Nathalie Baye

Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye (born 6 July 1948) is a French film, television, and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. A ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for Every Man for Himself (1980), Strange Affair (1981), La Balance (1982), and The Young Lieutenant (2005). Her other films include Day for Night (1973), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Tell No One (2006), and The Assistant (2015). In 2009, she was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Baye was born in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy to Claude Baye and Denise Coustet, two painters. At 14, she joined a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States. On returning to France, she continued with dance but also registered for the Simon Course and was admitted to the Conservatoire, from where she graduated in 1972 with a second prize in comedy, dramatic comedy, and foreign theatre. Her second cinema appearance was in Two People (1973), directed by Robert Wise. She became better known as the script girl in Day for Night (La Nuit américaine, 1973) by François Truffaut. Throughout the 1970s, she played the good girlfriend or nice provincial girl in film and television. She won her first César, as best supporting artist, for Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie), 1980) directed by Jean-Luc Godard. There then followed The Return of Martin Guerre (Le Retour de Martin Guerre, 1982) and La Balance (also 1982). Baye won two more César Awards, Best Supporting Actress, for Strange Affair (Une étrange affaire, 1981), and Best Actress for La Balance, 1982). Her four-year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a celebrity couple and their daughter is Laura Smet, now an actress. After changing her image by playing a streetwalker in La Balance, she widened her scope with more obscure characters in J'ai épousé une ombre (1983) and En toute innocence (1988). In 1986, she returned to the theatre with an interpretation of Adriana Monti. In 1999, she was voted Best Supporting Actress at Venice Film Festival for Une liaison pornographique and starred in Vénus Beauté (Institut) (2000) by Tonie Marshall which won multiple César Awards including Best Film. She has worked with Claude Chabrol and Steven Spielberg. Source: Article "Nathalie Baye" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Cast

The Man Who Loved Women

Martine Desdoits

Catch Me If You Can

Joelle, the Script Girl

la fille aux cerises

And the Band Played On

Dr. Françoise Barre

I Married a Shadow

The Flower of Evil

Anne Charpin-Vasseur

The Return of Martin Guerre

Bertrande de Rols

Sous le soleil de Pialat

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César

The Young Lieutenant

Commandant Vaudieu

The Price to Pay

Venus Beauty Institute

Tomorrow's Another Day

A French Gigolo

Nicole, de l'agence Magma

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

Solemn Communion

Jeanne Vanderberghe

Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste

France Boutique

An Affair of Love

A Week's Vacation

Françoise Chenal

Brigitte Ozendron

Fill 'er Up with Super

Together Is Too Much

Absolutely Fabulous

Patricia 'Patsy' Laroche

Barnie's Minor Annoyances

The Mouth Agape

Christine Abeillé

Mother / La mère

One Stays, the Other Leaves

Donatienne Pouget / Marie-Thérèse Chatelard / Geneviève Avranche

Off and Running

Irène Montier-Duval

Enfants de salaud

I've Been Waiting So Long

Cécile Carline

Laurence Anyways

Every Man for Himself

Marie-Hélène Dumoulin / Marie-Octobre

Queens of the Ring

Beware of My Love

Every Other Weekend

Camille Valmont

Rive droite, rive gauche

Godard by Godard

Self (archive footage)

No Harm Intended

Catherine Duchêne

The Honeymoon Trip

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

Engagements of the Heart

Jeanne (La grand-mère)

Beethoven's Nephew

Frédérique Pons

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

Maître Elysabeth Feldman

It's Only the End of the World

Un jour, la fête

Bacri, comme un air de famille

Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous

Fabienne Veyrier, the young woman

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death

Sheila, toutes ces vies-là

Self (archive footage)

Les contes sauvages

Narrator (voice)

Marlène Martin

Hortense Sandrail

François Truffaut, une autobiographie

Hitler in Hollywood

Mon premier amour

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

The Great Restaurant

Une cliente du restaurant

Bernadette Meyer

Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés

Bon vent Claude Goretta

Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Mme de Montmirail

Conversation avec Nathalie Baye

Christine Delumet

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

Sauve la vie (qui peut)

Self (archive footage)

From Time to Time

Madame de Pompadour

Jacques Villeret, drôlement tragique