Claude Jade
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Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (klod ʒad; 1948–2006), was a French actress, known for starring as Christine in François Truffaut
's three films Stolen Kisses
(1968), Bed and Board
(1970) and Love on the Run
(1979). Jade acted in theatre, film and television. Her film work outside of France included the Soviet Union
, the United States
, Italy
and Japan
.
's Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where in 1964 she won a best actress prize for her portrayal of Agnès in Molière
's L'école des femmes.
In 1966 she won the Prix de Comédie for Jean Giraudoux
's stage play Ondine
, performed at the Comédie Boulogne. She moved to Paris and became a student of Jean-Laurent Cochet at the Edouard VII theater, and began acting in television productions, including the TV series Les oiseaux rares.
at the Théâtre Moderne, Jade was discovered by New Wave
film director François Truffaut
. He 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
(1968). During the filming, Jade and Truffaut were engaged at one point. Stolen Kisses won great acclaim and put Jade in the international spotlight for her strong performance. In her role as Christine she taught her lover Antoine
the best way to butter toast in the morning, and engaged in other amusing scenes with him. The American critic Pauline Kael
wrote that Jade "seems a less ethereal, more practical Catherine Deneuve
". Playing the same character, Jade appeared in two more movies by Truffaut, Bed and Board
(1970), Love on the Run
(1979).
's late film Topaz (1969), as Michèle Picard, a secret agent's anxious daughter, married to a reporter (Michel Subor
). Recommended to Hitchcock by Truffaut, she was 19 years old when cast, with Dany Robin
playing her mother. 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". Jade recounted that they "talked in a Paris hotel about cooking, and I gave him my recipe for soufflé
and told him I liked Strangers on a Train
, and that was that." Hitchcock said she resembled his former star Grace Kelly
, and in France she was a younger Danielle Darrieux
. Some of her scenes were deleted and restored for the director's cut of Topaz in 1999. Topaz was Jade's only Hollywood film. Universal Pictures
offered her a seven-year contract, which she turned down reportedly because she preferred to work in French.
Director Tony Richardson
's film Nijinsky (1970), based on a screenplay by Edward Albee
, was canceled in its early stages by producer Albert Broccoli. It had starred Jade as Vaslav Nijinsky
's wife, alongside Rudolf Nureyev
as Nijinsky and Paul Scofield
as his lover Sergei Diaghilev
. Truffaut's later Bed and Board
contains a reference to Nureyev. She also starred in Édouard Molinaro
's My Uncle Benjamin (Mon oncle Benjamin, 1969). Her career continued in Belgium
, where she played a young English teacher who is fatally intrigued by a murderer in the 1969 film The Witness.
praised her in work in Gérard Brach
's The Boat on the Grass (Le bateau sur l'herbe, 1971). She starred in Hearth Fires (Les feux de la chandeleur, 1972); and with Robert Hossein
in Forbidden Priests (Prêtres interdits, 1973). In Home Sweet Home
(1973), she played a hardened nurse who is changed by a love affair with a social worker (Jacques Perrin
). She played a dual role in The Choice (Le choix, 1976). She starred in the Italian films Number One
(1973), La ragazza di via Condotti
(1973), and A Spiral of Mist (Una spirale di nebbia, 1977). She played a nun in Kita No Misaki - Cap du Nord (1976), by Japanese director Kei Kumai
. Among other films of the 1970s were Malicious Pleasure
(Le malin plaisir, 1975), Trpop c'est trop (1975) and The Pawn (Le pion, 1978).
In 1970 she starred as Orphan Françoise in mini-series Mauregard, directed by Truffaut's co-writer Claude de Givray
. Other TV roles in the decade are Sheherazade
(in Shéhérazade), Louise de La Vallière
(in Le chateau perdu), Lucile Desmoulins (in La passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins) and Penny in Le robots pensants, based on a horror novel by George Langelaan
. Among many other TV-movies (Mamie Rose, La Mandragore, Monsieur Seul, Fou comme François, Les anneaux de Bicêtre, Ulysse est revenu) in the 70th she got a great popularity as heroine of mini-series The Island of Thirty Coffins
in 1979.
for three years with her husband Bernard Coste, a French diplomat, and her son Pierre Coste (born in 1976). She starred in two Soviet
films. In Teheran 43
(1981) she played a mysterious terrorist, with Alain Delon
and an international cast. For Sergei Yutkevich's Lenin in Paris
(1981), she played the French Bolshevik
Inessa Armand
, although without the rumored love affair with Vladimir Lenin
.
