Claude Jade

Claude Marcelle Jorré ([klod κad] (?·i) Dijon, 8 October 1948 - Boulogne-Billancourt, 1 December 2006), known as Claude JadeShe was a French actress.

Biography

François Truffaut and Claude Jade at the premiere of their third joint film, Love in escape of 1979

The daughter of English teachers, she spent three years at the School of Dramatic Art. She moved to Paris and began acting in television and theater productions. She was discovered by François Truffaut, who cast her as Christine Darbon, girlfriend of her alter ego Antoine Doinel in Stolen Kisses. Her screen debut caused a great sensation and she gave Claude Jade an international projection. She reprized her role as Christine in Marital Home and Love on the Run, also by Truffaut. The American critic Pauline Kael considers, not without reason, that Claude Jade "seems like a less ethereal, more practical Catherine Deneuve." Detecting the success of Stolen Kisses, François Truffaut decided to continue the saga of Antoine and Christine by engaging the two main actors, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade; besides. The scene in Marital Home in which Claude Jade dresses Japanese style is of an intelligence that borders on perfection. Her arrival on the big screen at the hands of Truffaut opened the door for her to other great directors, such as the British Alfred Hitchcock, with whom she worked in 1969 on Topaz, where she played the character of Michèle Picard, daughter of a secret agent and wife of a journalist.

Later, Edouardo Molinaro offered her to play the role of Jacques Brel's wife in Mon oncle Benjamin, which allowed the actress to work alongside the popular singer and thus increase her popularity.

Le bateau sur l'herbe, by Gérard Brach, Home sweet Home, by Benoît Lamy, are other of his thirty films, a series that concluded in 1998 with Le Radeau de la méduse, by Iradj Azimi. She played his last film role in 2014 in the short film "A San Remo". Claude Jade has worked in American, Italian, Belgian, German and Japanese films (Kei Kumai's Kita no Misaki ) in his international career. In the early 1980s he starred in two Soviet films: Teheran 43 by Alov e Naumov and Lenin in Paris by Sergei Yutkevich.

Television allowed her to maintain contact with acting, with work in crime series, and where she played her most popular role as Véronique d'Hergemont, heroine of L'île aux trente cercueils (The Island of Thirty Coffins) (1979), Suzan Frend in The Big Secret (1989) and from 1998 to 2000 as Anna in the television series Cap des pins.

Jade's last performance was in Rampal's play Celimene et le Cardinal, which has been shown in Paris and at some festivals in recent months. The piece with Claude Jade and Patrick Prejean will also be released as a DVD movie in 2006.

Actress Claude Jade, already suffering from cancer, had a prosthetic eye for her performances, Rampal said. Before she died, she was reading a script for a TV movie that she hoped to shoot in the next few months, she said. She passed away on December 1, 2006 at the age of 58 from eye cancer.

Awards

• New Wave at Palm Beach Miami International Film Festival for its role as trends creator. (2000)
• Knight of the Legion of Honour of France (1998)

Partial filmography

• Stolen kisses (Baisers volés) (1968) by François Truffaut
• Under the sign of Montecristo (1968) by André Hunebelle
• Topaz (Topaz) (1969) by Alfred Hitchcock
• My uncle Benjamin (Mon oncle Benjamin) (1969) by Édouard Molinaro
• The witness (Le témoin) (1969) by Anne Walter
• conjugal residence (Domicile conjugal) (1970) by François Truffaut
• Boat in the grass (Le bateau sur l'herbe) (1971) by Gérard Brach
• Rebel love (Les feux de la chandeleur) (1972)
• Don't throw the old people out the window (Hogar dolce Hogar / Home sweet home) (1973) by Benoît Lamy
• Number One of Gianni Buffardi
• The girl from Via Condotti (Meurtres à Rome) (1973) by Germán Lorente
• Prohibited Priests (Prêtres interdits) (1973) de Denys de La Patellière
• Evil pleasure (Le malin plaisir) (1975) by Bernard Toublanc-Michel
• Trop c'est trop (1975) by Didier Kaminka
• Le choix (1976) by Jacques Faber
• Cap du Nord (Kita no misaki) (1976) by Kei Kumai
• Spiral of the fog (A spirale di nebbia) (1977) by Eriprando Visconti
• Thinking robots (Le collectionneur de cerveaux) (1977) by Michel Subiela
• Fou comme François (1978) by Gérard Chouchan
• Empeño (Le pion) (1978) by Christian Gion
• Love in escape (L'amour en fuete) (1979) by François Truffaut
• Island of thirty coffins (L'île aux trente cercueils) (1979) serie de Marcel Cravenne
• The grotte aux loups (1980) by Bernard Toublanc-Michel
• Teheran 43 (Tegeran 43) (1980) by Alxandre Alov and Vladimir Naumov
• Lenin in Paris (Lenin v Parizhe) (1981) of Serguéi Yutkévich
• Le bahut va craquer (1981) by Michel Nerval
• Lise and Laura (Lise et Laura) (1982) by Henri Helman
• Rendezvous in Paris (1982) by Gabi Kubach
• L'honneur d'un capitaine of Pierre Scheondoerffer
• Girl in sunflowers (Petite fille dans les tournesols) (1985) by Bernard Férié
• L'homme qui n'était pas là (1987) by René Feret
• The big secret (TV series, 1989) by Jacques Trébouta
• Le bonheur des autres (1990) by Charles Bitsch
• Tableau d'honneur (1992) of Charles Némès
• Bonsoir of Jean-Pierre Mocky (1993)
• Porté disparu (1995) of Jacques Richard
• The Medusa raft (Le radeau de la Méduse) (1998) of Iradj Azimi
• Cap des Pins (1998-2000) serie TV
• To San Remo (2004) of Julien Donada
• Célimène and the Cardinal (Célimène et le cardinal) (2006) by Jacques Rampal