--- name: "Fanny Ardant" canonical: "https://film.one/person/fanny-ardant" fi1m_id: "fanny-ardant" imdb_id: "nm0000272" tmdb_id: 20234 wikidata_id: "Q106349" roles: ["Actor"] born: "22 March 1949" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T22:18:42.151698+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Fanny Ardant ## Identity Fanny Ardant - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/fanny-ardant - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** fanny-ardant - **IMDb ID:** nm0000272 - **TMDB ID:** 20234 - **Wikidata ID:** Q106349 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Ardant, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106349, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000272/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20234 Actor. Born 22 March 1949 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 22 March 1949, Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France - **Also known as:** Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant, Фанни Ардан, Фанні Ардан, فانی اردان - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other - **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize (1 won) - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2010s 83 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Ardant, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106349, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000272/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20234 ## Coming up - *Halmeoni* (2028-09-16), as Catherine Lamouette ## Biography Fanny Ardant is a French actress and film director. She was born on 22 March 1949 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. She studied political science at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and made her stage debut in 1974. Ardant gained prominence in the early 1980s with roles in films directed by François Truffaut, including *The Woman Next Door* (1981) and *Confidentially Yours* (1983). She is known for performances in *Pédale douce* (1996), for which she received a César Award for Best Actress, *8 Women* (2002), *Elizabeth* (1998) as Mary of Guise, and *La Belle Époque* (2019). She has won two César Awards and a Lumières Award. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these - *Elizabeth* (1998), Fi1m 82, as Mary of Guise — [page](https://film.one/film/elizabeth.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *The Great Beauty* (2013), Fi1m 83, as Fanny Ardant (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-beauty.md) ## Complete filmography (122) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Halmeoni* (2028), as Catherine Lamouette - *Salamandre* (2025), Actor - *Ne crains pas le bruit de mes ailes* (2025), as Keeper (voice) · Director - *Island* (2025), as Ada - *The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse* (2025), as Proserpina - *Back to Alexandria* (2024), as Fairouz - *E Trema Ancora, the Other Voice of Luchino Visconti* (2024), as Narrator - *Rachel's Game* (2024), as Rachel Zimmerman - *American Star* (2024), as Anne - *My Motherland* (2023), as France Cohen - *Rainier III par lui-même* (2023), as Narrator (voice) - *Mr. Blake at Your Service!* (2023), as Nathalie Beauvillier - *The Palace* (2023), as The Marquise - *Amusia* (2023), Actor - *The Colors of Fire* (2022), as Solange Gallinato - *The Green Shutters* (2022), as Jeanne - *The Young Lovers* (2022), as Shauna Loszinsky - *Good Morning Midnight* (2021), Actor - *Les Damnés de la Commune* (2021), as Mère de Victorine (voice) - *DNA* (2020), as Caroline - *Paris Calligrammes* (2020), as Narratrice (voice) - *La Belle Époque* (2019), as Marianne Drumond - *The Bare Necessity* (2019), as Thérèse Perdrix - *My Mother Is Crazy* (2018), as Nina Renner - *Vostok N°20* (2018), as (voice) - *Ondes de choc* (2018), series, as Esther Fontanel - *Diary of My Mind* (2018), as Esther Fontanel - *Lola Pater* (2017), as Lola - *Night Shift* (2017), Actor - *Magie noire* (2017), Director - *Waiting for You* (2017), as Madeleine Brown - *Stalin's Couch* (2016), Director, Writer - *Croque monsieur* (2016), as Coco - *For This Is My Body* (2016), as La femme - *Five* (2016), as Fanny (uncredited) - *Chic!