Actor
Jeanne Moreau
Born 23 January 1928 · Paris, France — died 31 July 2017
Jeanne Moreau (1928–2017) was a French actress, singer and director who began on stage and became a defining face of the French New Wave. She was known for strong-willed, sensual and enigmatic roles, and worked with directors such as Malle, Truffaut, Antonioni and Welles. Her screen career lasted over six decades.
Key films
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Louis Malle's thriller made her a star, with a moody Miles Davis score.
The Lovers (1958)
Malle's controversial romantic drama cemented her image as a daring, modern screen presence.
La Notte (1961)
Her role in Antonioni's study of a failing marriage showed her range in European art cinema.
Jules and Jim (1962)On Cinespective
Truffaut's New Wave classic gave her one of cinema's most famous roles, as Catherine.
Viva Maria! (1965)
A comic adventure with Brigitte Bardot showed her lighter side and brought her wide international exposure.
Key awards
- 1960 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress
- 1992 César Award for Best Actress
- 1995 Honorary César
On Cinespective
Full filmography · 189
- 1949Last Love · as MichèleActor
- 1950Three Sinners · as Martine AnnequinActor
- 1950Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés · as La môme PâqueretteActor
- 1952Dr. Schweitzer · as Marie WinterActor
- 1952The Man in My Life · as Suzanne DubreuilActor
- 1953Inside a Girls' Dormitory · as Julie, la serveuseActor
- 1953Julietta · as Rosie FacibeyActor
- 1954Touchez Pas au Grisbi · as JosyActor
- 1954The Scheming Women · as Mona Rémi, la femme de PaulActor
- 1954Queen Margot · as Marguerite de Valois, "La Reine Margot"Actor
- 1954The Secrets of the Bed · as Jeanne Plisson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")Actor
- 1955Hi-Jack Highway · as AliceActor
- 1955M'sieur la Caille · as FernandeActor
- 1955Les Hommes en blanc · as Marianne DéjazetActor
- 1956The Wages of Sin · as Angèle RibotActor
- 1957Demoniac · as Agnès VanauxActor
- 1957Until the Last One · as GinaActor
- 1957The Strange Mr. Steve · as FlorenceActor
- 1958Elevator to the Gallows · as Florence CaralaActor
- 1958The Lovers · as Jeanne TournierActor
- 1958Back to the Wall · as Gloria DecreyActor
- 1958Three Days to Live · as Jeanne FortinActor
- 1958Not Delivered · as Jacqueline TourieuActor
- 1959The 400 Blows · as La Femme avec le chienActor
- 1959Dangerous Love Affairs · as Juliette ValmontActor
- 1960Seven Days… Seven Nights · as Anne DesbarèdesActor
- 1960Five Branded Women · as LjubaActor
- 1960The Dialogue of the Carmelites · as Mother Marie of the IncarnationActor
- 1960Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur · as Narrator (voice)Actor
- 1961La Notte · as LidiaActor
- 1961A Woman Is a Woman · as Self (uncredited)Actor
- 1962Jules and Jim · as CatherineActor
- 1962The Trial · as Marika BurstnerActor
- 1962Eva · as Eva OlivierActor
- 1963The Fire Within · as EvaActor
- 1963Bay of Angels · as Jacqueline 'Jackie' DemaistreActor
- 1963The Victors · as French WomanActor
- 1963Banana Peel · as Cathy / Mme VolneyActor
- 1964The Train · as ChristineActor
- 1964Diary of a Chambermaid · as CéléstineActor
- 1964The Yellow Rolls-Royce · as The Marchioness of FrintonActor
- 1964Mata Hari, Agent H21 · as Mata HariActor
- 1965Chimes at Midnight · as Doll TearsheetActor
- 1965Viva Maria! · as Maria IIActor
- 1965The Car That Became a Star · as The Marchioness of Frinton (archive footage)Actor
- 1965Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau · as SelfActor
- 1966Mademoiselle · as MademoiselleActor
- 1967The Oldest Profession · as Mimi Guillotine (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")Actor
- 1967The Sailor from Gibraltar · as AnnaActor
