Image: Wikimedia CommonsAurore Clément
French actress
- Born October 12, 1945
- 4 movies
Aurore Clément is a French actor, born in Soissons on 12 October 1945, whose career spans more than 80 films in French and English. She was working as a model in Paris when Louis Malle cast her in Lacombe, Lucien (1974), which launched her on screen. She went on to work with Chantal Akerman, film a long sequence for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, and play Anne Henderson in Wim Wenders's Palme d'Or winner Paris, Texas (1984). She is also an award-winning stage actor in France.
Aurore Clément appears in 4 films in The Rerun, from 1974 to 2006. Most of that work is in drama, war and biography. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: Francis Ford Coppola (2).
Known for
- Lacombe, Lucien (1974). A French language role in the 1974 drama set in occupied France.
- Paris, Texas (1984). Appeared in the 1984 road drama.
- Apocalypse Now (1979). Part of the cast of the 1979 Vietnam War film.
- Marie Antoinette (2006). A role in the 2006 drama about the French queen.
Career
In Lacombe, Lucien Clément played France Horn, the daughter of a Jewish tailor in occupied France, opposite a young collaborator. The debut led to European art cinema of the highest order: Akerman’s Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978), in which she plays the filmmaker Anna Silver. Her first American film was Apocalypse Now (1979), where she plays Roxanne Sarrault in a French plantation sequence that was cut from the original release and restored in Apocalypse Now Redux (2001).
Wenders gave her the role of Anne in Paris, Texas, and decades later Sofia Coppola cast her as the Duchesse de Char in Marie Antoinette (2006). She made her stage debut in 1988 in The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, winning a prize from the French theatre critics’ association, and was nominated for a Molière for La Dame aux Camélias.
Where to start
- Lacombe, Lucien (1974): the debut, in Malle’s unsettling study of occupation-era France.
- Paris, Texas (1984): the role she is most often remembered for, in a Palme d’Or winner.
- Apocalypse Now (1979): seek out the Redux cut to see her plantation scenes.
- Marie Antoinette (2006): a late-career appearance in Sofia Coppola’s Versailles.
Movies
Quick answers
- What movies and TV shows has Aurore Clément been in?
- Aurore Clément appears in Marie Antoinette (2006), Paris, Texas (1984), Apocalypse Now (1979) and Lacombe, Lucien (1974) on The Remote.
- When was Aurore Clément born?
- Aurore Clément was born on 12 October 1945.
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