Carole Bouquet

After attend­ing the Paris Nation­al Supe­ri­or Con­ser­va­to­ry of Dra­mat­ic Arts, she was dis­cov­ered by Luis Buñuel, who cast her in That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), in which she shared the lead female role with Angela Moli­na. She next per­son­i­fied Death in Bertrand Blier’s Buf­fet Froid (1979), then played a Bond girl in John Glen’s For Your Eyes Only (1981) with Roger Moore. The actress exerts a strong pow­er of fas­ci­na­tion, putting it to use in such sin­gu­lar works as Ger­man Wern­er Schroeter’s Day of the Idiots (1981), Jean-François Stévenin’s Dou­ble Gen­tle­men (1986), and Enki Bilal’s futur­ist Bunker Palace Hotel (1989). In 1985, she received a Best Sup­port­ing Actress César nom­i­na­tion for Michel Labro’s Right Bank, Left Bank with Gérard Depar­dieu, re-team­ing with the actor for Bertrand Blier’s Too Beau­ti­ful for You, which earned her a Best Actress César in 1989. Car­ole Bou­quet lends her tal­ents in all reg­is­ters, also work­ing in series tele­vi­sion and in the­ater, where she tack­les major clas­si­cal and con­tem­po­rary roles. She recent­ly filmed Christophe Honoré’s On a Mag­i­cal Night (2019), David and Stéphane Foenk­i­nos’ Fan­tasies (2020), and the TV series Grand Hotel and In Treat­ment. She will next appear in Judith Godrèche’s series Icon of French Cin­e­ma and Arnaud des Pal­lières’ Par­ty of Fools, both pre­sent­ed this year at Deauville.