Renée Faure

Renée Faure (born Reneé Paule Nanine Faure; 4 November 1918 – 2 May 2005) was a French stage and film actress.

Early life Renée Faure was born Reneé Paule Nanine Faure on 4 November 1918 in Paris, France. Her father was René Faure, director of the Lariboisière Hospital in Paris.

A student of René Simon and André Brunot, Faure joined to the Comédie-Française, as a boarder on 1937, before being appointed member, on 1942. She then performed in major repertoire pieces, particularly excelling in the theater by Marivaux and Musset.

Career In 1941, she made her film debut in L'Assassinat du père Noël , the first film produced by Continental Films, in which she plays the daughter of Harry Baur.

Her following performances confirmed her qualities as an interpreter, quickly passing from angelic roles Angels of Sin (1943) to those, otherwise more ambiguous, of passionate woman such as in François Villon (1945), Torrents (1947), and Bel Ami (1955). She quickly shared the bill with the stars of the time, playing three times with Jean Gabin (The President, 1961).

Faure was a jury member during the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

She left the Comédie-Française on 1964. Almost immediately, on 1965, the institution paid homage to Faure by raising her to the rank of honorary member, which enabled her to return to play, twenty-two years later, the role of the first prioress, in Dialogue of the Carmelites (play) by Georges Bernanos, in 1987.

The following decade saw the actress devote herself to television and the theater. Known to the general public through successful series such as Les Gens de Mogador or Maigret , the actress only appears from far and wide on the big screen, playing with her deep voice and her graceful demeanor in "The Judge and the Assassin", by Bertrand Tavernier, alongside Philippe Noiret and Michel Galabru. In 1988, Claude Miller distributed it in the role of the matriarch of "La Petite Voleuse" facing the young Charlotte Gainsbourg.

In the 1990s, Renée Faure slowed down her activity, nevertheless appearing in À la vitesse d'un cheval au galop (1992) and L'inconnu dans la maison (1992), remake of the film directed by Henri Decoin in 1941, the year of her film debut.

Personal life Faure married French actor Renaud Mary and they had one child. She later divorced him and later married director Christian-Jaque, who had directed her film debut. The couple worked together three more times in: The Bellman (1945), La Chartreuse de Parme (1948) and Adorables Créatures (1952) before divorcing in 1953.

Death Faure died on 2 May 2005 in Clamart, France, at the age of 86.

Filmography 1941: L'Assassinat du père Noël (by Christian-Jaque) - Catherine Cornusse 1942: Prince Charming (by Jean Boyer) - Rosine 1943: Des jeunes filles dans la nuit (by René Le Hénaff) - Mademoiselle Barfleur 1943: Les Anges du péché (by Robert Bresson) - Anne-Marie Lamaury 1944: Behold Beatrice (by Jean de Marguenat) - Béatrice 1945: François Villon (by André Zwoboda) - Catherine de Vauselles 1945: The Bellman (by Christian-Jaque) - Catherine Fabret 1946: The Great Dawn -La Grande Aurore (by Giuseppe Maria Scotese) - Anna Gamba 1947: Torrents (by Serge de Poligny) - Sigrid 1948: La Chartreuse de Parme (by Christian-Jaque) - Clelia Conti 1948: The Shadow (by André Berthomieu) - Denise Fournier 1950: One Only Loves Once (by Jean Stelli) - Danièle de Bolestac 1952: Adorables Créatures (by Christian-Jaque) - Alice 1953: Koenigsmark (by Solange Térac) - Mélusine de Graffendried 1954: Rasputin (by Georges Combret) - Véra 1955: Bel Ami (by Louis Daquin) - Madeleine Forestier 1956: Blood to the Head (by Gilles Grangier) - Mademoiselle 1958: White Cargo (by Georges Lacombe) - Mme Ploit 1959: Rue des prairies (by Denys de La Patellière) - Me Surville 1961: Le Président (by Henri Verneuil) - Mademoiselle Milleran 1966: Les Sultans (by Jean Delannoy) - Odette Messager 1974: Madame Bovary (by Pierre Cardinal) (TV Movie) - Mme Bovary, mère 1976: The Judge and the Assassin (by Bertrand Tavernier) - Mme. Rousseau 1979: Un Neveu silencieux (by Robert Enrico) (TV Series) - Mme Verrière 1982: Ombre et secrets (by Philippe Delabre) (Short) 1985: L'Amour en douce (by Edouard Molinaro) - Tante Thérèse 1988: The Little Thief (by Claude Miller) - Mère Busato 1989: Dédé (by Jean-Louis Benoît) - the grand mother 1992: À la vitesse d'un cheval au galop (by Fabien Onteniente) - Odette Courcel 1992: L'Inconnu dans la maison (by Georges Lautner) - Fine 1997: La Vie intérieure (by Eddy Geradon-Luyckx) 1998: Homère, la dernière odyssée (by Fabio Carpi) - Eugénie