Pascale de Boysson

Pascale de Boysson (16 April 1922 – 9 August 2002) was a French film, television and stage actress who also adapted and translated plays for the French stage. She was a two-time winner of the Molière Award, winning it in 1988 and posthumously in 2003.

Biography Born as Marie Thérèse Antoinette Pascale de Boysson in April 1922 at Château de Châtillon in the commune of Chindrieux, she was one of ten children born to the aristocratic Louis de Boysson (1881-1971), a Director of the Paris Railroad Company in Orléans who married Marie Jeanne d'Anglejan-Châtillon in 1912. She was a pupil of Charles Dullin and Tania Balachova. In 1961 after meeting Laurent Terzieff she became his life partner and led the company Terzieff founded in 1961. She starred in more than fifty plays and the show Le Babil des classes dangereuses, which she helped to create in January 1984.

She adapted works by Murray Schisgal, Arnold Wesker and Sławomir Mrożek and in 2003 she posthumously received a Molière Award as the best adapter of a foreign work for Le Regard by Murray Schisgal. She also appeared in more than thirty films or TV movies, and lent her voice to the film L'Histoire sans fin, the French-language version of The NeverEnding Story. Her film roles include Gasparine in Lovers of Paris (1957), the bar owner in Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960), Sister Cécile in Dialogue of the Carmelites (1960), La servante des Boule in Amelie or The Time to Love (1961), Elisabeth Lapeyre in Les Abysses (1963), Simone in The Shameless Old Lady (1965), Blanche in Le Maître de pension (1973), Véronique in Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu (1973) and Mrs Clare in Tess (1979).

She died aged 80 on 9 August 2002 in La Noue and was buried at Coux-et-Bigaroque in the Dordogne.

Legacy The Molière Award was awarded to Pascale de Boysson a few months after her death, with Laurent Terzieff thanking the profession and paying tribute to Pascale.

On 2 July 2015 the place Laurent-Terzieff-and-Pascale-of-Boysson was inaugurated in Paris, in the 6th district.

Filmography

Cinema 1957 : Pot-Bouille 1960 : Moderato cantabile 1960 : Dialogue of the Carmelites 1961 : Amelie or The Time to Love 1962 : Yannick Bellon's Marriage Office 1963 : All Who Fall 1963 : Les Abysses 1964 : The Adage 1964 : Widows 1965 : The Shameless Old Lady 1966 : The Second Twin 1970 : Madly 1973 : Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu 1973 : Le Maître de pension 1975 : Aloïse 1978 : Perceval le Gallois 1979 : Tess by Roman Polanski 1982 : Little Joseph 1985 : The Ragazza dei lilla 1992 : The Guéla 1994 : The Raft of the Medusa 2003 : Rien, voilà l'ordre

Television 1963 : The camera explores the time: The Truth on Stellio Lorenzi's Lyon mail case 1964 : The camera explores the weather: Mata-Hari by Guy Lessertisseur 1967 : Hedda Gabler 1973 : The Pension Master 1974 : Yellow grassy waves 1974 : The Birds of the Moon 1975 : Bérénice de Racine 1976 : Milady after Paul Morand, directed by François Leterrier 1978 : The Rope on Marcel Moussy's Neck 1981 : The Journey of the Dutchman 1983 : The Arrow in the Heart (La freccia nel fianco) 1986 : Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story 1988 : A Doctor of Lights 1988 : The Last Five Minutes: Gilles Katz's Last Grand Prize 1992 : Liebesreise 1996 : Laurent Terzieff, the secret documentary man by Léon Desclozeaux 1997 : Baldi: Baldi and the Rich Little Ones by Claude of Anna and Michel Mees

