Gisèle Casadesus

Gisèle Casadesus

Gisèle Casadesus (14 June 1914 – 24 September 2017) was a French actress, who appeared in numerous theatre and film productions. She was an honorary member of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-Croix of the National Order of Merit. In a career spanning more than 80 years, Casadesus appeared in more than a dozen films after turning 90. Born into a family of artists in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, Gisèle was the daughter of musician, composer and conductor Henri Casadesus and harpist Marie-Louise Beetz, her older brother was actor Christian Casadesus. After receiving first prize in acting at French National Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of twenty, Casadeus joined the Comédie-Française in 1934. The same year, she married the actor Lucien Pascal (born Lucien Probst), with whom she had four children: Jean-Claude (1935), Martine (1939), Béatrice (1942) and Dominique (1954), all artists. She became the 400th member of the Comédie-Française 1 January 1939, and honorary member on 15 April 1967. In cinema, Pierre Billon hired her in 1943 to play the role of Clotilde Grandlieus in Vautrin, adapted from Balzac's novel, alongside Michel Simon, and in 1946 for the role of Mary in L'Homme au chapeau rond, alongside Raimu. In 1971 she was Countess Eguzon in La Belle Aventure, participated in Le Mouton enragé by Michel Deville, played the role of Nicole Leguen, wife of Jean Gabin in Verdict (1974) by André Cayatte, and the mother of Claude Jade in Les Robots pensants (1976). Again with Claude Jade, she was Mamie Rose (1976), the "grand-mère au pair" in the film by Pierre Goutas, her greatest role. It is followed by her Catherine in Un crime de notre temps (1977) by Gabriel Axel. Claude Lelouch engaged her in 1996 for the role of Clara Blanc, mother of Bernard Tapie, in Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi. In Aïe (2000), she is the mother of André Dussollier, and in Valérie Lemercier's comedy Palais Royal (2005) she plays the queen mother. She was Margueritte ("with two ts") alongside Gérard Depardieu in Jean Becker's My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010). In 2013, aged 99, Casadesus acted alongside Anne Consigny and Marie Kremer in Sous le figuier directed by Anne-Marie Étienne. Casadesus was awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour on 29 March 2013. She was also an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-Croix of the National Order of Merit. She received an Honorary Molière Award in 2003 for her entire career. Casadesus died in Paris, France, at the age of 103. Source: Article "Gisèle Casadesus" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Paris, France, 1914-06-14

Died: 2017-09-24

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1934	The Adventurer	Geneviève	53
2	1943	Vautrin the Thief	Clotilde de Grandlieu	76
3	1944	Sowing the Wind	Germaine Horp	0
4	1944	Coup de tête	Nadine	50
5	1945	Paméla	Joséphine de Beauharnais	57
6	1946	The Eternal Husband	Marie	77
7	1947	Loves of Casanova	Geneviève de Cerlin	0
8	1948	Road Blocked	Simone Fournier	0
9	1949	Between Eleven and Midnight	Florence	67
10	1949	Du Guesclin	Jeanne, Comtesse de Penthièvre	51
11	1972	La voyante	La seconde cliente de Karma	0
12	1974	Love at the Top	Mrs. Lourceuil	61
13	1974	Jury of One	Madame Leguen	68
14	1976	Mamie Rose	Rose	30
15	1976	Game of Seduction	Marquise de Lapalmmes	24
16	1976	Un mari, c'est un mari	Le sénateur	10
17	1977	A Crime of Our Times	Catherine Revest	0
18	1980	Le Curé de Tours	Mlle Salomon de Villenoix	0
19	1981	The Collector of Brains	Mme Vanderwood	60
20	1987	Sweet Lies	Nemo	48
21	1989	Stormy Summer	Grand-mère	10
22	1993	Roulez jeunesse !	Bernadette	55
23	1996	Men, Women: A User's Manual	Clara Blanc	61
24	1996	Tout ce qui brille	Mademoiselle de Chambure	10
25	1999	The Children of the Marshland	Mrs. Mercier	71
26	2000	Ouch	Robert's mother	53
27	2001	Les deux vieilles dames et l'accordeur		70
28	2002	Special Delivery	la dame	47
29	2005	The Last Mitterrand	La soeur de Simone Picard	65
30	2005	Housewarming		55
31	2005	Royal Palace	Alma	55
32	2005	Royal Palace	Reine Mère	55
33	2008	Marie-Octobre	Clémence	60
34	2009	Ultimate Heist	Mme Malakian	54
35	2009	The Hedgehog	Mrs. de Broglie	72
36	2010	My Afternoons with Margueritte	Margueritte	69
37	2010	What War May Bring	Ilva (95 ans)	65
38	2010	Sarah's Key	Mamé Tezac	73
39	2011	The Great Restaurant II	Madeleine, the 100 years old fiancée	58
40	2013	Sous le figuier	Selma	62
41	2014	Week-ends	Françoise	41
42	2015	Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran	Self	10
43	2015	La Sonate des spectres		100

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	At Theatre Tonight	La mère	67
2	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80

Gisèle Casadesus

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