Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite.
19 Facts About Jeanne Moreau
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Jeanne Moreau made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comedie-Francaise.
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Jeanne Moreau won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days.
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Jeanne Moreau was the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, a Cannes Golden Palm in 2003, and another Cesar Award in 2008.
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Jeanne Moreau's father was French; her mother was English, a native of Oldham, Lancashire, England and of part Irish descent.
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Jeanne Moreau's father was Catholic and her mother, originally a Protestant, converted to Catholicism upon marriage.
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Jeanne Moreau ultimately lost interest in school and, at age 16, after attending a performance of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, found her calling as an actor.
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In 1947, Jeanne Moreau made her theatrical debut at the Avignon Festival.
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Jeanne Moreau debuted at the Comedie-Francaise in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country and, by her 20s, was already one of the leading actresses in the theatre's troupe.
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Jeanne Moreau went on to work with many of the best known New Wave and avant-garde directors.
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Jeanne Moreau worked with a number of other notable directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles, Luis Bunuel, Elia Kazan, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Carl Foreman, and Manoel de Oliveira.
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Jeanne Moreau released several albums and once performed with Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall in 1984.
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Jeanne Moreau's accomplishments were the subject of the film Calling the Shots by Janis Cole and Holly Dale.
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Jeanne Moreau appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's film Fassbinder's Women.
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Jeanne Moreau formerly was married to Jean-Louis Richard, and then to American film director William Friedkin.
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In 1971, Jeanne Moreau was a signatory of the Manifesto of the 343 which publicly announced that she had obtained an illegal abortion.
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Jeanne Moreau was a close friend of Sharon Stone, who presented a 1998 American Academy of Motion Pictures life tribute to Jeanne Moreau at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, academy headquarters, in Beverly Hills.
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Jeanne Moreau died on 31 July 2017 at her home in Paris at the age of 89.
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Jeanne Moreau's body was discovered by her cleaning maid and shortly before her death, she said she felt "abandoned" because she could not act anymore.