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Gisèle Casadesus is a Actor French born on 14 june 1914 at Paris (France)

Gisèle Casadesus

Gisèle Casadesus
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Birth name Gisèle Tatiana Casadesus
Nationality France
Birth 14 june 1914 at Paris (France)
Death 24 september 2017 (at 103 years)
Awards Officier des Arts et des Lettres‎, Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit, Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur‎

Gisèle Casadesus (born 14 June 1914) is a French actress. She is an honorary member of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-Croix of the National Order of Merit. In a career spanning more than 80 years, Casadesus has appeared in more than a dozen films since turning 90.

Biography

Born into a family of artists in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, Gisèle is the daughter of composer and conductor Henri Casadesus and harpist Marie-Louise Beetz. After receiving first prize in acting at French National Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of twenty, Casadeus joined the Comédie-Française in 1934. The same year, she married the actor Lucien Pascal (born Lucien Probst), with whom she had four children: Jean-Claude (1935), Martine (1939), Béatrice (1942) and Dominique (1954), all artists. She became the 400th member of the Comédie-Française 1 January 1939, and honorary member on 15 April 1967.

In cinema, Pierre Billon hired her in 1943 to play the role of Clotilde Grandlieus in Vautrin, adapted from Balzac's novel, alongside Michel Simon, and in 1946 for the role of Mary in L'Homme au chapeau rond alongside Raimu. In 1971 she was Countess Eguzon in La Belle Aventure, participated in Le Mouton enragé by Michel Deville, played the role of Nicole Leguen, wife of Jean Gabin in Verdict (1974) by André Cayatte, and the mother of Claude Jade in Les Robots pensants (1976). Again with Claude Jade, she was Mamie Rose (1976) in the telefilm by Pierre Goutas and Catherine in Un crime de notre temps (1977) by Gabriel Axel. Claude Lelouch engaged her in 1996 for the role of Clara Blanc, mother of Bernard Tapie, in Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi. In Aïe (2000), she is the mother of André Dussollier, and in Valérie Lemerciers comedy Palais Royal ! (2005) she plays the queen mother. She was Margueritte ("with two ts") alongside Gérard Depardieu in Jean Becker's My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010).

In 2013, at age of 99, Casadesus acted alongside Anne Consigny and Marie Kremer in Sous le figuier directed by Anne-Marie Étienne. Casadesus was awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour on 29 March 2013. She is also an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-Croix of the National Order of Merit. She received a Honorary Molière Award in 2003 for her entire career. She turned 100 in June 2014.

Best films

My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
(Actress)
Men, Women: A User's Manual (1996)
(Actress)
Jury of One (1974)
(Actress)

Usually with

Pascal Thomas
Pascal Thomas
(3 films)
Jean Becker
Jean Becker
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Gisèle Casadesus (43 films)