Among her other films in the 1980s were Schools Falling Apart (Le Bahut va craquer, 1981), A Captain's Honor
(L'honneur d'un capitaine, 1982), Rendezvous in Paris
(German, 1982) and The Man Who Wasn't There (L'homme qui n'était pas là, 1987). She also appeared in TV movies, such as La grotte aux loups (1980); Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimée (1980); Treize (1981); a dual role in Lise et Laura (1982); A Girl in the Sunflowers (1984); Voglia di volare (1984); and in episodes of the series Commissaire Moulin
and Cinéma 16.
and Navarro. TV movies included L'Éternité devant soi, Au bonheur des autres, Porté disparu. From 1998 to 2000 she was the lead actress in the series Tide of Life
(Cap des Pins). Her last U.S. acting part was a guest appearance on The Hitchhiker, in the episode "Windows" (1990), in which she shoots
her co-star David Marshall Grant
.
Jade's film roles in 1990s included a mother betrayed by her husband, in Honor Roll
. This was followed by her performance as shy lesbian Caroline in Jean-Pierre Mocky
's Bonsoir
. In order to save her inheritance, Caroline tells her aunt that her lover Gloria (Corinne Le Poulain) is her secretary and Alex (Michel Serrault
) her lover. In 1998, she played a governor's wife, Reine Schmaltz, who saves herself on a lifeboat in the historical movie The Raft of the Medusa
(Le Radeau de la Méduse, 1998).
(Scénarios sur la drogue, episode "La rampe", 2000); and in the short À San Remo (2004).
, appearing in plays by Jean Giraudoux
(Helena in The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
, and Isabelle in Intermezzo); Henry de Montherlant
(Port Royal); James Joyce
(The Exiles); Racine
(Britannicus); and Balzac
(Le Faiseur). She also took roles in plays by Vladimir Volkoff
(The Interrogation); Catherine Decours (Regulus 93); Michel Vinaver
(Dissident il va sans dire), Alfred de Musset
(Lorenzaccio) and others. She worked on stage in Lyon, Nantes
, Dijon
and Paris
.
Many plays were adapted for TV, such as her performances as Helena in Shakespeares Midsummer Night's Dream; her Sylvie in Marcel Aymé
s Les oiseaux de lune; her Colomba in Jules Romains
's adaptation of Ben Johnson's Volpone
; her Clarisse in Jacques Deval's Il y a longtemps que je t'aime; her title role in Jules Supervielle
's Shéhérazade; and her Louise de La Vallière
in Le château perdu.
Her last stage role was as Célimène in Jacques Rampal's Celimene and the Cardinal, a 2006 play in alexandrines, based on Molière
's characters from Le Misanthrope
.
On 1 December 2006, Jade died of uveal melanoma
which had metastasised
to metastatic liver disease
. She wore a prosthetic eye in her last stage performance, Celimene and the Cardinal, in August 2006. She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery
in Paris.
. Her contributions to French culture were recognised in 1998, when was named a knight in the Légion d'honneur
. In 2000 she won the New Wave Award at West Palm Beach International Film Festival for her "trend-setting role in the world cinema", followed in 2002 by the Prix Réconnaissance des Cinéphiles in Puget-Théniers
.
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five...
's three films Stolen Kisses
Stolen Kisses
Stolen Kisses is a 1968 French film directed by François Truffaut. It continues the story of the character Antoine Doinel, whom Truffaut had previously depicted in The 400 Blows and the short film Antoine and Colette...
(1968), Bed and Board
Bed and Board
Bed and board may refer to:* Bed and Board, 1970 French film Domicile Conjugal* Divorce from bed and board, a marital arrangement where spouses live apart but do not legally dissolve the marriage...
(1970) and Love on the Run
Love on the Run (1979 film)
Love on the Run is a 1979 French film directed by François Truffaut. It is Truffaut's fifth and final film about the character Antoine Doinel. A lot of the film is made of a "clip show" of the previous films in the series...
