Stéphane Audran

She has divorced Chabrol, and has one child Thomas Chabrol. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1719 Vine Street. 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). An apocryphal story has it that a Masai chief offered 150 cows, 200 goats, sheep, and $750 for her while she was on location in Africa for the 1965 movie Mister Moses. 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). Afterwards, she moved to Europe, where she appeared in several films in Italy, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as in Mexico. 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 1964 she starred in The Carpetbaggers, and in 1965 in Harlow.

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). After appearing in television commercials, her big break came in 1956, when she not only appeared in the big feature Giant, but starred in Baby Doll, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. 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). Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, she began her film career in 1953, with a small part in Easy to Love. She has since then appeared in most of Chabron's films. Carroll Baker (Karolina Piekarski) (born May 28, 1931) is a Polish-American 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).