---
name: "Marie Cardinal"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marie-cardinal"
fi1m_id: "marie-cardinal"
imdb_id: "nm0136487"
tmdb_id: 17591
wikidata_id: "Q462810"
roles: []
born: "9 March 1929"
died: "9 May 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:15:55.862439+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."
---

# Marie Cardinal

## Identity

Marie Cardinal

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marie-cardinal
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marie-cardinal
- **IMDb ID:** nm0136487
- **TMDB ID:** 17591
- **Wikidata ID:** Q462810
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Cardinal, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462810, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136487/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17591

Writer. Born 9 March 1929 in Algiers, France [now Algeria]. Died 9 May 2001.

## Details

- **Born:** 9 March 1929, Algiers, France [now Algeria]
- **Died:** 9 May 2001
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Cardinal, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462810, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136487/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17591

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*2 or 3 Things I Know About Her*](https://film.one/film/2-or-3-things-i-know-about-her.md) (73)

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## Biography

Marie Cardinal was a French novelist and occasional actress. Born in Algiers in French Algeria, she studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and taught in Salonica, Lisbon, Vienna and Montreal before publishing her first novel, *Écoutez la mer*, in 1962.

She appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's *Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle* (1967) and played Mouchette's mother in Robert Bresson's *Mouchette* (1967). Her best-known works include the best-selling novels *La Clé sur la porte* (1972) and *Les Mots pour le dire* (1975), the latter of which was the first of her books published in the United States.

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *2 or 3 Things I Know About Her* (1967), Fi1m 73, Actor — [page](https://film.one/film/2-or-3-things-i-know-about-her.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Écouter la mer* (2024), Author
- *Les Mots pour le dire* (1983), as Editor
- *The Key Is in the Door* (1978), Writer
- *Mouchette* (1967), as Mouchette's Mother
- *2 or 3 Things I Know About Her* (1967), Actor — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/2-or-3-things-i-know-about-her.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- prix Littré 1976: prix Littré (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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