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Actress

Week-ends
Week-ends (2014)
, 1h30
Directed by Anne Villacèque
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romantic drama
Actors Karin Viard, Noémie Lvovsky, Jacques Gamblin, Ulrich Tukur, Aurélia Petit, Iliana Zabeth
Roles Françoise
Rating54% 2.731192.731192.731192.731192.73119
Sylvette, Ulrich, Christine et Jean sont amis depuis toujours et ont même acheté chacun une maison à la campagne, en Normandie. Ils ont chacun deux enfants et tout semble aller pour le mieux. Mais un jour, Jean quitte Christine et leur vie à tous se retrouve chamboulée...
Sous le figuier
Directed by Anne-Marie Étienne
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement, Vieillesse
Actors Gisèle Casadesus, Anne Consigny, Jonathan Zaccaï, Marie Kremer, Éric Larcin
Roles Selma
Rating57% 2.885692.885692.885692.885692.88569
Nathalie, son meilleur ami Christophe et Joëlle, une jeune mère de famille, sont trois adultes en crise sur le plan professionnel et personnel qui se retrouvent ensemble un été pour accompagner Selma, une vieille dame de 95 ans, voyante amateur, qui est sur le point de mourir, dans sa grande maison de vacances.
My Afternoons with Margueritte, 1h22
Directed by Jean Becker
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about school violence
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Gisèle Casadesus, Jean-François Stévenin, Patrick Jean Marie Bouchitté, Maurane, François-Xavier Demaison
Roles Margueritte
Rating71% 3.5953353.5953353.5953353.5953353.595335
Germain is a 45-year-old illiterate handyman who has not had much luck in his life so far. He was bullied at school, both by the teacher and the other pupils because he was a slow reader. His mother never gave him love and affection, and kept reminding him that he was clumsy and an unwanted child, the result of fling at the French national holiday. But he ks loyal, with a good heart, and still parks his trailer close to her house where he maintains his lovely vegetable garden. He earns some extra money by taking his vegetables to the weekly farmer's market, in the truck borrowed from the bar where he relaxes every day with his friends, joking and chatting. His girl friend Annette is a younger woman who drives the local bus, and very much in love with this sweet, simple and loving man.
Sarah's Key, 1h51
Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Kristin Scott Thomas, Niels Arestrup, Arben Bajraktaraj, Mélusine Mayance, Frédéric Pierrot, Aidan Quinn
Roles Mamé Tezac
Rating74% 3.7455853.7455853.7455853.7455853.745585
In 1942, 10-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance) hides her younger brother from French police by locking him in a secret closet and telling him to stay there until she returns. She takes the key with her when she and her parents are transported to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where they are held in inhuman conditions by the Paris Police and French Secret Service.
What War May Bring, 2h
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Dominique Pinon, Samuel Labarthe, Jacky Ido, Anouk Aimée, Raphael, Audrey Dana
Roles Ilva (95 ans)
Rating64% 3.2446153.2446153.2446153.2446153.244615
Ilva is a woman who falls in love too quickly. Unaware and unconcerned about how her passion may be perceived, she finds herself having to live with the consequences of her actions. First, in the middle of the German occupation in Paris, she falls for a Nazi, which indirectly leads to the death of her father. For many, her relationship was interpreted as her collaboration with the Nazis. Her next love story, however, bring additional tragedy. During the liberation of France in '44, when she is violently summoned to answer for her relationship with the German, she is saved by two Americans GIs, one white and one black. She falls in love with both these men, at the same time. Her inability to choose between them, creates conflict, unhappiness and murder.
The Hedgehog, 1h40
Directed by Mona Achache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Ariane Ascaride, Anne Brochet, Vladimir Yordanoff
Roles Mrs. de Broglie
Rating72% 3.647013.647013.647013.647013.64701
Paloma is an 11-year-old girl quietly and unhappily living in a luxurious Paris apartment with her family. She is intelligent and observant and, in sensing disappointment and despair in adulthood, decides to end her life before she reaches it, on her next birthday, 165 days from where the story begins. Her dad's old camera in hand, she records telling moments in the lives of the inadequate humans around her: her antidepressant-dependent mother; her moody sister; petulant dinner guests. As Paloma prepares to finish her days, it is Mrs. Michel, the gruff-looking, reclusive concierge, who manages the building where Paloma and her family live. She hides her passion for literature from her bourgeois employers but is found out by the new resident, Mr. Ozu, widowed and Japanese, as a beautiful bibliophile in elegant disguise. A fiercely tender attraction grows between the three like-minds, showing Paloma a more lovely side of life than she originally thought possible and forcing her to reconsider her plan of suicide.
Ultimate Heist, 1h34
Directed by Laurent Tuel
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films, Gangster films
Actors Jean Reno, Gaspard Ulliel, Vahina Giocante, Sami Bouajila, Isaac Sharry, Gisèle Casadesus
Roles Mme Malakian
