Acting
Jeanne Moreau
Born 1928-01-23
Paris, France
Department: Acting
Biography
Jeanne Moreau (January 23, 1928 – July 31, 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, and director. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. She began playing small roles in films in 1949 and eventually achieved prominence as the star of Lift to the Scaffold (UK)/Elevator to the Gallows (USA) (1958), directed by Louis Malle, and Jules et Jim (1962), directed by François Truffaut. Most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continued to appear in films until her death in 2017, at the age of 89. Moreau was the recipient of a César Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for individual performances, and several lifetime awards.
Known For
Prominent works featuring Jeanne Moreau
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Love Actually
2003
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
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The 400 Blows
1959
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Nikita
1990
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EverAfter
1998
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Jules and Jim
1962
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The Lover
1992
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La Notte
1961
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Elevator to the Gallows
1958
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Sacrée soirée
1987
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (232 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The Road to Jericho | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2026 |
 | Bardot | archive footage | Movie | 2025 |
 | The Life of Mirrors | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2025 |
 | Belmondo: The Incorrigible | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2022 |
 | Morceaux de Cannes | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2021 |
 | Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Movie | 2019 |
 | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Self - Actress (archive footage) | Movie | 2019 |
 | André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema | Self - Actress (archive footage) | Movie | 2019 |
 | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2018 |
 | Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit | Self / Various Roles (archive footage) | Movie | 2018 |
 | Baden Baden | Thanks | Movie | 2016 |
 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Actress (archive footage) | Movie | 2014 |
 | François Truffaut l'insoumis | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2014 |
 | L'Habit ne fait pas le moine | Madeleine | Movie | 2013 |
 | Venice 70: Future Reloaded | (voice) | Movie | 2013 |
 | Salvo | Thanks | Movie | 2013 |
 | Ain't Misbehavin | Self | Movie | 2013 |
 | A Lady in Paris | Frida | Movie | 2012 |
 | Lullaby to my Father | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2012 |
 | Close Up | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2012 |
 | Gebo and the Shadow | Candidinha | Movie | 2012 |
 | The Bardot mystery | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2012 |
 | Agnès Varda: From Here to There | Self | TV Series | 2011 |
 | A Bad Encounter | Gaby | Movie | 2011 |
 | Bouquet final | Marie | Movie | 2011 |
 | Dispositif 47 - The Second Death | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2010 |
 | Eleanor's Secret | Aunt Eléonore (voice) | Movie | 2009 |
 | Visage | Jeanne | Movie | 2009 |
 | Carmel | Narrator | Movie | 2009 |
 | Bulles de Vian | Self | Movie | 2009 |
| Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller | Self | Movie | 2009 | |
| Looking for Truffaut | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2009 | |
