25 Facts About Claude Jade

Claude Jade starred as Christine in Francois Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love on the Run.

Claude Jade was most famous on television as the heroine of the mysterious adventure series The Island of Thirty Coffins.

Claude Jade was the leading actress in the first French daily soap Cap des Pins.

The daughter of university professors, Jade spent three years at Dijon's Conservatory of Dramatic Art.

Claude Jade moved to Paris and became a student of Jean-Laurent Cochet at the Edouard VII theater, and began acting in television productions, including a leading role in TV series Les oiseaux rares.

Claude Jade was "completely taken by her beauty, her manners, her kindness, and her joie de vivre", and cast her in the role of Christine Darbon in Stolen Kisses.

American critic Pauline Kael wrote that Claude Jade "seems a less ethereal, more practical Catherine Deneuve".

Some months after Truffaut's Stolen Kisses Claude Jade starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, as Michele Picard, a secret agent's anxious daughter, married to a reporter.

Hitchcock said he chose the two actresses to provide glamor, and later quipped, "Claude Jade is a rather quiet young lady, but I wouldn't guarantee [that] about her behavior in a taxi".

Claude Jade had a leading role as Linda in Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo by Andre Hunebelle, a modern version of Alexandre Dumas' novel.

Claude Jade starred in Edouard Molinaro's My Uncle Benjamin alongside Jacques Brel.

Claude Jade's career continued in Belgium, where she played a young English teacher who is fatally intrigued by a murderer in the 1969 film The Witness.

Claude Jade starred in Hearth Fires as Laura, a daughter who wants to reconcile her parents and who falls in love with her mother's best friend.

Claude Jade starred in three Italian films: Number One, as a private investigator; La ragazza di via Condotti, as Tiffany, the girlfriend of a private eye ; and A Spiral of Mist, as Maria Teresa, an unhappily married woman, directed by Eriprando Visconti.

Claude Jade played a nun in Kita No Misaki - Cap du Nord by Japanese director Kei Kumai and played a dual role in The Choice.

One year later Claude Jade played the part of Christine Doinel for the third time in Truffaut's Love on the Run.

Claude Jade starred in such television movies as Mamie Rose, La Mandragore, Monsieur Seul, Fou comme Francois, Les anneaux de Bicetre, Ulysse est revenu, and, in her biggest success of that decade, The Island of Thirty Coffins, a 1979 series in which she portrayed heroine Veronique d'Hergemont.

Claude Jade appeared in TV movies, such as the thriller La grotte aux loups ; the drama Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimee ; Treize ; a dual role in Lise et Laura ; A Girl in the Sunflowers ; the Italian miniseries Voglia di volare ; the French-Spanish-Canadian-German miniseries Le grand secret and in episode L'amie d'enfance of the series Commissaire Moulin.

Claude Jade's last US acting part was a guest appearance on The Hitchhiker: in the episode Windows she is Monique, who shoots her neighbor David Marshall Grant at the end.

Claude Jade appeared in an episode of the short film series Drug Scenes ; and in the short A San Remo.

Claude Jade was a member of Jean Meyer's theatre company in Lyon, appearing in plays by Jean Giraudoux ; Henry de Montherlant ; James Joyce ; Racine ; and Balzac.

Claude Jade took roles in plays by Vladimir Volkoff ; Catherine Decours ; Michel Vinaver, Alfred de Musset and others.

Claude Jade worked onstage in Lyon, Nantes, Dijon and Paris.

On 1 December 2006, Claude Jade died of uveal melanoma, which had metastasised to metastatic liver disease.

Claude Jade wore a prosthetic eye in Celimene and the Cardinal, her last stage performance, in August 2006.