Catherine Mouchet
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Catherine Mouchet is a French actress. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris
, following the courses of Jacques Lassalle and Claude Régy. She is best known for her portrayal of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux in the film Thérèse directed by Alain Cavalier
. Her performance won her the César Award for Most Promising Actress
for 1987.
's Si le soleil ne revenait pas
in 1987, she devoted herself to theatre for a time. She appeared in works by Luigi Pirandello
, (Vêtir ceux qui sont nus), and Alfred de Musset
, (Les Caprices de Marianne
), amongst others, and directed La Petite dame with Claude Guyonnet in 1992. She returned to the screen in Jean-Pierre Mocky
's Bonsoir
1993, and in Louis and Xavier Bachelot's short film La Plante. On television she appeared in the saga Jalna, directed by Philippe Monnier
from the books of Mazo de la Roche
, and in Le blanc à lunettes, directed by Édouard Nierman , from a Georges Simenon
novel. She then studied for a degree in philosophy.
She returned to the screen and played supporting roles in two Olivier Assayas
films, Fin août, début septembre and Les Destinées sentimentales. She appeared in Pierre Jolivet
's My Little Business
, for which she received a nomination for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Philippe Harel
's adaptation of Michel Houellebecq
's controversial breakthrough novel Extension du domaine de la lutte
(1999), in which she played a psychoanalyst. And she exploded the image of the enclosed nun with the role of a prostitute in Patrice Leconte
's Rue des Plaisirs. She continues to appear in a wide variety of roles in both auteur films and popular comedies, and for both first time directors and established talents.
In October 2008 Mouchet appeared at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg in Jean Magnan's "et pourtant ce silence ne pouvait être vide" , based, like Jean Genet
's The Maids
, on the Papin sisters
murders in 1933.
Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris is a college of music and dance founded in 1795, now situated in the avenue Jean Jaurès in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France...
, following the courses of Jacques Lassalle and Claude Régy. She is best known for her portrayal of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux in the film Thérèse directed by Alain Cavalier
Alain Cavalier
Alain Cavalier is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987...
. Her performance won her the César Award for Most Promising Actress
César Award for Most Promising Actress
The following is the list of winners of the César Award for Most Promising Actress . Since its inception in 1983, the award is given as part of the French film industry's annual César Awards....
for 1987.
Career
Having been acclaimed for her appearance in Thérèse, Mouchet found that the rôle imprisoned her in the image of the Saint and, in spite of appearing in Claude GorettaClaude Goretta
Claude Goretta is an internationally successful television producer and film director. His 1981 film La provinciale was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
's Si le soleil ne revenait pas
Si le soleil ne revenait pas
Si le soleil ne revenait pas is a Franco/Swiss film directed by Claude Goretta, with a script written by the director, from the original novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and stars Charles Vanel, Catherine Mouchet and Philippe Léotard...
in 1987, she devoted herself to theatre for a time. She appeared in works by Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written...
, (Vêtir ceux qui sont nus), and Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris...
, (Les Caprices de Marianne
Les caprices de Marianne
Les caprices de Marianne is a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet with a French libretto by Jean-Pierre Grédy after Alfred de Musset. It was first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954, with the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire conducted by Louis de Froment with...
), amongst others, and directed La Petite dame with Claude Guyonnet in 1992. She returned to the screen in Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky is the pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer...
's Bonsoir
Bonsoir
- Plot :Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society...
1993, and in Louis and Xavier Bachelot's short film La Plante. On television she appeared in the saga Jalna, directed by Philippe Monnier
Philippe Monnier
Philippe Monnier, born 2 November 1864 in Geneva, died 21 July 1911 in Plainpalais, was a Swiss writer in the French language.- Publications :Most of his writings dealt with Geneva and its region, from where he originated...
from the books of Mazo de la Roche
Mazo de la Roche
Mazo de la Roche , born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.-Early life:...
, and in Le blanc à lunettes, directed by Édouard Nierman , from a Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 200 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known for the creation of the fictional detective Maigret.-Early life and education:...
novel. She then studied for a degree in philosophy.
She returned to the screen and played supporting roles in two Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...
films, Fin août, début septembre and Les Destinées sentimentales. She appeared in Pierre Jolivet
Pierre Jolivet
Pierre Jolivet is a French director, actor and script-writer. His film Zim and Co. was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival....
's My Little Business
My Little Business
Ma petite entreprise is a 1999 French film directed by Pierre Jolivet and written by Jolivet and Simon Michaël.- Awards and nominations :*César Awards...
, for which she received a nomination for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Philippe Harel
Philippe Harel
Philippe Harel is a French film director, actor and screenwriter born in 1956.-Selected filmography:* La femme défendue * Extension du domaine de la lutte -External links:...
's adaptation of Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq , born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1958—or 1956 —on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French author, filmmaker and poet. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire;...
