Bernadette Lafont

Bernadette Lafont ( born October 26, 1938 in Nîmes, † July 25, 2013 ibid ) was a French stage and film actress. From the late 1950s, she appeared in over 170 film and television productions.

Career

Lafont began her career as a dancer before she was discovered with the onset of the Nouvelle Vague for the French film. Numerous appearances she had mainly directed by François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol. Her debut as a film actress, she gave in 1958 along with her husband Gérard Blain in Truffaut's The insolent. From the 1970s she worked with, among others, Nelly Kaplan ( Cutthroat Island ), Jacques Rivette (Out 1 ), Nadine Trintignant, Marion Vernoux and Luc Béraud. For quite a stir made ​​her appearance in Jean Eustache film The Mother and the Whore, the Cannes initially met fierce resistance in 1973, but then won the Grand Jury Prize. In 1986, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film The Naughty Girls of Claude Miller, also for Chabrol's black comedy masks she was nominated in this category for the César. In 2003, she was honored for her life's work with an Honorary César. From 2009, she was also an officer of the Legion of Honour.

Lafont was married from 1957 to 1959 with the actor Gérard Blain. From the later marriage to the Hungarian sculptor Diourka Medveczky actresses Élisabeth and Pauline Lafont and son David were born. The Born in 1963, Pauline came in 1988 in a mountain accident.

Bernadette Lafont died on July 25, 2013 at the age of 74 years in a hospital of their birth southern French city of Nîmes. President François Hollande paid tribute to the deceased.

Her autobiography " La Fiancée du cinéma " ( The fiancee of cinema ) published in 1999. A 2004 award-winning hybrid tea bears her name.

Filmography (selection)

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