Nicole Stéphane
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Born | Nicole de Rothschild 27 May 1923 Actress, Producer, Film director |
Nicole Stéphane (born Baroness Nicole de Rothschild, 27 May 1923 – 13 March 2007) was a French actress, producer and director.
Biography
The elder of the two daughters of Baron James-Henri de Rothschild and his first wife, Claude Dupont, Nicole Stéphane was a member of the
Théâtre Antoine and Théâtre Pigalle. Her first cousin Philippine de Rothschild was an actress with the Comédie-Française, using the name Philippine Pascal. And her father's brother, the vintner Philippe de Rothschild, wrote plays, owned theatres and produced films.[1]
Stéphane joined the army during the
Les Enfants terribles (1950). In 1950, Stéphane introduced her cousin (by marriage), Francine Weisweiller, to Jean Cocteau, whom she'd met while acting in Les Enfants terribles. Weisweiller would become a primary patron and close friend of Cocteau's.[2][3]
Her final film as an actress was Remembrance of Things Past, which starred Jeremy Irons and Ornella Muti. She was also honoured as a member of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France.[4]
In the 1970s, Stéphane was the lover of the American writer and critic Susan Sontag. Sontag dedicated her 1977 book On Photography to her.[5] She also had an affair with Colette de Jouvenel, daughter of the renowned author Colette.
Selected filmography
- Actress
- Le Silence de la mer(1949) - La nièce
- Les Enfants Terribles(1950) - Elisabeth
- Born of Unknown Father (1950) - Jacqueline Mussot
- The Unfrocked One (1954) - Catherine Grandpré
- Monsieur et Madame Curie (1956, Short) - Marie Curie / narrator
- Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) - Denise Bloch (final film role)
- Producer
- To Die in Madrid (Frédéric Rossif, 1962), Prix Jean Vigo 1963
- La Vie de château (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1965)
- L'Une et l'Autre (René Allio, 1967)
- Phèdre (Pierre Jourdan, 1968)
- Détruire, dit-elle (Marguerite Duras, 1969)
- Promised Lands (Susan Sontag, 1973)
- Sarah (Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1988)
- Director
- La Génération du désert (1958) (Short film)
- Une guerre pour une paix (1967) (Short film)
- En attendant Godot à Sarajevo (1993) (Short film)
Awards
- 1953 – Nominated BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actress — Les Enfants terribles (1950)
References
- ^ "Stephane, Nicole". Les Gens du Cinema (in French). Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ Bergan, Ronald, Obituary, Francine Weisweiller. The Guardian, Wed 17 Dec 2003.
- ^ Whatley, Sheree. The House Where Jean Lived, viewfromtheback.com, 04/27/22.
- ^ Bergan, Ronald (23 March 2007). "Nicole Stéphane". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ISBN 978-1-4000-4439-9.
External links
- Nicole Stéphane at IMDb
- Vallance, Tom (27 March 2007). "Nicole Stephane". The Independent. Archived from the original on 31 March 2007.
- "Nicole Stéphane". L'Internaute (in French). Archived from the original on 25 May 2007.