Béatrice Dalle
| Béatrice Dalle | |
|---|---|
 Dalle in 1999 | |
| Born |
Béatrice Cabarrou 19 December 1964 Brest, Finistère, France |
| Occupation | actress |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Jean-François Dalle (1985–1988) Guénaël Meziani (2005–Present) |
| Partner(s) |
Alessandro Gassman (?-1998; broken engagement) |
Béatrice Dalle (born 19 December 1964) is a French actress.
Biography
Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou.[1][2] In 1985, she married the painter Jean-François Dalle but they divorced in 1988.
She was working as a model when she met filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix. Beineix cast her in the lead role of the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (later released in the U.K. and U.S.A. under the title Betty Blue) which received BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and made a star of Dalle.
She went on to appear in a series of major roles in French films, including the 1989 film Chimère, which was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
She is seen in a feature role in the 1991 music video "Move To Memphis" by Norwegian band a-ha.
She starred in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth in 1991. In 1997, she was cast in The Blackout, her first film made in the United States.
In 2001, Dalle appeared in the controversial film, Trouble Every Day, in which she played a vampire. More recently, she starred in the 2007 film À l'intérieur, in which she played a cruel psychopath stalking a pregnant woman.
Dalle's personal life has been somewhat controversial. She has been arrested on several occasions for shoplifting, drug-possession and assault.[4] In January, 2005, while making a film about prison-life in Brest, Dalle met Guenaël Meziani, who was serving a 12-year prison sentence for assaulting and raping his ex-girlfriend. She married him after 24 one-hour visits, and spoke on his behalf at hearings for his early release.[4][5]
Interviewed on the French TV programme Divan in 2016, Dalle said that, when she used to work in a morgue, she and friends sold body parts from corpses. She also admitted that, whilst on acid, she once ate a dead man's ear.[6]
Theater
| Year | Title | Author | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Lucrèce Borgia | Victor Hugo | David Bobée |
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Betty Blue | Betty | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Nominated - César Award for Best Actress |
| On a volé Charlie Spencer ! | The Star | Francis Huster | ||
| 1988 | The Witches' Sabbath | Maddalena | Marco Bellocchio | |
| 1989 | Chimère | Alice | Claire Devers | |
| Les bois noirs | Violette | Jacques Deray | ||
| 1990 | A Woman's Revenge | Suzy | Jacques Doillon | |
| 1991 | Night on Earth | Blind Woman | Jim Jarmusch | |
| 1992 | La Belle Histoire | Odona | Claude Lelouch | |
| La Fille de l'air | Brigitte | Maroun Bagdadi | ||
| 1994 | I Can't Sleep | Mona | Claire Denis | |
| À la folie | Elsa | Diane Kurys | ||
| 1996 | Clubbed to Death | Saida | Yolande Zauberman | |
| Désiré | Madeleine | Bernard Murat | ||
| 1997 | The Blackout | Annie | Abel Ferrara | |
| Al límite | Elena | Eduardo Campoy | ||
| 1999 | Toni | Marie | Philomène Esposito | |
| 2000 | La vérité vraie | Cathy | Fabrice Cazeneuve | TV Movie |
| 2001 | Trouble Every Day | Coré | Claire Denis (2) | |
| H Story | The Actress | Nobuhiro Suwa | ||
| 2002 | Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard | Cécile Cassard | Christophe Honoré | |
| Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space | Tatla | Tol | ||
| Les oreilles sur le dos | Monica | Xavier Durringer | TV Movie | |
| 2003 | Time of the Wolf | Lise Brandt | Michael Haneke | |
| Vendetta | Alice | Richard Aujard | Short | |
| 2004 | Clean | Elena | Olivier Assayas | |
| The Gate of Sun | Catherine | Yousry Nasrallah | ||
| The Intruder | Queen of the north | Claire Denis (3) | ||
| Process | The Actress | C.S. Leigh | ||
| 2005 | Dans tes rêves | Ava | Denis Thybaud | |
| 2006 | Tête d'or | The Princess | Gilles Blanchard | |
| 2007 | Inside | The Woman | Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo | Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress Fright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| Truands | Béatrice | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | ||
| 2008 | Les bureaux de Dieu | Milena | Claire Simon | |
| New Wave | Anna | Gaël Morel | TV Movie | |
| 2009 | Domain | Nadia | Patric Chiha | |
| 2010 | De l'encre | Mathilde | Ekoué & Hamé | TV Movie |
| 2011 | Livid | Lucie's mother | Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (2) | |
| Notre Paradis | Anna | Gaël Morel (2) | ||
| Jimmy Rivière | Gina | Teddy Lussi-Modeste | ||
| 2012 | Bye Bye Blondie | Gloria | Virginie Despentes | |
| L'étoile du jour | Zohra | Sophie Blondy | ||
| Punk | Teresa | Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire | TV Movie | |
| 2013 | Le renard jaune | Béatrice | Jean-Pierre Mocky | |
| Meine Schwestern | Mildred | Lars Kraume | ||
| You and the Night | The Commissioner | Yann Gonzalez | ||
| Myster Mocky présente | Henriette | Jean-Pierre Mocky (2) | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| 2014 | Among the Living | Jeanne Faucheur | Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (3) | |
| ABCs of Death 2 | The Grandmother | Julien Maury (4) | ||
| Rosenn | Yvan Le Moine | |||
| 2015 | Malaterra | Suzanne Leroy | Jean-Xavier de Lestrade & Laurent Herbiet | TV Mini-Series |
| 2017 | Chacun sa vie et son intime conviction | Claude Lelouch (2) | ||
| 2017 | The Happy Prince | Filming | ||
References
- ↑ LesGensDuCinéma.com
- ↑ There are conflicting references to Dalle's birthplace. The majority of sources state she was born in Brest, Finistère. However, there are also a number of sources that state she was born in Le Mans, Sarthe.
- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Chimère". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
- 1 2 "Women who have killer instincts," The Independent, January 27, 2005.
- ↑ Colin Randall, "Actress Defends Rape Suspect" The Daily Telegraph, December 14, 2005]
- ↑ Olivia Blair (February 6, 2016). "French actress Béatrice Dalle reveals she once ate a dead man's ear". The Independent.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Béatrice Dalle. |
- Béatrice Dalle at the Internet Movie Database
- Béatrice Dalle at AllMovie
- Béatrice Dalle at AlloCiné (French)
Further reading
- Ursini, James; Mainon, Dominique. "Beatrice Dalle: The earthy sensualist". Femme Fatale: Cinema's Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies.