--- name: "Madeleine Lebeau" canonical: "https://film.one/person/madeleine-lebeau" fi1m_id: "madeleine-lebeau" imdb_id: "nm0495495" tmdb_id: 4116 wikidata_id: "Q456390" roles: ["Actor"] born: "10 June 1923" died: "1 May 2016" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 87 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-26T14:44:51.276964+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." --- # Madeleine Lebeau ## Identity Madeleine Lebeau - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/madeleine-lebeau - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** madeleine-lebeau - **IMDb ID:** nm0495495 - **TMDB ID:** 4116 - **Wikidata ID:** Q456390 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Lebeau, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456390, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495495/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4116 Actor. Born 10 June 1923 in Antony, France. Died 1 May 2016. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 10 June 1923, Antony, France - **Died:** 1 May 2016 - **Active:** 1941–1963 - **Also known as:** Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau - **Average Fi1m score:** 87, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 86 (2), 1960s 91 (1) - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $10m across 1 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Lebeau, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456390, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495495/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4116 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Casablanca*](https://film.one/film/casablanca.md) (93), [*8½*](https://film.one/film/812.md) (91) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Madeleine Lebeau > Madeleine Lebeau is worth watching for the emotional directness she brings to familiar types. *Casablanca* gives that quality its clearest use; the jealous mistresses and temperamental actresses elsewhere can leave her less to do. In *Casablanca* (1942), Madeleine Lebeau sings with tears on her face. Her Yvonne has been given less to do than originally intended: the part shrank as the script changed. Yet the close-up gives her feelings time to matter in a film led by its central romance. We were moved by the effort of singing through those tears; the feeling is plain without becoming a demand for sympathy. It is the clearest reason to pay attention to her. Her early Hollywood appearances included Anni in *Hold Back the Dawn* (1941) and Anna Held in *Gentleman Jim* (1942). Across her work, discarded or jealous mistresses and nightclub singers recur. Those parts suit an actor willing to let emotion show, though they also risk making distress her principal occupation. Her singing voice was used again in *Paris After Dark* (1943). The attraction for us is how directly she lets a feeling register, without requiring the character to be agreeable first. After the war she returned to France, working in French, British and Italian productions. Federico Fellini casts her as Madeleine, the French Actress, in *8½* (1963). Here the familiar type is the temperamental actress, which gives us a narrower reason to watch her than Yvonne's singing does. We recommend the film for its humour and unease, while finding it too forgiving of its central director's self-absorption. With Lebeau, the caution is that the description of the character can tell us too much of what to expect. The jealous mistress and the temperamental actress both come with habits an audience already knows. Lebeau's emotional intensity can make those women worth attending to, but it cannot by itself make the writing less restrictive. That is a limit to the roles, rather than a reason to dismiss the actor. Start with *Casablanca*, and watch Yvonne as closely as the people the romance has taught us to follow. ## Biography Madeleine Lebeau was a French actress. Born Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau on 10 June 1923 in Antony, France, she died on 1 May 2016 in Estepona, Spain. She is best known for playing Yvonne, Humphrey Bogart’s discarded mistress, in *Casablanca* (1943). Lebeau made her screen debut in an uncredited role in *Young Girls in Trouble* (1939). In 1940 she fled Nazi-occupied France with her then-husband, actor Marcel Dalio. They reached the United States via Portugal and Mexico. In Hollywood she appeared in *Hold Back the Dawn* (1941) and *Gentleman Jim* (1942). She later played a French actress in Federico Fellini’s *8½* (1963) and appeared in *Angélique* (1964). Lebeau was the last surviving credited cast member of *Casablanca*. She was married to screenwriter Tullio Pinelli from 1988 until his death in 2009. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com, theguardian.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *8½* (1963), Fi1m 91, as Madeleine, the French Actress — [page](https://film.one/film/812.md) - *Casablanca* (1943), Fi1m 93, as Yvonne — [page](https://film.one/film/casablanca.md) - *Hold Back the Dawn* (1941), Fi1m 78, as Anni — [page](https://film.one/film/hold-back-the-dawn.md) ## Complete filmography (31) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur* (1970), as Mlle Lambert - *La vuelta* (1965), Actor - *Angelique* (1964), as La Grande Mademoiselle - *Gunmen Of The Rio Grande* (1964), as Jennie Lee - *8½* (1963), as Madeleine, the French Actress — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/812.md) - *Way of Youth* (1959), as Flora, peite-amie éconduite de Paul - *You Have Nothing to Declare?* (1959), as Gloria Frontignac - *Life Together* (1958), as Peggy - *La Parisienne* (1957), as Monique Wilson - *The Country I Come From* (1956), Actor - *The Miller's Saucy Wife* (1955), as Jacqueline - *Napoleon* (1955), as Emilie Pellapra - *Cadet Rousselle* (1954), as Marguerite de Beaufort - *Quai des blondes* (1954), as Nelly - *Lightly and Shortly Dressed* (1953), as Jacqueline Vermorel - *LAventurière du Tchad* (1953), as Fanny Lacour - *Mandat d'amener* (1953), as Françoise Delanglade - *L'Étrange Amazone* (1953), Actor - *Fortuné de Marseille* (1952), as Tonia - *Paris Still Sings!* (1951), as Gisèle - *Sins of Madeleine* (1951), as Malou - *Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!* (1950), as Aurélie Lambrusque - *Cage of Gold* (1950), as Marie - *The Secret of Monte-Cristo* (1948), as Marguerite Vigouroux - *The Royalists* (1947), as Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil - *Music for Millions* (1944), as Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau) - *Paris After Dark* (1943), as Collette - *Casablanca* (1943), as Yvonne — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/casablanca.md) - *Gentleman Jim* (1942), as Anna Held - *Hold Back the Dawn* (1941), as Anni — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/hold-back-the-dawn.md) - *Girls in Distress* (1939), as Une élève de la pension ## Gallery - ![Sujet : Les Chouans (film ; 1946) Contient : coupures de presse Langue : français (1947)](https://film.one/media/person/58983/gallery-70a0106ea76f.jpg) Sujet : Les Chouans (film ; 1946) Contient : coupures de presse Langue : français (1947) — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Recueil._%22Les_chouans%22_film_de_Henri_Calef_-_btv1b10524489w_%2812_of_42%29.jpg/1280px-Recueil._%22Les_chouans%22_film_de_Henri_Calef_-_btv1b10524489w_%2812_of_42%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Madeleine Lebeau](https://film.one/media/person/58983/gallery-42fc50b727ec.jpg) Madeleine Lebeau — Image via TMDB - ![Madeleine Lebeau](https://film.one/media/person/58983/gallery-6a810432d156.jpg) Madeleine Lebeau — Image via TMDB - ![Madeleine Lebeau](https://film.one/media/person/58983/gallery-991db7f47e0c.jpg) Madeleine Lebeau — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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