Stéphane Audran

She has divorced Chabrol, and has one child Thomas Chabrol. In September 2004 she briefly joined the Coronation Street cast. 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). A song she recorded with Patrick MacNee in the 1960s, Kinky Boots, was a surprise hit in 1990 after it was played incessantly by Radio 1 breakfast show presenter Simon Mayo. 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). Following her early career as a glamorous leading lady, she returned to television in the ITV sitcom, The Upper Hand, during the 1990s. The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol films was Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) as Alice Senechal. In 1963, she married the actor, Maurice Kaufmann, and they appeared together in the film, Fright (1971); they divorced in 1975.

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). Blackman trained as an actress at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. 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). She is mostly remembered for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers and as Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. She has since then appeared in most of Chabron's films. Honor Blackman (12 December 1927 -) is a British actress. Audran's first role was in Chabrol's acclaimed film Les Cousins (1959).

She had previously been married to French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant for a short while. She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964. Audran was born Collette Suzanne Dacheville in Versailles, Yvelines, France. 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).