Biography
Pascale de Boysson was a French stage, film and television actress. Born Marie Thérèse Antoinette Pascale de Boysson on 16 April 1922 in Chindrieux, Savoie, she trained under Charles Dullin and Tania Balachova. She appeared in more than thirty films and television productions between the 1950s and 2000s.
Her film roles include Gasparine in Lovers of Paris (1957), the bar owner in Seven Days… Seven Nights (1960), Elisabeth Lapeyre in Les Abysses (1963), Simone in The Shameless Old Lady (1965), la veuve dame in Perceval (1978) and Mrs Clare in Tess (1979). She also provided the French voice for The NeverEnding Story.
De Boysson was a long-term partner of actor-director Laurent Terzieff and co-led his theatre company. She adapted and translated plays, winning two Molière Awards, one posthumously in 2003. She died on 9 August 2002 in Sainte-Marie-de-Ré.
