Françoise Seigner
Birthday: Born in 1928-04-07 in Paris, France
Deathday: 2008-10-13
Françoise Seigner (7 April 1928 – 13 October 2008) was a French actress. She is best known for her theatre work, but also acted in a few movies, such as The Wild Child (1970) and the 2005 adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005). She was the aunt of actresses Emmanuelle and Mathilde Seigner. Seigner died of pancreatic cancer. Source: Article "Françoise Seigner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Les Maîtres du pain
Character: Astérie
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Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
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Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Le Fils du cordonnier
Character: Mme Courtois
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The Wild Child
Character: Madame Guerin
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years....
Les Misérables
Character: The Thénardier
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France....
Tartuffe
Character: Dorine
A filmed version of Molière's play....
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Character: Ada, tante de Bélisaire
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home....
L'avare
Character: Frosine
Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son, is in love with the young Mariane and that his daughter Elise loves a penniless young man, Valère, whom he has just hired as a steward....
Les pieds dans le plâtre
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A butcher's boy, in love with the daughter of one of his neighbors, a penniless baron, finds himself in financial difficulties as he begins construction of a building on the land he has inherited....
Le Tartuffe
Character: Dorine
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Les femmes savantes
Character: Philaminte
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La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
Character: Dorine / Toinette
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Les Maîtres du pain
Character: Astérie
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La Double Inconstance
Character: Flaminia
A staging of Marivaux's play "The Double Inconstancy" by Jean-Luc Boutté....
Le Légataire universel - Jean-Paul Roussillon
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Princesse Alexandra
Character: Cécile Mabilleau
In search of freedom, Duchess Alexandra, cousin of Empress Sissi, leaves Austria and her violent husband to settle incognito in Paris....
La Commère
Character: Mme Alain
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