Marie Dubois
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Marie Dubois (born Claudine Lucie Pauline Huzé; 12 January 1937 – 15 October 2014) was a Parisian-born French actress.
Career[]
She studied at l'École de la rue Blanche (ENSATT)[1] and made her film debut in 1959, first gaining notice the next year as Léna in Shoot the Piano Player. She then played mainly supporting roles. In the 1960s she appeared in New Wave films such as Jules and Jim and The Thief of Paris, thrillers like Hot Line, and comedies like La Ronde, La Grande Vadrouille, and Monte Carlo or Bust.
Other film appearances by Dubois during the 1970s include L'Innocente, The Surveyors, Vincent, François, Paul et les autres, Night Flight from Moscow and La Menace. In 1978 she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Dominique Montlaur in La Menace.[2] In the 1980s she appeared in Mon oncle d'Amérique, , , Garçon! and Descente aux enfers (for which she received a second César nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1987 for her role as Lucette Beulemans[3]).
Personal life[]
Dubois married French film actor Serge Rousseau in 1961. They remained together until his death in 2007. The couple had a daughter, actress Dominique Rousseau. Marie Dubois died on 15 October 2014, aged 77, in Lescar, following a long battle with multiple sclerosis.[4]
Filmography[]
- 1960: Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) (directed by François Truffaut) - Lena
- 1961: Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman) (directed by Jean-Luc Godard) - Une amie d'Angela (uncredited)
- 1961: (directed by Georges Lautner) - Bénédicte de Villemaur
- 1962: Jules and Jim (Jules and Jim) (directed by François Truffaut) - Thérèse
- 1962: Le Signe du lion (directed by Éric Rohmer) - la femme du café (uncredited)
- 1962: (directed by ) - Gisèle
- 1962: (directed by )
- 1963: (directed by François Villiers)
- 1964: La Chasse à l'homme (directed by Édouard Molinaro) - Sophie
- 1964: La Ronde (Circle of Love) (directed by Roger Vadim) - la fille
- 1964: Week-end à Zuydcoote (Weekend at Dunkirk) (directed by Henri Verneuil) - Hélène
- 1964: That Tender Age (directed by Gilles Grangier) - Marie Malhouin
- 1964: Mata Hari, agent H21 (directed by Jean-Louis Richard) - la jeune fille (uncredited)
- 1965: Les Grandes Gueules (The Wise Guys) (directed by Robert Enrico) - Jackie Keller
- 1965: The Lace Wars (directed by René Clair) - Divine
- 1966: (directed by Serge Korber) - Marie
- 1966: La Grande Vadrouille (directed by Gérard Oury) - Juliette
- 1967: Le Voleur (The Thief of Paris) (directed by Louis Malle) - Geneviève Delpiels
- 1968: (directed by Jacques Poitrenaud) - Marie
- 1968: Le Rouble à deux faces (directed by Étienne Périer) - Natasha
- 1968: (Stuntman) (directed by Marcello Baldi) - Yvette
- 1969: Monte Carlo or Bust! (directed by Ken Annakin) - Pascale
- 1970: Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) - Isabelle Durras (directed by
- 1971: (directed by Claude Faraldo)
- 1972: (after Félicien Marceau) (directed by Jean Herman) - Hortense Berthoullet
- 1972: Les Arpenteurs (The Surveyors) (directed by Michel Soutter) - Alice
- 1973: Le Serpent (Night Flight from Moscow) (directed by Henri Verneuil) - Mrs. Walter
- 1973: Antoine and Sebastian (directed by Jean-Marie Périer) - Corinne
- 1974: (directed by Michel Soutter) - Anne
- 1974: Vincent, François, Paul et les autres (directed by Claude Sautet) - Lucie
- 1976: (directed by Sébastien Japrisot) - la mère supérieure
- 1976: (directed by ) - Catherine
- 1976: The Innocent (directed by Luchino Visconti) - The princess
- 1976: Nuit d'or (Golden Night) (directed by Serge Moati) - Véronique
- 1977: La Menace (directed by Alain Corneau) - Dominique Montlaur
- 1979: (directed by Serge Korber) - Anielle Doucet
- 1979: Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (directed by Jean-Charles Tacchella) - Brigitte Dupuis
- 1979: (directed by ) - Marie
- 1980: Mon oncle d'Amérique (directed by Alain Resnais) - Thérèse Ragueneau
- 1980: (directed by ) - Bénédicte Pélissier
- 1982: (directed by Maurice Rabinowicz) - Mona
- 1983: (directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre) - Marion
- 1983: Garçon! (directed by Claude Sautet) - Marie-Pierre
- 1983: (directed by )
- 1984: (directed by ) - Anne
- 1986: Descente aux enfers (directed by Francis Girod) - Lucette Beulemans
- 1987: Grand Guignol (directed by ) - Germaine
- 1990: (directed by Pascal Kané) - Noémie
- 1991: (directed by ) - La femme du maire
- 1991: (directed by ) - Marthe
- 1996: (directed by ) - La mère
- 1996: (directed by Bernard Giraudeau) - La vieille Duchesse
- 1997: Rien ne va plus (The Swindle) (directed by Claude Chabrol) - Dedette
- 1999: (directed by ) - Grâce, "la dame-pipi" (segment "Jour de grâce, Le")
References[]
- ^ "Mary Dubois Biography". Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ^ "César Awards, France". 4 February 1978. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ^ "César Awards, France". 7 March 1987. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ^ Marie Dubois - obituary
External links[]
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- Actresses from Paris
- French film actresses
- French television actresses
- 20th-century French actresses
- Best Supporting Actress César Award winners
- Neurological disease deaths in France
- Deaths from multiple sclerosis
- 1937 births
- 2014 deaths