Stéphane Audran

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Stéphane Audran (born November 2, 1932) is a French actress, known for her performances in the Oscar winning movies: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987) and in critically acclaimed movies like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978).

Audran was born Collette Suzanne Dacheville in Versailles, Yvelines, France. She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964. She had previously been married to French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant for a short while. Audran's first role was in Chabrol's acclaimed film Les Cousins (1959). She has since then appeared in most of Chabron's films. Some of the more acclaimed Chabrol films she has appeared in are La Femme Infidèle (1968), Les Biches (1968) as a rich lesbian who becomes involved in a ménage à trois (she first gained notice in this), Le Boucher (1970) as a school teacher who falls in love with a murdering butcher, Juste Avant La Nuit (1971), and Violette Nozière (1978).

Audran in Babette's Feast

Audran won a France's César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Violette Nozière and British Film Academy award for Just Before Nightfall (1975). She has divorced Chabrol, and has one child Thomas Chabrol.

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She has divorced Chabrol, and has one child Thomas Chabrol. She has diabetes and is deaf (80% hearing loss) in one ear after being severely beaten by a former boyfriend. Audran won a France's César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Violette Nozière and British Film Academy award for Just Before Nightfall (1975). In 2003 Berry came top of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll. Also active in English-language productions, Audran seemed a bit lost in such American bombs as The Black Bird (1975), but was perfect in the made-for-TV projects Brideshead Revisited (1982), Mistral's Daughter (1984) and The Sun Also Rises (1984). She is expected get her "star" on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California sometime in 2004. The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol films was Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) as Alice Senechal. She has never had children herself, but is close to her step-daughter India from her marriage to Benet, whom she legally adopted.

She has also appeared in the movies of Eric Rohmer (Signe du Lion), Jean Delannoy (La Peau de Torpedo), Gabriel Axel (Babette's Feast, as the mysterious cook, Babette), Bertrand Tavernier (Coup de Touchon, as the wife of the cop turned serial killer, Lucien Cordier) and Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One). Her second marriage in 2001 to musician Eric Benét has resulted in a 2003 separation due to Benét's infidelity. Some of the more acclaimed Chabrol films she has appeared in are La Femme Infidèle (1968), Les Biches (1968) as a rich lesbian who becomes involved in a ménage à trois (she first gained notice in this), Le Boucher (1970) as a school teacher who falls in love with a murdering butcher, Juste Avant La Nuit (1971), and Violette Nozière (1978). Her first marriage in 1992 to baseball player David Justice ended in a 1996 divorce. She has since then appeared in most of Chabron's films. Berry has been married twice. Audran's first role was in Chabrol's acclaimed film Les Cousins (1959). No, bursting from the surf - scantily clad - to be greeted by James Bond, as Ursula Andress did 40 years earlier.

She had previously been married to French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant for a short while. As Bond Girl Jinx in 2002's Die Another Day she famously recreated the scene from Dr. She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964. She followed this with a more extended nude love scene in Monster's Ball. Audran was born Collette Suzanne Dacheville in Versailles, Yvelines, France. Having long refused to do any nude scenes, much was made of her first topless scene in the film Swordfish, a thirty second scene for which she was allegedly paid an additional $500,000. Stéphane Audran (born November 2, 1932) is a French actress, known for her performances in the Oscar winning movies: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987) and in critically acclaimed movies like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978). She paid a fine, made restitution to the other driver, performed community services, and was placed on three years’ probation.

Berry, who had sustained a head injury, later stated she had no recollection of the accident and pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge. In February 2000, she was involved in an automobile accident when she struck another vehicle after running a red light and left the scene before the police arrived. Another similarity the two women shared was being born in the same hospital. Interestingly, Berry had played Dorothy Dandridge, the first African American woman to be nominated for a best actress Academy Award, in HBO's Introducing Dorothy Dandridge in 1999.

She won the best actress Oscar in 2002 for Monster's Ball, becoming the first African American woman to win this award. Gothika was the first film that she "carried," i.e., the film focusing entirely on her. Another one of her early roles was in a supporting capacity in the Flintstones movie where she played "Sharon Stone." She played the superhero Storm in 2000 in the successful film, X-Men and again in the more successful X2: X-Men United (2003). Her first co-starring role was in the film Strictly Business.

Her breakthrough feature film role was in Jungle Fever where she played a drug addict named Vivian. In 1989, Berry landed the role of brainy Emily Franklin in the ABC television series called Living Dolls. He encouraged her to continue perfecting her craft. She did not get the role but she impressed Spelling with her skills.

At the time, Spelling wanted one of the "Angels" to be a woman of color. Berry auditioned for a role in an updated Charlie's Angels television series by producer Aaron Spelling. One of her first acting projects was a television series for local cable by Gordon Lake Productions called "Chicago Force.". In the late 1980s, she went to Chicago to pursue a modeling career as well as acting.

Her talents as an actress have often been overshadowed by her physical beauty. Before becoming an actress, she entered several beauty contests including Miss Ohio USA, Miss Teen All American, Miss USA, and Miss World. She subsequently attended Cuyahoga Community College. Berry was a popular student at her high school and was a cheerleader, honor society member, editor of the school newspaper, class president, and prom queen.

She has an older sister, Heidi. Although she is generally considered African American, she is biracial, with a white English-born mother, Judith Ann Hawkins, and a black American father, Jerome Berry. Berry's parents divorced when she was four years old and she was subsequently raised by her mother, a psychiatric-ward nurse. She was named after Halle's Department Store, a local landmark. Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress. 1989 Living Dolls. 1991 The Last Boy Scout. 1991 Strictly Business.

1991 Jungle Fever. 1992 Queen [TV]. 1992 Boomerang. 1993 CB4: The Movie.

1993 The Program. 1993 Father Hood. 1994 The Flintstones. 1995 Losing Isaiah.

1996 Executive Decision. 1996 Girl 6. 1996 The Rich Man's Wife. 1996 Race the Sun.

1997 B.A.P.S.. 1998 Why Do Fools Fall In Love. 1998 Bulworth. 1998 Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding.

1999 Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. 2000 X-Men. 2001 Monster's Ball. 2001 Swordfish.

2002 Die Another Day. 2003 X2: X-Men United. 2003 Gothika. 2004 Catwoman.