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Claude Jade


1948 - 2006

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The actress Claude Jade was born as Claude Marcelle Jorré in Dijon.
She took acting lessons by Jean-Laurent Cochet in Paris and got first appreciation as aan actress in 1966 with the prize for the best stage actress. She made her first cinematical experiences in the TV serial  "La prunelle" (67).

After the picture "Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo" (68) she managed her breakthrough overnight with François Truffaut's "Baisers volés - Geraubte Küsse" (68).
However she refused the marriage proposal of Truffaut.

Claude Jade became not only a star in France but was also able to assert international.
After the great success of "Mon oncle Benjamin" (69) she took part in Alfred Hitchcock's "Topaz" (69). It followed international productions like "Le témoin" (69), "Nijinsky" (70), "Domicile conjugal" (70), "Les feux de la chandeleur" (72), "Home Sweet Home" (73), "La chica de Via Condotti" (74), the Japanese production "Kita no misaki" (76), "Ulysse est revenue" (78) and "L'amour en fuite" (79).

She continued her career successfully in the 80's and 90's in doing so TV became a more important role than in the past. Especially in this metier she was able to impersonate very different characters althoug bad persons. With movies like "Lenin v Parizhe" (80), "Treize" (81), "Tegeran-43" (81), "Rendezvous in Paris" (82), "Voglia di volare" (84), "Qui sont mes juges?" (87), "Au bonheur des autres" (91), "Bonsoir" (94) and "Mémoires perdues" (98) she could maintain her popularity.

In the last years she only appeared sporadically in front of the camera, to her latest works belong "Sans famille" (00) and "A San Remo" (03).

Claude Jade was put up as a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1998.
 

Other movies with Claude Jade:
Le crime de la rue de Chantilly (67) Au théâtre ce soir. Henri IV (67) Serie "Les oiseaux rares" (69) Le songe d'une nuit d'été (69) Serie "Mauregard" (70) Serie "Allô police: Retour à l'envoyeur" (70) Le bateau sur l'herbe (71) Shéhérazade (71) La mandragore (72) Le château perdu (73) Prêtres interdits (73) Les oiseaux de la lune (74) Au théâtre ce soir: Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (74) Serie "Malaventure: Monsieur seul" (74) Number one (74) Le malin plaisir (75) Trop c'est trop (75) Maître Pygmalion (75) Mamie Rose (76) Le collectionneur des cerveaux (76) Le choix (76) Antenne à Francis Perrin (76) Les anneaux de Bicêtre (77) Britannicus (77) Les amours sous la révolution: La passion de Camille et Lucile Desmoulins (78) Una spirale di nebbia (78) Le pion (78) Au théâtre ce soir: Volpone (78) Fou comme François (79) Serie "L'île aux trente cercueils" (79) La grotte aux loups (80) Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimée (80) Au bout du chemin (81) Le bahut va craquer (81) L'interrogatoire (81) Serie "Commissaire Moulin: L'amie d'enfance" (81) Lise et Laura (82) L'honneur d'un capitaine (82) Une petite fille dans les tournesols (84) L'homme qui n'était pas là (87) Serie "Le grand secret" (89) Regulus 93 (89) Serie "The Hitchhiker: Window" (89) The Window (90) Serie "V comme vengeance" (90) Fleur blueue (90) L'éternité devant soi (90) Tableau d'honneur (92) Dissident il va sans dire (92) Château au Portugal (92) Serie "La tête en l'air" (93) Eugénie Grandet (94) Le radeau de la Méduse (94) Sentiments mortels (95) Serie "Belle Epoque" (95) Porté disparu (95) Serie "Julie Lescaut: Ruemurs" (95) Serie "Navarro: Sentiments mortels" (95) Inspecteur Moretti: Un enfant au soleil (97) Serie "Cap des Pins" (98) Serie "Une femme d'honneur: Mémoire perdue" (98) Scénario sur la drogue (00) La rampe (00) Theatre: Lorenzaccio (01) Serie "La crim: Le secret" (04)


 
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