Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay
Person

Françoise Rosay

Actor 1891-04-17 Paris, France

Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career. Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire a...

Known for

FILMOGRAPHY
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The Counterfeiters of Paris

The Counterfeiters of Paris

1961 · Madame Pauline

The Red Inn

The Red Inn

1951 · Marie Martin

Bizarre, Bizarre

Bizarre, Bizarre

1937 · Margaret Molyneux

The 25th Hour

The 25th Hour

1967 · Mme Nagy (uncredited)

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

1968 · Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'

Carnival in Flanders

Carnival in Flanders

1935 · Madame Burgomaster

Cloportes

Cloportes

1965 · Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia

Life Dances On

Life Dances On

1937 · Marguerite Audié

The Halfway House

The Halfway House

1944 · Alice Meadows

September Affair

September Affair

1950 · Maria Salvatini

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Saraband for Dead Lovers

1948 · The Electress Sophia

The Full Treatment

The Full Treatment

1960 · Madame Prade

Nobody's Children

Nobody's Children

1951 · La contessa Canali

Me and the Colonel

Me and the Colonel

1958 · Madame Bouffier

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

1959 · Caroline Compson

Quartet

Quartet

1948 · Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins

1952 · Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "L'Orgueil")

Jenny

Jenny

1936 · Jenny Gauthier

The Great Game

The Great Game

1934 · Blanche

Gribiche

Gribiche

1926 · Edith Maranet