Aurore Clément

Aurore Clément (born 12 October 1945, Soissons) is a French actress with a career spanning five decades in French and international productions. She is best known for her role as Anne in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas and her long-running collaboration with Chantal Akerman.

Career

Before switching to acting, she worked as a model for magazines such as Elle and Vogue. Louis Malle cast Clément, whom he saw on the cover of Elle, as France Horn in his 1974 film Lacombe Lucien; This film was his first work in cinema.

The first American production was Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). Scenes set on the farm of a French colonial family were removed from the film's initial release, but were re-added in the Redux version released in 2001. In 1984, she played Anne Henderson in Paris, Texas, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Chantal appeared regularly in Akerman's cinema: Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978), Toute une nuit (1982), La Captive (2000) and Demain on déménage (2004) are the products of this collaboration. She played the Duchess of Char in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006). He appeared in over eighty films throughout his career.

He appeared on stage in 1988 with the play La Vie singulière d'Albert Nobbs, for which he received the stage discovery of the year award from the French Theater Critics Association.

Clément continued to work in a wide range of roles, from leading roles to supporting roles, in his career spanning more than half a century.