* (2015), as Alicia Ricosi - *The Session* (2014), as Comtesse de Castiglione - *Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui* (2014), Actor - *Alliés Nés* (2014), as Mother - *Casanova Variations* (2014), as Lucrecia - *Resistance* (2014), series, as The Countess - *Obsessive Rhythms* (2014), Director, Screenplay - *Rasputin* (2013), as L'Impératrice Alexandra - *Bright Days Ahead* (2013), as Caroline - *The Great Beauty* (2013), as Fanny Ardant (uncredited) — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-beauty.md) - *The Lanzac Clan* (2013), as Elisabeth Lanzac - *Miroir mon amour* (2012), as La reine - *The Lookout* (2012), as Giovanni's Wife (uncredited) - *Second Chances* (2012), as Elisabeth Andrieu - *You Never Left* (2010), Actor - *Chimères absentes* (2010), as Makvina · Director - *Tresor* (2009), as Françoise Lagier - *Visage* (2009), as The Producer / Queen Herodias - *Ashes and Blood* (2009), Director, Screenplay - *Hello Goodbye* (2008), as Gisèle Gaash - *Il Divo* (2008), as French Ambassador's Wife (uncredited) - *The Trial Begins* (2007), as Caterina - *Crossed Tracks* (2007), as Judith Ralitzer - *The Secrets* (2007), as Anouk - *Paris Je T'aime* (2006), as Fanny Forestier (Pigalle) - *El año del diluvio* (2004), as Schwester Consuelo - *Words in Progress* (2004), Actor - *The Scent of Blood* (2004), as Silvia - *Nathalie...* (2004), as Catherine - *Sarah* (2003), as Sarah Bernhardt - *Callas Forever* (2002), as Maria Callas - *8 Women* (2002), as Pierrette - *Don't Tempt Me* (2001), as Marina D'Angelo - *Change My Life* (2001), as Nina - *The Libertine* (2000), as Madame Therbouche - *The Frenchman's Son* (1999), as Anne - *Balzac: A Life of Passion* (1999), as Eve Hanska - *Balzac* (1999), series, as Eve Hanska - *Augustin, King of Kung-Fu* (1999), as Fanny Ardant - *Hard Off* (1999), as Marie Langmann, épouse de Claude - *Elizabeth* (1998), as Mary of Guise — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/elizabeth.md) - *The Dinner* (1998), as Flora - *Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés* (1997), Actor - *Ridicule* (1996), as Madame de Blayac - *Desire* (1996), as Odette - *What a Drag* (1996), as Evelyne, dite Eva - *Sabrina* (1995), as Irene - *Beyond the Clouds* (1995), as Patricia - *One Hundred and One Nights* (1995), as The Star That Turns at Night - *Colonel Chabert* (1994), as Gräfin Ferraud - *Amok* (1993), as She - *Nothing But Lies* (1991), as Muriel - *Afraid of the Dark* (1991), as Miriam - *Adventure of Catherine C.* (1990), as Catherine Crachat - *Australia* (1989), as Jeanne Gauthier - *Pleure Pas My Love* (1989), as Roxane - *La Grande Cabriole* (1989), series, as Laure-Adélaïde de Chabrillant - *Love and Fear* (1988), as Velia - *L'altro enigma* (1988), as La veggente - *The Family* (1987), as Adriana - *Mélo* (1986), as Christiane Levesque - *The Nonentity* (1986), as Mlle Lotte - *Family Business* (1986), as Marianne, the Mother - *Next Summer* (1985), as Dina - *Les enragés* (1985), as Jessica Melrose - *Cinecittà Cinecittà* (1985), series, as Fanny Ardant, Gabriella - *Love Unto Death* (1984), as Judith Martignac - *Swann in Love* (1984), as Duchesse de Guermantes - *Desiderio* (1984), as Lucia - *Benvenuta* (1983), as Benvenuta - *Confidentially Yours* (1983), as Barbara Becker - *Life Is a Bed of Roses* (1983), as Livia Cerasquier - *Le Chef de famille* (1982), series, as Katy - *The Woman Next Door* (1981), as Mathilde Bauchard - *Les Bons Bourgeois* (1981), as Philomène - *Bolero* (1981), as Véronique - *The Fall of the House of Usher* (1981), as Madeline Usher - *Les Dames de la côte* (1979), series, as Fanny Villatte - *La muse et la madone* (1979), as Natacha - *The Dogs* (1979), as Nurse - *Le Mutant* (1978), series, as Jeanne Laurent - *Marie, the Doll* (1976), as Marie-Paule - *After*, Actor - *Modigliani - Il principe*, Actor - *She Was Staring and Saw Nothing*, Director, Writer - *La Bonne chaleur de l'animal*, Actor - *Jannah*, as Madame Isabelle ## Gallery - ![Fanny Ardant](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-174e99cd53b2.jpg) Fanny Ardant — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Fanny_Ardant_45th_C%C3%A9sar_Awards_2020_%283x4_cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Bright Days Ahead - Fanny Ardant (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-43951aadac34.jpg) Bright Days Ahead - Fanny Ardant (2013) — Ross from hamilton on, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Bright_Days_Ahead_-_Fanny_Ardant_%289765805985%29.jpg/1280px-Bright_Days_Ahead_-_Fanny_Ardant_%289765805985%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Costumes portés par Fanny Ardant et Catherine Deneuve dans "Huit Femmes", à l'expo Cinémode de la Cinémathèque française. (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-c79397048a1e.jpg) Costumes portés par Fanny Ardant et Catherine Deneuve dans "Huit Femmes", à l'expo Cinémode de la Cinémathèque française. (2022) — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Costumes_Fanny_Ardant_et_Catherine_Deneuve_dans_Huit_Femmes.jpg/1280px-Costumes_Fanny_Ardant_et_Catherine_Deneuve_dans_Huit_Femmes.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Fanny Ardant at the press conference of Shock Waves – Diary of My Mind at Berlinale 2018](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-0e8e36187289.jpg) Fanny Ardant at the press conference of Shock Waves – Diary of My Mind at Berlinale 2018 — Diana Ringo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Fanny_Ardant_-_Shock_Waves_%E2%80%93_Diary_of_My_Mind_-_Press_Conference.jpg/1280px-Fanny_Ardant_-_Shock_Waves_%E2%80%93_Diary_of_My_Mind_-_Press_Conference.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Fanny Ardant](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-727bc0e5dc88.jpg) Fanny Ardant — Image via TMDB - ![Fanny Ardant](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-bb9f68ed04af.jpg) Fanny Ardant — Image via TMDB - ![Fanny Ardant](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-2b774a25b560.jpg) Fanny Ardant — Image via TMDB - ![Fanny Ardant, French actress (2005)](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-b47c57632cac.jpg) Fanny Ardant, French actress (2005) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Fanny_Ardant_2005.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Fanny Ardant, French actress (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-86a6cd46e968.jpg) Fanny Ardant, French actress (2009) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Fanny_Ardant_2009.JPG/1280px-Fanny_Ardant_2009.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Fanny Ardant](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-3cb67776f7fb.jpg) Fanny Ardant — Image via TMDB - ![Fanny Ardant](https://film.one/media/person/87685/gallery-52b0ffde631e.jpg) Fanny Ardant — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won - 2002: Outstanding Artistic Contribution (won), for *8 Women* ### Other awards — 5 won, 7 nominated - César Award for Best Actress 2023: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *The Young Lovers* - César Award for Best Supporting Actress 2020: César Award for Best Supporting Actress (won), for *La Belle Époque* - César Award for Best Actress 2014: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Bright Days Ahead* - Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress 2004: Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Nathalie...* - César Award for Best Actress 2003: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *8 Women* - Stanislavsky Award 2003: Stanislavsky Award (won) - European Film Award for Best Actress 2002: European Film Award for Best Actress (won), for *8 Women* - Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress 2002: Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *8 Women* - César Award for Best Actress 1997: César Award for Best Actress (won), for *Pédale douce* - Lumière Award for Best Actress 1997: Lumière Award for Best Actress (won) - César Award for Best Actress 1984: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Confidentially Yours* - César Award for Best Actress 1982: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *The Woman Next Door* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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