Theatre

Actress 1952 : The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife by Federico García Lorca, directed by Raymond Hermantier, Theater of Humor 1954 : The Morning of a Man of Letters by Tania Balachova after Anton Chekhov, directed by Tania Balachova, Théâtre de la Huchette 1954 : Yerma by Federico García Lorca, directed by Guy Suarès, Théâtre de la Huchette 1955 : The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, directed by André Barsacq, Théâtre de l'Atelier 1955 : The Moon Birds by Marcel Aymé, directed by André Barsacq, Théâtre de l'Atelier 1956 : Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Guy Suarès, Franklin Theater 1958 : Miguel Mañana by Oscar Milosz, directed by Maurice Jacquemont, Studio des Champs-Élysées 1958 : When Five Years Pass by Federico García Lorca, directed by Guy Suarès, Théâtre Récamier 1959 : L'Échange by Paul Claudel, directed by Guy Suarès, Aix-en-Provence 1961 : The Thought, after Leonid Andreyev, adaptation Carlos Semprun, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce and Théâtre Hébertot (1962) 1961 : Les Nourrices by Romain Weingarten, directed by the author, Théâtre de Lutèce 1962 : L'Échange by Paul Claudel, directed by Guy Suarès, Théâtre Hébertot 1963 : The Tiger by Murray Schisgal, directed by Maurice Garrel and Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce 1963 : The Typists by Murray Schisgal, directed by Maurice Garrel and Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce 1965 : Love by Murray Schisgal, directed by Maurice Garrel, Théâtre Montparnasse 1966 : The Neighbours by James Saunders, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce 1967 : The Neighbours by James Saunders, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce 1967 : Tango by Sławomir Mrożek, adaptation Georges Lisowski and Claude Roy, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce 1968 : Child's Play by Carol Bernstein, directed Laurent Terzieff, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe 1968 : The Neighbours by James Saunders, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier 1968 : Fragments and The Chinese by Murray Schisgal, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier 1969 : The Waltz of the Dogs by Leonid Andreyev, adaptation Laurent Terzieff, directed by Carlos Wittig, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier 1969 : David, the Night Falls by Bernard Kops, directed Yves Gasc, Comedy of the West 1971 : The Sleeping Man by Carlos Semprún, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1971 : Here ... Now by Claude Mauriac, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1971 : The Neighbours by James Saunders, directed by Laurent Terzieff, tour 1972 : The Stork by Armand Gatti, directed by Pierre Debauche, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers 1972 : David, the Night Falls by Bernard Kops, directed André Barsacq, Theatre Workshop 1973 : Isma, ou ce qui s’appelle rien by Nathalie Sarraute, directed by Claude Régy, Espace Pierre Cardin 1973 : Rubezahl, scenes of Don Juan by Oscar Milosz, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1974 : Rubezahl, scenes of Don Juan by Oscar Milosz, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre Montansier 1974 : La Mandore by Romain Weingarten, directed by Daniel Benoin, Théâtre Daniel Sorano Vincennes 1974 : Folies bourgeoises - La Petite Illustration by Roger Planchon, directed by Roger Planchon, Comédie de Saint-Étienne 1975 : AA, Theatres of Arthur Adamov by Arthur Adamov, directed by Roger Planchon, TNP Villeurbanne and 1976, Théâtre national de Chaillot 1976 : Folies bourgeoises - The Little Illustration, directed by Roger Planchon, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin 1977 : Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Edward Albee, adaptation Matthieu Galey, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1978 : One Hour with Rainer Maria Rilke after Rainer Maria Rilke, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1978 : Fragments by Murray Schisgal, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1979 : The Hunchback by Sławomir Mrożek, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre national de Chaillot 1980 : The Hunchback by Sławomir Mrożek, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre Hébertot 1980 : Milosz after Oscar Milosz, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1981 : An Hour with Rainer Maria Rilke after Rainer Maria Rilke, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de La Criée 1981 : Milosz after Oscar Milosz, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1981 : The Friends of Arnold Wesker, directed by Yves Gasc, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1983 : Milosz after Oscar Milosz, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre Renaud-Barrault 1984 : The Babble of Dangerous Classes by Valère Novarina, directed by Jean Gillibert, Théâtre de la Criée, Centre Georges Pompidou 1984 : American Healing by James Saunders, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Theater 13, Théâtre La Bruyère 1986 : Testimonies on Brian Friel's Ballyberg, adaptation Pol Quentin, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Lucernaire 1986 : The Women Scholars of Molière, directed by Françoise Seigner, Théâtre Boulogne-Billancourt 1988 : What Fox Sees by James Saunders, directed by Laurent Terzieff, La Bruyère Theater 1989 : Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello, adaptation and staging Armand Delcampe, Théâtre de l'Atelier 1990 : What Fox Sees by James Saunders, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre Hébertot 1991 : William Shakespeare's Richard II, directed by Yves Gasc, Théâtre des Célestins, Théâtre de l'Atelier 1993 : Another Time by Ronald Harwood, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre La Bruyère 1994 : Another Time by Ronald Harwood, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre des Célestins 1997 : The Bonnet du fou by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de l'Athénée and 1998 Théâtre de l'Atelier 2000 : Burned by the Ice by Peter Asmussen, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre 14 Jean-Marie Serreau 2000 : Bertold Brecht, Poems of Bertolt Brecht, directed by Laurent Terzieff, House of Poetry, and 2001 Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse 2001 : Me, Bertold Brecht by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse

Adapter 1965 : Love by Murray Schisgal, Théâtre Montparnasse 1966 : Alas, poor Fred! by James Saunders, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Lutèce 1968 : Fragments by Murray Schisgal, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier 1984 : The Typists and the Tiger by Murray Schisgal, adaptation with Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre de Dix-heures

Translator 1982 : The Ambassador by Sławomir Mrożek, translation with the author and Laurent Terzieff, directed by Laurent Terzieff, Théâtre Renaud-Barrault

Awards and Appointments Molière Award 1988: Best Supporting Actress Molière Award 2003: as the adapter for Le Regard (posthumous) - Théâtre Rive Gauche