Françoise Seigner

Françoise Seigner

Birth : 1928-04-07, Paris, France

Death : 2008-10-13

History

Françoise Seigner (7 April 1928 – 13 October 2008) was a French actress. She is best known for her theatre work, but also acted in a few movies, such as The Wild Child (1970) and the 2005 adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005). She was the aunt of actresses Emmanuelle and Mathilde Seigner. Seigner died of pancreatic cancer. Source: Article "Françoise Seigner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Françoise Seigner

Movies

By the Pricking of My Thumbs
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Ada, tante de Bélisaire
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Les Maîtres du pain
Les Maîtres du pain
Astérie
Les Misérables
Les Misérables
The Thénardier
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.
Les femmes savantes
Les femmes savantes
Philaminte
L'avare
L'avare
Frosine
Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son, is in love with the young Mariane and that his daughter Elise loves a penniless young man, Valère, whom he has just hired as a steward.
Le Tartuffe
Le Tartuffe
Dorine
La troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
La troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
Dorine / Toinette
Tartuffe
Tartuffe
Dorine
A filmed version of Molière's play.
The Wild Child
The Wild Child
Madame Guerin
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.