(1979). Jade acted in theatre, film and television. Her film work outside of France included the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
, the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
.
Early career
The daughter of university professors, Jade spent three years at DijonDijon
Dijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area....
's Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where in 1964 she won a best actress prize for her portrayal of Agnès in Molière
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
's L'école des femmes.
In 1966 she won the Prix de Comédie for Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
's stage play Ondine
Ondine (play)
Ondine is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux that tells the story of Hans and Ondine. Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man....
, performed at the Comédie Boulogne. She moved to Paris and became a student of Jean-Laurent Cochet at the Edouard VII theater, and began acting in television productions, including the TV series Les oiseaux rares.
Films with François Truffaut
While performing as Frida in Pirandello's Henri IV, in a production by Sacha PitoëffSacha Pitoëff
Sacha Pitoëff was a French film actor and theater director.Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Pitoëff played his first film role in 1952. Appearing in over 50 movies, he is probably best known for his performance in Alain Resnais' enigmatic Last Year at Marienbad , as a character known simply as "M"...
at the Théâtre Moderne, Jade was discovered by New Wave
French New Wave
The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of...
film director François Truffaut
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five...
. He 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
Stolen Kisses
Stolen Kisses is a 1968 French film directed by François Truffaut. It continues the story of the character Antoine Doinel, whom Truffaut had previously depicted in The 400 Blows and the short film Antoine and Colette...
(1968). During the filming, Jade and Truffaut were engaged at one point. Stolen Kisses won great acclaim and put Jade in the international spotlight for her strong performance. In her role as Christine she taught her lover Antoine
Antoine Doinel
Antoine Doinel is a fictional character created by French film director François Truffaut. Doinel is to a great extent an alter ego for Truffaut, sharing many of the same childhood experiences, looking somewhat alike and even being mistaken for one another on the street.Although Truffaut did not...
the best way to butter toast in the morning, and engaged in other amusing scenes with him. The American critic Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic....
wrote that Jade "seems a less ethereal, more practical Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion and Belle de jour . Deneuve was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in Indochine; she also won César Awards for that...
". Playing the same character, Jade appeared in two more movies by Truffaut, Bed and Board
Bed and Board
Bed and board may refer to:* Bed and Board, 1970 French film Domicile Conjugal* Divorce from bed and board, a marital arrangement where spouses live apart but do not legally dissolve the marriage...
(1970), Love on the Run
Love on the Run (1979 film)
Love on the Run is a 1979 French film directed by François Truffaut. It is Truffaut's fifth and final film about the character Antoine Doinel. A lot of the film is made of a "clip show" of the previous films in the series...
(1979).
The late 1960s in film
Jade starred in Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
's late film Topaz (1969), as Michèle Picard, a secret agent's anxious daughter, married to a reporter (Michel Subor
Michel Subor
Michel Subor is a French actor who gained fame playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in La Bride sur le Cou .In Hollywood Subor starred in Clive Donner's What's New, Pussycat? and in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz...
). Recommended to Hitchcock by Truffaut, she was 19 years old when cast, with Dany Robin
Dany Robin
Dany Robin was a French actress of the 1950s and the early 1960s who was married to fellow actor Georges Marchal.She performed with Peter Sellers in The Waltz of the Toreadors and co-starred opposite Kirk Douglas in the 1953 romantic drama Act of Love.Robin co-starred with Connie Francis, Paula...
playing her mother. 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". Jade recounted that they "talked in a Paris hotel about cooking, and I gave him my recipe for soufflé
Soufflé
A soufflé is a light baked cake made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a savoury main dish or sweetened as a dessert...
and told him I liked Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train (film)
Strangers on a Train is an American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith. It was shot in the autumn of 1950 and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman,...
, and that was that." Hitchcock said she resembled his former star Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of...
, and in France she was a younger Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history....
. Some of her scenes were deleted and restored for the director's cut of Topaz in 1999. Topaz was Jade's only Hollywood film. Universal Pictures
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
offered her a seven-year contract, which she turned down reportedly because she preferred to work in French.
Director Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson
Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson was an English theatre and film director and producer.-Early life:Richardson was born in Shipley, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist...
