Acting
Odette Joyeux
FR cinema · 37 credits
Born
5 December 1914
Died
26 August 2000 (aged 85)
Birthplace
Paris, France
Odette Joyeux (5 December 1914 – 26 August 2000) was a French actress, playwright and novelist. She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage. Joyeux started her film career in 1931. Her first notable film was Marc Allégret's Entrée des artistes (1938). During the 1940s she established herself as one of France's most popular cinema actresses; however, she made few film appearances after the 1950s. Joyeux is the author of some plays and essays on dance as well as a book on the life of inventor Nicéphore Niépce. She also wrote two novels aimed to inspire dance: L'Âge heureux (which was adapted to a television series) and Côté jardin. Additionally, Joyeux wrote The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) (adapted to film). She married actor Pierre Brasseur from 1935 until their divorce in 1945, by whom she had one child, Claude Brasseur, who is the father of Alexandre Brasseur. In 1958 she married director Philippe Agostini. They remained married until her death in Grimaud, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France from stroke at age 85. Source: Article "Odette Joyeux" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Filmography
La Bonne Peinture
as Narrator (voice), Writer
L'Âge heureux
as Thérèse Nadal, Writer
Rencontres
Writer
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Adaptation
If Paris Were Told to Us
as La Passementière
La Ronde
as Anna, la grisette
Summer Storm
as Marie-Blanche
Last Hour, Special Edition
as Andrée Coche
Scandal
as Cécilia
Passionnelle
as Thérèse de Marsannes
Sylvia and the Ghost
as Sylvie
Driving Lesson
as Micheline
Messieurs Ludovic
as Anne-Marie Vermeulen
Check on the King
as Jeannette de Pincret
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
as Rosine Grimaud
Douce
as Douce
The Marriage of Chiffon
as Corysande 'Chiffon'
Love Letters
as Zélie Fontaine
The Four-Poster Bed
as Marie-Doree
The Curtain Rises
as Cécilia Prieur
La Glu
as Naïk
Grisou
as Madeleine
Youth in Revolt
as Zizi
Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
as Micheline
Hélène
as Françoise
Ladies Lake
as Carla Lyssenhop
Jean of the Moon
as Figurante (uncredited)
