Claude Jade, byname of Claude Marcelle Jorré (8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006) was a French actress, best known by starring fictional character Christine Darbon-Doinel in François Truffaut's films Baisers volés (1968), Domicile conjugal (1970) and L'amour en fuite (1979).
The daughter of a professor, she spent three years at Dijon's Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where in 1964, she won a best actress prize for her portrayal of Agnès in Molière's ...
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Claude Jade, byname of Claude Marcelle Jorré (8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006) was a French actress, best known by starring fictional character Christine Darbon-Doinel in François Truffaut's films Baisers volés (1968), Domicile conjugal (1970) and L'amour en fuite (1979).
The daughter of a professor, she spent three years at Dijon's Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where in 1964, she won a best actress prize for her portrayal of Agnès in Molière's L'école des femmes and in 1966 the "Prix de comédie" for Jean Giraudoux' Ondine, which was performed at the "Comédie Boulogne". She subsequently moved to Paris and became a student of Jean-Laurent Cochet at the Edouard VII theater, and also began acting in a number of television productions, including a role as Sylvie Massonneau in TV series Les oiseaux rares (The Rare Birds). It was while she was performing as Frida in Pirandello's Henri IV as part of Sacha Pitoëff's production at the Théâtre Moderne that Claude Jade was discovered by...
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