's film Nijinsky (1970), based on a screenplay by Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...
, was canceled in its early stages by producer Albert Broccoli. It had starred Jade as Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the 20th century. He grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations...
's wife, alongside Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Russian dancer, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women.In 1961 he...
as Nijinsky and Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE , better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen...
as his lover Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.-Early life and career:...
. Truffaut's later Bed and Board
Bed and Board
Bed and board may refer to:* Bed and Board, 1970 French film Domicile Conjugal* Divorce from bed and board, a marital arrangement where spouses live apart but do not legally dissolve the marriage...
contains a reference to Nureyev. She also starred in Édouard Molinaro
Édouard Molinaro
Édouard Molinaro is a French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was born in Gironde, Bordeaux.He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès , My Uncle Benjamin , Dracula and Son , and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles Édouard Molinaro (born 13 May 1928) is a French...
's My Uncle Benjamin (Mon oncle Benjamin, 1969). Her career continued in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, where she played a young English teacher who is fatally intrigued by a murderer in the 1969 film The Witness.
The 1970s in film and TV
Critic Vincent CanbyVincent Canby
Vincent Canby was an American film critic who became the chief film critic for The New York Times in 1969 and reviewed more than 1000 films during his tenure there.-Life and career:...
praised her in work in Gérard Brach
Gérard Brach
Gérard Brach was a French screenwriter best known for his collaborations with the film directors Roman Polanski and Jean-Jacques Annaud...
's The Boat on the Grass (Le bateau sur l'herbe, 1971). She starred in Hearth Fires (Les feux de la chandeleur, 1972); and with Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...
in Forbidden Priests (Prêtres interdits, 1973). In Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home (1973 film)
Home Sweet Home is a Belgian/French film directed by Benoît Lamy in 1973, starring Claude Jade, Jacques Perrin, Marcel Josz, Ann Petersen, Jacques Lippe, Elise Mertens and Jane Meuris.It won 14 awards at festivals in Moscow, Montreal, Budapest, Teheran......
(1973), she played a hardened nurse who is changed by a love affair with a social worker (Jacques Perrin
Jacques Perrin
Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.-Life and career:...
). She played a dual role in The Choice (Le choix, 1976). She starred in the Italian films Number One
Number One (1973 film)
Number One is an Italian language film directed by Gianni Buffardi in 1973. It starred Renzo Montagnani, Luigi Pistilli, Claude Jade, Chris Avram, and Massimo Serato. The film is loosely based on a real story detailing crime and drugs in the Rome underground....
(1973), La ragazza di via Condotti
La ragazza di via Condotti
La ragazza di via Condotti is a 1973 Italian-French-Spanish movie directed by German Lorente...
(1973), and A Spiral of Mist (Una spirale di nebbia, 1977). She played a nun in Kita No Misaki - Cap du Nord (1976), by Japanese director Kei Kumai
Kei Kumai
was a Japanese film director from Azumino, Nagano prefecture. After his studies in literature at Shinshu University, he worked as director's assistant....
. Among other films of the 1970s were Malicious Pleasure
Malicious Pleasure
Malicious Pleasure Malicious Pleasure Malicious Pleasure (aka Evil Pleasure, Sly Pleasure (French title: Le malin plaisir) is a French film directed by Bernard Toublanc Michel, released in 1975 , and it stars Jacques Weber, Claude Jade, Anny Duperey, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Mary Marquet, Cécile...
(Le malin plaisir, 1975), Trpop c'est trop (1975) and The Pawn (Le pion, 1978).
In 1970 she starred as Orphan Françoise in mini-series Mauregard, directed by Truffaut's co-writer Claude de Givray
Claude de Givray
Claude de Givray is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1965 film Un mari à un prix fixe, which starred Anna Karina.-Selected filmography:* Un mari à un prix fixe...
. Other TV roles in the decade are Sheherazade
Shéhérazade
Shéhérazade is the title of two works by the French composer Maurice Ravel.Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie, written in 1898 but unpublished, is a work for orchestra intended as the overture for an opera of the same name...
(in Shéhérazade), Louise de La Vallière
Louise de La Vallière
Louise de La Vallière was a mistress of Louis XIV of France from 1661 to 1667. She later became the Duchess of La Vallière and Duchess of Vaujours in her own right...
