Claude Jade, the daughter of English-teachers, was a student at the
"Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique" in Dijon. In 1966, she won a Prize for
best actress on stage (Agnès in Molière's "L'école des femmes"). She
was also a student on the Academy in Paris (teacher:
Jean-Laurent Cochet), appeared in a TV
series, and on stage in Paris, and made her first movie,
Stolen Kisses (1968) ("Stolen
Kisses") directed by
François Truffaut. He proposed to
marry her in the Spring of 1968, but she later married
Bernard Coste (son Pierre was born in
1976), a diplomat with whom she also lived for some years in Russia.
Célimène et le cardinal(2006)as Célimène
Groupe flag(2002)as Emma Nazarov
À San Remo(2004)as Michèle
La crim'(1999)as Armande de Montcourtet
Sans Famille(2000)as Belle dame Arnay, Teresa Bevilaqua
Truffaut Insurrected(2014)
François Truffaut: Portraits volés(1993)
Francois Truffaut. Le Journal d'Alphonse(2004)as Christine Darbon Doinel, Alphonse' s Mother
Le cinéma de Jean-Pierre Léaud(2024)as Self, Christine Darbon
Compression(1995)as Self
Jeune cinéma(2023)as Self
Hollywood Insider(2018)as Self
