Catherine Rouvel (born Catherine Vitale; 31 August 1939 in

Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...

) is an acclaimed French actress. Her career spans from 1959 in television to 2004. At 14, she took dance classes, which she abandoned in favor of theater. She made her debut with plays by

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ...

. She read Racine and, with Marie-France Boyer, founded the Théâtre Grignan (1956-1957), which became the Théâtre Quotidien de Marseille. In film, she starred in

Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. His '' La Grande Illusion'' (1937) and '' The Rules of the Game'' (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greate ...

's ''Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'',

Marcel Carné Marcel Albert Carné (; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include ''Port of Shadows'' (1938), ''Le Jour Se Lève'' (1939), ''Les Visiteurs du Soi ...

's '' Les Assassins de l'ordre'' and in the 1976

Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud (; born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed ''Quest for Fire (film), Quest for Fire'' (1981), ''The Name of the Rose (film), The Name of the Rose'' (1986), ''The Bear (1988 film), ...

film '' Black and White in Color''.

Selected filmography

* 1959 : '' Picnic on the Grass'' by

: Nénette * 1963 : '' Chair de poule'' by

Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ...

: Maria * 1964 : '' Les Pas perdus'' * 1968 : ''

Benjamin Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...

'' * 1970 : '' Borsalino'' by

Jacques Deray Jacques Deray (born Jacques Desrayaud, 19 February 1929 – 9 August 2003) was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime films, crime and thriller films. Biography Born Jacques Desrayaud in Lyon, ...

: Lola. * 1970 : '' The Breach'' by

Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ...

: Sonia * 1971 : '' I Miss Sonja Henie'' * 1971 : '' Les Assassins de l'ordre'' by

* 1971 : '' Le Soldat Laforêt'' by Guy Cavagnac : Diane * 1973 : '' Les Volets clos'' by

Jean-Claude Brialy Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Early life Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland ...

: Flora * 1974 : '' The Marseille Contract'' * 1974 : '' Borsalino & Co.'' * 1976 : '' Noirs et blancs en couleur'' by

: Marinette * 1986 : '' Jubiabá'' by

Nelson Pereira dos Santos Nelson Pereira dos Santos (22 October 1928 21 April 2018) was a Brazilian film director. He directed films such as ''Vidas secas (film), Vidas Secas'' (Barren Lives, 1963), based on the Vidas Secas, book with the same name by Brazilian writer G ...

: Amélia * 1987 : '' Blood and Sand'' * 1995 : '' Élisa'' by Jean Becker : * 2011 : '' En enkel till Antibes'' by Richard Hobert (director)

Television

* 1972: '' Les Rois maudits'', French miniseries directed by Claude Barma: Béatrice d'Hirson * 1972: '' Clochemerle'', BBC TV miniseries: Judith Toumignon

References

External links

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Site officiel de Catherine Rouvel
French film actresses French television actresses 1939 births Living people 20th-century French actresses Actresses from Marseille {{france-screen-actor-stub