Elisa Lamotte(1919-2013)
- Actress
This tall brunette was born in 1919 in Briey, a small administrative
town in the North-East of France. But it is in Bordeaux, in the
South-West, that she trained to be an actress at the local School for
Performing Arts (Conservatoire de Bordeaux). One of her teachers there
was the renowned Kléber Harpin. Elisa was awarded the fist prize in
three categories: singing, piano and comedy. She later went to Paris,
where she was following Solange Sicard's acting lessons when she was
noticed by Noël-Noël who hired her to play in his amusing satire of
pains in the neck: "Les Casse-Pieds". This could have been the
beginning of a fruitful career but, between 1948 and 1956, this
good-looking, cultivated, multi-talented actress landed only a score of
roles in mainly run-of-the-mill movies. She deserved better. Luckily
the theater gave her more opportunities of shining, notably in
"Judith", Jean Giraudoux's play. Strictly off the record, Elisa got
married at seventeen and lived with her husband for ... two days! A
painful experience who made her prioritize her career. She disappeared
from the screens after 1956: does this mean she ended up finding true
love?
