Lyne Chardonnet
Actor
Biography
One could have thought Lyne Chardonnet had been blessed by the gods and would live a long successful happy life. For she really had everything to make it. A wasp-waisted blond-haired girl of radiant beauty, with a good drama training, she should have become a movie star and she would have been one if she had been born twenty years before, that is before the French New Wave set new standards, when ingénues like her were still in demand. Well, she WAS given one or two parts which gave her the opportunity to shine, such as the Jacotte she nicely portrayed in Michel Deville's elegant 'Benjamin' alongside Pierre Clémenti as virgin Benjamin and Michel Piccoli as his mentor (1967), or tragic Marie Vetsera's younger sister in Terence Young's version of 'Mayerling' (1968). However, despite this encouraging debut, roles soon dwindled to next to nothing: a few brief appearances as a blond hostess, a blond secretary or even as a (blond?) nun! Lyne Chardonnet sure deserved better. She had born in Paris in the last years of World War II to a fakir, Léopold Chardonnet, and his wife, Ellen Shapiro, of Irish origin. At the age of five, Lyne was already taking dancing lessons.
Filmography
The Tattoo
as Valérie Mézeray 1968
Three Men to Kill
as L'infirmière au dossier 1980
My Uncle Benjamin
as Arabelle Minxit 1969
Mayerling
as Hannah Vetsera 1968
The War Is Over
as The Pretty Blonde (uncredited) 1966
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
as Jacotte 1968
Dracula and Son
as infirmière 1976
Clerambard
as Brigitte Galuchon 1969
One-Eyed Men Are Kings
1974
Chanel Solitaire
as Young Nun 1981
A Time for Loving
as Bar Girl 1972
The Egg
as Charlotte Berthoullet 1972
I. You. They.
as La dactylo 1973
Une merveilleuse journée
as Geneviève 1980
Bon appétit monsieur
as Zozotte, la bonne 1967
Qui êtes-vous monsieur Renaudot ?
as Louise de Mascon 1972