(in Le chateau perdu), Lucile Desmoulins (in La passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins) and Penny in Le robots pensants, based on a horror novel by George Langelaan
George Langelaan
George Langelaan was a British writer and journalist born in Paris, France. He is best known for his 1957 short story "The Fly", which was the basis for the 1958 and 1986 sci-fi film horror classics and a 2008 opera composed by Howard Shore.-Career:During World War II, Langelaan worked as a spy...
. Among many other TV-movies (Mamie Rose, La Mandragore, Monsieur Seul, Fou comme François, Les anneaux de Bicêtre, Ulysse est revenu) in the 70th she got a great popularity as heroine of mini-series The Island of Thirty Coffins
The Island of Thirty Coffins
The Island of Thirty Coffins is a famous 1979 French television series. It was based on Maurice Leblanc's novel L'île aux trente cercueils, directed by Marcel Cravenne and stars Claude Jade as Véronique d'Hergemont, a female protagonist, who is on the run and on searching for her father and her...
in 1979.
The 1980s in film and TV
In the 1980s Jade moved to MoscowMoscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
for three years with her husband Bernard Coste, a French diplomat, and her son Pierre Coste (born in 1976). She starred in two Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
films. In Teheran 43
Teheran 43
Teheran 43 is a 1981 USSR-France-Switzerland film made by Mosfilm, Mediterraneo Cine and Pro Dis Film, directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov.The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1981 and had 47.5 million viewers...
(1981) she played a mysterious terrorist, with Alain Delon
Alain Delon
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...
and an international cast. For Sergei Yutkevich's Lenin in Paris
Lenin in Paris
Lenin in Paris is a Soviet film directed by Sergei Yutkevich in 1981 on Mosfilm.-Synopsis:Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin spent four years in Paris , and this historical docudrama explores those years with a certain amount of humor...
(1981), she played the French Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
Inessa Armand
Inessa Armand
Inessa Armand , born Elisabeth-Inès Stéphane d'Herbenville, was a French communist politician and feminist who spent most of her life in Russia. She was also known for her affair with Vladimir Lenin....
, although without the rumored love affair with Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
.
Among her other films in the 1980s were Schools Falling Apart (Le Bahut va craquer, 1981), A Captain's Honor
A Captain's Honor
-Plot:A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historian on TV, twenty years after his death. The story follows his widow's struggle to prove that he was not a murderer and did not practise torture while he was leading a ground unit during the Algerian war.She...
(L'honneur d'un capitaine, 1982), Rendezvous in Paris
Rendezvous in Paris
Rendezvous in Paris is a 1982 Franco-German film directed by Gabi Kubach and starring Claude Jade, Harald Kuhlmann and Barry Stokes. It is based on a novel by Vicki Baum.-Cast:* Claude Jade - Evelyne Droste* Harald Kuhlmann - Kurt Droste...
(German, 1982) and The Man Who Wasn't There (L'homme qui n'était pas là, 1987). She also appeared in TV movies, such as La grotte aux loups (1980); Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimée (1980); Treize (1981); a dual role in Lise et Laura (1982); A Girl in the Sunflowers (1984); Voglia di volare (1984); and in episodes of the series Commissaire Moulin
Commissaire Moulin
Commissaire Moulin is a French television series on the air since 1976.-Synopsis:The show was created in 1976 and suspended in 1982, only to be resumed in 1989.-Actors:*Yves Rénier: Commissioner Jean-Paul Moulin...
and Cinéma 16.
The 1990s in TV and film
During the 1990s Jade worked mainly in television, such as the TV series La tête en l'air, Fleur bleue, Une femme d'honneur, Inspecteur Moretti, Julie LescautJulie Lescaut
Julie Lescaut is a French-language police television series. It has been distributed since 1992 on TF1 , La Une-RTBF and TSR ; the show remains active as of 2010. It details the investigations of detective Julie Lescaut and her team...
and Navarro. TV movies included L'Éternité devant soi, Au bonheur des autres, Porté disparu. From 1998 to 2000 she was the lead actress in the series Tide of Life
Tide of Life
Tide of Life is the first French French television soap opera that is released every week-day. .starring: Paul Barge , Claude Jade , Raphael Baudoin , Mélanie Maudran , Dora Doll .Set in a small village in Brittany, and focusing on the activities at a health...
