Annie Girardot
Actor
Biography
Annie Girardot (25 October 1931 – 28 February 2011) was a French actress.
She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland. At the Venice Film Festival she won the Volpi Cup (Best Actress), in 1965 for Trois chambres a Manhattan.
In 1992, she was the Head of the Jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2002, she was awarded the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Piano Teacher. She collaborated with director Michael Haneke again, in the 2005 film Caché.
Another of her best known roles was as Nadia the prostitute in Luchino Visconti's epic Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers, 1960). Nadia's beauty drives a wedge between Rocco and his brother Simone (Renato Salvatori). In contrast to their violent on-camera relationship, Girardot and Salvatori married in 1962. They had a daughter, Giulia, and later separated but never divorced.
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Filmography
Caché
as Georges's Mother 2005
Rocco and His Brothers
as Nadia 1960
The Discord
as Bernadette Daubray-Lacaze 1978
Raining Cats and Frogs
as L'éléphante (voice) 2003
Dillinger Is Dead
as Sabine - la cameriera 1969
The Organizer
as Niobe 1963
Maigret Sets a Trap
as Yvonne Maurin 1958
Let's Be Friends
as Mme Mendelbaum 2005
The Slap
as Hélène Douléan 1974
Jupiter's Thigh
as Lise Tanquerelle 1980
Les Miserables
as Thénardière 1942 1995
Dear Inspector
as Lise Tanquerelle 1978
Traffic Jam
as Irène 1979
The Witches
as Valeria (segment "La strega bruciata viva") 1967
Shock Treatment
as Hélène 1973
The Ape Woman
as Maria 1964