 | Château en Suède | Agathe Falsen | Movie | 2008 |
 | Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim » | Self (actrice, rôle de Catherine) | Movie | 2008 |
 | Sous les vents de Neptune | Josette | TV Series | 2008 |
 | One Day You'll Understand | Rivka | Movie | 2008 |
 | To Each His Own Cinema | The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes") | Movie | 2007 |
 | Disengagement | Françoise | Movie | 2007 |
 | The Deep | Ruth Warriner | Movie | 2007 |
 | A City Runs Through the Festival | Self | Movie | 2007 |
 | Roméo et Juliette | Laurence | Movie | 2006 |
 | The Countess of Castiglione | Principessa Sisi Altieri | TV Series | 2006 |
 | The Accursed Kings | Mahaut d'Artois | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Go West | Novinar | Movie | 2005 |
| Go West | Associate Producer | Movie | 2005 |
 | A Cursed Monarchy | Mahaut d'Artois | Movie | 2005 |
 | The Other Side of Welles | Self | Movie | 2005 |
 | French Beauty | Self | Movie | 2005 |
 | Time to Leave | Laura | Movie | 2005 |
 | Akoibon | Madame Paule | Movie | 2005 |
 | Ashes and Snow | French Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2005 |
 | Autogram | Jeanne Moreau | Movie | 2005 |
 | François Truffaut, une autobiographie | Self | Movie | 2004 |
 | Hot House | Léo | Movie | 2003 |
 | Love Actually | Taxi Passenger at Marseille Airport (uncredited) | Movie | 2003 |
 | The Passions of Louis Malle | Self - Interviewee | Movie | 2003 |
 | The Birch-Tree Meadow | Writer | Movie | 2003 |
 | Heart of the Festival | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2002 |
 | Cet amour-là | Marguerite Duras | Movie | 2001 |
| Bride of Trailer Camp | (archive footage) | Movie | 2001 | |
 | Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance | Anna Shermann | Movie | 2001 |
 | Lisa | Lisa (old) | Movie | 2001 |
| Lisa | Songs | Movie | 2001 |
 | Fassbinder's Women | Self | Movie | 2000 |
 | Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote | Self | Movie | 2000 |
 | Les Misérables | Mère Innocente | TV Series | 2000 |
 | The Prince's Manuscript | Alessandra Wolf (Licy) | Movie | 2000 |
 | Balzac: A Life of Passion | Charlotte-Laure | Movie | 1999 |
 | Balzac | Charlotte-Laure | TV Series | 1999 |
 | Vivement dimanche | Self | TV Series | 1998 |
 | EverAfter | Grande Dame | Movie | 1998 |
 | Scene by Scene | Self | TV Series | 1997 |
 | A Witch's Way of Love | Eglantine | Movie | 1997 |
 | Love & Confusions | Libra | Movie | 1997 |
 | The Proprietor | Adrienne Mark | Movie | 1996 |
 | I Love You, I Love You Not | Nana | Movie | 1996 |
 | Catherine the Great | Elizabeth | Movie | 1996 |
 | The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Self | Movie | 1996 |
 | Beyond the Clouds | Friend | Movie | 1995 |
 | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band | Self (segment "The Deep") (archive footage) | Movie | 1995 |
 | The World of Jacques Demy | Self | Movie | 1995 |
 | To Make a Film Is to Be Alive | Self (uncredited) | Movie | 1995 |
 | One Hundred and One Nights | Mr. Cinéma's First Ex-wife | Movie | 1995 |
| Belle Époque | Récitante | TV Series | 1995 | |
 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self - Guest | TV Series | 1994 |
 | The Clothes in the Wardrobe | Lili | Movie | 1993 |
 | A Foreign Field | Angelique | Movie | 1993 |
 | François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 1993 |
 | Map of the Human Heart | Sister Banville | Movie | 1993 |
 | My Name is Victor | Rose | Movie | 1993 |
 | The Absence | Writer's Wife | Movie | 1993 |
 | See You Tomorrow | Tete | Movie | 1992 |
 | La nuit de l'océan | Hélène Sauveterre | Movie | 1992 |
 | The Lover | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 1992 |
 | The Suspended Step of the Stork | The Woman | Movie | 1991 |
 | The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea | Lady M | Movie | 1991 |
