Jeanne Moreau's biography

Jeanne Moreau is 89 years old film actor born at 10th arrondissement of Paris. Jeanne was born on Monday 23rd of January 1928. She is often nicknamed as The French Bette Davis, Mademoiselle Jeanne Moreau, Jean Moreau, J. Moreau, Jeanne, Jeanne Monreau, Miss Moreau, Moreau. According to year of birth 1928 Jeanne belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 23rd of January means Jeanne is Aquarius. Aquarius is an Airy sign. They are smart thinkers, social, communicative, independent and intelligent people.Jeanne was married 2 times.

She is native french speaker. Jeanne is white french. She is citizen of France. Jeanne is roman catholic. Jeanne´s primary profession is to be film actor. You can know Jeanne also as film director, singer, screenwriter, musician, film producer, stage actor, actor. She is recently known as recording artist.

Jeanne Moreau's family

Jeanne Moreau's ex husbands

William Friedkin

Jeanne Moreau and William Friedkin have been together since 1977 for 2 years. He is known as film director. Her ex husband was born on Thursday 29th of August 1935.

Jean-Louis Richard

Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Louis Richard have been together since 1949 for 2 years. He is known as actor. Her ex husband was born on Tuesday 17th of May 1927 in Paris. Her ex husband died on Sunday 3rd of June 2012 in Paris. Jean-Louis Richard was 84 years old, when this happened.

Jeanne Moreau's schools

We found 1 school Jeanne attended. Name of the school: Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.

Detailed informations about her schools

Jeanne studied university - Conservatoire de Paris.

Jeanne Moreau's career

Her main focus is to be film actor. She is famous thanks to Jules et Jim. You could see Jeanne also in Seven Days... Seven Nights, The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea, Viva Maria! and many more. Jeanne is also a member of Académie des beaux-arts.

Is Jeanne Moreau gay ?

She is known to be straight.

How did Jeanne Moreau die

Jeanne died on on Monday 31st of July 2017 when he was 89 years old. Jeanne Moreaus death was caused by natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Jeanne Moreau's Awards

She received award for Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for work Seven Days... Seven Nights in 1960
She received award for Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for work Seven Days... Seven Nights in 1960
She received award for César Award for Best Actress for work The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea in 1992
Jeanne received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for work Viva Maria! in 1967

Jeanne Moreau's Rankings

In 2006 her performance as Catherine in Jules and Jim (1962) was ranked #80 on "Premiere" Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

Jeanne Moreau's Nominations

Jeanne was nominated for César Award for Best Supporting Actress for work The Nonentity in 1987
Jeanne was nominated for César Award for Best Actress for work The Miracle in 1988
She was nominated for César Award for Best Actress for work The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea in 1992
Jeanne was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for work Young and Joyful Bandit in 1984

What Jeanne Moreau has done for a first time

Orson Welles is the first person Moreau spoke to about directing and the only one who wasn't protective about it.
In January 2001 she was the first woman to enter the Academie des Beaux-Arts of Paris.
Was the first French actress to make the cover of "Time" (March 1965).

Jeanne Moreau's quotes

While I'm doing the role, I'm the part. I'm the person. But once I'm finished I'm me.
I've worked hard. I'm passionate and my world is cinema, acting, theater, creativity, art, painting, books, music, sculpture, landscapes, movements of people in the streets. Everything.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
At the beginning of my career, I was seeking something traditional, strict; just to prove to my father that being an actress is not being a whore.
I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia
While you work, while you create, you have doubts, and this is essential.
I am open to what is irrational. I open doors to intuition, because rationality is really death.
Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.
We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
The public sees me too much as they see me in films where I'm always playing unorthodox characters.
I decided my glass would always be half full, never half empty.
The love, suffering, and happiness I experience in life appear in my movies, become an integral part of them. When I see a film after I've made it, I see my own life before me.
I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
Everything I have I have wanted.
I've never worried about age. If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. Life doesn't end at 30. To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you from age.
I'm intelligent, but I'm not intellectual.
Every night, I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms.
Making a film is like life aboard ship, except that every day is an emergency.
I'm a passionate woman who falls in love very easily.
I've always been ambitious, but not competitive.
I never use the word "career", it's a journalistic term. I can't separate creation from life.
To act is to move. It is that power to move that gives me real happiness.
If you don't give a damn, men look at you.
Acting is transmitting life.
I'm not measured. I'm not lukewarm. It's not always easy to live with for me.
One's soul is like a vast unexplored country.
Like every human being I have everything in me--the best and the worst.
Life is just a lot of interesting landscapes and one makes one's own geography.
When you live in terror and segregation you can't create art.
For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
You have to know cold to appreciate warmth.
Love is like the soup, the first spoonfuls are too hot, the last ones too cold.
I never come out of a film the same as I went in. Each time I discover new capacities for feelings and emotions I never knew I had.
I was never interested in existentialism, because of [Jean-Paul Sartre's] famous phrase, "Hell is the others". For me, this is a crazy idea. For me, hell is one's self.
[speaking in 1965] People who wanted to be nice about my looks always would say, "You remind me so much of Bette Davis". Very nice, except I can't stand Bette Davis.
They will write "Amant de Jules and Jim (1962)" on my gravestone when I go.
In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.
Life is an accomplishment. Each moment has a meaning and you must use it. Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
Age does not automatically bring wisdom. It might bring you knowledge, but wisdom is not a cold cream that you rub in each night and then wake up smarter in the morning.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
One should never say, "When I was young . . . "
Each time I come to New York, it's like meeting again someone I love.
If I get concerned with what kind of part I would like to play, I would then start to wonder what roles would be good for me, good for my career, pleasing for the public. Life does not invite this choice and neither should films.
Lee Marvin is more male than anyone I have ever acted with. He is the greatest man's man I have ever met and that includes all the European stars I have worked with.
Whenever I have doubts about the reactions of a character, I find her a place in mythology.
When I've finished with my movie career, I may not own any snack bars, but at least I will have made the movies I wanted to make.
I always have the impression that I am in the midst of becoming. Even if it's my death that's becoming. It's in process. It's not over.
[on Orson Welles in 1983] He transformed a town square in Spain into a Chinese marketplace. To me, that's what film is about--magic!
[on Luis BuÃ±uel in 1983] I called him my Spanish father. He said, "If you had been my daughter, I'd have tied you up and kept you behind bars".
[on Joseph Losey in 1983] I love the way he films; it's very personal, very brilliant.
[on Michelangelo Antonioni in 1983] He was a whole different experience. He doesn't speak at all to the actors. We filmed at night. I couldn't understand why we should be down on the set--but the result was good.
[on Rainer Werner Fassbinder in a 1984 interview] It was his ex-wife that told me he wanted me to be in the film. The picture was done in 24 days. Immediately, when I was on the set, I could feel his willpower. He was perfect in terms of creativity!
[on Peter Brook in a 1983 interview] His approach is sometimes quite frightening because he reaches that part of you he wants to be sensitive--and it opens up incredible things.
[on Roger Vadim in a 1983 interview] He's very charming, but he was very nervous on the set because co-star GÃ©rard Philipe was very ill. NOTE: Philipe died soon afterwards.

Jeanne Moreau's height, weight, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Jeanne Moreau looks. We will focus on Jeanne´s height, weight, body shape, eye color and hair color. She is tall as 5' 3" (160 cm). She weights 117lbs (53 kg). Body build is average. Jeanne´s eyes are tinted brown - dark. Her hair is shade of brown - light.

Jeanne Moreau