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person_profile-Gisèle Casadesus

Gisèle Casadesus Died at age: 103

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Gisèle Casadesus

Date of Birth:

Jun 14, 1914

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Sep 24, 2017

Biography of

Gisèle Casadesus

    Gisèle Casadesus (14 June 1914 – 24 September 2017) was a French actress, who appeared in numerous theatre and film productions. She was an honorary member of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-Croix of the National Order of Merit. In a career spanning more than 80 years, Casadesus appeared in more than a dozen films after turning 90.

    Born into a family of artists in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, Gisèle was the daughter of musician, composer and conductor Henri Casadesus and harpist Marie-Louise Beetz, her older brother was actor Christian Casadesus. After receiving first prize in acting at French National Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of twenty, Casadeus joined the Comédie-Française in 1934. The same year, she married the actor Lucien Pascal (born Lucien Probst), with whom she had four children: Jean-Claude (1935), Martine (1939), Béatrice (1942) and Dominique (1954), all artists. She became the 400th member of the Comédie-Française 1 January 1939, and honorary member on 15 April 1967.

    In cinema, Pierre Billon hired her in 1943 to play the role of Clotilde Grandlieus in Vautrin, adapted from Balzac's novel, alongside Michel Simon, and in 1946 for the role of Mary in L'Homme au chapeau rond, alongside Raimu.

    In 1971 she was Countess Eguzon in La Belle Aventure, participated in Le Mouton enragé by Michel Deville, played the role of Nicole Leguen, wife of Jean Gabin in Verdict (1974) by André Cayatte, and the mother of Claude Jade in Les Robots pensants (1976).

    Again with Claude Jade, she was Mamie Rose (1976), the "grand-mère au pair" in the film by Pierre Goutas, her greatest role. It is followed by her Catherine in Un crime de notre temps (1977) by Gabriel Axel. Claude Lelouch engaged her in 1996 for the role of Clara Blanc, mother of Bernard Tapie, in Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi. In Aïe (2000), she is the mother of André Dussollier, and in Valérie Lemercier's comedy Palais Royal (2005) she plays the queen mother. She was Margueritte ("with two ts") alongside Gérard Depardieu in Jean Becker's My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010).

    In 2013, aged 99, Casadesus acted alongside Anne Consigny and Marie Kremer in Sous le figuier directed by Anne-Marie Étienne. Casadesus was awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour on 29 March 2013.

    She was also an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-Croix of the National Order of Merit. She received an Honorary Molière Award in 2003 for her entire career.

    Casadesus died in Paris, France, at the age of 103.

    Source: Article "Gisèle Casadesus" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Gisèle Casadesus

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Filmography of

Gisèle Casadesus

Found 37 Movies in total

Week-ends

Françoise ( Actor )

... 2014

Sous le figuier

Selma ( Actor )

... 2013

Sarah's Key

Mamé Tezac ( Actor )

... 2010

What War May Bring

Ilva (95 ans) ( Actor )

... 2010

My Afternoons with Margueritte

Margueritte ( Actor )

... 2010

The Hedgehog

Mrs. de Broglie ( Actor )

... 2009

Ultimate Heist

Mme Malakian ( Actor )

... 2009

Marie-Octobre

Clémence ( Actor )

... 2008

Royal Palace

Alma ( Actor )

... 2005

... 2005

Special Delivery

la dame ( Actor )

... 2002

Ouch

Robert's mother ( Actor )

... 2000

The Children of the Marshland

Mrs. Mercier ( Actor )

... 1999

Tout ce qui brille

Mademoiselle de Chambure ( Actor )

... 1996

Men, Women: A User's Manual

Clara Blanc ( Actor )

... 1996

Roulez jeunesse !

Bernadette ( Actor )

... 1993

Stormy Summer

Grand-mère ( Actor )

... 1989

Sweet Lies

Nemo ( Actor )

... 1987

The Collector of Brains

Mme Vanderwood ( Actor )

... 1981

Le Curé de Tours

Mlle Salomon de Villenoix ( Actor )

... 1980

A Crime of Our Times

Catherine Revest ( Actor )

... 1977

Un mari, c'est un mari

Le sénateur ( Actor )

... 1976

Game of Seduction

Marquise de Lapalmmes ( Actor )

... 1976

Mamie Rose

Rose ( Actor )

... 1976

Jury of One

Madame Leguen ( Actor )

... 1974

Love at the Top

Mrs. Lourceuil ( Actor )

... 1974

Du Guesclin

Jeanne, Comtesse de Penthièvre ( Actor )

... 1949

... 1949

Road Blocked

Simone Fournier ( Actor )

... 1948

Loves of Casanova

Geneviève de Cerlin ( Actor )

... 1947

The Eternal Husband

Marie ( Actor )

... 1946

Paméla

Joséphine de Beauharnais ( Actor )

... 1945

Coup de tête

Nadine ( Actor )

... 1944

Sowing the Wind

Germaine Horp ( Actor )

... 1944

Vautrin the Thief

Clotilde de Grandlieu ( Actor )

... 1943

The Adventurer

Geneviève ( Actor )

... 1934