(Cap des Pins). Her last U.S. acting part was a guest appearance on The Hitchhiker, in the episode "Windows" (1990), in which she shoots
her co-star David Marshall Grant
David Marshall Grant
David Marshall Grant is an American actor and playwright.-Life and career:Grant was born in Westport, Connecticut, to physician parents...
.
Jade's film roles in 1990s included a mother betrayed by her husband, in Honor Roll
Honor Roll (film)
-Plot:Jules has problems outside the home with girls and school work are reflected by the on-again, off-again support he receives from his mother in their perpetual conflict with his controlling father ....
. This was followed by her performance as shy lesbian Caroline 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...
. In order to save her inheritance, Caroline tells her aunt that her lover Gloria (Corinne Le Poulain) is her secretary and Alex (Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault was a celebrated French actor who appeared in over 150 films.-Biography :...
) her lover. In 1998, she played a governor's wife, Reine Schmaltz, who saves herself on a lifeboat in the historical movie The Raft of the Medusa
Le Radeau de la Méduse
For other uses, including the painting by Théodore Géricault See: Radeau 'Le Radeau de la Méduse is a French film by Iradj Azimi .-Plot:...
(Le Radeau de la Méduse, 1998).
The 2000s in TV and short films
In her last decade, Jade's work included the TV movie Sans famille (2000); the series La Crim (episode "Le secret" in 2004), and Groupe Flag (episode "Vrai ou faux" in 2005). She also appeared in an episode of the short film series Drug ScenesDrug Scenes
Drug Scenes is a omnibus film of 24 French short films depicting drug abuse...
(Scénarios sur la drogue, episode "La rampe", 2000); and in the short À San Remo (2004).
Theatrical work
On stage Jade was a member of Jean Meyer's theatre company in LyonLyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
, appearing in plays by Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
(Helena in The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
The Trojan war will not take place
The Trojan War Will Not Take Place is a play written in 1935 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. In 1955 it was translated into English by Christopher Fry...
, and Isabelle in Intermezzo); Henry de Montherlant
Henry de Montherlant
Henry de Montherlant or Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was a French essayist, novelist and one of the leading French dramatists of the twentieth century.- Works :...
(Port Royal); James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
(The Exiles); Racine
Jean Racine
Jean Racine , baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine , was a French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th-century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition...
(Britannicus); and Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
(Le Faiseur). She also took roles in plays by Vladimir Volkoff
Vladimir Volkoff
Vladimir Volkoff , was a French writer of Russian extraction. He produced both literary works for adults and spy novels for young readers under the pseudonym Lieutenant X. Volkoff is sometimes considered the French Cold War writer par excellence...
(The Interrogation); Catherine Decours (Regulus 93); Michel Vinaver
Michel Vinaver
-Works:* Les Coréens * Iphigénie Hotel * A la renverse * 11 septembre 2001 / 11 September 2001 -References:...
(Dissident il va sans dire), 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...
(Lorenzaccio) and others. She worked on stage in Lyon, Nantes
Nantes
Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....
, Dijon
Dijon
Dijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area....
and Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
Many plays were adapted for TV, such as her performances as Helena in Shakespeares Midsummer Night's Dream; her Sylvie in Marcel Aymé
Marcel Aymé
Marcel Aymé was a French novelist, children's writer, humour writer and also a screenwriter and theatre playwright.- Biography :...
s Les oiseaux de lune; her Colomba in Jules Romains
Jules Romains
Jules Romains, born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule , was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement...
's adaptation of Ben Johnson's Volpone
Volpone
Volpone is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and beast fable...
; her Clarisse in Jacques Deval's Il y a longtemps que je t'aime; her title role in Jules Supervielle
Jules Supervielle
Jules Supervielle was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century...
's Shéhérazade; and her Louise de La Vallière
Louise de La Vallière
Louise de La Vallière was a mistress of Louis XIV of France from 1661 to 1667. She later became the Duchess of La Vallière and Duchess of Vaujours in her own right...
in Le château perdu.
