanthrope	Célimène	0
6	1971	Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu	The mother	0
7	1972	Le sagouin	Léone	0
8	1972	Menace	Francoise	10
9	1972	Figaro-ci, Figaro-là	Julie	0
10	1972	Love in the Afternoon	Dream Sequence	73
11	1972	An Ideal Husband	Lady Chiltern	100
12	1974	Le tour d'écrou	Miss Jessel	70
13	1975	John Glückstadt	Hanna Hansen	50
14	1975	Cousin, Cousine	Marthe	61
15	1977	Le Chandelier	Jacqueline	0
16	1978	The Medusa Touch	Patricia	68
17	1978	The Savage State	Laurence Laurençon	62
18	1978	Histoire vraie	Rose	0
19	1978	Perceval	La Reine Guenevievre	73
20	1979	Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen	Self	60
21	1979	Woman Between Wolf and Dog	Lieve	56
22	1980	My Dearest	Jeanne Rivière	40
23	1980	Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme	Eva	40
24	1980	Stardust Memories	Isobel	69
25	1981	L'amour trop fort	Rose-Marie de Boisel	66
26	1983	Mir reicht's - ich steig aus	Jane	0
27	1983	Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi	Jeanne	0
28	1983	Table for Five	Marie	55
29	1983	Les mots pour le dire	Eliane Saint-Jean	65
30	1983	A Love in Germany	Maria Wyler	49
31	1984	Swann in Love	Madame Verdurin	56
32	1985	Louise... l'insoumise	Mme Royer	55
33	1985	Pianoforte	La mère de Maria	50
34	1985	Pianoforte	Andrea	50
35	1985	A Better Life	Véronique's mother	35
36	1985	Power Of Evil	Sylvie	50
37	1986	The Satin Slipper	La lune	72
38	1986	L'été 36	Lise	10
39	1986	Vaudeville	Madeleine	40
40	1987	Manuela's Loves	Manuela	31
41	1988	Daniya, the emir's garden	Almodís	0
42	1988	The Lizard King	Beatrice Aumond	0
43	1988	Adieu, je t'aime	Nicole Dupré	30
44	1988	The Abyss	Hilzonde	54
45	1988	Sanguines	Nedie	20
46	1988	L'Énigme des sables		0
47	1988	The Student	Self (uncredited)	59
48	1988	Women in Prison	La surveillante chef	38
49	1989	The Silent Woman	Marianne	0
50	1989	Stormy Summer	Anne	10
51	1990	Gallant Ladies	Jacquette de Bourdeille	33
52	1991	Marie Curie, Une Femme Honorable		0
53	1991	Necessary Love		92
54	1993	Next Time the Fire	Elena	0
55	1993	Jenny Marx, la femme du diable	Jenny Marx	0
56	1993	Crazy Love	Louise	60
57	1994	Bonsoir	Marie Wileska	36
58	1996	Tendre piège	Françoise	0
59	1996	Mon père avait raison	Germaine Bellanger	0
60	1997	Love, Math and Sex	La prof de maths	48
61	1997	Un coup de baguette magique	Jeanne	0
62	1997	Obsession	Ella Beckmann	40
63	1997	Le grand Batre	Thérèse	0
64	1999	La Dilettante	Thérèse Rambert	59
65	2000	Azzurro	Elizabeth Broyer	71
66	2003	Saint-Germain ou La négociation	Chaterine de Médicis	67
67	2004	Parlez-moi d'amour	Élisa	0
68	2005	Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens	Self	100
69	2005	Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre	Self	70
70	2006	Passés troubles	Béatrice	10
71	2007	Trivial	Mélanie Bérangère	42
72	2009	Making Plans for Lena	Annie	56
73	2010	Memories of a Disturbed Young Lady	The Gynecologist	47
74	2013	The Big Bad Wolf	La mère	53
75	2013	Domestic Life	Nicole	56
76	2013	My Name Is Hmmm...	La grand-mère	55
77	2014	Sleight of Hand	Sophie Marescot	52
78	2014	Toi que j'aimais tant	Hélène Maupin	61
79	2015	The Easy Way Out	Nelly	51
80	2016	Mademoiselle de la Charce		10
81	2016	Twisting Fate	Jeanne	50
82	2017	Les brumes du souvenir	Alice Blondel	60
83	2017	À la recherche de... Pierre Richard	Self - Actress (archive footage)	70
84	2018	All About Mothers	Jacqueline	53
85	2018	Deux gouttes d'eau	Elisabeth Davout	61
86	2019	Zénon the Rebel	Self - Narrator	0
87	2020	George et Sarah	George Sand	0
88	2023	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman	Komura's Mother (voice)	70
89	2023	Et doucement rallumer les étoiles	Geneviève	86
90	2023	Tout sauf l’ennui	Marie-Christine Barrault	60
91	2024	Oldies But Goodies	Mme. Courtillet	52
92	2024	Per il mio bene		73
93	2025	The Ties That Bind Us	La mère de Sandra et Marianne	72
94	2025	La maman du bourreau	Gabrielle de Miremont	0
95		L'empreinte de l'ange	La mère suprême	60
96		La Vie d'une Femme		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000	Martine Lauzon	0
2	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
3	1974	La Confession d'un enfant du siècle	Brigitte	0
4	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
5	1980	Petit déjeuner compris	Marie-Louise Leroux	63
6	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
7	1985	Victoires de la musique	Self	20
8	1987	Nulle part ailleurs	Self	56
9	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
10	1991	Marie Curie, une femme honorable	Marie Curie	60
11	1994	Studio Gabriel	Self	65
12	1997	Le Grand Batre	Thérèse Cabreyrolle d'Azérac	0
13	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
14	2006	Ange de feu	Janine Cordey	75
15	2009	Profiling Paris	Catherine Lepage	69
16	2012	La Parenthèse inattendue	Self	85
17	2013	Murders in...	Violette Rivière	74
18	2013	Murders in...	Lidy Mathis	74
19	2013	Murders in...	Denise Royan	74
20	2014	A Family Secret	Nadège	20
21	2023	Alphonse	Eve Bragnier	64
22	2024	Fiasco	Huguette Valande	63

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