Rating54% 2.701772.701772.701772.701772.70177
L'histoire du clan Malakian. À sa tête, un truand aussi virtuose que violent, Milo Malakian. Son fils Anton aspire à une autre existence, une vie où il pourrait aimer Elodie, pouvoir choisir. Mais c'est par le sang que se trace le Premier Cercle, et pour en sortir, Anton doit non seulement échapper à sa destinée mais aussi à celui qui a juré la perte de son père : l'inspecteur Saunier.
Marie-Octobre
Directed by Josée Dayan
Genres Drama
Actors Nathalie Baye, Xavier Beauvois, Samuel Labarthe, Étienne Chicot, Jacques Spiesser, Alain Fromager
Roles Clémence
Rating56% 2.8387352.8387352.8387352.8387352.838735
Bien des années après la Libération, dix anciens résistants décident de se réunir, afin de ne pas se perdre de vue et, surtout, pour évoquer ensemble leurs années de guerre.
The Big Apartment, 1h43
Directed by Pascal Thomas
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Laetitia Casta, Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Maurice Risch, Noémie Lvovsky, Elizabeth Macocco
Roles Marie-Antoinette
Rating53% 2.658862.658862.658862.658862.65886
Francesca vit avec son ami Martin et une joyeuse troupe d'amis et de parents dans un grand appartement à Paris qu'ils ne peuvent conserver que grâce à une vieille loi de 1948 permettant à cette famille d'artistes fauchés de payer un loyer modeste. Mais la propriétaire aimerait récupérer son bien pour en tirer plus d'argent.
The Last Mitterrand, 1h57
Directed by Robert Guédiguian
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert, Sarah Grappin, Catherine Salviat, Jean-Claude Frissung, Philippe Le Mercier
Roles la sœur de Simone Picard
Rating69% 3.488123.488123.488123.488123.48812
Le film retrace la fin de la vie de François Mitterrand, ses dernières semaines à L'Élysée, puis lorsqu’il disposait d’un logement de fonction au 9, avenue Frédéric-Le-Play (7e arrondissement de Paris) et avait donc l’occasion de se promener dans le Champ-de-Mars tout proche.
Housewarming, 1h35
Directed by Brigitte Roüan
Genres Comedy
Actors Carole Bouquet, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Didier Flamand, Françoise Brion, Aldo Maccione, Marie Mouté
Rating52% 2.614312.614312.614312.614312.61431
Chantal est avocate spécialisée dans la défense des étrangers en situation irrégulière. Pour se débarrasser de Frankie, un amant un peu trop collant, elle décide de faire des travaux chez elle. Un architecte colombien s'occupe de tout et les chamboulements qui en découlent prennent une proportion bien plus importante que prévu.
Royal Palace, 1h50
Directed by Valérie Lemercier
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Monde imaginaire, Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Valérie Lemercier, Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydès, Mathilde Seigner, Michel Aumont
Roles Alma
Rating55% 2.796822.796822.796822.796822.79682
Tragédie : le roi André meurt dans un accident d'hélicoptère. À cause de cela, la vie d'Armelle, orthophoniste, épouse d'Arnaud, fils cadet du roi, homme de vie dissolue, change en intégralité : une ancienne charte retrouvée par la reine Eugénia exclut de la succession le prince héritier Alban, célibataire sans enfants… Arnaud se retrouve prince héritier, et Armelle doit quitter son cabinet et ses habitudes simples pour être à la hauteur de sa nouvelle fonction : la future reine. Son époux doit accéder au trône après la période de deuil de rigueur, elle deviendra alors reine consort.
Mis en bouteille au château
Directed by Marion Sarraut
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Roland Magdane, Gérard Rinaldi, Michel Creton, Emma Colberti, Pierre-Olivier Scotto, Gisèle Casadesus
Roles Betty
Rating60% 3.0438053.0438053.0438053.0438053.043805
Trois frères décident d'arnaquer un homme d'affaires sans scrupules qui a poussé à la faillite un de la fratrie.
Special Delivery, 1h39
Directed by Jeanne Labrune
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Sandrine Kiberlain, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Dominique Blanc, Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Claude Brialy, Maurice Bénichou
Roles la dame
Rating59% 2.9903152.9903152.9903152.9903152.990315
Portraits croisés de personnages divers et variés qui interagissent l'un l'autre, avec comme fil rouge un bouquet de fleurs qui passe de mains en mains. Parmi ces personnages, Raphaël cadre supérieur renvoyé de son entreprise à la suite d'une saute d'humeur envers son patron et qui va tenter de retourner la situation à son avantage, Catherine sa femme qui reçoit un bouquet de fleurs d'un ami qu'elle n'a pas croisé depuis 15 ans, Édith la cultivée et entreprenante collègue de Raphaël, les voisins de Raphaël qui gaffent à chaque apparition du bouquet de fleurs, ou encore Robert auteur dramaturge et son petit ami Laurent qui se fait passer pour un "valet de pied" auprès de Catherine...
Ouch
Ouch (2000)
, 1h43
Directed by Sophie Fillières
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors André Dussollier, Emmanuelle Devos, Hélène Fillières, Gisèle Casadesus, Lucienne Hamon, Anne Le Ny
Roles Robert's mother
Rating57% 2.857552.857552.857552.857552.85755
Robert, célibataire, a la cinquantaine. Il revoit par hasard Claire, qui vient d'avoir un enfant d'un autre, et s'aperçoit qu'il en est toujours amoureux. Il décide de la reconquérir, mais au même moment il croise une jeune fille qui lui fait une étrange proposition : s'il le souhaite elle pourra tomber follement amoureuse de lui...