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Sabine Azéma | |
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Portrait in 1996 | |
Born | (1949-09-20) 20 September 1949 (age 75) Paris, France |
Occupation(s) | Stage and film actress, director |
Years active | 1975–present |
Spouse | Michel Lengliney Alain Resnais (1998–2014; his death) |
Sabine Azéma (born 20 September 1949) is a French stage and film actress and director.
Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.
Career
Her film career began in 1975. Azéma appeared in A Sunday in the Country (1984), for which she won a César Award for Best Actress, and numerous films of Alain Resnais, including Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), L'Amour à mort (1984), Mélo (which won her a second César Award for Best Actress), Smoking/No Smoking (1993), On connaît la chanson (1997), Pas sur la bouche (2003), and Cœurs (2006). She has been nominated a further five times.
Filmography
As actress
Year | Title | Role | Director |
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1976 | On aura tout vu ("The Bottom Line") | Claude Ferroni | Georges Lautner |
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's | Geneviève | Claude Vital | |
1977 | La Dentellière ("The Lacemaker") | Corinne | Claude Goretta |
1981 | On n'est pas des anges... elles non plus | Marie-Louise | Michel Lang |
1983 | La vie est un roman ("Life Is a Bed of Roses") | Elisabeth | Alain Resnais |
1984 | Un dimanche à la campagne ("A Sunday in the Country") | Irène | Bertrand Tavernier |
L'Amour à mort ("Love Unto Death") | Elisabeth | Alain Resnais | |
1985 | Zone rouge [fr] ("Zone Red") | Claire | Robert Enrico |
1986 | Mélo | Romaine | Alain Resnais |
La Puritaine ("The Prude") | Ariane | Jacques Doillon | |
1989 | La Vie et rien d'autre ("Life and Nothing But") | Irène | Bertrand Tavernier |
Vanille fraise ("Vanilla-Strawberry") | Clarisse | Gérard Oury | |
Cinq jours en juin ("Five Days In June") | Yvette | Michel Legrand | |
1991 | Rossini! Rossini! | Olympe Pélissier | Mario Monicelli |
1993 | Smoking/No Smoking | Celia/Sylvie / Irene / Rowena / Josephine | Alain Resnais |
1995 | Les Cent et Une Nuits de Simon Cinéma ("A Hundred and One Nights") | Sabine/Irène | Agnès Varda |
Le bonheur est dans le pré ("Happiness Is in the Field") | Nicole | Étienne Chatiliez | |
Mon homme ("My Man") | Bérangère | Bertrand Blier | |
Noir comme le souvenir ("Black for Remembrance") | Lucy | Jean-Pierre Mocky | |
1997 | On connaît la chanson ("Same Old Song") | Odile | Alain Resnais |
1999 | Le schpountz | Françoise | Gérard Oury |
La Bûche ("Season's Beatings") | Louba | Danièle Thompson | |
2000 | La Chambre des officiers ("The Officers' Ward") | Anaïs | François Dupeyron |
2001 | Tanguy | Edith Guetz | Étienne Chatiliez |
2003 | Pas sur la bouche ("Not on the Lips") | Gilberte Valandray | Alain Resnais |
Le Mystère de la chambre jaune ("The Mystery of the Yellow Room") | Mathilde Stangerson | Bruno Podalydès | |
2005 | The Perfume of the Lady in Black | Mathilde Stangerson | Bruno Podalydès |
Peindre ou faire l'Amour ("To Paint or Make Love") | Madeleine | Arnaud Larrieu et Jean-Marie Larrieu | |
Olé ! | Alexandra Veber | Florence Quentin | |
2006 | Cœurs ("Private Fears in Public Places") | Charlotte | Alain Resnais |
2007 | Faut que ça danse ! ("Let's Dance") | Violette | Noémie Lvovsky |
2008 | Le Voyage aux Pyrénées ("Journey to the Pyrenees"
) |
Aurore Lalu | Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu |
2009 | Les Herbes folles | Marguerite Muir | Alain Resnais |
Les Derniers Jours du monde ("Happy End") | the Marquise of Arcangues | Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu | |
2010 | Donnant Donnant | Jeanne | Isabelle Mergault |
2011 | La Fille du puisatier ("The Well-Digger's Daughter") | Madame Mazel | Daniel Auteuil |
2012 | Vous n'avez encore rien vu | Eurydice I | Alain Resnais |
2013 | Aimer, boire et chanter ("Life of Riley") | Kathryn | Alain Resnais |
2014 | Tante Hilda ("Aunt Hilda") | Aunt Hilda | Benoît Chieux, Jacques-Rémy Girerd |
2015 | Cosmos | Madame Woytis | Andrzej Żuławski |
2016 | Cézanne and I | Elisabeth Cézanne | Danièle Thompson |
Ma famille t'adore déjà | Dahlia | Jérôme Commandeur & Alan Corno | |
2017 | Raid dingue | Marie-Caroline Dubarry | Dany Boon |
Knock | La Cuq | Lorraine Lévy | |
2021 | Secret Name |
As director
Year | Title | Cast | Notes |
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1992 | Bonjour Monsieur Doisneau | Robert Doisneau as himself | Documentary film |
1997 | Quand le chat sourit | Pierre Arditi, Jane Birkin | TV film |
Decorations
References
- "On aura tout vu". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's (1976)". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Cast and crew". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "On n'est pas des anges... elles non plus". Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Zone Rouge". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Aka: Zone Red". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "La Puritaine". Retrieved 22 September 2012.
- "La Puritaine". Retrieved 22 September 2012.
- "Aka: The Prude". Retrieved 22 September 2012.
- "Vanilla fraise". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Aka: Vanilla-Strawberry". Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Cinq Jours en Juin". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Aka: Five Days in June". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Noir Comme le Souvenir". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Aka: Black for Remembrance". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Le Parfum de la dame en noir". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Ole!". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Le Voyage aux Pyrénées". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Journey to the Pyrenees". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Donnant, donnant". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "La Fille du puisatier". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "The Well-Digger's Daughter". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Bonjour Monsieur Doisneau ou Le photographe arrosé". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Quand le chat sourit". Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres juillet 2015 - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication". www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015.
External links
- Sabine Azéma at IMDb
- 1949 births
- Living people
- Actresses from Paris
- French film actresses
- Best Actress César Award winners
- Film directors from Paris
- 20th-century French actresses
- 21st-century French actresses
- French women film directors
- French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
- Cours Florent alumni
- Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres