Françoise Rosay
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1891-04-17 (83 years old)
Deathday
1974-03-28
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also known As
Francoise Rosay
Françoise Bandy de Nalèche
Frances Rosay
Françoise Rosay
Biography
Françoise Rosay born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche, (19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career. Rosay was born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche in Paris, the illegitimate daughter of Marie-Thérèse Chauvin, an actress known as Sylviac. She originally planned to become an opera singer, and in 1917, won a prize at the Paris Conservatoire and made her debut at the Palais Garnier in the title role of Salammbô by Ernest Reyer. She also sang in Castor et Pollux by Rameau...
Acting
1935
as Mme de Quersac
1935
as Madame Burgomaster
1938
as Dolorès Detcharry
1951
as Marie Martin
1934
as The Princess Mother
1931
as Rosatti
1935
as Madame Gardane
1928
as The aunt
1951
as Mrs. Gauthier
1967
as Mme Nagy (uncredited)
1932
as Madame Husson
1948
as The Electress Sophia
1932
as Princess Marie
1945
as Lanec Florrie
1937
as Sylvie - seine Mutter
1933
as Mrs. Delannoy
1957
as Mother Superior
1931
as The widow
1933
as Mrs. Bossu
1934
as Sylvia
1935
as la comtesse russe
1935
as Mrs. Duchemin
1935
as Clara
1936
as Mrs. Jouvenel
1965
as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
1950
as Maria Salvatini
1968
as Léontine Palpicart aka 'La Gâteuse'
1937
as Marguerite Audié
1936
as Jenny Gauthier
1951
as La contessa Canali
1947
as Countess Brévannes
1961
as Madame Pauline
1949
as Mireille Dombreval
1937
as Margaret Molyneux
1946
as Mrs. Rose, hotel landlady
1960
as Madame Prade
1958
as Madame Bouffier
1938
as Régina Berry
1955
as Bernardine
1929
as Zuleide, Alizar's Mother
1957
as Comtesse Reinhart
1959
as Berthe
1950
as Laura Chapdelaine
1937
as The fortune teller
1931
as Rosa Duchêne
1938
as Catherine II
1936
as Cornelia
1938
as Madame Flora
1962
as Mrs. Webley
1955
as padrona della pensione
1935
as Louise Noblet
1928
as Madame de Staël
1931
as Mademoiselle Edwige
1951
as Noemi, die Amme
1964
as Borgia
1937
as Gilberte Boulanger
1960
as Madame Parisot
1934
as Blanche
1966
as Mme Aubry
1952
as La contessa Lamieri
1940
as La duchesse de Vimeuse
1959
as Mrs. Montcatel mother
1952
as Elisabeth de Pallières, the mother (segment "Pride")
1934
as Silvia
1938
as Francoise Scheffer
1944
as Fanny Helder
1959
as La grand-mère de Marguerite
1960
as Leonora Guala
1950
as Mme Monnier
1954
as Catherine de Médicis / Catharine of Medici
1944
as Alice Meadows
1972
as Mrs. Morelli-Johnson
1933
as La comtesse de Laverdens
1952
as Anna Steiner
1950
as The Countess
1938
as Flora
1952
as Gabrielle Demeuse
1926
as Edith Maranet
1922
as Shoe Store Customer
1953
as Lady of Sant'Agata
1959
as Caroline Compson
1969
as Louise de Kerfuntel
1973
as Frau Dechamps
1957
as Vincenzino's mother
1932
as Madame Jacquet
1954
as Self
1927
as Madame d'Arcy, his wife
1939
as Madame Devarenne
1949
as Élisabeth
1958
as Aunt Antonia
1931
as Blanche Brissac
1931
as Madame Boucijon
1965
as Lili's Grandmother
1931
as Mme Mougeot
1972
as Madame Dubreuil
1930
as The Queen
1930
as Princess Plata d'Ettingen
1930
1948
as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
1965
as La duchesse d'Albuquerque
Production
1925
as Assistant Director
1925
as Writer
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