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name: "Marie-Christine Barrault"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marie-christine-barrault"
fi1m_id: "marie-christine-barrault"
imdb_id: "nm0056763"
tmdb_id: 24393
wikidata_id: "Q239845"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 March 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:00:24.965323+00:00"
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# Marie-Christine Barrault

## Identity

Marie-Christine Barrault

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marie-christine-barrault
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marie-christine-barrault
- **IMDb ID:** nm0056763
- **TMDB ID:** 24393
- **Wikidata ID:** Q239845
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Christine_Barrault, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056763/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24393

Actor. Born 21 March 1944 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 March 1944, Paris, France
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Christine_Barrault, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056763/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24393

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*My Night at Maud's*](https://film.one/film/my-night-at-mauds.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Marie-Christine Barrault is a French actress born on 21 March 1944 in Paris. She made her feature film debut as Françoise in Éric Rohmer's *My Night at Maud's* (1969).

She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her leading role in *Cousin Cousine* (1975). Barrault appeared in further Rohmer films including *Love in the Afternoon* (1972) and *Perceval le Gallois* (1978), and played Isobel in Woody Allen's *Stardust Memories* (1980). She has worked extensively in French film, television and theatre.

Barrault trained at the Cours Simon and the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique. She published the autobiography *This Long Way to Get to You* in 2010.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *My Night at Maud's* (1969), Fi1m 81, as Françoise — [page](https://film.one/film/my-night-at-mauds.md)

## Complete filmography (102)

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

- *A Woman's Life* (2026), as Arlette
- *Zodiac* (2026), series, as Hélène Escoffier
- *The Ties That Bind Us* (2025), as La mère de Sandra et Marianne
- *Per il mio bene* (2024), as Anna
- *La Maman du bourreau* (2024), as Gabrielle de Miremont
- *Fiasco* (2024), series, as Huguette Valande
- *Oldies But Goodies* (2024), as Mme. Courtillet
- *Alphonse* (2023), series, as Eve Bragnier
- *Et doucement rallumer les étoiles* (2023), as Geneviève
- *Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman* (2023), as Komura's Mother (voice)
- *George et Sarah* (2020), as George Sand
- *Deux gouttes d'eau* (2018), as Elisabeth Davout
- *All About Mothers* (2018), as Jacqueline
- *Les brumes du souvenir* (2017), as Alice Blondel
- *Twisting Fate* (2016), as Jeanne
- *Mademoiselle de la Charce* (2016), Actor
- *The Easy Way Out* (2015), as Nelly
- *Toi que j'aimais tant* (2014), as Hélène Maupin
- *A Family Secret* (2014), series, as Nadège
- *Sleight of Hand* (2014), as Sophie Marescot
- *My Name Is Hmmm...* (2013), as La grand-mère
- *Domestic Life* (2013), as Nicole
- *The Big Bad Wolf* (2013), as La mère
- *Murders in...* (2013), series, as Violette Rivière, Lidy Mathis, Denise Royan
- *Memories of a Disturbed Young Lady* (2010), as The Gynecologist
- *Making Plans for Lena* (2009), as Annie
- *Profiling Paris* (2009), series, as Catherine Lepage
- *Trivial* (2007), as Mélanie Bérangère
- *Ange de feu* (2006), series, as Janine Cordey
- *Passés troubles* (2006), as Béatrice
- *Parlez-moi d'amour* (2004), as Élisa
- *L'empreinte de l'ange* (2004), as La mère suprême
- *Saint-Germain ou La négociation* (2003), as Chaterine de Médicis
- *Azzurro* (2000), as Elizabeth Broyer
- *La Dilettante* (1999), as Thérèse Rambert
- *Le grand Batre* (1997), as Thérèse
- *Le Grand Batre* (1997), series, as Thérèse Cabreyrolle d'Azérac
- *Obsession* (1997), as Ella Beckmann
- *Un coup de baguette magique* (1997), as Jeanne
- *Love, Math and Sex* (1997), as La prof de maths
- *Mon père avait raison* (1996), as Germaine Bellanger
- *Tendre piège* (1996), as Françoise
- *Bonsoir* (1994), as Marie Wileska
- *Crazy Love* (1993), as Louise
- *Jenny Marx, la femme du diable* (1993), as Jenny Marx
- *Next Time the Fire* (1993), as Elena
- *Necessary Love* (1991), Actor
- *Marie Curie, une femme honorable* (1991), series, as Marie Curie
- *Gallant Ladies* (1990), as Jacquette de Bourdeille
- *Stormy Summer* (1989), as Anne
- *The Silent Woman* (1989), as Marianne
- *Women in Prison* (1988), as La surveillante chef
- *L'Énigme des sables* (1988), Actor
- *Sanguines* (1988), as Nedie
- *The Abyss* (1988), as Hilzonde
- *Adieu, je t'aime* (1988), as Nicole Dupré
- *The Lizard King* (1988), as Beatrice Aumond
- *Daniya, the emir's garden* (1988), as Almodís
- *Manuela's Loves* (1987), as Manuela
- *Vaudeville* (1986), as Madeleine
- *L'Été 36* (1986), as Lise
- *The Satin Slipper* (1986), as La lune
- *Power Of Evil* (1985), as Sylvie
- *A Better Life* (1985), as Véronique's mother
- *Pianoforte* (1985), as La mère de Maria, Andrea
- *Louise... l'insoumise* (1985), as Mme Royer
- *Swann in Love* (1984), as Madame Verdurin
- *A Love in Germany* (1983), as Maria Wyler
- *Les Mots pour le dire* (1983), as Eliane Saint-Jean
- *Table for Five* (1983), as Marie
- *Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi* (1983), as Jeanne
- *Mir reicht's - ich steig aus* (1983), as Jane
- *L'Amour trop fort* (1981), as Rose-Marie de Boisel
- *Stardust Memories* (1980), as Isobel
- *Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme* (1980), as Eva
- *Petit déjeuner compris* (1980), series, as Marie-Louise Leroux
- *My Dearest* (1980), as Jeanne Rivière
- *Woman Between Wolf and Dog* (1979), as Lieve
- *Perceval* (1978), as La Reine Guenevievre
- *Histoire vraie* (1978), as Rose
- *The Savage State* (1978), as Laurence Laurençon
- *The Medusa Touch* (1978), as Patricia
- *Le Chandelier* (1977), as Jacqueline
- *Henry James Stories* (1976), series, as Miss Jessel
- *Cousin, Cousine* (1975), as Marthe
- *John Glückstadt* (1975), as Hanna Hansen
- *La Confession d'un enfant du siècle* (1974), series, as Brigitte
- *Le Tour d'Écrou* (1974), as Miss Jessel
- *An Ideal Husband* (1972), as Lady Chiltern
- *Love in the Afternoon* (1972), as Dream Sequence
- *Figaro-ci, Figaro-là* (1972), as Julie
- *Menace* (1972), as Francoise
- *Le Sagouin* (1972), as Léone
- *Les Cent livres : À la recherche du temps perdu* (1971), as The mother
- *Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000* (1971), series, as Martine Lauzon
- *Le Misanthrope* (1971), as Célimène
- *Lancelot of the Lake* (1970), as Reine Guinevere
- *Distracted* (1970), as Lisa Gastier
- *« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur* (1970), as La sœur
- *Les Cent Livres des Hommes* (1970), series, as La mère
- *Que ferait donc Faber ?* (1969), as Catherine
- *My Night at Maud's* (1969), as Françoise — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/my-night-at-mauds.md)

