Jeanne Moreau

Actor from France
1928, January 23rd in Paris, France - 2017, July 31st in Paris, France

Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director, born on 23 January 1928 in Paris, where she died on 31 July 2017. The daughter of a French restaurateur and an English dancer from Lancashire, she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and made her stage debut in 1947, quickly becoming one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. She rose to film stardom with Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958) and became an emblematic figure of the French New Wave, notably in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim (1962), in which she sang Le Tourbillon. Over a career of more than six decades she worked with directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel, Elia Kazan, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders. Alongside her acting career she recorded several albums of songs. Her honours include the best actress awards at the Venice Film Festival (1958) and the Cannes Film Festival (1960), an honorary Academy Award (1998) and an honorary Palme d'Or (2003). In the classical repertoire she recorded the narration of Francis Poulenc's L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant. Source: Rondo DB

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Satie: Piano Works / Poulenc: L'Histoire de Babar

1994-11-15

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)