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Aliases: 나탈리 베이 , Натали Бей , Натали Бай , ナタリー・バイ , Natalie Baye

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Mainneville, Eure, France

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Movie Involvements: 74

TV Involvements: 9


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Biography

Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye (born 6 July 1948) is a French film, television, and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. A ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for Every Man for Himself (1980), Strange Affair (1981), La Balance (1982), and The Young Lieutenant (2005). Her other films include Day for Night (1973), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Tell No One (2006), and The Assistant (2015). In 2009, she was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Baye was born in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy to Claude Baye and Denise Coustet, two painters. At 14, she joined a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States. On returning to France, she continued with dance but also registered for the Simon Course and was admitted to the Conservatoire, from where she graduated in 1972 with a second prize in comedy, dramatic comedy, and foreign theatre. Her second cinema appearance was in Two People (1973), directed by Robert Wise. She became better known as the script girl in Day for Night (La Nuit américaine, 1973) by François Truffaut. Throughout the 1970s, she played the good girlfriend or nice provincial girl in film and television. She won her first César, as best supporting artist, for Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie), 1980) directed by Jean-Luc Godard. There then followed The Return of Martin Guerre (Le Retour de Martin Guerre, 1982) and La Balance (also 1982). Baye won two more César Awards, Best Supporting Actress, for Strange Affair (Une étrange affaire, 1981), and Best Actress for La Balance, 1982). Her four-year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a celebrity couple and their daughter is Laura Smet, now an actress. After changing her image by playing a streetwalker in La Balance, she widened her scope with more obscure characters in J'ai épousé une ombre (1983) and En toute innocence (1988). In 1986, she returned to the theatre with an interpretation of Adriana Monti. In 1999, she was voted Best Supporting Actress at Venice Film Festival for Une liaison pornographique and starred in Vénus Beauté (Institut) (2000) by Tonie Marshall which won multiple César Awards including Best Film. She has worked with Claude Chabrol and Steven Spielberg. Source: Article "Nathalie Baye" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Most Famous Work

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Club social

(2008) Self
Le Grand Échiquier
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8

Le Grand Échiquier

(1972) Self
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
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0
Catch Me If You Can
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8

Catch Me If You Can

(2002) Paula Abagnale
Téléthon
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5

Téléthon

(1987) Self
Victoires de la musique
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2
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

(2022) Self (archive footage)
Beau Pere
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Beau Pere

(1981) Charlotte

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Self - Actress
2023 Hélène
Self
Self (archive footage)
Elle-même
Mme Martin
2022 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Mme de Montmirail
Self
Self
2021 Esther
Mother
Self
Self
2020 Bernadette Meyer
2019 Caroline Solal
Self
Self - Guest
2018 Anne Lancrey
Catherine Susini
2017 Hortense Sandrail
The mother
Marlène Martin
2016 Self
Martine
Marlène
2015 Self
Mother
Marie-France
Frédérique Pons
2014 N/A
Jeanne (La grand-mère)
2013 Colette
2012 Julienne Alia
Anne Visage
2011 Self
Nathalie Baye
2010 Elisabeth Senn
Mady
Une cliente du restaurant
Marie-France
2009 Nathalie
2008 Anne
Marie-Hélène Dumoulin / Marie-Octobre
Judith
Self
Irène Montier-Duval
2007 Odile Ménard
Camille
Gisèle
2006 Maître Elysabeth Feldman
Maguy
Mother / La mère
2005 Commandant Vaudieu
Fanny
2004 Self
Jeanne
2003 Sofia
Carole
Anne Charpin-Vasseur
2002 Paula Abagnale
Self
2001 Patricia 'Patsy' Laroche
Lucie
2000 Sophie
Claire
1999 Her
Angèle Piana
1998 Self
Muriel
Nicole, de l'agence Magma
1997 Michele
1996 Sophie
N/A
Self
Self
1994 Marie Lacroix
1993 Dr. Françoise Barre
Emma
Self
1992 Lorraine
1991 N/A
1990 Christine
Camille Valmont
Lena
1989 N/A
1988 Catherine Duchêne
1987 Alice
Self
Self
Self
1985 Self
Cécile Carline
Leonore
Françoise Chenal
1984 Sacha Vernakis
Donatienne Pouget / Marie-Thérèse Chatelard / Geneviève Avranche
1983 Hélène
1982 Nicole Danet
Bertrande de Rols
Judith Mesnil
Self
1981 Nina Coline
Anna
Charlotte
Self
Christine Delumet
1980 Denise Rimbaud
Laurence Cuers
Brigitte Ozendron
1979 Adèle
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1978 Fabienne
Cecilia Mandel
1977 Janine
Martine Desdoits
Jeanne Vanderberghe
1976 Catherine
Sophie
la fille aux cerises
Charlotte
1975 Fabienne
Fabienne Veyrier, the young woman
Julie
Self
1974 Christine Abeillé
Self
Nathalie
1973 N/A
Joelle
1972 Self
Giselle
1958 Gisèle
Year Character Movie/Tv

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