Her last stage role was as Célimène in Jacques Rampal's Celimene and the Cardinal, a 2006 play in alexandrines, based on Molière
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
's characters from Le Misanthrope
Le Misanthrope
The Misanthrope is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris by the King's Players....
.
Later life
Jade published her autobiography, Baisers envolés in 2004.On 1 December 2006, Jade died of uveal melanoma
Uveal melanoma
Uveal melanoma is a cancer of the eye involving the iris, ciliary body, or choroid . Tumors arise from the pigment cells that reside within the uvea giving color to the eye...
which had metastasised
Metastasis
Metastasis, or metastatic disease , is the spread of a disease from one organ or part to another non-adjacent organ or part. It was previously thought that only malignant tumor cells and infections have the capacity to metastasize; however, this is being reconsidered due to new research...
to metastatic liver disease
Metastatic liver disease
Metastatic liver disease* Liver is a common site for metastatic disease because it is rich, dual blood supply , which is 20 times more common than primary ones....
. She wore a prosthetic eye in her last stage performance, Celimene and the Cardinal, in August 2006. She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France , though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.Père Lachaise is in the 20th arrondissement, and is reputed to be the world's most-visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the...
in Paris.
Awards
Jade won an award in 1970 for "Révelation de la Nuit du cinéma", and in 1975 she received the Prix Orange at the Cannes Film FestivalCannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
. Her contributions to French culture were recognised in 1998, when was named a knight in the Légion d'honneur
Légion d'honneur
The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
. In 2000 she won the New Wave Award at West Palm Beach International Film Festival for her "trend-setting role in the world cinema", followed in 2002 by the Prix Réconnaissance des Cinéphiles in Puget-Théniers
Puget-Théniers
Puget-Théniers is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.-Population:-External links:* & ....
.
Selected filmography
- Groupe Flag: Le secret (2005) (TV)
- La Crim': Le secret (2004) (TV)
- À San Remo (2004)
- Drug ScenesDrug ScenesDrug Scenes is a omnibus film of 24 French short films depicting drug abuse...
(Scénarios sur la drogue, episode "La rampe", 2000) - Tide of LifeTide of LifeTide of Life is the first French French television soap opera that is released every week-day. .starring: Paul Barge , Claude Jade , Raphael Baudoin , Mélanie Maudran , Dora Doll .Set in a small village in Brittany, and focusing on the activities at a health...
(TV series, 1998–2000) - Memoire perudue (1998) (TV)
- The Raft of the MedusaLe Radeau de la MéduseFor other uses, including the painting by Théodore Géricault See: Radeau 'Le Radeau de la Méduse is a French film by Iradj Azimi .-Plot:...
('Le Radeau de la Méduse, 1998) - Un enfant au soleil (1997) (TV)
- Porté disparu (1995) (TV)
- 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...
(1994) - Eugénie GrandetEugénie GrandetEugénie Grandet is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized...
(1994) - La tête en l'air (1993) (TV series)
- Honor RollHonor Roll (film)-Plot:Jules has problems outside the home with girls and school work are reflected by the on-again, off-again support he receives from his mother in their perpetual conflict with his controlling father ....
(1992) - Le bonheur des autresLe bonheur des autres"Le bonheur des autres" is an episode of the 1989 French TV series V comme vengeance. It was directed by Charles L. Bitsch and starred Claude Jade, Roger Miremont, Féodor Atkine, Nathalie Courval and Yves Afonso. The episode originally aired on October 30, 1990. Duration: 90 Minutes....
(1990) - The Hitchhiker, TV series, episode "Windows" (1990)
- Fleur bleue (1990) (TV series)
- Le grand secret (1989) (TV series)
- The Man Who Wasn't There (L'homme qui n'était pas là, 1987)
- Voglia di volare (1984) (TV series)
- A Girl in the Sunflowers (Une petite fille dans les tournesols, 1984)
- Rendezvous in ParisRendezvous in ParisRendezvous in Paris is a 1982 Franco-German film directed by Gabi Kubach and starring Claude Jade, Harald Kuhlmann and Barry Stokes. It is based on a novel by Vicki Baum.-Cast:* Claude Jade - Evelyne Droste* Harald Kuhlmann - Kurt Droste...