 | Until the End of the World | Edith Farber | Movie | 1991 |
 | Anna Karamazoff | Woman | Movie | 1991 |
 | Filming Under Pressure | Self | Movie | 1991 |
 | Wim Wenders in Tokyo | Self | Movie | 1990 |
 | La Femme fardée | La Doria | Movie | 1990 |
 | Alberto Express | The Baroness | Movie | 1990 |
 | Stars 90 | Self | TV Series | 1990 |
 | Au coeur de Nikita | Self | Movie | 1990 |
 | Nikita | Armande | Movie | 1990 |
| With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film | Self | Movie | 1990 | |
 | The Architecture of Doom | French narrator (voice) | Movie | 1989 |
 | Screen One | Angelique | TV Series | 1989 |
 | Calling the Shots | Self | Movie | 1988 |
 | Sacrée soirée | Self | TV Series | 1987 |
 | Nulle part ailleurs | Self | TV Series | 1987 |
 | Miracle Healing | Sabine | Movie | 1987 |
 | Le Tiroir secret | Vivi | TV Series | 1986 |
 | Francois Simon the Presence | Self | Movie | 1986 |
| Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance | Madame Exe | Movie | 1986 | |
 | Sauve-toi, Lola | Marie-Aude Schneider | Movie | 1986 |
 | The Nonentity | Barbesitzerin | Movie | 1986 |
 | Vivement Truffaut | Narrator / Self / Catherine | Movie | 1985 |
| Vicious Circle | Ines | Movie | 1985 | |
 | Screen Two | Lili | TV Series | 1985 |
 | Lillian Gish | Self | Movie | 1984 |
| Lillian Gish | Producer | Movie | 1984 |
| Lillian Gish | Director | Movie | 1984 |
 | The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel | Self | Movie | 1984 |
 | L'Intoxe | Marie-Pierre | Movie | 1983 |
 | The Trout | Lou | Movie | 1982 |
 | Querelle | Lysiane | Movie | 1982 |
 | The Orson Welles Story | Self | Movie | 1982 |
 | A Thousand Billion Dollars | Madame Benoît-Lambert | Movie | 1982 |
 | Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid | Lili Marlene | Movie | 1981 |
 | Heat of Desire | Hélène | Movie | 1981 |
 | The Adolescent | La narratrice (voice) (uncredited) | Movie | 1979 |
| The Adolescent | Director | Movie | 1979 |
| The Adolescent | Writer | Movie | 1979 |
 | Ciné regards | Self | TV Series | 1978 |
 | Auf los geht's los | Self | TV Series | 1977 |
 | The Last Tycoon | Didi | Movie | 1976 |
 | Mr. Klein | Florence | Movie | 1976 |
 | Cérémonie des César | Self - President | TV Series | 1976 |
 | Lumière | Sarah | Movie | 1976 |
| Lumière | Director | Movie | 1976 |
| Lumière | Writer | Movie | 1976 |
 | Hu-Man | Sylvana | Movie | 1975 |
 | French Provincial | Berthe | Movie | 1975 |
| Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète | Self | Movie | 1975 | |
 | The Garden That Tilts | Maria | Movie | 1975 |
 | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self | TV Series | 1975 |
 | Apostrophes | Self | TV Series | 1975 |
 | Midi Première | Self | TV Series | 1975 |
 | Spécial cinéma | Self | TV Series | 1974 |
 | The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir | The Singer (segment "Quand l'amour meurt") | Movie | 1974 |
 | Creezy | Renee Vibert | Movie | 1974 |
 | Going Places | Jeanne Pirolle | Movie | 1974 |
 | Joanna Francesa | Joana | Movie | 1973 |
| Omnibus: François Truffaut | Self | Movie | 1973 | |
 | Nathalie Granger | L'autre femme | Movie | 1973 |
 | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Self | TV Series | 1973 |
 | Repeated Absences | La voix de la nostalgie (voice) | Movie | 1972 |
 | Dear Louise | Louise | Movie | 1972 |
 | Vagabond Humor | Myriam Bingeot | Movie | 1972 |
 | Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma ! | Self - Host /Interviewer | Movie | 1972 |
 | Midi trente | Self | TV Series | 1972 |
 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self | TV Series | 1972 |
| Côté cour, côté champs | Lady with Little Dog (uncredited) | Movie | 1971 | |
 | Alex in Wonderland | Self | Movie | 1970 |
 | Monte Walsh | Martine Bernard | Movie | 1970 |
