Andrea Feldman

(New York Magazine). She was nominated for a 2002 Cesar Award for her performance in the surprise European hit, L'Auberge espagnole. The most striking performance - in large part non-performance - comes from the late Andrea Feldman as the flat-voiced, freaked-out daughter, a mass of psychotic confusion, infantile and heart-breaking. Her fans consider her a beauty and an example of "innocent sensuality". She was noted for her exhibitionist nature and heavy dependence on drugs, particularly amphetamines. In 1997 she starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Man in the Iron Mask. Feldman’s suicide preceded the release of Heat, in which she had a significant role, by only three weeks. The film introduced her to Americans in the role of Mathilde de Bellegarde.

Urban legend often mis-attributes the location of Feldman’s suicide to the Hotel Chelsea. Godrèche was not well-known to American audiences until Patrice Leconte's Ridicule was released in 1996. Feldman was holding a can of Coke in one hand and a rosary in the other when she jumped from the fourteenth floor of 51 Fifth Avenue & 12th St, NYC. In 1994 her novel Point de côté was published in France by Broché Publishers to good reviews. In August of 1972, Andrea summoned several ex-boyfriends, including poet Jim Carroll, to the home of her parents so that they would be witness to her 'final starring role'; her suicide. The daughter of a psychiatrist, at age 14 she obtained her first screen lead in Benoit Jacquot's Les Mendiants and the following year began to pursue a full-time career film and theater. Feldman was heavily involved in the Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows curated by Andy Warhol at which she would perform her famous whip-dance. Godrèche's first film appearance was as Claudia Cardinale's daughter in L'Ete prochain.

A native New Yorker, she starred in several of Warhol’s underground movies before committing suicide in 1972. Judith Godrèche (born March 23, 1972) is a French actress and author, born in Paris, France. Andrea Feldman (also known as Andrea ‘Whips’ Feldman) (1948- 8 August 1972) was an actor and Warhol superstar. L'Été prochain (1985). Heat (1972). La Saisons du plaisir (1988). Trash (1970). Les Mendiants (1988).

Four Stars (1967) aka 24 Hour Movie. La meridienne (1988). Un ete d'orages (1988). Sons (1989). La Fille de quinze ans (1989).

La Desenchantee (1990). Paris s'éveille (1991). Une nouvelle vie (1992). Tango (1992).

Grande petite (1994). L'Aube à l'envers (1995). Ridicule (1996). Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996).

The Man in the Iron Mask (1997) - (English). Bimboland (1998). Entropy (1999) - (English). South Kensington (2001) - (English).

Quicksand (2001) - (English). Parlez-moi d'amour (2002). L'Auberge espagnole (2002). France boutique (2002).