's controversial breakthrough novel Extension du domaine de la lutte
Extension du domaine de la lutte
Extension du domaine de la lutte is the debut novel of French writer, Michel Houellebecq, which was published in 1994 in France and in 1998 in the UK by Serpent's Tail, and released in 1999 as a film .-Plot introduction:It is a...
(1999), in which she played a psychoanalyst. And she exploded the image of the enclosed nun with the role of a prostitute in Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...
's Rue des Plaisirs. She continues to appear in a wide variety of roles in both auteur films and popular comedies, and for both first time directors and established talents.
In October 2008 Mouchet appeared at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg in Jean Magnan's "et pourtant ce silence ne pouvait être vide" , based, like Jean Genet
Jean Genet
Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...
's The Maids
The Maids
The Maids is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris in a production that opened on 17 April 1947, which Louis Jouvet directed...
, on the Papin sisters
Papin sisters
Christine Papin and Léa Papin were two French maids who murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France, on 2 February 1933...
murders in 1933.
Filmography
- Thérèse 1986
- Si le soleil ne revenait pasSi le soleil ne revenait pasSi le soleil ne revenait pas is a Franco/Swiss film directed by Claude Goretta, with a script written by the director, from the original novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and stars Charles Vanel, Catherine Mouchet and Philippe Léotard...
(If the Sun Never Returns) 1987 - La plante short film 1993
- BonsoirBonsoir- Plot :Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society...
1993 - Jalna (TV) 1994
- Le blanc à lunettes (TV) 1995
- Fin août, début septembre 1998
- Extension du domaine de la lutteExtension du domaine de la lutteExtension du domaine de la lutte is the debut novel of French writer, Michel Houellebecq, which was published in 1994 in France and in 1998 in the UK by Serpent's Tail, and released in 1999 as a film .-Plot introduction:It is a...
1999 (a.k.a whatever) - My Little BusinessMy Little BusinessMa petite entreprise is a 1999 French film directed by Pierre Jolivet and written by Jolivet and Simon Michaël.- Awards and nominations :*César Awards...
1999 - J'ai tué Clémence Acéra 2000
- Du Côté des filles 2000
- Les Destinées sentimentalesSentimental DestiniesSentimental Destinies is a 2000 French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas. It was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Emmanuelle Béart - Pauline Pommerel* Charles Berling - Jean Barnery* Isabelle Huppert - Nathalie Barnery...
2000 - La Danse des asperges sarrasines short film 2000
- Mortel transfertMortel TransfertMortel Transfert is a Franco-German thriller, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jean-Pierre Gattégno. The music was provided by the composer of Roselyne et les lions, Reinhardt Wagner. Some of the paintings in the film were produced by Pierre Peyrolle,...
2001 - Le Pornographe 2001
- Rue des plaisirs 2001
- HS Hors Service 2001
- Elle est des nôtres 2002
- Petites coupures 2002
- La Repentie 2002
- Ecrivain d'O 2004
- Nos Vies Rêvées (TV) 2004
- Coup de vache (TV) 2004
- Nature contre natureNature contre natureNature contre nature is a French telefilm comedy, broadcast in 2005, directed by Lucas Belvaux, and scripted by Lucas Belvaux with Jean-Luc Gaget.- Plot summary :...
(TV) 2004 - Un Jour d'été (TV film) 2005
- Au royaume des aveugles short film (2005)
- Madame IrmaMadame IrmaMadame Irma is a 2006 comedy French film directed by Didier Bourdon and Yves Fajnberge and starring Didier Bourdon and Pascal Légitimus.-Plot introduction:...
2006 - Les Deux Mondes 2007
- ClémentineClementine (film)Clementine is a 2004 South-Korean/American action/drama film, directed by Kim De-yeong. In this film actor Steven Seagal plays a 10-minute role as "cage fight champion" Jack Miller. The film is about Kim, a Taekwondo champion who decides to give up his fighting career for good in order to take...
(2008) - Dans tes bras (2009)
- L'Arbre et la Forêt (2009)
- Pigalle, la nuit (TV) (2009)
- DumasL'Autre DumasL'Autre Dumas is a 2010 French film directed by Safy Nebbou, released in 2010, about 19th Century French author Alexandre Dumas.The Council of Black Associations of France criticized the decision to cast the fair-skinned Gérard Depardieu to play the part of Dumas, who "was the grandson of a...
(2010) - The MonkThe Monk (2011 film)The Monk is a 2011 French-Spanish thriller directed by Dominik Moll. It is an adaptation of Matthew Lewis' gothic novel of the same name. It chronicles the story of a Capucin Ambrosio , a well-respected monk in Spain and his downfall...
(2011) adapted from Matthew Lewis's gothic novel The MonkThe MonkThe Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. It was written before the author turned 20, in the space of 10 weeks.-Characters:...
.
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