(1983) - Lise and Laura (1982)
- A Captain's HonorA Captain's Honor-Plot:A courtroom-drama about a dead Captain whose memory is publicly accused by a historian on TV, twenty years after his death. The story follows his widow's struggle to prove that he was not a murderer and did not practise torture while he was leading a ground unit during the Algerian war.She...
(1982) - Schools Falling Apart, (Le Bahut va craquer, 1981)
- Lenin in ParisLenin in ParisLenin in Paris is a Soviet film directed by Sergei Yutkevich in 1981 on Mosfilm.-Synopsis:Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin spent four years in Paris , and this historical docudrama explores those years with a certain amount of humor...
(1980) - Teheran 43Teheran 43Teheran 43 is a 1981 USSR-France-Switzerland film made by Mosfilm, Mediterraneo Cine and Pro Dis Film, directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov.The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1981 and had 47.5 million viewers...
(1980)
- Fou comme François (1979)
- The Island of Thirty CoffinsThe Island of Thirty CoffinsThe Island of Thirty Coffins is a famous 1979 French television series. It was based on Maurice Leblanc's novel L'île aux trente cercueils, directed by Marcel Cravenne and stars Claude Jade as Véronique d'Hergemont, a female protagonist, who is on the run and on searching for her father and her...
(or Coffin Island, originally L'île aux trente cercueils, TV mini-series, 1979) - Love on the RunLove on the Run (1979 film)Love on the Run is a 1979 French film directed by François Truffaut. It is Truffaut's fifth and final film about the character Antoine Doinel. A lot of the film is made of a "clip show" of the previous films in the series...
(L'amour en fuite, 1979) - The Pawn (Le Pion, 1978)
- La passion de Lucile Desmoulins (1978, TV)
- A Spiral of Mist (Una spirale di nebbia, 1977)
- Kita No Misaki - Cap du Nord (1976)
- Le Collectionneur des cerveaux (1975)
- Malicious PleasureMalicious PleasureMalicious Pleasure Malicious Pleasure Malicious Pleasure (aka Evil Pleasure, Sly Pleasure (French title: Le malin plaisir) is a French film directed by Bernard Toublanc Michel, released in 1975 , and it stars Jacques Weber, Claude Jade, Anny Duperey, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Mary Marquet, Cécile...
(1975) - The Choice (Le Choix, 1975)
- Too Much is Too Much (1974)
- La ragazza di via CondottiLa ragazza di via CondottiLa ragazza di via Condotti is a 1973 Italian-French-Spanish movie directed by German Lorente...
(Special Killers, 1974) - Forbidden PriestsForbidden PriestsForbidden Priests is a French film directed by Denys de La Patellière in 1973 starring Robert Hossein and Claude Jade.-Synopsis:...
(1973) - Number OneNumber One (1973 film)Number One is an Italian language film directed by Gianni Buffardi in 1973. It starred Renzo Montagnani, Luigi Pistilli, Claude Jade, Chris Avram, and Massimo Serato. The film is loosely based on a real story detailing crime and drugs in the Rome underground....
(1973) - Home Sweet Home (1973)
- Hearth Fires (Les Feux de la Chandeleur, 1972)
- Shéhérazade (1971, TV)
- The Boat on the Grass ('Le Bateau sur l'herbe, 1971)
- Bed and BoardBed and BoardBed and board may refer to:* Bed and Board, 1970 French film Domicile Conjugal* Divorce from bed and board, a marital arrangement where spouses live apart but do not legally dissolve the marriage...
(Domicile conjugal, 1970) - Topaz (1969)
- My Uncle Benjamin (Mon oncle Benjamin, 1969)
- The Witness (or A Change of Heart, originally Le Témoin, 1969)
- The Return of Monte Cristo (or Under the Sign of Monte-Cristo, originally Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo, 1968)
- Stolen KissesStolen KissesStolen Kisses is a 1968 French film directed by François Truffaut. It continues the story of the character Antoine Doinel, whom Truffaut had previously depicted in The 400 Blows and the short film Antoine and Colette...
(Baisers Volés, 1968)
External links
- Claude Jade at Films de France
- Claude Jade at DvdToile