Tsilla Chelton

Tsilla Chelton ( born June 21, 1919 in Jerusalem, † July 15, 2012 in Brussels) was a French actress.

Life

Tsilla Chelton began her acting career late. In 1962, she made ​​her debut in a tiny role in Yves Robert's War of the Buttons. Robert gave her a slightly larger role in 1967 with Alexandre Philippe Noiret, before you gave Pierre Richard a small part in the Airborne. In the same year, she completed a brief appearance as a magician beside Claude Jade in Sheherazade. In 1969 she had a starring role as Mme Martin, on the side of Jean Richard in " Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret ," 8th episode, " L' ombre chinoise ", based on the novel by Georges Simenon. In the 70s and 80s as brief appearances followed (including a larger part in the crime series Commissioner Moulin ) until Étienne Chatiliez her 1990 title role entrusted to Aunt Daniele, in which she plays a lonely old and not least spiteful woman, that drives her housekeeper to death, and the family to the brink of insanity. For this performance Tsilla Chelton was nominated for the 1991 French film award César for Best Actress. Three years later she received the French theater price Molière awarded as best actress for her performance in Eugène Ionesco's Les chaises. Even in international cinema Chelton joined from time to time in appearance. After the Part of Mrs. Barton, William Castle American Horror Shanks (1974) and a small supporting role in Peter Hyams ' period film The Musketeer (2001 ) was the 90 -year-old actress with Yeşim Ustaoğlus Turkish family drama again fated Pandora success. The role of an old suffering from Alzheimer's woman who vanished without a trace from her home village on the Black Sea, brought her in 2008 at the Spanish Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia- San Sebastián, together with the American Melissa Leo ( Frozen River) the prize for Best Actress one.

Filmography (selection)