Odette Joyeux

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1914-12-05

Deathday 2000-08-26 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Paris, France

Odette Joyeux

Biography

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

Actor

1982
1966
L'Âge heureux

as Thérèse Nadal

1956
If Paris Were Told to Us

as La Passementière

1950
La Ronde

as Anna, la grisette

1949
Summer Storm

as Marie-Blanche

1949
1948
Scandal

as Cécilia

1947
Passionnelle

as Thérèse de Marsannes

1946
Driving Lesson

as Micheline

1946
Messieurs Ludovic

as Anne-Marie Vermeulen

1946
1945
Check on the King

as Jeannette de Pincret

1943
Douce

as Douce

1943
1942
Love Letters

as Zélie Fontaine

1942
The Marriage of Chiffon

as Corysande 'Chiffon'

1942
The Four-Poster Bed

as Marie-Doree

1938
The Curtain Rises

as Cécilia Prieur

1938
1938
Grisou

as Madeleine

1938
La Glu

as Naïk

1936
Hélène

as Françoise

1934
Ladies Lake

as Carla Lyssenhop

Writer

1967
1966
L'Âge heureux

as Writer

1966
1962
Rencontres

as Writer

1958
1957
1956

Creator

1975
L'âge en fleur

as Creator

1966
L'Âge heureux

as Creator