- 1968The Bride Wore Black · as Julie KohlerActor
- 1968The Immortal Story · as Virginie DucrotActor
- 1968Great Catherine · as CatherineActor
- 1968Portrait: Orson Welles · as SelfActor
- 1969Diane's Body · as Diane VallierActor
- 1970Monte Walsh · as Martine BernardActor
- 1970Alex in Wonderland · as SelfActor
- 1970Countdown to Vengeance · as MadeleineActor
- 1970Langlois · as SelfActor
- 1970Jeanne raconte Jeanne · as SelfActor
- 1971Côté cour, côté champs · as Lady with Little Dog (uncredited)Actor
- 1972Repeated Absences · as La voix de la nostalgie (voice)Actor
- 1972Dear Louise · as LouiseActor
- 1972Vagabond Humor · as Myriam BingeotActor
- 1972Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! · as Self - Host /InterviewerActor
- 1973Nathalie Granger · as L'autre femmeActor
- 1973Joanna Francesa · as JoanaActor
- 1973Omnibus: François Truffaut · as SelfActor
- 1974Going Places · as Jeanne PirolleActor
- 1974Creezy · as Renee VibertActor
- 1974The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir · as The Singer (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")Actor
- 1975The Garden That Tilts · as MariaActor
- 1975French Provincial · as BertheActor
- 1975Hu-Man · as SylvanaActor
- 1975Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète · as SelfActor
- 1976Mr. Klein · as FlorenceActor
- 1976The Last Tycoon · as DidiActor
- 1976Lumière · as SarahActor
- 1976LumièreDirector
- 1979The Adolescent · as La narratrice (voice) (uncredited)Actor
- 1979The AdolescentDirector
- 1981Heat of Desire · as HélèneActor
- 1981Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid · as Lili MarleneActor
- 1982Querelle · as LysianeActor
- 1982A Thousand Billion Dollars · as Madame Benoît-LambertActor
- 1982The Trout · as LouActor
- 1982The Orson Welles Story · as SelfActor
- 1983L'Intoxe · as Marie-PierreActor
- 1984Lillian GishDirector
- 1984Lillian Gish · as SelfActor
- 1984The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel · as SelfActor
- 1985Vivement Truffaut · as Narrator / Self / CatherineActor
- 1985Vicious Circle · as InesActor
- 1986The Nonentity · as BarbesitzerinActor
- 1986Sauve-toi, Lola · as Marie-Aude SchneiderActor
- 1986Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance · as Madame ExeActor
- 1986Francois Simon the Presence · as SelfActor
- 1987Miracle Healing · as SabineActor
- 1988Calling the Shots · as SelfActor
- 1989The Architecture of Doom · as French narrator (voice)Actor
- 1990Nikita · as ArmandeActor
- 1990La Femme fardée · as La DoriaActor
- 1990With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film · as SelfActor
- 1990Alberto Express · as The BaronessActor
- 1990Wim Wenders in Tokyo · as SelfActor
- 1990Au coeur de Nikita · as SelfActor
- 1991Until the End of the World · as Edith FarberActor
- 1991The Suspended Step of the Stork · as The WomanActor
- 1991The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea · as Lady MActor
- 1991Anna Karamazoff · as WomanActor
- 1991Filming Under Pressure · as SelfActor
- 1992The Lover · as Narrator (voice)Actor
- 1992La nuit de l'océan · as Hélène SauveterreActor
- 1992See You Tomorrow · as TeteActor
- 1993Map of the Human Heart · as Sister BanvilleActor
- 1993The Clothes in the Wardrobe · as LiliActor
- 1993François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 1993The Absence · as Writer's WifeActor
- 1993A Foreign Field · as AngeliqueActor
- 1993My Name is Victor · as RoseActor
- 1995Beyond the Clouds · as FriendActor
- 1995One Hundred and One Nights · as Mr. Cinéma's First Ex-wifeActor
- 1995Orson Welles: The One-Man Band · as Self (segment "The Deep") (archive footage)Actor
- 1995The World of Jacques Demy · as SelfActor
- 1995To Make a Film Is to Be Alive · as Self (uncredited)Actor
