
Béatrice Dalle
Acting
Béatrice Dalle (born 19 December 1964) is a French actress and model. She has appeared in over fifty films and is best known internationally for her debut role in the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (also released as Betty Blue). Béatrice Dalle is renowned for her intense and unconventional roles, often portraying characters that are both provocative and transgressive. Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. She grew up in Le Mans with her mother, father, and an older sister. At age 15, Dalle ran away from home to live in Paris. In 1985, she married the painter Jean-François Dalle, whom she divorced in 1988. In 2005, Dalle married an inmate she met while acting in a short film that was being shot in a prison. They divorced in 2015. Dalle was working as a model when she met filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix. Beineix cast her in the lead role of the 1986 film 37°2 le matin (released in the UK and USA as Betty Blue) which received BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and made a star of Dalle. She went on to appear in a series of major roles in French films, including the 1989 film Chimère, which was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. She featured in the 1987 music video for Buster Poindexter's version of "Oh Me Oh My (I'm fool for you Baby)" and in the 1991 music video for "Move to Memphis" by Norwegian band a-ha. She starred in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth in 1991. In 1997, she was cast in The Blackout, her first film made in the United States. In 2001, Dalle appeared in the controversial film Trouble Every Day, in which she played a compulsive sexual cannibal. She starred in the 2007 film À l'intérieur, in which she played a cruel psychopath stalking a pregnant woman. In 1988, Dalle was interviewed by Clive James in "Postcard from Paris" where she said she was tired of Paris and wanted to move to New York. Dalle has been arrested on several occasions for shoplifting, drug possession and assault. In January 2005, while making a film about prison life in Brest, Dalle met Guenaël Meziani, serving a 12-year prison sentence for assaulting and raping his ex-girlfriend. She married him after 24 one-hour visits, and spoke on his behalf at hearings for his early release. According to a 2015 profile of Dalle, she said the marriage was "a complete disaster" once Meziani was released from prison, and their divorce was apparently finalised in July 2014. Interviewed on the French TV programme Divan in 2016, Dalle stated that when she used to work in a morgue with her friends, they sold body parts of corpses, and while on acid, they ate a dead man's ear. Source: Article "Béatrice Dalle" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
TV Shows(14)

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Self - Guest
2023

Kôkôrikô !
2023

Drag Race France
Self - Guest Judge
2022

Son Of
Wafah
2022

Inside
Commandant Elisabeth Favard
2019

Disturbing Disappearances
Iris Koben
2019

Malaterra
Suzanne Leroy
2015

Call My Agent!
Self
2015

Capitaine Marleau
Alice Le Drouin
2015

Salut les Terriens !
Self - Guest
2006

60 jours, 60 nuits
Self
2003

Clive James' Postcard from
Self
1989

Nulle part ailleurs
Self
1987

Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972
Movies(73)

Pourquoi t'as pas d'enfants ?
Self
2026

Drifting Laurent
Sophia
2025

Les Scandaleuses
Self
2024

Maldoror
Rita
2024

The Passion According to Béatrice
Self
2024

Le bonheur est pour demain
Lucie
2024

Béatrice Dalle, à prendre ou à laisser
Self
2023

The Beast in the Jungle
The Physiognomist
2023

Tell Me Iggy
Self
2022

Love Is Better Than Life
Béa, the devil's lawyer
2022

Lux Æterna
Béatrice
2020

Disclaimer
Béatrice Dalle (Cameo)
2019

Beyond Blood
Self
2019

Dance of Chance
La patronne du café
2019

My Guy
Annick, la mère de Marilyn
2018

The Happy Prince
Café Concert Manager
2018

JoeyStarr, l'enfant terrible
Self
2017

Everyone's Life
Clémentine
2017

Lucrèce Borgia
2015

ABCs of Death 2
The Grandmother (Segment "Xylophone")
2014

Rosenn
2014

Among the Living
Jeanne Faucheur
2014

My Sisters
Mildred
2014

Blue Notes and Bungalows
Self
2013

You and the Night
Female Commissioner
2013

Le Renard jaune
Béatrice (Brigitte)
2013

Fumer tue
Csilla
2013

Michael H. – Profession: Director
Self
2013

Morning Star
Zohra
2012

Punk
Teresa
2012

Bye Bye Blondie
Gloria
2012

Livid
Lucie's Mother
2011

Our Paradise
Anna
2011

Jimmy Rivière
Gina
2011

Ink
Mathilde
2010

Domain
Nadia
2009

God's Offices
Milena
2008

New Wave
Anna
2008

Tête d'or
La princesse
2007

Inside
The Woman
2007

Crime Insiders
Béa
2007

The Intruder
La reine de l'hémisphère nord
2005

In Your Dreams
Ava
2005

Clean
Elena
2004

The Gate of the Sun
Catherine
2004

Process
The actress
2004

Time of the Wolf
Lise Brandt
2003

Les oreilles sur le dos
Monica
2002

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
Tatla the Machine God (Voice)
2002

Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard
Cécile
2002

A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
2002

H Story
The Actress
2001

Trouble Every Day
Coré
2001

a-ha: Headlines and Deadlines
Girl ("Move to Memphis" Video)
1999

Toni
Marie
1999

To the Limit
Elena
1997

The Blackout
Annie
1997

Clubbed to Death
Saida
1996

Desire
Madeleine
1996

6 Days, 6 Nights
Elsa
1994

I Can't Sleep
Mona
1994

The Girl in the Air
Brigitte
1992

The Beautiful Story
Odona
1992

Night on Earth
Blind Woman
1991

A Woman's Revenge
Suzy
1990

Dark Woods
Violette
1989

Chimère
Alice
1989

The Witches' Sabbath
Maddalena
1988

On a volé Charlie Spencer !
La star
1986

Betty Blue
Betty
1986

CASTING
Self (archive footage)
1986
Les Mouettes

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