 | Langlois | Self | Movie | 1970 |
 | Jeanne raconte Jeanne | Self | Movie | 1970 |
 | Countdown to Vengeance | Madeleine | Movie | 1970 |
 | Diane's Body | Diane Vallier | Movie | 1969 |
 | Great Catherine | Catherine | Movie | 1968 |
 | The Immortal Story | Virginie Ducrot | Movie | 1968 |
 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV Series | 1968 |
 | Portrait: Orson Welles | Self | Movie | 1968 |
 | The Bride Wore Black | Julie Kohler | Movie | 1968 |
 | The Oldest Profession | Mimi Guillotine (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") | Movie | 1967 |
 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Anna | Movie | 1967 |
 | Mademoiselle | Mademoiselle | Movie | 1966 |
 | Chimes at Midnight | Doll Tearsheet | Movie | 1965 |
 | Viva Maria! | Maria II | Movie | 1965 |
 | Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau | Self | Movie | 1965 |
 | Dim Dam Dom | Self | TV Series | 1965 |
 | The Car That Became a Star | The Marchioness of Frinton (archive footage) | Movie | 1965 |
 | The Yellow Rolls-Royce | The Marchioness of Frinton | Movie | 1964 |
 | The Train | Christine | Movie | 1964 |
 | Diary of a Chambermaid | Céléstine | Movie | 1964 |
 | Mata Hari, Agent H21 | Mata Hari | Movie | 1964 |
 | The Victors | French Woman | Movie | 1963 |
 | The Fire Within | Eva | Movie | 1963 |
 | Bay of Angels | Jacqueline 'Jackie' Demaistre | Movie | 1963 |
 | Banana Peel | Cathy / Mme Volney | Movie | 1963 |
 | Eva | Eva Olivier | Movie | 1962 |
 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV Series | 1962 |
 | The Trial | Marika Burstner | Movie | 1962 |
 | Jules and Jim | Catherine | Movie | 1962 |
 | A Woman Is a Woman | Self (uncredited) | Movie | 1961 |
 | La Notte | Lidia | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Dialogue of the Carmelites | Mother Marie of the Incarnation | Movie | 1960 |
 | Seven Days… Seven Nights | Anne Desbarèdes | Movie | 1960 |
 | Five Branded Women | Ljuba | Movie | 1960 |
| Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 1960 | |
 | Dangerous Love Affairs | Juliette Valmont | Movie | 1959 |
 | The 400 Blows | La Femme avec le chien | Movie | 1959 |
| The 400 Blows | Thanks | Movie | 1959 |
 | Discorama | Self | TV Series | 1959 |
 | The Lovers | Jeanne Tournier | Movie | 1958 |
 | Three Days to Live | Jeanne Fortin | Movie | 1958 |
 | Back to the Wall | Gloria Decrey | Movie | 1958 |
 | Elevator to the Gallows | Florence Carala | Movie | 1958 |
 | Not Delivered | Jacqueline Tourieu | Movie | 1958 |
 | The Strange Mr. Steve | Florence | Movie | 1957 |
 | Demoniac | Agnès Vanaux | Movie | 1957 |
 | Until the Last One | Gina | Movie | 1957 |
 | The Wages of Sin | Angèle Ribot | Movie | 1956 |
 | Cinépanorama | Self | TV Series | 1956 |
 | Hi-Jack Highway | Alice | Movie | 1955 |
 | M'sieur la Caille | Fernande | Movie | 1955 |
 | Les Hommes en blanc | Marianne Déjazet | Movie | 1955 |
 | Queen Margot | Marguerite de Valois, "La Reine Margot" | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Secrets of the Bed | Jeanne Plisson (segment "Billet de logement, Le") | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Scheming Women | Mona Rémi, la femme de Paul | Movie | 1954 |
 | Reflets de Cannes | Self | TV Series | 1954 |
 | Touchez Pas au Grisbi | Josy | Movie | 1954 |
 | Inside a Girls' Dormitory | Julie, la serveuse | Movie | 1953 |
 | Julietta | Rosie Facibey | Movie | 1953 |
 | The Oscars | Self | TV Series | 1953 |
 | Dr. Schweitzer | Marie Winter | Movie | 1952 |
 | La Joie de vivre | Marianne | TV Series | 1952 |
 | The Man in My Life | Suzanne Dubreuil | Movie | 1952 |
 | Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés | La môme Pâquerette | Movie | 1950 |
 | Three Sinners | Martine Annequin | Movie | 1950 |
 | Last Love | Michèle | Movie | 1949 |