Marie-Christine Barrault

Known for ActingBorn 1944-03-21 (age 82) Paris, France

Marie-Christine Barrault (born 21 March 1944) is a French actress. She is best known for her performance in Cousin Cousine (1975) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she released her autobiography, titled This Long Way To Get To You. Marie-Christine Barrault was born in Paris, France, the daughter of Martha (née Valmier) and Max-Henri Barrault. Her parents later divorced. Barrault's father, who worked in the theatre, died while she was a teenager. With no support, her mother was unable to care for her and her brother, Alain. Barrault was raised by her grandmother, Felicite. She was mentored in acting by her aunt and uncle, French performers Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud. They initially did not support her dreams of becoming an actress. She performed in plays in secondary school and then enrolled in an acting conservatory. Barrault got her start on television in L'oeuvre (1967). She made her feature film debut in Éric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's (1969). In 1970 Barrault was featured along with Pierre Richard in the comedy film Le Distrait. In 1975 Barrault starred in Cousin Cousine, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She worked with Rohmer once again in 1978, in the role of Guinevere in Perceval le Gallois and she also has a cameo in his Chloe in the Afternoon. Barrault is not fluent in English and therefore has generally turned down offers to appear in English-language films. However, in 1980 she accepted an offer from Woody Allen to appear in his film Stardust Memories. In 1988 she was nominated for a Genie Award for her performance in No Blame. In 1991 she portrayed Marie Curie in a television mini-series. In her later career, she has preferred acting on the stage in France. In 2015, she came to Los Angeles on tour to perform in the play Les Yeux Ouverts, in which she portrays French author Marguerite Yourcenar. Barrault's first husband was producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, whom she married in 1965. With him, she had two children, David and Ariane. Barrault was married to director Roger Vadim from 1990 until his death from cancer in 2000. She herself is a breast cancer survivor. Source: Article "Marie-Christine Barrault" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

Movies & web series

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens

Tendre piège

Next Time the Fire

Histoire vraie

An Ideal Husband

Le Misanthrope

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

Spécial cinéma

Necessary Love

Parlez-moi d'amour

The Silent Woman

Et doucement rallumer les étoiles

Mir reicht's - ich steig aus

Figaro-ci, Figaro-là

« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur

The Unexpected Getaway

La Maman du bourreau

Le Sagouin

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

L'empreinte de l'ange

Le grand Batre

Un coup de baguette magique

L'Énigme des sables

Henry James Stories

Le Tour d'Écrou

Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000

Lancelot of the Lake

Murders in...

Ange de feu

The Ties That Bind Us

My Night at Maud's

Per il mio bene

The Satin Slipper

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Azzurro

Petit déjeuner compris

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

Love in the Afternoon

Perceval

Profiling Paris

Mon père avait raison

Crazy Love

Jenny Marx, la femme du diable

Daniya, the emir's garden

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi

Le Chandelier

Stardust Memories