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Béatrice Dalle

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Béatrice Dalle

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

Dec 19, 1964 (61 years old)

Place of Birth

Brest, Finistère, France

Biography

Béatrice Dalle (born 19 December 1964) is a French actress and model. She has appeared in over fifty films and is best known internationally for her debut role in the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (also released as Betty Blue). Béatrice Dalle is renowned for her intense and unconventional roles, often portraying characters that are both provocative and transgressive. Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. She grew up in Le Mans with her mother, father, and an older sister. At age 15, Dalle ran away from home to live in Paris. In 1985, she married the painter Jean-François Dalle, whom she divorced in 1988. In 2005, Dalle married an inmate she met while acting in a short film that was being shot in a prison. They divorced in 2015. Dalle was working as a model when she met filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix. Beineix cast her in the lead role of the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (released in the UK and USA as Betty Blue) which received BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and made a star of Dalle. She went on to appear in a series of major roles in French films, including the 1989 film Chimère, which was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. She featured in the 1987 music video for Buster Poindexter's version of "Oh Me Oh My (I'm fool for you Baby)" and in the 1991 music video for "Move to Memphis" by Norwegian band a-ha. She starred in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth in 1991. In 1997, she was cast in The Blackout, her first film made in the United States. In 2001, Dalle appeared in the controversial film Trouble Every Day, in which she played a compulsive sexual cannibal. She starred in the 2007 film À l'intérieur, in which she played a cruel psychopath stalking a pregnant woman. In 1988, Dalle was interviewed by Clive James in "Postcard from Paris" where she said she was tired of Paris and wanted to move to New York. Dalle has been arrested on several occasions for shoplifting, drug possession and assault. In January 2005, while making a film about prison life in Brest, Dalle met Guenaël Meziani, serving a 12-year prison sentence for assaulting and raping his ex-girlfriend. She married him after 24 one-hour visits, and spoke on his behalf at hearings for his early release. According to a 2015 profile of Dalle, she said the marriage was "a complete disaster" once Meziani was released from prison, and their divorce was apparently finalised in July 2014. Interviewed on the French TV programme Divan in 2016, Dalle stated that when she used to work in a morgue with her friends, they sold body parts of corpses, and while on acid, they ate a dead man's ear. Source: Article "Béatrice Dalle" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For

Acting
2026Pourquoi t'as pas d'enfants ?Self
2025Drifting LaurentSophia
2024MaldororRita
2024Le bonheur est pour demainLucie
2024The Passion According to BéatriceSelf
2024Les ScandaleusesSelf
2023The Beast in the JungleThe Physiognomist
2023Béatrice Dalle, à prendre ou à laisserSelf
2023Kôkôrikô !
2023Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinémaSelf - Guest
2022Love Is Better Than LifeBéa, the devil's lawyer
2022Tell Me IggySelf
2022Son OfWafah
2022Drag Race FranceSelf - Guest Judge
2020Lux ÆternaBéatrice
2019Beyond BloodSelf
2019Dance of ChanceLa patronne du café
2019DisclaimerBéatrice Dalle (Cameo)
2019InsideCommandant Elisabeth Favard
2019Disturbing DisappearancesIris Koben
2018The Happy PrinceCafé Concert Manager
2018My GuyAnnick, la mère de Marilyn
2017Everyone's LifeClémentine
2017JoeyStarr, l'enfant terribleSelf
2015Lucrèce Borgia
2015Capitaine MarleauAlice Le Drouin
2015MalaterraSuzanne Leroy
2015Call My Agent!Self
2014My SistersMildred
2014Among the LivingJeanne Faucheur
2014ABCs of Death 2The Grandmother (Segment "Xylophone")
2014Rosenn
2013Fumer tueCsilla
2013You and the NightFemale Commissioner
2013Michael H. – Profession: DirectorSelf
2013Le Renard jauneBéatrice (Brigitte)
2013Blue Notes and BungalowsSelf
2012Morning StarZohra
2012Bye Bye BlondieGloria
2012PunkTeresa
2011Jimmy RivièreGina
2011Our ParadiseAnna
2011LividLucie's Mother
2010InkMathilde
2009DomainNadia
2008New WaveAnna
2008God's OfficesMilena
2007InsideThe Woman
2007Crime InsidersBéa
2006Salut les Terriens !Self - Guest
2005The IntruderLa reine de l'hémisphère nord
2005In Your DreamsAva
2004CleanElena
2004The Gate of the SunCatherine
2004ProcessThe actress
2003Time of the WolfLise Brandt
200360 jours, 60 nuitsSelf
2002Seventeen Times Cécile CassardCécile
2002Les oreilles sur le dosMonica
2002Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in SpaceTatla the Machine God (Voice)
2002A Day in the Life of French CinemaSelf
2001Trouble Every DayCoré
2001H StoryThe Actress
1999a-ha: Headlines and DeadlinesGirl ("Move to Memphis" Video)
1999ToniMarie
1997The BlackoutAnnie
1997To the LimitElena
1996DesireMadeleine
1996Clubbed to DeathSaida
1994I Can't SleepMona
19946 Days, 6 NightsElsa
1992The Beautiful StoryOdona
1992The Girl in the AirBrigitte
1991Night on EarthBlind Woman
1990A Woman's RevengeSuzy
1989Dark WoodsViolette
1989ChimèreAlice
1989Clive James' Postcard fromSelf
1988The Witches' SabbathMaddalena
1987Nulle part ailleursSelf
1986Betty BlueBetty
1986CASTINGSelf (archive footage)
1986On a volé Charlie Spencer !La star
1972Le Grand ÉchiquierSelf
-Les Mouettes