Nathalie Baye
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Nathalie Baye (born 6 July 1948) is a four-time César award-winning French actress. Also she has been nominated a further five times.
Contents |
Biography
Early life
Baye was born in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy. At the age of fourteen she started her artistic career by joining a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States to sample a new world and new culture. On returning to France, she continued with dance but in parallel registered for the Simon Course for the Academy where she graduated in 1972 with a second prise in comedy, dramatic comedy and foreign theatre.
Career
Her first cinema appearance was in Two People by Robert Wise. Then she rose to fame as the 'script girl' in La Nuit américaine (Day for Night) by François Truffaut. Throughout the 1970s she played the roles of good girlfriend and nice provincial in both film and television.
In 1981 she won her first César, for best supporting artist in Sauve qui peut (la vie) by Jean-Luc Godard. There then followed an impressive sequence of success and rise to stardom with Le Retour de Martin Guerre and La Balance.
She became one of the most popular and renowned French actresses, gaining two more Césars (Best Supporting Female for A Strange Affair, and Best Actress in 1982 for La Balance. Her 4 year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a leading celebrity couple and their daughter Laura is now actress Laura Smet.
After changing her image by playing the part of a streetwalker in La Balance, she further widened her scope with more obscure characters in J'ai épousé une ombre and En toute innocence. In 1986 she returned to the theatre with an interpretation of Adriana Monti.
1999 started a glittering year as she was voted Best Supporting Actress at Venice Film Festival for Une liaison pornographique and in 2000 starred in the multi-award winning film Vénus Beauté (Institut) by Tonie Marshall
Since 2002 she has had many new collaborations including Claude Chabrol and Steven Spielberg, and remains one of France's busiest and most popular actresses of stage, screen and television.
Filmography
- Faustine et le bel été (1972) - Giselle
- Two People (1973) (uncredited)
- La Nuit américaine (aka. Day for Night) (1973) - Joelle
- La Gueule ouverte (1974) - Nathalie, la fille
- La Gifle (1974) - Christine
- Un jour, la fête (1975) - Julie
- Le Plein de super (1976) - Charlotte
- Le Voyage de noces (1976) - Sophie
- La Dernière femme (1976) - La fille aux cerises
- Mado (1976) - Catherine
- La Communion solennelle (1977) - Jeanne Vanderberghe
- L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977) - Martine Desdoits
- Monsieur Papa (1977) - Janine
- La Chambre verte (The Green Room) (1978) - Cecilia Mandel
- Mon premier amour (1978) - Fabienne
- Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979)
- La Mémoire courte (1979) - Judith Mesnil
- Je vais craquer!!! (1980) - Brigitte
- Une semaine de vacances (1980) - Laurence Cuers
- Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) - Denise Rimbaud
- La Provinciale (1981) - Christine
- Beau-père (1981) - Charlotte
- L'Ombre rouge (1981) - Anna
- Une étrange affaire (1981) - Nina Coline
- Le Retour de Martin Guerre (aka. The Return of Martin Guerre) (1982) - Bertrande de Rols
- La Balance (1982) - Nicole Danet
- J'ai épousé une ombre (1983) - Helene
- Notre histoire (1984) - Donatienne Pouget/Marie-Thérèse Chatelard/Geneviève Avranche
- Rive droite, rive gauche (1984) - Sacha Vernakis
- Détective (1985) - Françoise Chenal
- Le Neveu de Beethoven (1985) - Leonore
- Lune de miel (1985) - Cécile Carline
- De guerre lasse (1987) - Alice
- En toute innocence (1988) - Catherine
- Gioco al massacro (1989)
- Le Pinceau à lèvres (1990) - Elle
- La Baule-les-Pins (1990) - Lena
- The Man Inside (1990) - Christine
- Un week-end sur deux (1990) - Camille Valmont
- La Voix (1992) - Lorraine
- From Time to Time (aka. The Timekeeper) (1992) - Madame de Pompadour
- Mensonge (1993) - Emma
- La Machine (1994) - Marie Lacroix
- La Mère (1995) - La mère
- Enfants de salaud (1996) - Sophie
- Food of Love (1997) - Michele
- Paparazzi (1998) - Nicole
- Si je t'aime, prends garde à toi (1998) - Muriel
- Vénus beauté (institut) (aka. Venus Beauty Institute) (1999) - Angèle Piana
- Une liaison pornographique (1999) - Her
- Selon Matthieu (2000) - Claire
- Ça ira mieux demain (2000) - Sophie
- Barnie et ses petites contrariétés (2001) - Lucie Barnich
- Absolument fabuleux (2001) - Patricia
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) - Paula Abagnale
- La Fleur du mal (2003) - Anne Charpin-Vasseur
- Les Sentiments (2003) - Carole
- France Boutique (2003) - Sofia
- Une vie à t'attendre (2004) - Jeanne
- L'Un reste, l'autre part (2005) - Fanny
- Le Petit Lieutenant (2005) - Commandant Caroline "Caro" Vaudieu
- La Californie (2006) - Maguy
- Ne le dis à personne (2006)
- Michou d'Auber (2007) -Gisèle
- Mon fils à moi (2007)
- Le prix à payer (2007) - Odette
- Passe-passe (2008) - Irène Montier-Duval
- Cliente (2008) (post-production) - Judith
- Les Bureaux de Dieu (2008) (filming)
Television
- Au théâtre ce soir: Les croulants se portent bien (1970)
- L'inconnu (1973)
- Esquisse d'une jeune femme sans dessus-dessous (1975)
- Les cinq dernières minutes: Une si jolie petite cure (1977)
- Sacré farceur (1978)
- Madame Sourdis (1979)
- And the Band Played On (1993)
- L'Enfant des lumières (2002)
Awards
- 1981: Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema - César - Best Supporting Actress - Sauve qui peut (la vie)
- 1982: Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema - César - Best Supporting Actress - Une étrange affaire
- 1983: Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema - César - Best Actress - La Balance
- 1999: Venice Film Festival - Volpi Cup - Best actress - Une liaison pornographique
- 2000: Seattle International Film Festival - Best actress - Venus Beauty Institute
- 2006: Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema - César - Best Actress - Le Petit Lieutenant
- 2006: San Sebastian International Film Festival - Silver Seashell - Best Actress - Mon fils à moi
