Gabrielle Dorziat

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1880-01-25 (99 years old)

Deathday

1979-11-30

Place of Birth

Épernay, Marne, France

Gabrielle Dorziat

Biography

Gabrielle Dorziat (1880–1979) was a French stage and film actress.[Dorziat was a fashion trend setter in Paris and helped popularize the designs of Coco Chanel. The Théâtre Gabrielle-Dorziat in Épernay, France is named for her. She was born in 1880. Dorziat made her stage début in 1898 at the Théâtre Royal du Parc in Brussels. She moved to Paris and appeared in Alfred Capus' La Bourse ou la vie (1900), but it was her performance as Thérèse Herbault in Chaîne anglaise (1906) that brought her to public attention. She became known for her off-stage life as well, becoming romantically involved with actors Lucien Guitry and Louis Jouvet. She had ...

Acting

1958

Resurrection

as Kitajewa

1956

Pity for the Vamps

as Éléonore Davis

1938

The Shanghai Drama

as College director

1964

Monsieur

as “Monsieur”’s mother-in-law

1962

A Monkey in Winter

as Mme Victoria, la directrice

1948

The Storm Within

as Tante Léo

1952

1936

Samson

as la marquise d'Andeline

1937

L'amour veille

as Madame de Juvigny

1938

Êtes-vous jalouse ?

as Gabrielle Brunois

1938

Monsieur Breloque a disparu

as Baroness Granger

1953

1938

A Foolish Maiden

as Gisèle's mother

1942

1942

Soyez les bienvenus

as Madame Boisleroi

1939

Behind the Facade

as Mrs. Bernier, wife of the President

1941

Her First Affair

as The director of the orphanage

1942

L'Appel du bled

as Madame Darbois

1942

Patricia

as Mademoiselle Pressac, aunt Laurie

1938

Hatred

as Mme Mollenard

1943

The Phantom Baron

as La comtesse de Saint-Helie

1947

Distress

as Madame Meillan

1947

Mirror

as Mrs. Puc

1948

1947

Monsieur Vincent

as La présidente Groussault

1948

Paris 1900

as Self (archive footage)

1953

Little Boy Lost

as Mother Superior

1950

1963

Germinal

as Catherine's grandmother

1965

Thomas the Impostor

as la cartomancienne

1945

Paris Frills

as Solange, l'assistante de Philippe

1938

Mother Love

as Adrienne

1943

The Wolf of the Malveneurs

as Magda de Malveneur

1949

Manon

as Saleswoman

1964

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

as Mme de Mauvières

1953

Act of Love

as Adèle Lacaud

1948

The Queen's Lover

as la duchesse d'Albuquerque

1962

Gigot

as Madame Brigitte

1952

So Little Time

as Madame de Malvines

1952

Judgement of God

as La margrave Josépha

1943

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

as Gérardine Éloi

1957

The Spies

as Madame Andrée l'infirmière

1954

The Two Orphans

as La Frochard

1945

Check on the King

as Madame de Maintenon

1954

Madame du Barry

as La Gourdan

1955

1937

Woman of Malacca

as Lady Patricia Brandmore

1965

Husband for Sale

as Ms Reinhof

1940

From Mayerling to Sarajevo

as Archduchess Marie-Thérèse

1939

The End of the Day

as Marthe Chabert

1937

Southern Carrier

as La mère

1954

Le Fil à la patte

as La baronne du Verger

1950

Tomorrow Is Too Late

as Headmistress

1936

Forty Little Mothers

as Mme Granval, the director

1940

The French Way

as Madame Ancelot

1946

L'ange qu'on m'a donné

as Countess of Cébrat

1946

Goodbye Darling

as Constance Hélène Brétillac

1937

The Lie of Nina Petrovna

as Baroness Engern

1959

Drôles de phénomènes

as Madame Marcevault

1950

1952

Son of the Hunchback

as Contessa Lagardere

1959

1936

Mayerling

as Empress Élisabeth

1958

The Queen of Spades

as La comtesse Anna Feodotovna Tomski

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