Pascale de Boysson


Pascale de Boysson was a French film, television and stage actress who also adapted and translated plays for the French stage. She was a two-time winner of the Molière Award, winning it in 1988 and posthumously in 2003.

Biography

Born as Marie Thérèse Antoinette Pascale de Boysson in April 1922 at Château de Châtillon in the commune of Chindrieux, she was one of ten children born to the aristocratic Louis de Boysson, a Director of the Paris Railroad Company in Orléans who married Marie Jeanne d'Anglejan-Châtillon in 1912. She was a pupil of Charles Dullin and Tania Balachova. In 1961 after meeting Laurent Terzieff she became his life partner and led the company Terzieff founded in 1961. She starred in more than fifty plays and the show Le Babil des classes dangereuses, which she helped to create in January 1984.
She adapted works by Murray Schisgal, Arnold Wesker and Sławomir Mrożek and in 2003 she posthumously received a Molière Award as the best adapter of a foreign work for Le Regard by Murray Schisgal. She also appeared in more than thirty films or TV movies, and lent her voice to the film L'Histoire sans fin, the French-language version of The [NeverEnding Story (film)|The NeverEnding Story]. Her film roles include Gasparine in Lovers of Paris, the bar owner in Seven Days... Seven Nights, Sister Cécile in Dialogue of the Carmelites, La servante des Boule in Amelie or The Time to Love, Elisabeth Lapeyre in Les Abysses, Simone in The Shameless Old Lady, Blanche in Le Maître de pension, Véronique in Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu and Mrs Clare in Tess.
She died aged 80 on 9 August 2002 in La Noue and was buried at Coux-et-Bigaroque in the Dordogne.

Legacy

The Molière Award was awarded to Pascale de Boysson a few months after her death, with Laurent Terzieff thanking the profession and paying tribute to Pascale.
On 2 July 2015 the place Laurent-Terzieff-and-Pascale-of-Boysson was inaugurated in Paris, in the 6th district.

Filmography

Cinema

Television

  • 1963 : The camera explores the time: The Truth on Stellio Lorenzi's Lyon mail case
  • 1964 : The camera explores the weather: Mata-Hari by Guy Lessertisseur
  • 1967 : Hedda Gabler
  • 1973 : The Pension Master
  • 1974 : Yellow grassy waves
  • 1974 : The Birds of the Moon
  • 1975 : Bérénice de Racine
  • 1976 : Milady after Paul Morand, directed by François Leterrier
  • 1978 : The Rope on Marcel Moussy's Neck
  • 1981 : The Journey of the Dutchman
  • 1983 : The Arrow in the Heart
  • 1986 : Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
  • 1988 : A Doctor of Lights
  • 1988 : The Last Five Minutes: Gilles Katz's Last Grand Prize
  • 1992 : Liebesreise
  • 1996 : Laurent Terzieff, the secret documentary man by Léon Desclozeaux
  • 1997 : Baldi: Baldi and the Rich Little Ones by Claude of Anna and Michel Mees

Theatre

Actress

Adapter

Translator

Awards and Appointments