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Bernadette Lafont (28 October 1938 – 25 July 2013) 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".
IMDb profile of Bernadette Lafont, a French actress, director and writer who starred in Truffaut's The Mischief Makers (1957) and many other films. Learn about her life, career, marriage, death and trivia.
- January 1, 1
- Nîmes, Gard, France
- January 1, 1
- Nîmes, Gard, France
Actrice fétiche de la Nouvelle Vague. Prenant goût au cinéma, elle devient rapidement une figure représentative de la Nouvelle Vague notamment après deux films de Claude Chabrol essentiels dans ce mouvement, Le Beau Serge en 1957 11 avec son mari, puis Les Bonnes Femmes en 1960.
- 28 octobre 1938Nîmes ( Gard, France)
- Bernadette Paule Anne Lafont
- Française
Bernadette Lafont was one of the most enduring female stars to emerge from the French New Wave. A feisty, dark-haired sensual beauty, she emerged into cinematic consciousness in François Truffaut’s first (short) film Les Mistons in 1957 when she was 19.
Aug 1, 2013 · Bernadette Lafont, a French actress whose sensuality and ebullience made her a muse of the iconoclastic New Wave that overtook France’s film industry in the late 1950s and early ’60s, died on...
Aug 13, 2013 · A tribute to the late actress who starred in over 100 films and played trangressive characters with sex appeal and insolence. Learn about her roles in Chabrol, Truffaut, Kaplan and Eustache, and her last film "Paulette".
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Learn about the life and career of Bernadette Lafont, the most emblematic actress of the French New Wave and a rebel icon of French cinema. Discover her roles in classics by Truffaut, Chabrol, Rivette and more.
