Known For: French actress
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, film actor, film director
Country: France
City: Nîmes
Date of Birth: Friday, 28 October 1938
Died: 2013-07-25 00:00:00 in Q42807
Language French
Bernadette Lafont was a French actress who appeared in more than 120 feature films. She has been considered "the face of French New Wave". In 1999 she told The New York Times her work was "the motor of my existence".
| BirthPlace | Nîmes |
| Awards | Q10855195, Q174389, Q13452531, Q10855271, Q13422140 |
| Spouses | Diourka Medveczky, Gérard Blain |
| Children | Pauline Lafont, Élisabeth Lafont |
| Wikipedia | Bernadette_Lafont |
Bernadette Lafont had her debut in Les Mistons ("The Mischief Makers") in 1958 and became part of the Nouvelle Vague in the 1960s because of her films with François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol. In 1986 Lafont was awarded a César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for An Impudent Girl (L'Effrontée). In the following year, she was again nominated, this time for Masques. For her long service to the French motion picture industry, she was awarded an Honorary César in 2003 . In May 2007, she chaired the jury for the fifth edition of the Award for Education presented at the 60th Cannes Film Festival. She was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor on 14 July 2009. Her complete filmography includes TV shows, and she also worked successfully as a stage actress. Her last film Paulette, released in 2013, was a success in and outside France.
