Odette Joyeux
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Sylvia and the Ghost
as Sylvie 1946
The Curtain Rises
as Cécilia Prieur 1938
If Paris Were Told to Us
as La Passementière 1956
Douce
as Douce 1943
The Phantom Baron
as Elfy 1943
The Marriage of Chiffon
as Corysande 'Chiffon' 1942
Love Letters
as Zélie Fontaine 1942
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
as Rosine Grimaud 1944
Ladies Lake
as Carla Lyssenhop 1934
Passionnelle
as Thérèse de Marsannes 1947
Grisou
as Madeleine 1938
L'Âge heureux
as Thérèse Nadal 1966
Hélène
as Françoise 1936
Scandal
as Cécilia 1948
Last Hour, Special Edition
as Andrée Coche 1949
The Four-Poster Bed
as Marie-Doree 1942