## Gallery

- ![Marie-Christine Barrault](https://film.one/media/person/3915935/gallery-fb5eb79ab133.jpg) Marie-Christine Barrault — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Marie-Christine_Barrault_July_2013.jpg/1280px-Marie-Christine_Barrault_July_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault, assise dans un fauteuil sur scène, jouant la pièce, L'étrange intermède d'Eugène O'Neill, ](https://film.one/media/person/3915935/gallery-ece4bc972dc7.jpg) Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault, assise dans un fauteuil sur scène, jouant la pièce, L'étrange intermède d'Eugène O'Neill,  — André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/14.11.1987._Marie-Christine_Barrault._Etrange_Interm%C3%A8de._%281987%29_-_53Fi2907_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault dans les bras de Jean-Claude Dreyfus, jouant la pièce, L'étrange intermède d'Eugène O'Neill](https://film.one/media/person/3915935/gallery-e0c0d95eff38.jpg) Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault dans les bras de Jean-Claude Dreyfus, jouant la pièce, L'étrange intermède d'Eugène O'Neill — André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/14.11.1987._Marie-Christine_Barrault._Etrange_Interm%C3%A8de._%281987%29_-_53Fi2942.jpg/1280px-14.11.1987._Marie-Christine_Barrault._Etrange_Interm%C3%A8de._%281987%29_-_53Fi2942.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault et d'un acteur sur scène, jouant la pièce, L'étrange intermède d'Eugène O'Neill, mis en scè](https://film.one/media/person/3915935/gallery-71bacaeaa564.jpg) Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault et d'un acteur sur scène, jouant la pièce, L'étrange intermède d'Eugène O'Neill, mis en scè — André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/14.11.1987._Marie-Christine_Barrault._Etrange_Interm%C3%A8de._%281987%29_-_53Fi2915.jpg/1280px-14.11.1987._Marie-Christine_Barrault._Etrange_Interm%C3%A8de._%281987%29_-_53Fi2915.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marie-Christine Barrault](https://film.one/media/person/3915935/gallery-812668f984f6.jpg) Marie-Christine Barrault — Image via TMDB
- ![Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault et de Jean-Claude Dreyfus, jouant la pièce, L'étrange intermède d'Eugène O'Neill, mis en sc](https://film.one/media/person/3915935/gallery-bb0b47936412.jpg) Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault et de Jean-Claude Dreyfus, jouant la pièce, L'étrange intermède d'Eugène O'Neill, mis en sc — André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/14.11.1987._Marie-Christine_Barrault._Etrange_Interm%C3%A8de._%281987%29_-_53Fi2941.jpg/1280px-14.11.1987._Marie-Christine_Barrault._Etrange_Interm%C3%A8de._%281987%29_-_53Fi2941.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault assise sur un lit avec la tête d'un acteur sur ses genoux, jouant la pièce, L'étrange inter](https://film.one/media/person/3915935/gallery-ec9a74cb073c.jpg) Théâtre Sorano. Le 14 Novembre 1987. Vue de Marie-Christine Barrault assise sur un lit avec la tête d'un acteur sur ses genoux, jouant la pièce, L'étrange inter — André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/14.11.1987._Marie-Christine_Barrault._Etrange_Interm%C3%A8de._%281987%29_-_53Fi2940.jpg/1280px-14.11.1987._Marie-Christine_Barrault._Etrange_Interm%C3%A8de._%281987%29_-_53Fi2940.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1977: Best Actress (nominated), for *Cousin Cousine*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Commander of the Legion of Honour 2018: Commander of the Legion of Honour (won)

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

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