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Person Biography:
Born in 1931, French actress Annie Girardot was raised by her single mother, a midwife from Normandy. After studying to become a midwife like her mother, she enrolled at the prestigious Conservatoire de la rue Blanche in Paris. She graduated in 1954 with the "First Prize in Modern and Classical Comedy" and joined the Comédie Française, where she was a resident actor from 1954-57.
Girardot began her film career in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table (1955). However, it was with theatre that she started to attract the attention of critics. Her performance in Jean Cocteau's play La Machine à écrire in 1956 was admired by the author, who called her "The finest dramatic temperament of the Postwar period".
In 1956, she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as best up-and-coming young actress. However, it was not until her role in Luchino Visconti's epic Rocco and His Brothers (1960) that she was able to draw the public's attention to her. She married Italian actor Renato Salvatori in 1962 and went on to work with renowned Italian directors, including Marco Ferreri.
Girardot found her glory in popular cinema alongside more established and traditional directors such as Jean Delannoy, Michel Boisrond, André Cayatte, Gilles Grangier, or André Hunebelle. By the end of the 1960s, she had become a movie star and a box office magnet in France with films such as Vice and Virtue (1963),Live for Life (1967),Love Is a Funny Thing (1969),and Death of Love (1970).
Throughout the 1970s, Girardot came back and forth between drama and comedy, proving herself an adept comedienne in successful comedies such as Claude Zidi's La zizanie (1978),Michel Audiard's _Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)_, and Philippe de Broca's Dear Inspector (1977). She also played the mother of upcoming stars like Isabelle Adjani in the hit teen movie The Slap (1974) and Isabelle Huppert in the drama Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976).
The 1980s were less kind to Girardot, as her film career floundered and parts dwindled. However, she had a major comeback on the big screen playing a peasant wife in Claude Lelouch's Les Misérables (1995).
