Stéphane Audran

She has divorced Chabrol, and has one child Thomas Chabrol. Many critics believe that Blakely's best performance was in the 1980 television film A Cry For Love, in which she gave an acclaimed performance as a drug addict. 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). Blakely's first major role was as Patty Simmons in the classic disaster movie The Towering Inferno. 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 first came to Hollywood in the early 1970s as a highly paid fashion model and then branched off into acting. The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol films was Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) as Alice Senechal. As the daughter of a career Army officer, Blakely was born in Germany .

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). Susan Blakely (born September 7, 1952) is an American movie actress who has mainly played supporting roles. 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 has since then appeared in most of Chabron's films. 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).