- 1996I Love You, I Love You Not · as NanaActor
- 1996Catherine the Great · as ElizabethActor
- 1996The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful · as SelfActor
- 1996The Proprietor · as Adrienne MarkActor
- 1997A Witch's Way of Love · as EglantineActor
- 1997Love & Confusions · as LibraActor
- 1998EverAfter · as Grande DameActor
- 1999Balzac: A Life of Passion · as Charlotte-LaureActor
- 2000Fassbinder's Women · as SelfActor
- 2000Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote · as SelfActor
- 2000The Prince's Manuscript · as Alessandra Wolf (Licy)Actor
- 2001Cet amour-là · as Marguerite DurasActor
- 2001Lisa · as Lisa (old)Actor
- 2001Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance · as Anna ShermannActor
- 2001Bride of Trailer Camp · as (archive footage)Actor
- 2002Heart of the Festival · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2003Love Actually · as Taxi Passenger at Marseille Airport (uncredited)Actor
- 2003Hot House · as LéoActor
- 2003The Passions of Louis Malle · as Self - IntervieweeActor
- 2004François Truffaut, une autobiographie · as SelfActor
- 2005Time to Leave · as LauraActor
- 2005Ashes and Snow · as French Narrator (voice)Actor
- 2005Akoibon · as Madame PauleActor
- 2005Go West · as NovinarActor
- 2005The Other Side of Welles · as SelfActor
- 2005French Beauty · as SelfActor
- 2005A Cursed Monarchy · as Mahaut d'ArtoisActor
- 2005Autogram · as Jeanne MoreauActor
- 2006Roméo et Juliette · as LaurenceActor
- 2007To Each His Own Cinema · as The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes")Actor
- 2007Disengagement · as FrançoiseActor
- 2007A City Runs Through the Festival · as SelfActor
- 2007The Deep · as Ruth WarrinerActor
- 2008One Day You'll Understand · as RivkaActor
- 2008Château en Suède · as Agathe FalsenActor
- 2008Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim » · as Self (actrice, rôle de Catherine)Actor
- 2009Eleanor's Secret · as Aunt Eléonore (voice)Actor
- 2009Visage · as JeanneActor
- 2009Carmel · as NarratorActor
- 2009Looking for Truffaut · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2009Bulles de Vian · as SelfActor
- 2009Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller · as SelfActor
- 2010Dispositif 47 - The Second Death · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2011Bouquet final · as MarieActor
- 2011A Bad Encounter · as GabyActor
- 2012Gebo and the Shadow · as CandidinhaActor
- 2012A Lady in Paris · as FridaActor
- 2012Lullaby to my Father · as Narrator (voice)Actor
- 2012Close Up · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2012The Bardot mysteryActor
- 2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded · as (voice)Actor
- 2013Ain't Misbehavin · as SelfActor
- 2013L'Habit ne fait pas le moine · as MadeleineActor
- 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles · as Self - Actress (archive footage)Actor
- 2014François Truffaut l'insoumis · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2018They'll Love Me When I'm Dead · as Self (archive footage)Actor
- 2018Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit · as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)Actor
- 2019Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool · as Self - Actress (archive footage)Actor
- 2019Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Actor
- 2019André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema · as Self - Actress (archive footage)Actor
- 2021Morceaux de CannesActor
- 2022Belmondo: The IncorrigibleActor
- 2025Bardot · as archive footageActor
- 2025The Life of MirrorsActor
- 2026The Road to JerichoActor
Filmography data from TMDB. The profile text is a draft written for Cinespective.